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We worked on Week 1 Handling Challenge 1 but I kind of screwed up the order. I started with Position 2, then 1, then 3, then 4 (disconnect) but from Position 2.
I think I was also supposed to be really running or fake running on 1,2, 3, but somehow had your disconnected no running example in mind for all positions.
Sorry, long stressful work week and my brain is a little fried.
Let me know if you think we should redo this before moving on.
Busy work week so here’s our first session for class. We just did no motion send to single obstacle (apologies a couple of reps I’m just out of the shot but I promise I just stood still and gave the verbal).
Then some standing verbal only discrimination between jump and tunnel from each side and then from between my legs.
Found this on the course home page:
Additional Course Details
Dates:
Course starts on February 13th, 2023 at 7:00pm Eastern (live introductory zoom discussion followed by release of Week 1 material).😁 I think they’ll also open on or around the 13th. Sometimes Tracy will open new content right AFTER the live Zoom so that she can explain and answer questions about the exercises before folks dive in.
Cindi
I know class is totally over but just wanted to share our end of run improvement thanks to your advice and online Brain Camp.
Here’s a compilation of end of run send to leash with quite a bit of where/how leash is placed at this weekend’s NADAC show.
HUGE improvement and much less “arousal errors” or possible frustration at the end of runs (even when we had some errors out there or leash wasn’t exactly where he expected.
THANK YOU for your help with this!
LOL – next seminar is online Brain Camp this weekend. 😊
Then got a couple of No Q goal weekends of NADAC to practice startline stays and end-of-run behavior. Followed by another Taner weekend and then finally some UKI and USDAA shows.
Sounds good on starting to increase bar height. We’ll also circle back to the Organizers track and work on fading the organizer.
I’ll grab our seminar highlights (2 half-day seminars with Taner at 2 different locations). It’s a splice version where I put together clips to see the full course even though we stopped to work on specific parts of it along the way. Lots of running – more than 30 minutes of each dog working over the 4 hour period each day. It was described as “Young Dog” jumps and tunnels but ended up with LOTS of more experienced dogs (including a few that were on the podium at West Coast Open and US Open) so nicely challenging for Rip. Throughout the days I was like, yep, we’ve worked on this in MaxPup and other AU online courses (plus at Agility Camp IRL).
P.S. We’re not perfect (and watching back I’m like “Wings in” 🤣). Also, couldn’t quite get the 2nd blind on a german turn toward the end of one of our working sessions and we left it as homework (and he’s fine with it, just ran out of time).
Did 2 fun days of seminars with Taner Dogan this weekend. Rip did some great independent push/backside work on some big, fast courses, I got a bit better about trusting him even more, got over a bit of my fear of blinds, overall super fun. I loved that Taner commented on how good a jumper Ripley is and that he complimented me and Rip on how solid his foundation skills are. Big credit to MaxPup series (you) for a lot of that.
We did a bit of work on backside zig zags this morning. Sorry I’m zoomed in a bit so you can’t see his pre-placed toy on either side.
Backside Zig Zags
We have done “find my face”. On course bobbles or uncertainty he’s pretty good about continuing to work until we’re back on track and I just try to keep a flow going until we’re good again. He doesn’t stop to express himself on course (other than a feedback bark if I’m late or crappy).
So, we’ve tried a lot of things lately. I put together this compilation from our show the weekend before last 11/4-11/6 (the new end of run find your leash stuff was just this past weekend 11/11-11/13). Both of these were NADAC shows with double run format (same course 2nd run). The one in this video was very small and no leash runner most classes so I either threw my own leash toward the end or carried it. But, when I asked about sending him to his leash they said “targeting” the leash wasn’t allowed and had a little marker on the ground 8 feet past and 8 feet inset from the last obstacle where they said the leash should be (they pulled the PVC leash hook and didn’t want it used anymore after the first couple of runs). A couple of runs I tried having him find his leash but didn’t yet have the Hollee roller on it and didn’t think I could send him to start tugging it without getting in trouble.
I tried having him lie down and wait, find middle and some other behaviors. This is a longer clip of mostly end of run behavior but I’d really love your feedback. With his drastic improvement with find your leash this past weekend (and not getting in trouble for sending him to it and letting him start tugging) I’m inclined to keep working on that since I don’t feel like his end of run lie down, middle or other things I tried helped him the way I had hoped.
Yes, it is a little “bigger” when he’s more aroused and that instances was the “biggest” on a course that otherwise went perfectly (he’s had some before we started the leash send that were bigger when he knew something had gone wrong on the course and was unhappy about it). This was the biggest likely because he’d been really liking the leash send, didn’t like being sent to a leash that wasn’t on the ground and “knowing” that I wasn’t sending him to grab it from the leash runner. We will work through lots of permutations of find the leash now that I know this venue isn’t going to yell at me for having him do it.
Yesterday before I saw your response above we did slice into and away from the course. Also proofing some Startline stuff (in case you’re wondering about some of the weird dancing and pauses). I played with a few different angles on the jumping away from the course stuff just to check his understanding of the threadle jump commitment.
Okay, so I think I just posted in your Jumping class about leash sends, and then realized I actually taped leash sends in our homework for this course today (not that one).
Anyway, just so it’s here – we worked on leash sends at a trial this weekend (to avoid “arousal errors” of leaping into my face at the end of each course like he’s been doing). It worked great and only 1 episode of leash runner not leaving the leash on the ground like I asked and doing the “Zombie walk” toward him (I threw myself under the bus to prevent catastrophe and took the brunt of his arousal/frustration at being sent to a leash that wasn’t there). So, in today’s session at home we’ve continued working on leash sends after sequences, adding in a typical chair like you see at lots of trials (and I’ve got a little kids camping chair coming from Amazon since lots of our trials use that as a leash spot too). We’ll work on various places/appearances of the leash at the end of a sequence so we’re more fluent in trial settings.
Leash sends at a trial:
We circled all the way back to the beginning of this course since we got behind on working through the content after we did the live. So this is first jump sends away from the course.
Field has finally dried enough to use it again and I’ve recovered from my devastating case of FOMO from the last week of bingeing 4LeggedFlix UKI US Open while at a local trial (and so wishing I could have been in Florida).
Great job in the US Open and helping run it. I donated to 4LeggedFlix to get the on-demand recordings and planning to catch up on the runs I missed when I was running Ripley here in CA.
We did implement sending to the leash with a small hollee roller attached at the end of his runs this weekend and didn’t get yelled at by any judges. He loved it as expected, so now we’re working on sending to various types of chairs or places it might be in different trials. This past weekend was NADAC so I had to explain to each leash runner to please leave my leash on the ground. We only had 1 scary moment where the leash runner disregarded (or didn’t understand) what I was asking and zombie walked it toward him (and of course she was a nice older woman not super sturdy on her feet) so I had to call him off her and let him express his frustration to me, which was on overdrive since we’d been doing the leash sends all weekend and I’d even said “Get your leash” before I realized she was still walking it toward him. I swear, he’s not usually quite this angry at the end of a run and it’s on our list of things to keep working on.
Great and 1 scary 😲 leash sends at this weekend’s show:
Today we did backside slices. He still has real 2 on 2 off feelings about his Cato plank so that’s why he’s trying to drive into the position.
