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Here is our blind crosses. I’m really bummed because my camera fell over from the wind during our warm up and we were struggling. The warm up reps she stayed on course and didn’t go around the jumps like the first few times. During one of the reps with her turning to her left she hit the bar and, although you can’t see it there is a tree pretty close to the wing. I think she started to avoid that side of the jump after that a couple of times. There was also no way I could send to the middle jump to get a cross – had to send to the jump before out of the tunnel if I was going to make it semi timely.
<The hardest part for her was not the wrap collection – it was the ’soft’ turn on jump 6, the pinwheel jump after the wrap>
If weather gets better, I might try this again to see if I can get the better soft turns.
<One really cool thing here was that even after the wide turn, she is driving back to the jump before the tunnel (#7) like mad, really looking for it! I think a few weeks ago she might have run past it, so it is great to see her looking for the lines so well!>
That’s a good point – this probably would have been a really hard exercise for her a few weeks ago!
Weather temps are dropping again so don’t know what will happen the next couple of days. We did a combined fast lazy game with timing and connection.
<Do you mean for the middle wing?>
Yes for the middle wing. I was originally using a wrap cue to the middle wing to come back to me to the tunnel but dropped it.
<I like to envision a jump bar there: what would the turn look like? >
Ok this really helps. I think it always throws me off what verbal I should be using when it’s just the wing but imagining the jump there instead is super helpful.
<Try not to do spins on the tunnel entry when you want a straight exit (:47, :54, :59 for example) – we will want her to turn on the exit if she sees a spin on the entry, so keep these straight exits as post turns so she doesn’t learn to ignore the spins.>
Ok this was me being lazy so I didn’t have to turn all the way around LOL – it didn’t even come to mind that I was handling it as a spin but that is a very good point. Thanks for that input!
We haven’t added height to this yet but have done spins on the board. We’ve also been working a lot on rear end awareness lately with backing up on the plank too.
Here is our mountain climber session. I didn’t realize that we would be working through some contact stuff in Maxpup. I had started working through the teeter class I did with Emmie on my own and had made it through this module. However, it’s probably been over a month and a half since we visited it.
I just kept this video to 4 reps. We had a few more in there but got mixed up on the posting requirements so already had deleted the others. Still learning how I should be using my verbals with her. On the last exercise I initially was using a soft turn cue (swing) with wrap cue (check) at the beginning of the session. But I think dropping the wrap cue is better in this type of situation. I think I want that to really mean a very tight wrap back to me. Also I don’t know how much motion and turning to use vs. not use yet either. By the last rep definitely had a perfect mix.
<It is just so crazy that you have green grass to run on! But really great to be able to train outdoors!!>
I know – this is the middle of January! It’s 40 degrees and no snow!
<On those, as she got to the wing, you moved to the side (not forward) so she is not really seeing the countermotion and a connection shift is not really needed on those>
So how do I set myself up better to execute it? Is it where I’m sending her from? I kept thinking I was blocking the wing so she couldn’t see it too.
<Remember to show exit line connection to her after a cross or wrap, even when you are just rewarding her, to make it a habit.>
Yes – I really have to work on this to help her stay on the line of jumps.
Trying to get little bit of all the lessons in while I can with the weather. Here is shifting connection.
Here is the last sequence for sends on one side only. I thought I only did BC here but apparently I threw in FC as well. I again didn’t know how to handle this. I wasn’t sure if she was going to take the wing or the jump so was very late with my crosses. I also felt like the blinds were “floating” so it was causing her too as well.
