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Here’s the tunnel to two wing ladder. Seemed like all the mistakes we had was because I was on her line.
Well this is helpful. I have to remember to not do all the things at once for her. Definitely a learning curve for me since I just tend to run and that really affects her in ways I don’t expect.
<In this case… she was following the handling nicely 🙂 She is making decisions and blasting to the line as soon as she sees the exit of the wing wrap. Definitely reward those moments!>
Completely agree. I rewatched this a few times after I posted and realized I was sending her off course. I think I was assuming I was having the same issue as the wing countermotion commitment game but no.
Here was Tunnel to a Wing. We had the same kind of problem in this exercise. She was going out and taking the other wing instead of the tunnel. Why are straight lines so hard?
Really struggled on this exercise. Not sure what I was doing wrong except maybe bending over too much and adding pressure?
Here is motion override. I was REALLY happy with this session. I thought this would be really hard for her. This is also great timing because it was something I wanted to work on with her. I think I need a little more space next time though.
Here’s our straight line session. We had lots of straight lines just not necessarily over obstacles lol. BUT – I did get rear crosses and wraps first tries. So I guess you win some you lose some. The one mistake that actually frustrated me was the jump after the tunnel. I broke it down multiple times (not in video) and even moved the jump over to make it easier and she would still go around it.
Here is the warm-up for straight lines. I actually got through more of this exercise but I didn’t have enough space on my phone so lost most of it. We’ll try those ones again tomorrow. I actually think I was getting better at the rears. The reps I did get on video, I got the turns for the rear crosses but I was pushing her off the jump/wrap.
Alright. Saved this for last because i hate rear crosses and completely overthink them. It’s like you tell me to rear cross and I inherently overcomplicate it with my body movement. When I do it on the fly – perfect. I only did one side and broke it down more for myself than her ha. I could get a few good reps from a stand still on one jump but when I added running I messed it up every time. I can absolutely see what I’m doing wrong in the video but I don’t know how to fix it when I’m doing it. I should just pretend I’m doing a wrap with her and she’ll read cross since those went so well too LOL!
Tried a couple more reps with the FC to wrap but I don’t think it went much better than the first time. I think the only thing that did go better was that I completed my crosses more timely and was not making the L-shape to get her to turn (it is a different camera angle but it seems like I wasn’t on the video?) But I obviously was not deceling correctly. Sometimes I honestly don’t know if she is actually listening to me, but I was really happy with the last rep. She went around jump 4 but it was because she was really paying attention/listening. I gave her no cue on that jump and I accidentally handled right around it.
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!
