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You can decelerate into 4 and give him a left cue (it was hard to hear what you were saying)
He has no “left/right” cues. I usually just call his name for turns out of tunnels. I might have been saying ‘jump’ here.
instead of letting your right arm come high and point forward on the back cue at :07 and :23, keep it back and look him in the eye as you cue the backside. The high arm moving forward rolls your shoulders to point to the front side of bar, and keeping your arm back and eyes on him will keep your shoulders open to the line to the backside.
I have to work on this/remember this with him.
When you sent him into it from a hard angle at :26, note how your arm was not involved, just your eyes – and it pointed your shoulders to the backside line perfectly! He nailed it!
Yes – totally worked here!
a nice RC on the 10 jump too! He probably just needs more experience driving to weave entries off a rear cross.
This was my “rear cross on the flat.” LOL – I told him to ‘switch’ into the weaves which was originally going to be my rear cross cue when I first trained it but for him but it really means turn away from me.
My only suggestion on that ending line is that we can tighten up the 15-16 line at the end: you can do the FC there closer to the 16 jump so he could see the position cue: you were moving across the center of the bar of 15, so he jumped long based on your line of motion.
Julie said this too. Ha.
or blind cross on landing side of 16.This would’ve been a great place to that.
Good opening! Remember to give her turns cues before she enters tunnel 2 (:03) so she has a tighter turn on the exit.
This week I noticed I was failing pretty miserably giving my verbals during the sequences to success as well.
She had a little trouble jumping the backside slice at the #5 jump at :08. Did I ever show you the zig zag grid? It would help for the jumping on that hard slice. If you haven’t seen it, I can post the videos
I have not seen the zig zag grid before. It would be great to see the videos.
The line from the 10 jump to the weaves requires a rear cross (I think you mentioned these were your favorite? LOL!) So you can set that on the flat a bit more: pull her into you then turn her away on the flat, kind of like a tandem turn so she is already turned before you show her 10. If she has not seen those, let me know and we can break it down. She was getting it after that but we can smooth it out with an earlier cue.
This is funny because I actually can do rear crosses on the flat pretty well – its’ the “real” rear crosses I can’t do. I was trying so hard to do a “real” one and was so excited I got it after that really bad one.
I’m finally getting to the review of these jumpers runs. It’s been one of those weeks which I feel like you’re having as well with all the traveling you were doing.
He was a little wide on 3 in the opening – the need to get to the tunnel exit is causing you to lose the finesse at 3 on that line – so you can send and leave with a bit of decel. I liked when you did it all dog on left – if you send and leave to 3 (no spin) then you will easily be ahead of him on your left side to get the weave entry
I don’t know why I didn’t just do this. It was like I was purposely making this hard on myself. It just seemed like a good way to run it when I walked it initially.
On the 6-7-8 line: He is keeping you honest on your timing and connection on the blinds: you had connection to him on landing of 6 at :28 and :39 then before he could really get to you right side, you looked forward so he read it as a blind – boom, quick side change to the jump. The FC got it done but I liked your original plan like you did with Emmie. You can get it by making really strong eye contact with him on your right side, see him pick up being on your right side – then do the next blind.
I’ve been trying to work the fast blinds with him instead of the fronts on some of these drills to get better at them. I’m used to “floating” into the blinds and not just changing sides quickly.
I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and review your feedback from all the jumpers courses yet…but I will get there! However, I did see the feedback skimming through my email on the jumpers course 1 above regarding the 9 jump. Tonight I was running course 3 of sequences for success and was getting very frustrated with Kippy. This happened the other night when I was trying for a baseline video on a different course. I’ve reviewed the video, but I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Instead of getting frustrated even more, I figured I should let you look at before I try to fix it myself on the second round. It just seems to keep happening and I don’t know if it’s the same thing as what you were giving me feedback for on the jumpers course or not.
Here is Kippy on Course 1. I struggled on this one with him. I had a real hard time with the blind tunnel entry and I was herky jerky to try to keep him on the jumps instead of going around. I did not handle this at all the way I wanted to but just tried to get through it.
Here is Emmie on Course 1. She was missing her weave pole entry on this one so we just skipped it. I think we were all tired by this time.
Here is Emmie on jumpers course 3. We got the second tunnel entrance nicely the first time but then for some reason when we redid it, we couldn’t get it again.
We worked the Jumpers courses today. We did Course 2,3, and 1 in that order. I’ll post in the order we did them. Here’s Emmie on course 1.
Try to stay closer to the tunnel, moving down to the next jump rather than parallel to the weaves and ending up past the tunnel – is a really extreme countermotion, so it is a good thing to go on the training list to gradually add in.
This would be my goal skill for this course to handle how I really wanted to handle it but I just don’t think we are there quite yet with either dog.
On the jump before the tunnel at 1:11…. patience (I know, I hate that word hahaha). Don’t rock back out of it, and be super connected – you looked ahead but rocked back so he looked at you. Stay in position and look at him til you see him looking at the jump – then you can run to the tunnel.
I was really trying to stay upright and not bend down (from your previous feedback for wraps) but I just moved too fast.
It will also be fun to look at the difference between the wrap there, and a slice on that jump to see which is faster! We will start to obsessively time all these in Games Package 3.
I chose the wrap there because I thought he would blast past the tunnel opening with the slice and have a hard time getting back into it or get the other end. I think the timing will be really fun to do with both dogs.
Looking at the run with the patience thing in mind You were a little more patient maybe on the first run but not on the 2nd run (bar 2 down).
Kippy, patience, and the continuation of the struggle in a different way. He runs “my speed.” So if I’m running slower or am not confident in what I’m doing he slows down. If I overthink any of my handling, he takes it as pressure on his line and “floats” away or thinks he is doing something wrong. It’s always been a fine line of running all out all the time with him and trying to handle at the same time. And because I really didn’t teach much for verbals with him, I have to be perfect. For lesson 2 sequences for success, I struggled significantly on the pinwheel with him because I had nowhere to run. That’s why I asked about what you wanted to review on that if we couldn’t get through it on the first round. I think it would be a great example for you to see what I am talking about and see if you can give me input for that situation.
Doing the Blind to wrap worked, but is slower, so working to get the slice line is a priority. Can you do a blind to that flip away (with you on the landing side of the jump)
I’m not sure if we have that skill – I would have to practice it first.
or a double blind (I personally love the double blind there, but I am a nut job hahaha) – you would blind before he exits the weaves (when he is around pole 8 or so) and then when he changes lines to come to the threadle side, you would do the 2nd blind for the jump. It is a fun skill and can be used to replace Threadle handling.
This is actually my default way to handle threadles with him. I feel like my training skills has always been my Achilles heel – I’d rather handle than train it. So, that’s why I pushed myself with Emmie to train all her verbals because it’s very outside my comfort zone. And it’s also why I finally broke down and am trying to train a threadle verbal with him too.
He didn’t come in on the backside at :38 and :54 – I think he is relying on a bit of physical cue, so you can train it so he doesn’t need to be cued to come on, he just comes in.
Prime example of me always handling this instead of training it with him LOL.
On the weaves, your videographer said something about no more than one nice on a night – I agree, if the dogs get it the first time, you can skip asking for it again because those difficult skills are hard to keep doing and often go downhill after a success (dogs start to anticipate).
Again I will keep this in mind for all the following courses.
On the ending line – you were freaking the videographer out LOL!!!! The sound was SO FUNNY!
Julie came over to run some of the courses with Min and Kaladin. I’m also pretty sure my life flashed before my eyes there.
That ending line after the straight tunnel is really hard as a serp, because he sees where you were before the tunnel and is turning left – it makes the right turn so much harder – an then you end up further from the jumps so it is harder to get him to commit to the next one – I think keeping him on your left then serping the tunnel exit so he exits dog on left and then you move into a FC between the 2 jumps might be best.So BC the exit of the tunnel to get him on my left then FC between two jumps?
Hi there! Looking at all 3 videos, I see a theme emerging: stay patient, don’t rush. I know, I know, I hate the word ‘patience’ and also hate BEING patient hahaaha so we will look at specifics on what I mean. And you are going to laugh, because in general it means ‘run slower’. When you were moving really fast in some places, you ended up losing the lines or leaving too soon, so something would go wrong. When you ran a little less fast? You had time to set up the cues and the dogs nailed it!
I struggle with this constantly. In fact it was a huge theme tonight as I tried to start the sequences for success for Lesson 2. With Emmie, I have been trying to run faster with her to speed her up (although I think she’s really gained confidence now and isn’t thinking as much as she used to). However, when I tried to do that I always am on the verge of getting too far ahead and disconnected with her.
You can do the flip away at 2:13 but don’t rush away, be patient more like what you did at 2:44It actually wasn’t my plan to do the flip away at 2:13 – I changed my plan for that section right before I executed it poorly LOL.
On the weaves, she started off really strong with the weaves – you can ask for it once then don’t ask again, because she was popping after that. If she gets it the first time, reward but don’t ask again
I will do that on the rest of the courses.
