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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.
Quick question – for the sequences for success for lesson 2, what would you want to see if we can’t get through the first time? Do you want to see the redos also? Pinwheels are the death of me.
And here is Kippy on Lesson 1 Standard Course 3. We’ve been taking another threadle class and in between 7/8 and today we have worked a few sessions. I was so proud of him on executing the threadle today with motion in a course. I think I was pretty late when I tried it on the course on 7/8 so didn’t get the threadle but super excited he got it today.
I worked some of lesson 1 standard course 3 with both dogs on 7/8 and then some more of it tonight. So just completed editing the days together. I will say that on 7/8 I probably should have just stopped for the day because I was mentally tired and not handling well. Here is Emmie on Course 3. When I put the days together this went over time so pick and choose!
