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He read this as parallel motion again like you mentioned in your analysis above for jumpers course 1. It was super frustrating for me that day because I could not figure out what I was doing wrong for him to not take the jump and I didn’t want to fix it with a spin. But now it makes sense. I did practice later and used a threadle cue and it worked perfectly for him. This is really good info for me because he reads this parallel motion like this all the time and I’ve never been able to figure it out. Answer: just add a threadle cue lol.
Also that tunnel exit – I just could not fix the turn out of that no matter what I did. You’ll see that in the next videos.
But also, this is good info from him: he stays out wide when you close your shoulder forward – he reads it as a cue to stay on a parallel path. That is what happened at :23 on the 9 jump – he collected on the jump before it – and then you closed your shoulder so he ran around the outside.
Now that I”ve been practicing similar situations this week, would this be a good place for his threadle cue also?
You serped the 11-12-13 line – it would be fun to try a FC 11-12 to a BC 12-13, or a BC to a BC and see how it compares to the serp.
I practiced this a little in the sequences to success. I’ll see how I did when I actually post it 😉
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.
