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I got the novice jumpers map with coordinates from Julie so was able to set it up exactly. Bad news is my camera moved after I set it and didn’t get much of the startline where we had the most problems this time. She kept going around the first jump. Good news is she did the big loop exactly to my handling. On one part I was too far behind and she cut in and didn’t take a jump and another one I think I was too much on her line so she went around. But she was taking the jumps! One of the reps I had her take jump 5 and wrap back to me. So she’s really trying hard to listen and watch my cues…I felt like the wrap back to me I was actually timely and she did it so nicely. I’ll wait to hear back but I’m really just debating not trialing her on mats anymore. I don’t want to keep rehearsing that at trials when I can’t fix it. However I would like to keep taking class there because it’s the closest thing to me in the winter. Plus we can work on it then.
Here was Saturday’s speedstakes. We ran this for real. I thought she did really well but then at the end I was not really deliberate in where I wanted her to go so she was unsure too.
For real Speedstakes
Speedstakes map
Also putting these here for reference in case you wanted to compare on a bigger screen. Here were the runs I sent you on Sunday. Like we discussed, I’ll set up a similarly spaced circle in the yard on grass to see what we get.
Speedstakes
NFC Jumpers (wrapped feet)
Hi! Here are our runs from Saturday. We NFC’d the first jumpers run. Had a really good start but definitely kept pushing her to the backside after I reviewed my video. Then it just kind of fell apart on my end although she was really listening well. I forgot to wrap her feet all of Saturday so all these videos she’s running with no wraps. On a really great note, her startlines were amazing all weekend. Even when we had to reset in between during the runs.
NFC Jumpers
Jumpers map
Really haven’t done much because of the Invitational etc. But here is class from last Friday. I wrapped her feet for the first time. I didn’t get her first turn on video because I forgot to press play. But here are the second and third turns. I wrapped her front feet only for her first turn. For the second turn I wrapped both front and rear feet. And then went back to front feet only for her third turn. The wraps on her front feet definitely showed wear so I think I’ll keep wrapping her front feet on these mats. I wasn’t sure if I should wrap the rear or not but they didn’t seem to have a much wear as the front wraps. Let me know what you think although it might be a little hard to see.
Here is J2 from Sunday. This was my least favorite course of the weekend. It was a really hard course to find any NFC options for Lu. We decided on 1-4, 6. I knew 3-4 was going to be hard and it was. Then we ended on 6-10-17, tunnel. On a side note, Youtube said I had a copyright infringement because there was music playing in the background so I had to mute it.
Here’s J1 from Sunday. I ran 1-6 as numbered. I was really worried about the turn out of the tunnel to 4 (and didn’t handle it great) but she read it really well. And I was so happy with 4-6. I didn’t think we’d get those turns. Then we practiced the broad jump because she had missed it a few times the day before. I didn’t realize until watching the video her butt was up on her stay.
Here’s J2 from Saturday. This was the course I had a really hard time finding anything nice for her to work on. The first plan I thought was going to work on paper did not look good when I walked it so decided to try 6-10. She turned so tight on her first backside wrap that her line took her completely past the entrance to the tunnel – plus i felt like I disconnected from her too. Second time, I reconnected but almost sent her straight. And – she held her stays. When I walked this i thought for sure that the broad jump would be right on her line so she should take it out of the tunnel – but I was wrong LOL. I didn’t much have a plan for the ending so tried to wing it – not a good idea with her HA.
Here’s J1 from Saturday. I would have liked to start at 1 and try to get through to 7 but the wall was #2 so had to start at 3. I was so happy with how she read this. I thought for sure she was going to go and take 15 but she turned to the tunnel and she even turned out of the tunnel! Then I went to try to do 9-13. Each time I tried to handle #10 I was handling incorrectly for her somehow – either in her way, adding too much motion, etc. Once she made it to #11, I don’t think i gave her any verbals as to how she should turn out of it and add that to a fairly new obstacle of the broad jump she just went around it. Overall I was very happy with this run. So many new things to remember for her LOL.
Hi!
We are back from WI from the ISC trial. Now I see what you mean about the technical course design from German judges. It was a much different flavor of design compared to other European judges. It almost felt more American than European! However, the one thing I appreciated was the very apparent difference in levels of courses. You could definitely tell J1 vs J2 vs J3 and seemed to really try to be appropriate for the level. Lu was entered in J1 and J2 for the weekend for a total of four runs that we NFC’d. The J2 course were difficult to find something that would be good for Lu to practice but we tried to make it work. One thing I’ll have to remember for NFC next time if I do another ISC trial is you have to leave the toy connected to you (no throwing it or placing it). You could have it on a really long line so I’d do that next time instead. I accidentally threw it one run out of habit- whoops! Not a fan of that rule. Lu has not seen the wall jump yet so that also added to the difficulty of making up a course for her because the nice areas where I wanted to have her run included the wall. I didn’t’ want to spend time practicing it since we can do that at our local facilities without having to feel rushed. We did review the broad jump though as she has seen that a few times. I’ll give a recap of each run below. I think one thing I came away with from the weekend is that I need to figure out our teamwork for how I handle a backside wrap. She gave me a lot of feedback on those this weekend 🙂
She did have some tightness on her right inner thigh during the massage. She also had some minor adjustments to her pelvis/sacrum during chiro. I’ve got her scheduled for another chiro appt in a few weeks again and will probably have her seen again at massage too.
Hi,
We haven’t really done much in the past couple of weeks so wanted to send an update. Didn’t have any planned training and we didn’t have class so it’s been pretty quiet. Plus it snowed so nothing outside. This weekend we are headed to the ISC trial at CSZ in WI. Lu is entered in 16 preferred so I can post after this weekend. She got her first chiro adjustment this past Friday and then had her first massage on Saturday. I didn’t realize it but I asked my massage person if she did trigger point and she said that’s part of the massage. So I didn’t realize they were basically the same thing lol. But now she’s all tuned up.
I have scheduled a chiropractic appt and massage appt for Lu for next week so we’ll how it goes. I haven’t seen anything off with her but she is in season too and has been the last 1.5 weeks. We did have some training time scheduled at Animal Inn this weekend. We practiced running low bars in a big speed circle. Then we revisited the 3 jump grid out of the tunnel with added motion. I kept the grid on her line as she came out of the tunnel. Here’s the speed circle first. I was late on some of turns with both verbals and decel plus the footing here is not good. I thought she did well on this exercise.
