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Last game was mountain climbers. I’m really bummed because my phone didn’t have storage left so I didn’t get the end reps on tape. The end reps I played with her toy first and sent her through a tunnel a couple of different ways so she had the speed and also had to make an entry to the board that was a little different. She did really well on those.
We moved onto the wobble board. This one was really fun to see her confidence and bloopers on here. We ended up changing the set up near the end and I think she actually started to do some better weight shift with the extra board. On a few of the reps the board rebounded under her and she held on so that was pretty cool to see that.
We had a lesson tonight so we worked on a few different things. We started out with the rebound game. I think she was a little unsure at first of what we were doing so we started to click when we moved the board and she stayed on. That seemed to help her understanding.
I would like to move outside but the temperature dropped back down today and I just didn’t have it in me. So we worked the bang game inside instead. When I was editing, I realized this was probably more reps than I should have done with this game. She also definitely has a stronger side getting on the teeter. She seems to struggle more getting on when the teeter is on her right. I’m guessing I should probably work this outside and with a toy as well…
Oh and her lesson last week went really well. I think it’s been really helpful to work on all the movement on peanuts with new stuff in a different place since she’s very literal. I haven’t had a chance to check out the new games posted yet so I’ll do that before this week’s lesson to see if I can incorporate anything. On a side note, we went to our first indoor UKI trial in about a year. They had the teeter put away in the corner near the warm up jump and she would run over there as we went to the practice jump trying to figure out if we working the teeter or the jump first lol. Had to catch her once before she tried to get on.
Here is mountain climbers. I thought this session went pretty well. Again same thing. First rep I let her check it out and then we did some additional reps after playing with the toy.
Here’s Teeter-Tables again. So I started both sessions tonight by bringing her in on leash and let her check out the set up with me there. Then we played with a toy and did the training reps. For this game I added some padding at the other end too but it didnt help much. I don’t think it’s the noise that bothers her as much as the movement/whip of the other half of the teeter that comes down. She did get a little surprised at one point after she got off of it at the end of the session but not enough to run to the other end to try to climb back on for another rep. I edited out that last part because it the end of the session. Also during the reps it felt like she was really stopping at the tip point but when I watch the session it really doesn’t seem as bad as I thought it was.
Here is mountain climbers 3. I brought her in on a leash and then played tug with her before getting on the board. She was unsure first rep, but then had some really nice ones after.
Also yesterday we also went to our lesson and worked the Mountain Climbers 2 plank and peanut setups again, bang game into end position, and added some backing up onto a few different things. I just didn’t get it taped this time.
So because my table can only be adjusted by 4 inch increments, to lower it I had to move to the next lower level. I added a doubled up towel underneath but she definitely got spooked. I did a few more reps instead to get her comfortable again which she did by the end. Should I go back again?
So I thought this would go slower than it did. Literally did two sessions of one hit wonders for table to table. I thought she seemed pretty confident with no hesitation.
I will probably end up moving some of my equipment outside so she’ll have some more room which will probably help too. My guess is if I put her dinner out with some peanut butter, the PB would definitely trump her dinner lol. I will work on a compilation of the one-hit wonders this week and rotate through the rest of the games.
We’ve been at a herding clinic all weekend so I was lazy and did the exact same thing as yesterday. Tomorrow I’ll probably change it up when I’m not so tired. We did table to table with three reps this time. I kept the towel for the first rep but not as padded as yesterday. Then I took it out for the last two.
