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I have a couple of quick questions.
1) I saw you are coming to MN in June and I’m really bummed it’s those dates because that’s the Midwest Cup so I won’t be able to make it. Are you planning on coming back sometime this year?
2) Do you know when/if you’ll be opening another Maxpup class for puppies? My friend’s mom just got a puppy and she was wondering about classes.
Here is zig zag jump grid. We really had to play around with the angles to get her to bounce correctly.
This was a very good learning session for me to see what she needs for information. The last few reps were supposed to be rear crosses. I even stopped and tried to review the demo video but I think I was overthinking completely – obviously since I wasn’t even doing a rear cross hahahah! I quit and figured I would get your input instead on how to address those.
Serpentines in sequence was harder for us but still pretty good until we got to the last sequence. I probably sabotaged myself with the distance between jumps and tunnel with all the increased speed but oh well.
Good to see you at the Invitational! And hopefully Contraband is feeling better and on the mend?
Weather hasn’t been great but we snuck in some serpentine work and will play catch up for a bit. I was so happy with this session. We took a break this winter from class material and focused strictly on breaking down serpentines because it was so hard for her when adding any type of motion. It’s definitely paying off. This is just 1 and 2 jump work in this video. Will work on some of the sequencing later. But this 1, 2 jump work used to be really hard for her too.
Hi Tracy – your email that went out about games package 6 said there was a concept transfer of serpentines, but I don’t see that in the course material this week. Was it supposed to be there? Not that I can do much this week since it’s now snowing and raining. Boo.
Here is contact position. We have been working this on/off for the last couple of weeks. We had 2o2o and a target behavior with me sitting in front of her but then that fell apart when I moved positions to sit next to her. So we had to go back and just work 2o2o and have me move positions. This was our first session adding the target back in with my positions moving.
Here is double crosses. This turned out to be pretty impossible for us. I didn’t go in with much confidence that we’d be able to do it and I really struggled trying to imagine the wings as jumps too. I basically just ignored the middle wing and called it day if I could get a timely cross on the first wing wrap to the last wing. LOL
Here’s threadle wraps. We have practiced threadle wraps before but only stationary and definitely not out of a tunnel. For some reason they were much harder on my left. Was also trying not to spin when sending her to tunnel so may have been really late calling her as she went into it.
<One thing to be careful of is to NOT do a spin on the tunnel entry when you want a straight exit… we don’t want her to learn to ignore tunnel turn cues.>
Please keep reminding me if you see it. I’ve been trying to catch myself doing it and instead following through with the tunnel sends but obviously I’m missing it a lot.
<And while she is playing with the toy, look at the video to see if you were connected or not>
This is one thing I don’t do during the session but need to start adding. I review after during editing and catch it then :-/
Here is tight blinds to wraps. Struggled a lot on this one. After rewatching I didn’t even do the first blinds correctly – looks like I inadvertently turned them into spins. I could feel it was not right because she kept going wide but when I actually did them in sequence I think I did it correctly. I cheated a bit by moving the wings out further and the middle wing in. Starting to see a trend – I kept catching myself on her line so she really couldn’t even see the wing – the main reason for moving the middle wing. I ended up just focusing on trying to stay out of her way and stay connected so didn’t really get to the spins we were supposed to do or the correct sequence for that matter ha.
