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I found a video. I was playing a version of It’s Yer Choice Startline. I use “ready, steady, Eddy” BTW, she was groomed and is a lot littler than she was with all the hair. LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZDMNPZgfM This was from before Christmas.I haven’t totally disappeared. I was sick (all better now), took a nasty fall running Bittie (no major damage, just confidence diminished). I have been working blind crosses but haven’t filmed them. Bittie is understanding them better and I am getting over the fear factor. I really enjoyed the start line games. I do all of those with her randomly in training because I want her to explode off the start line. They really do work. Have taken much of my training back to the speed circle exercises just to build up her focus and enthusiasm. Tomorrow Bittie and I are taking a Lori Michaels workshop for young dogs with a layout of four jumps and two tunnels. I will get someone to film some of it. Saturday and Sunday I have her entered in a UKI trial in jumpers and speedstakes NFC. It should be interesting. If she starts to lag or just wander off and sniff, I will have no issue with pulling her from future rounds and taking it back to training. I will also get some video from the weekend! Thanks.
Bittie’s speed circle on the second exercise on Unit 1. I have been doing some of the blind cross foundations and Bittie and I are both getting more comfortable. At the start I am talking to her with a low “ready, steady, Eddie”, something I have used with her from the start. BTW, she and I are going to do jumpers and steeplechase NFC in UKI last week in December. So I should be able to get some footage somewhere besides our training building.
I am going to play some of the start line games with her this week.thank you. Just getting back on my feet after being sick for a couple of days. I will do some of this. Funny, I teach other people similar foundations but not myself! LOL. One of the reasons I am taking this course.
I would love your foundation re blind xs. I have worked some of the ones I teach but I am my own worse student. I have done very few blinds in my agility career. In 2005 my lightning fast borderjack took me out on a blind and destroyed my knees. I did fronts pre surgery but handled mostly with back crosses. With Bittie I should be able to get in position to do the blinds.
I ordered a second one that arrived last week and ended up giving it to one of my students. I will order another one tomorrow.
Her toy drive varies. She will start out really interested and then lose focus. I have to watch for that and quit or change up before she doesn’t want to play with it again. I generally use a treat hugger from Clean Run and she really likes it. I throw it. She doesn’t bring it back very well, but we are working on that. Sometimes she will really engage me in a game of tug with it after she has snagged her treat. She likes a tug at times too. Certain toys she likes, others and balls she could care less about. I can send her out to get her treat hugger as a dead toy some of the time. That is growing. Have played a lot of 1-2-3 game with it. A lot! ;-).
