[cynthia]

What, what? Get him faster? 🤣🤣 Lol he’s so fun.

In reply… You said ..When you say his name on tight turns, is that for wraps. I use ‘check’ as a wrap cue. But I don’t always get the word out of my mouth. Lol. I use his name for like a hard turn towards me out of a tunnel or in a pinwheel or something.

My instructor here in Utah also tells me I need need to stay in motion for him so that’s good to have more information about that. I try to but sometimes he’s so far ahead of me I feel like I need to slow down or almost stop in order to be where I need to be. So I definitely need to be aware of that.

I like the idea of a marker on the ground to help me remember when to decel!

I do point too much. Sometimes my arms have minds of their own lol.

Thanks for the feedback! I will set this up again and make notes of your input. I am probably going to a friend’s house tomorrow who is also in this class and try the standard course.

[cynthia]

Thanks!

We had fun working on the first set of skills. I did the first 3. I only did 2 reps of 1, and 2 reps of 2, then I did 4 reps of 3. That was enough, it was already getting hot this morning.

As you can see, I need to cue sooner. LOL. In skill 3, after the first rep, I thought maybe a reverse spin would work well at jump 5, and I think that worked better. He loves to jump in extension, and he’s not very good at collection. I didn’t know, when he was a puppy, that I would need so much collection! And I didn’t do Max Pup, which I now regret, and want to do it with my next puppy. :). And… I don’t have a Come In Towards Me cue, really. For a tight turn I use his name, which I have been doing for 18 years lol, and probably need something different. I am in the process of teaching him Right and Left verbal cues. I’ve never trained them on a dog before, haven’t really needed to, but I think I need to with Mr. Speedy Dreamer. I haven’t had a dog this fast since 2006. 🙂

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