[Eileen Ewins]

Here is round 2 of package 3 courses. It was cloudy and mid 70s this morning, but the humidity was terrible. I wanted to get in the backsides that I forgot about last time plus try your suggestions. The timing on backside slices is still hard for me.

[Eileen Ewins]

Thanks for your suggestions. I’m going to continue working on the threadles. I have always had problems with side discrimination on tunnels, so I’m hoping this will help for that too.
Today I ran the three courses. They were challenging and lots of fun. I noticed afterwards that I had off-courses on at least two of the courses. Ivan followed my directions well though.

[Eileen Ewins]

I moved the two jumps on either side of the tunnel to 14 inches and the rest to 12 inches. I reran the first and second timing sequences using your suggestions and was about a second faster on each one. Trusting him more helps a lot.
For the threadle sequences, I used 8 inch jumps. I ran the sequences with the threadle to the tunnel too, but I didn’t include them here because when I played them back I saw that I had done fronts with just unusual arm movements.

[Eileen Ewins]

I got a lot done this morning on custom skills. I sneaked a cameo in just for fun. You don’t need to do anything with the cameo.

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[Eileen Ewins]

Here is some of my work from yesterday morning.

[Eileen Ewins]

We worked on the sequences this morning. I set the first two jumps at 10 inches and the ones after the tunnel at 12 inches. I got lazy about moving a tunnel out of the way when I set up, so that was interesting. I was tempted to leave it in as an extra challenge, but ended up turning it a bit.

[Eileen Ewins]

Here is most of our skills work from today. I have to confess that I deleted some of the really bad ones. I should have put numbers out because I kept forgetting which end of the tunnel and other things. The threadle on a jump is new to me, so that was difficult, but I found that using his name as the cue to come in to me helped. I see that you posted instructions for the threadle but I haven’t looked at them yet.

“ Hope you are having a great weekend and staying cool. Hope you are finding things not too stressful – I am worried for all of my Florida friends!!!”. I feel pretty safe from COVID. I only leave my property once every two weeks to pick up my dog food order. George buys groceries but I think he is careful. He is getting his first haircut tomorrow and that worries me.

[Eileen Ewins]

Here is our session on course 3 this morning. I’m still working on my blinds.

[Eileen Ewins]

Thanks for the champagne tweeks. The blinds worked great on course 1. On course 2, changing the strategy from 4 to 10 did allow me to do the blind before 9, and it felt so much better. I can see that I still need to work on my timing for the backside slice with blinds.

Funny story – I was working on the backside circle wrap in my living room the other day using just one of my jump wings. Both Paps ran between the bars of the wing. I figured it was just my silly Paps, but then Ivan did it too. I never would have guessed that a 16 inch tall dog could easily fit through the wing. I fixed this by adding a bar on the floor and a second wing.

Here is our session of courses 1 and two from this morning:

[Eileen Ewins]

I moved on to the first two masters courses. I set jumps 1, 3 and 13 to ten inches for the first course and left them there for the second. These courses were a nice break from all the tough handling on the sequences.

[Eileen Ewins]

I’m late on this. I only have a few verbals.

Name – attention

Back tunnel – for tunnel under end of Dogwalk or A-frame – turn away from me and go in.

Come tunnel – same as above but take tunnel entrance closest to me.

Around – backside of jump

For tunnels, I’m starting to teach go tunnel to go straight out, tootootoo to wrap right, teeteetee to wrap left, and left and right for 90 degree turns.

I would like to have more but have trouble remembering them

[Eileen Ewins]

Happy 4th!
Wow! Thank you for all the handling options for this sequence. I have to confess that when I ran this on Thursday I didn’t even consider or even walk the SERP to the tunnel because I assumed I couldn’t get there. Yet, it’s now my favorite and much easier than trying to get a blind in.

I’m still working on the backside wrap.

Here are retries of sequence 1.

[Eileen Ewins]

This video is package 2, sequence 1. In all but the last clip, the first jump was raised to 10 inches. I took a break before that one, lowering it for Foxy, and I forgot to put it back up. I compared the time for the wrap and the forced front and the forced front was faster, but when I added in the time to get there from the tunnel, the wrap (which was harder for me) was faster.

[Eileen Ewins]

I was really surprised and pleased to see how good his a-frame was when we were running fast yesterday

You wrote, “In these 2 weeks, I think we will continue to work for speed while gradually increasing the bars (very gradually because I want to protect the speed_ and also continue to surprise him with rewards spread out everywhere on course. “

Can you clarify that? Should I raise some (or all?) of the bars (to 10 inches?) on this week’s sequences?

Here is my video of the tunnel skills. I added the last clip just for fun. Can you guess how I taught right and left?

I need to practice these tunnel skills a lot more. Do you think it would be ok for him to practice these (no videos) on non-jumping days? He craves exercise anyway.

[Eileen Ewins]

Hi Tracy,
I set the first two jumps up from 8 inches to 10 and started by rewarding for just those two.

I followed your suggestions and I felt like we were flying on this run.

I should have quit after the first run, but here is the last one.

It is so much more fun when we are running fast!

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