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Here is where we are at with the week 1 games
Drive Ahead and Focus Forward
Decel & Turn – Drive to Handler
Prop – Building Sends and Commitment
Wing Wrap – Shaping It
Blind Cross
This summer has flown by! So much to train with all the sports in the few months of great weather that we have in MN. I didn’t get as much done as I would like but we got some stuff done and we had fun and learned lots. I appreciated the hot topics and lives that don’t take as long to build. And as a side effect over the summer the puppy, Firnen, learned to quit attacking every piece of equipment that I picked up to move. 🙂
To work on building more confidence/drive/speed do you think I should go back and work on MaxPup3 or any of the other classes again? I know she’s never going to be Mazi but I think she’s got a lot more in her.
Here is some work from Live 4 this morning. She gave me a lot of good work and I didn’t want to keep drilling. We didn’t finish but I think we got to a great spot. I could feel when I did things wrong and I felt like I knew how my handling contributed. She’s a very good honest girl.
Here are the courses from Live 3. It looks like I had less exit line connection the more we went on. I had to think more on the handling and also managing her happiness levels.
Thank you!
Here is training package 4 hot topics. After I did them with Saphira I ran Mazi through them. I haven’t done agility with her since 4th of July weekend. Night and day between the dogs. She’s my comfy old pair of shoes (even though we still make lots of mistakes).
We did the package 3 hot topic handling course last night. I need to work on the threadle wrap more. It’s a new handling move to me. So I think I did a tandem turn again. I did a few to try to do less motion but I think I did the same. LOL She was amazing of course.
I’m hoping to have time to build out training package 4’s hot topic course today and play with that one.
Having done the earlier sequences and missing the last one worked in our favor so we could apply your feedback. 🙂
Well it rained all day on Thursday then I was out of town until Sunday night with Mazi. Monday I was beyond exhausted from the weekend plus it rained all day. So we finally got out to do the last sequence from Live 2 today. All week is supposed to be cooler so hopefully we can get more running in. And hopefully we’re done with rain for awhile! I am loving how green things still are though. I haven’t had to water the agility field once this year.
So this is the last sequence for Sequence 2 – the full course. It was fun! I got all the layers in and was more connected although I felt a few spots where I could have done better.
Here are most of the courses from Live 2 from yesterday and today. I just now realized in Sequence 1 that I was supposed to do a backside and not just a wrap. I also missed the last Sequence 2 course. I’ll try to get that in tomorrow before I leave to go out of town for the weekend. I’ll try the first sequence again with a backside too.
Here is Package 2 Hot Topics
There were some breaks as there must have been a deer in the yard earlier or something. She was all about hunting and running all over and ignoring me. I did get her attention enough in-between to do some agility. She liked the circle one. Also the hunting is the reason I didn’t do startlines.
Thank you! I’ll review my videos with your feedback in mind.
Here are the other 3 courses. We did them this afternoon. Towards the end I didn’t layer as she was hot, we had some failures, and I wanted to support her more.
Thanks for the great feedback. I can see the things that you pointed out and how to do better.
I’ll work on the focus forward. She already knows it on a dish when she’s next to me for obedience so it should go quickly.
We moved on to the Live 1 courses since they are quicker to setup and I’m already quite behind. Here are sequences 1, 2, and the Bonus. Although I did a slice on 6 and not a wrap. Not intentionally – I just forgot that it was a wrap.
