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Yay! I’ll move the top jump out and give it a go with better connection after she eats the cookie.
Here is Wingin’ It: One-Step Sends And Exit Line Connection
Here is Contacts Foundation: Plank Confidence 1
Here is Teeter Games 1: The Mountain Climber
See you in an hour!
We’re excited to get started!
Here is our Concept Transfer: The Lazy Game – beginning and end of session
I redid Live 1 sequence 2 and also did 3. The backside serps are hard for me so it was good practice.
I built the next course too so hopefully I’ll get some more run tomorrow.Finally it’s cooled off some. Here are some exercises from the first Live. We did 1a, 1b, and then gave 2 a go. But now that I’m looking at the video I did it totally wrong. LOL I’ll try it from the other (proper) side tomorrow.
Thanks Tracy!
Here is week 1 standard 2 first attempt.
I got lost on the first one at the end. Reverted back to course 1 after the super wide turn out of the tunnel. I didn’t notice the bar down after the teeter and forgot to reset it. Using her name seemed to be the key to getting her to turn out of the tunnel. It ran really nice.
Thank you!
We attempted the first Standard course from week 1 last night. I did not appreciate the complexity of it. Here are our attempts:
Oh my goodness! I am not surprised I missed the wrap since I struggled with that when I walked it so at some point I forgot it for good. And that’s crazy that I assumed backside and didn’t double check it. LOL
We gave it another go tonight. The first one I got lost but her wrap was so pretty so I left it in. The next one she went to the backside instead of doing the wrap. So I played with it a few times to see if I was doing something. And I need to keep scatter cookies in my pocket to shut her up when I’m thinking. LOL Next rep was pretty good. I could do better but it was good enough so we quit there. It was a really fun course. I was most impressed with her going to 3 so I could go across the line and get the blind in on 5. A little bit of “I’m going to the toy” at the end until I reminded her there is more course to do first.
Also, Saphira ran little sequences at her in person class tonight off leash and didn’t run away (or knock over barriers) to visit friends. We’re making progress!
Thanks for the awesome feedback.
Like 10 days after I bought some tunnel bags from Clean Run they put them on sale for 20%. Ugh! LOL
I was mostly happy with this course and surprised at how “easy” it was for us. We just struggled with the jump after the last tunnel exit. I tried to push to the backside but she really needed a strong push to go and I tried doing one with I think a lap turn – pull dog in as you step back then flick them out. Both of them I got stuck there so it got messy.
First one I got lost. Second one I did the backside. Third one I did the lap turn thing.
Finally done with 4 weeks of on call and a 14 hour day on Saturday. Hopefully we’ll have lots of time to play agility now. Except almost 100 for the next 2 days!!! I did get the agility area watered the last 2 days so that helps. The ground was so dry and hard and dusty and probably slippery.Week 1 Jumpers Course 2 Attempt 1
I think she usually hits the wing on the backside serps. Like she slices too tight and her shoulder hits the wing.
We’ve been working on 14. I was going to put it back in the sequence last night but then the neighbor came over to bale the pasture and I’m not trusting Mazi to work with strange men in the yard even though she would most likely ignore them. So we we able to play with it today. Thankfully it stayed overcast and even started raining a bit. We fumbled a bit since I hadn’t been practicing me moving past it but then we got it. Sadly bar 2 was down but really who cares – we got 14. Using my left arm on the push (and saying the right word) helped alot.
With 3 tunnels setup right now I’m tunnel bag poor! I just bought another set of 4 bags. But I could probably use another 4. Or even 8 since I only have 4 on the puppy’s setup. $$$$$$$$ LOL
I do like the line from doing a threadle slice on 14. I just don’t know if I’ve worked on those with her in a setup like this. Are there any other courses that I should go back to and review the skill?
Should I move on to the next Jumpers course?Here is jumping course 1 – we could not get past 14. I tried to push on the first one but backside slices are super hard for her. So then I tried pulling but we don’t have that skill.
Also, not sure if it’s possible to make 2 more fluid for her of if the collection is good and she’s being safe. Slices are hard.Here are our redos of the ‘right’ vs ‘go’. I worked on it by breaking it down with cheese then a toy and back chained it at add in speed. Here are the full sequences again. Much better. Should we move on to doing the full courses now? Start with Jumping?
We played with the skills sequences tonight. (Saphira even did the first sequence forwards and backwards. Not in the video.) Mazi has good go and tunnel but not so much right. But I’m sure I screwed up the handling and didn’t help her out. I got the last sequence but then wanted to try to get a tighter turn. On the next one she knocked the wing over but once we were done I saw her Seresto collar pulled apart on the ground so she must have gotten it caught on the jump cups. We did 16″.
