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Wingit – Tunnel Yes/No/Go – for the most part, Yowza did this well when I did it well – haha! When she avoided the tunnel, she sometimes sneaked in the wrong side of me – probably my fault, and I kept throwing the toy out ahead of the tunnel, when I should have been rewarding her after she turned back toward me. She didn’t always get the tunnel when I sent her from the back, but I think she’s starting to get it.
We repeated the zig zag jumping game yesterday. Yowza seemed to do better when I had the 2 jumps almost in a straight line.
This is our attempt at the Wingin It – Tunnel threadles game. I have to say, I really felt like I was “wingin it” for this, as I wasn’t sure if I was using the right arm, etc, and I found I could only get Yowza to bypass the first tunnel entrance by calling her name – using my verbal for this (close) didn’t work, so I stopped using it…..
I did do the wing tandem turns as well, but forgot to turn the camera on 🙁 – we’ll try them again at the end of the week.
“On the first couple of tandems you got to the other side of the tunnel (makes it a little harder for you LOL!) but that is fine 🙂 On a few of them, you used the dog-side arm opening back and then at :34, you used the outside arm – to help keep it clear for her, I suggest using the dog-side arm opening back for threadle slices (where she would keep going) and use the outside arm for the tandem turn”
Thank you for helping me out here as I am struggling with which arm to use for tandem turns – and there’s a story to this….
– in 2014 I went to One Mind camp, where I was in the beginner group taught by a certain brilliant Canadian coach. Janita had shown us how to do the TT using the dog-side arm, but my coach said it was OK to use the opp hand. I tried using the dog-side arm at first, but not very successful, so then switched to opp arm – this was working a little better, but then Janita happened to walk by and when she saw this she jumped in to show me how to do it properly with the dog-side arm – well, she had me drill this for about 15 minutes until I got it right – so now it it literally drilled into me to use the d-s arm, which is why I often alternate – b/c I’m trying to use opp arm, but keep resorting to d-s arm – though I now think that it would work much better for me to use the opp hand for TTs all the time. So I guess what I need to do is some “drills” where I use the opp arm all the time – only thing is, I think I need a robot dog to try this on, or I might drive poor Yowza insane…..Today we tried the Concept transfer – Serps & stuff game for Wk 7. She surely had a good time doing these! – and I thought she did pretty well. There was one hitch, in the third sequence, where we did the 2 serp jumps from the other side (so the angles were wrong, I think) – it was really hard for her to come in on #2, and then out again to tunnel#3 – so I broke it down a bit, and then she got it – but there was still lots of name calling (of the good kind!;) ). She ran the backside sequences well for the most part – despite my handling – haha!
We also tried the Forced Front Crosses, as in the Live Session. I didn’t have enough room to set it up the same as in the live session, so I just sent her to the tunnel after the FFC. Yowza hasn’t done these before, so I was very pleased with how she did – she knows where that magic cookie hand is! I have never done the “throw back” instead of the FC before, so I’m not sure how I did….
Yesterday we did the Wingin It Turnaway games again – this time using the tunnel for more speed, and sequencing with some other turns. I think I was a little closer to the wings for the lap turns, but maybe I could have been even closer….
Today we went to the training building to train, and lo and behold, there was a tunnel with 3 jumps set up on the course that were almost in the formation needed for the Wk 6 games. I had to adjust the last jump a little, or Yowza would have been jumping into the wall, but I think that was OK. Only had time to do the first exercises – and I’m not sure if we did them exactly right. We found the rear cross on jump#5 quite difficult b/c of the change in leads (I think) – we were only successful when I said her name to bring her in closer to me (maybe this was a place for a lap turn -haha!). Then I found I had to be careful not to get stuck behind jump#6 so that I could send her to the tunnel.
PS – I am wondering if this is our last week, and also if there is going to be a sequel after Max Pup 3 ends…… – we hope so 🙂Hi Tracy – wondering if you missed my posting of Concept Transfers – Serpentines-2 that I posted above. this is a repeat of the Baby Level, as my previous video was not very clear – I hope this is better, though it was hard to position my camera in the barn to get everything in.
Today we did the Wingin It – Turn Aways – I did mostly the lap turn – but will continue this over the weekend and hopefully do more tandem turns, and add more speed.
Here are our efforts at the Contact Position Lazy Game. Not sure if she really understands the position yet, as she is still doing a lot of barking at me….
I repeated the Running contact mat targeting – this time trying to focus on the mat and marking back feet stepping on mat. This was OK when she was just going over to the mat (without the MM) – although when she missed, and I waited, she stopped and barked at me – this was a theme throughout this game, and i wasn’t sure what the best response was to help her. You will see this again when we used the Manners Minder – so, at some point I decided to make it easier by going back to marking any foot stepping on the mat.
Today I repeated the serpentine exercises, this time without my videographer. I tried to stay closer to the jumps, as you suggested – still not sure if my position was right though. The distance between jumps was closer here (inside my little barn), than before (at Mark’s place).Today we did the Running Contact foundation games – in my newly matted pole barn! – it’s small, but it’s big enough to do some of Yowza’s training games 🙂
When I included the Manners Minder, I kept pressing the Manners remote by mistake when she was coming to me, so then I sent her right back to it – so seems like I have to get myself trained in using this thing if I’m ever going to train her properly….. ;(Tracy – thanks so much for all your detailed feedback – it has been SO helpful! I have barely had time to keep up this time round, so haven’t yet posted any follow-up videos, with your suggestions incorporated – but hope to move on with that soon. Also – my apologies for the poor video for the serpentine exercise – videoing is obviously not my training partners forte! – the building we were in is Mark Bill’s of Clip and Go Agility – I am lucky enough to live pretty close to his place now 🙂
