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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 🙂
We also did the Hind End control – Teeter Foundation exercise on the see-saw – backing up onto the end of the see-saw. She barked at me quite a lot, but she seemed OK with putting her back feet on, once she understood what I wanted.
Today we worked on the Concept transfer – Serpentines games. Started with one jump, with moving start – then moved on to 2 jumps, then 3 jumps. I’m sorry I didn’t do them exactly as you described, as was doing from memory, as I forgot my printout – but I thought she did pretty well. I gave her plenty of reinforcement for sit-stays, as the moving releases were good proofing for her – I have edited most of them out. I didn’t have time to do the tunnel serps, but hopefully I can squeeze them into my 30×30 space at home.
Today we did a second session of the Straight Lines 4 ways game – this time a litle faster, with jumps further apart. We had difficulty with the rear cross wraps, and also, I think she patterned the “push” as she tended to repeat that (while ignoring my cues) after she had just previously done a push (I think that’s her favorite!).
Teeter Foundation – Mountain climber
this was the second time we did this – didn’t get to video the first session, but we started with the teeter lower end on the ground, and she did fine – so this time I did this with the lower end slightly off the ground, as we had been doing other exercises with lower end raised a little. Also, I put her in a down at the top, then at the bottom too – I thought it was a good idea, as I am teaching her to down at end of teeter – have never done the “mountain climbing” exercise before though – so please let me know if you think this isn’t such a good idea.
Thanks for your feedback on the Starfish game. I looked at your video again, and see that I wasn’t even doing the sequence correctly. I tried it again today – trying to keep better connection with Yowza, and not to pull her away on the tandem turns – I thought we did a little better! – what do you think?
Hi Tracy – here is our effort at the Starfish game. Although she did the tandem turns most of the time, they weren’t exactly tight, and sometimes she missed the tunnel, I think b/c I wasn’t connected with her enough. We did the baby level on each side, but then I couldn’t really remember the sequence for the advanced level – so we’ll do that next time, when we repeat the baby level incorporating your feedback.
I am wondering how much longer we can post videos…. – am planning to sign up for the next Max Pup course.
Yesterday we did the accordion jumping grid. I noticed that she put in a stride between the first and second jumps when I first increased the distance between the second and third jumps. I am interested to hear your feedback on this, as I’m not sure how her jumping should look, and if maybe I should have decreased the distance.
