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Course 2
I got 8 wrong! Ughhh I’m sorry. One of the things that happens when you film and don’t have printed course maps is you can’t reference your saved map on the phone as you’re walking. I like my way better anyway 😜. But really sorry!
I really liked this course. As stated above, I liked my version best 😅. I felt that Fever could nail it and was able to handle it very aggressively. I really need to work on handling all courses confidently because I really have put the time in and am not asking him to do things I didn’t trainInterestingly, I made a HUGE effort in my walk thru to not do a spin at the tunnel. You can see me struggling with it. It takes a lot of mental energy. On the actual run, I did it. I didn’t even know I did it. I was shocked when I watched the video. Ughhhhh
Sequences For Success
Omg, I’m submitting videos and I just realized I just read all of your posts and didn’t actually watch for videos. Facepalms my self with a chair 😅I do want to set the scene a bit for this because I am SO PROUD HERE. Roulez sister Voulez is also screaming in the ex pen with Roulez, and there’s also a sheltie that’s super barkey and spinney in his crate for motion and Fever didn’t leave me once to go investigate them. We could not have done that 6 months ago. Happy years.
I watched my walk thru. I’m still missing a lot of head connection that’s present in my run.
I ran the first course with both a Roulez and Fever and missed the last jump with both dogs, so I obviously did something wrong. Fever thought about the tunnel IMO.
I know the theme is fight for it, but I knew backside are three would be a problem for me. We trained it and it worked great. He was wide at the 180°. I walked it saying left but don’t think I included it in my actual run.I will cue a wrap exit on the jump before and then do the threadle cue for the threadle jump. It makes it so much easier!
This is brilliant and would have never occurred to me.
Thank you.I think that it is not so much about arm set as it is about line of motion and verbal cues
I now have lots of words and trust most of them. For one reason, I just can’t seem to trust threadles. They are like the ticket scalper of my handling cues.
Skill set!
Last night was the first night in a few days that I could work him because we’ve been in a heat advisory. Heat index has been well above 100 🥵.I just had new sod put in and really am not supposed to run on it, but agility training is important 🤣.
I must admit, I read this lesson early in the week and forgot the aspects of the threadle toy placement. Those came from my hand.
I think this biggest aspect for me to work to improve would be my body work for threadles. I just don’t feel like I’m ever as smooth with them as I am with backsides.
For threadle slices I struggle so much to get into position with my body and am stiff… I’m like I’m a little teapot. Here are my arms… let me set my feet.
I left the wrap versus slice at the end. You can see I thought I was switching back to the wrap, but my body position is more consistent with the slice.Interestingly, I just watched a video by Kayl on threadle wraps and she uses a different arm set. I wonder if that would help me/him? I want to make it easy for him, but also know that these words will usually be on verbal cue alone because if I’m asking for them, I usually wouldn’t be there to handle. I over think these OFTEN
The other thing that’s challenging in general is the spacing for threadle son AKC. I thought Callie was gray on her threadles in trials because we don’t always get them. In practice she’s great. I did a seminar with Laurren and she was BRILLIANT on every threadle, not a foot out of place. I think the unfair spacing in AKC really plays a role in that. It’s not super fair to them when the jumps are essential 8 feet apart for a threadle in a straight line.
Happy Saturday! I totally woke up in a panic thinking it was Friday and that I was late for work.
acting is easy! SOmething goes wrong? He doesn’t need to know, just whoop it up and throw the reward 🙂
Acting is not my strong skill 🤣. I have to get my face botox-ed into oblivion so I don’t make faces at my patients when they tell me off the wall things.
I think I’m not understanding the difference between avoiding start and stop and rewarding all the things. I just feel like sometimes we get so off track that I can’t get the flow going again? Any suggestions on how to re-establish flow? Or if I can’t just stop? If I think about how to get back on for more than a second, usually when he will want to check out because he knows it’s not correct. I really would like to get through a full course fighting for week 5, but not feeling hopeful.
I did stop after the first section and give him a break instead of throwing him right back in. I watched the video too 😃On the first run – opening looked good. The rear cross was probably the best choice for getting a successful lead out, and he read the turn and found the 2nd tunnel
I really wanted to make a landing side blind work here but just couldn’t get the mechanics right. Ultimately no harm but the blind was my goal.
So the connection part of the walk through will be less about the visualization and more about remembering where he is behind you and to look at the obstacles behind you in those moments
This one is the challenge because I feel like he will be ahead of me most of the time- which is incorrect and I need to break that 😅
I hope your drive went well!
Package 4 standard course 1
Walk thru includedThis one just wasn’t in our favor. I really couldn’t navigate where I needed to and unfortunately that was very reflective
On the plus side, he could layer the tunnel successfully. He was sending to the backside but I think asking him for the jump from that area was a lot.I really thought you could see better if I gave carrie the camera. My apologies in advance for the Blair witch project like footage 🤢
Some good parts here. There was something in the back of the yard he found very interesting when we were not doing well in handling.
I am say, after each breakdown, he was able to come back which is tremendous. Unfortunately I should have just skipped this one and let him be more successful.
Sunday was supposed to be the day of standard
So I couldn’t get package 3 to fit in carries yard and and really couldn’t think of how to easily to modify it
In my head, package 4 looked doable in the space with a few adjustments.
Boy, I’m wrong. I took a video tour because I can’t even think of how to handle the opening and included just a little training we did instead.
I’m open to suggestions.
I didn’t really film a walk because this ended up more on the fly when I couldn’t work with what was there.
I didn’t mean to do the reverse spin at the tunnel. I had too much time and was stupid 😅
His hits weren’t absolutely amazing but they look so much better from where they were when I broke his DW.Please enjoy your video tour 😀
Great job here! I think the main thing is to really limit your session length, spread it out over several days
Here I was thinking I was doing good with a 3.5 minute and a 4 minute session over 1.5 hours 🤣
Sorry about the blank space. I thought I got it out but probably hit the undo button. That’s our pre run swim swims.
As you were passing the tunnel, to establish the skill you can move slowly at 5:23 so he can REALLY see the connection (more like what you did at 5:35 and on the reps after it
Super helpful feedback here because I felt like I needed to rush there- ha surprise, me rushing! to get the other handling that happened after the tunnel 😅.
I was really proud of Fever on this. It’s such a good area to work staying with the mama and is a small enough space that I could stay connected. Thank you!
I hope Nacho had fun at flyball!Skill set!
As I was driving home, it occurred to me that this was a lot of start and stop. It didn’t occur to me in the moment 🤦♀️Overall, I’m really happy that he wasn’t shopping for off courses. He really was trying and working with me.
I lost him once due to a barking dog at the fence. He came back quickly. I lost him a second time in the time between reps- which should have been my tip off that it was too much start and stop. I did edit that out since it was our second to last one.The very last rep, I thought I was going to roll my ankle and got super focused on my running and completely dropped connection with him. It was just a good example for myself. I had no idea where he was in space.
n (also 8 is a backside, it looks like he did is as a front)
I did do that one on purpose and forgot to tell you I modified. there was about 2 feet of space from the wing to the fence on the right side of the jump. I didn’t think it was fair to send him that way, and it was super tight for me to try to get in and do a cross or threadle wrap to the other side. My apologies.
I think the tunnel got left out because I got really tripped up on the wide serps.
I think we are on the verge of a breakthrough, so be strict with walking it this way and let me know how it goes!!!
It’s Ben Franklin with the key and the kite 🙂
You missed that 2 was supposed to be a backside 🙂 That buys you a lot more time to get to the exit of 3 to show 4. By rear crossing the entry of 3, there is really no good way to show 4 (if 2 was a front side, handling from ahead would be better: FC or BC or lead out push
Audible fuck just came from my mouth at my work station 🙂
Since this course is now down, which wing would you send to bearing in mind that THE CORRECT WAY IS TO DO A BACKSIDE JAMIE-READ THE MAP!you tend to do most of you walk through (here and on the next course too) as if Fever is ahead of you (or moving at the speed of light so ahead of you immediately after a cross)
I love his speed, and I don’t even think we’ve reached full gas but I feel so behind always. Even when I’m ahead. I need to keep working this. But you are correct, I usually do a good job of staying ahead.
Also, there is a lead change element 3-4 where he has to turn away from you – it needs both verbal cues and handling, more like what you did at 3:20: connection and motion and verbal.
ahhhhh yes! this is what was particularly challenging about what I was trying to do. I told Carrie that I couldn’t use an out to help him distinguish because both sides required a lead change. It wasn’t an in-in and it wasn’t a go….. which probably should have told me that if I didn’t have any of the tools in my toolbox to handle it, the course was wrong. FACEPALM!!!
Between the last 2 tunnels, this is another connect to the dog behind you moment – at 1:56 you were looking ahead and also quiet (he was not naughty, he was correct). Compare it to 2:08 and 2:57 where you were looking at the dog behind you and talking to him – nailed it! Yay!
I did both a front or a blind here. Did you have a preference of which one seemed to work better?
Course 3
I wouldn’t have done this one with both our energy levels but the lawn person comes tomorrow and tears the course down.Overall, I’m pretty happy with this. I need to work serps with a landing side blind. Well I think I need to do more landing side blinds in general with him.
I thought I didn’t have this video and that’s because I had accidentally deleted it. If a part of it is accidentally in my course 2 video, I’m sorry! I should be sleeping and not editing!
Course 2
This double tunnel opener kicked my butt!! It was really satisfying though when Carrie gave me a handling suggestion and I said that I didn’t think it would work… and she tried it… and it didn’t. So it ate both of our lunches. Not just my lunch 🤣. I walked it with trying to keep connection in mind but obviously was missing something.
I found if I called his name and said tunnel it went better than just cueing tunnel.
Most of our errors were me not giving enough turn info which led to going around jumps
His backside here looked really nice to me! I’m happy with a lot of the run. There’s a good amount of nice stuff here.
I got him a new frizz for the pool and he was pretty convinced I needed to throw it for him so you’ll see him lie down in the middle of one of our transitions.
And for your delightful pleasure my walk through. I did edit out a smidge because Roulez crashed it.I also kept moving his start to not really fight the stay.
And I have elected myself the Mayor of BugJamieToFilmWalkThroughsVille, so that way we can obsess on your rehearsal before the run
Tracy have you learned nothing of my people pleasing habits 🤣
Also let’s keep it southern an appoint you as Parish President ❤️I did film my walk through. I have 7 minutes and some change of a very enthusiastic incorrect walk through and 2 min and some change of the corrected.
I’ll give you my final incorrect walk followed by the full correct version. I even had Carrie watching!
Jumpers course 1
So another thing I learned about rehearsal today after I very confidently walked the course incorrectly after referencing my phone… and then walking… and then forgetting a loop somehow in the middle of my walk… and confidently walking after forgetting…is that I do much better with an actual tangible paper map.
Seeing as I don’t own a printer this could be problematic until I can use my work printer on Tuesday 😅 (millennials are the actual worst…)So first run, I was really happy with the lead out and the stay. Please laugh at the cartoon style branch incident 🤭.
Had the tree not been in my way, I wouldn’t have chose a long lead out like that. Unfortunately it was due to the space. I have a really hard time standing still waiting for him to get to me. You can see my happy feet.
I didn’t understand why he was going behind me to get the wrong end of the tunnel. In video review the only thing that I could think was I should have kept my motion towards the tunnel during the cross?
I did not expect 8-9 to be as much of a challenge as it was. I was rushing to get the backside at 13 and kept effing up 8-9. I also tend to hyper focus on one area which causes gaps in others.
When I did go in at 9, you can hear a very enthusiastic yes! Not me this time I swear! I extended a membership to overpraisers anonymous to Carrie on your behalf 😂😂😂The pool was quite the challenge for his stay so instead of fighting it I decided to just wrap jump one. I do think the rear at 3 helped him turn a bit better.
Carrie thought the third rep was our best. I liked his speed better in the first rep.
