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I teach pretty much from 8 to 8 on Mondays with a couple hour break in the middle of the day, so Sly and Mags get to “hang” at the Training Center for the day. So……Zig Zags at 7:30 – 4″ and I shortened up the distance by taking out one of the wings and sticking one of the bars in the lattice 🙂 Came straight off his rear every time 🙂 And we did both directions.
Organizers during our lunch break 🙂 And then a nice long walk 🙂
And a quick session of Leading with His Head before heading home.
Kinda of a lot of stuff….but all the sessions were short – 2 or 3 minutes with all the rewards and playing in between. The Organizers was actually 2 sessions….first one was the Motion Override Game and the second one was the Organizers. Felt like some of the pieces were coming together. I’m especially pleased with how he’s really starting to figure out the Organizers 🙂 I’m beginning to be pretty sure that he is much happier turning to his left than to his right.
Oh you’re right…..I didn’t even notice these were at 8″. The first time we did the Zig Zag exercise I had them at 6″, duh? I’ll pay more attention – bad trainer! When we play with this tomorrow my plan is to start with 4″, 4′ bars….jumping to his left first and see where it goes. And yep, he was watching my hands and not the toy. I usually keep my treats in a pocket but had on jeans and well……treats won’t fit in those pockets :0
The platform is 2′ or a little longer so yeah…I do think it will work for the next Organizer games.
Hope you had a nice weekend.
Well, in hindsight I screwed up but learned a lot …. although I’m not exactly sure what.
I took the foot off the jump and set him up a little more in towards the bar to see if he would drop the front foot tap, “stupid” trainer combined this with flattening the angle between the 2 jumps….duh!!! 🙁 This is the whole session. I ended up backing back to the same (or maybe even more) angle than the last session where he did so well and then set him up close so he left out the tap, but he still couldn’t bounce them. If I set him up more like where I did in our first session a couple of days ago, he put the tap in but was able bounce. Thoughts? This also turned into more reps than I had planned….also wondering if some of the difficulties towards the end are fatigue ….as he was able to not tap and bounce one of the very early reps????
This is a very quick session of Organizers…..the broad jump boards, although a good idea, were a pain in the butt to take anywhere so Jim made me these cute little wooden sides 🙂 I’ve also taken an inch off the width of the platform. It’s kinda hard to see with all his hair but he’s getting much better at pulling his back feet in, almost in line with his front feet 🙂
We were gone for 3 days at a USDAA trial…had a blast! Took our “organizer board” and played some at night in the hotel. This is really hard for him! But making progress.
I think you are right about the head turns, definitely impacted by my cuing hand.
Took the last couple of days more or less off with the exception of this short session of Zig Zags with 2 jumps…. 6” high, 4’ bars
Zig Zags on the Flat. Started with wings about 6’ apart and then a few reps at about 5’
And then we did a little more Leading with The Head. This time I thought he looked more comfortable turning to his left and less comfortable turning to the right…the opposite of last time 🤷♀️ We did a few single wraps towards the end. Should I move this to a wing?
Leading with The Head, Take 2…… Better 😊
And absolutely agree that he’s a natural wide sitter. I looked for a little wider platform and all I have is quite a bit wider so I got the idea of a couple broad jump boards on the side to help him sort out the mechanics. Tried a few reps to see if this might work. What do you think? I can probably get Jim to cut me something on the table saw to use as a little bit wider platform if you think that would better than the broad jump boards, just might take a few days to get it on his “To Do” list 😉
OMG! I already love this course and I’ve only done 2 exercises. Here’s the end of our first Lead with The Head session….I cut out all the stuff with me figuring out my mechanics!
And then we attempted the first Organizer exercise. Holy crap, not very many functioning brain cells today in the presence of food and a clicker! I’ll edit it down to the best parts and send…but for now I’ve got to go change my pants as he had me laughing so hard I almost peed them. This is going to be fun and exactly right for us 🥰
Editing this post…… I edited the Organizers session video but actually ended up leaving in most of the session as I think it might be helpful for you to see and you can always FF through it. I’ve been following Helen Connell’s thread and I think Sly and I were both stuck a little bit in shaping mode but in my defense 😉 seems as though he wasn’t much into me helping …Hey Mom, food, clicker, I know what this means…. Keep trying things!!! Anyway, we both definitely had fun but I’m not sure where to go. I absolutely think this is a much needed exercise for us so looking forward to your thoughts
Hi Bobbie,
Just checking in….. yes, totally understand the no comments on the “intro” videos, I wasn’t sure if you wanted to see video as part of the intro for auditors or not. Initially I was really bummed that when I finally got my act together to register for this class that all the working spots were full, but I think now that’s actually worked out for the better 🙂 As you said there is SO much info, for me I’m finding that auditing is allowing me to focus on understanding the info and not feeling any “pressure” to do exercises and submit video. Anyway….. I’ve listened to last week’s Zoom, twice. The whole concept of mental resilience and the rainbow is exactly what I think Sly and I need to continue to improve our game and I look forward to more detail and improving my understanding of the 7 elements, especially completing the Stress Cycle. Will there be more about that in future weeks? I also have a question about crating out of your car, crating inside, inside long enough for a dog to “acclimate” before running and all that goes with all of that. I know that each dog and situation is different, so this is sort of a generalish question. If you’ve got a dog that does build stress over time when crated inside and is clearly more relaxed in their car but also can be “over the top” excited when first entering the building and has a need to take it all in and sort of process that piece; is one possible technique for helping them with both of those: bring the dog in (using pattern games, etc) have them crate for a little bit (as short as a few minutes initially) and then take them back to the car, a decompression walk or something to help decompress if able in addition to just removing them from the stressful area and then do it again? I’m asking for Sly and also for a student. Mostly for the student right now as she’s got a timid rescue Sheltie and is entered in her first AKC trial this coming weekend at a place where they train, have done run throughs, etc. etc. She’s in Novice so has a BIG time gap in between her two runs and was asking me what to do. I told her she should definitely crate in the car where her dog is pretty comfortable but was wondering if there was an opportunity to help “build some resilience” during all the down time? Thanks. So much good info to think about already!Hi Kristie, so glad nothing is torn or other broken. Take care of it and we’ll see you back on line soon!
Hi Tracy,
Just wanted to say thanks for a great camp! Just what Sly and I needed at this time to work on pushing our game to the next level 🥰 I’ve got a long, fun list of specific skills for both of us to work on!Here’s our graduation video…. An Excellent Standard run from an AKC trial yesterday which I wish I had video of the walk through to go with it!
But what I really wish I had for you was a video of our Masters JWW run cause it got me this text from Diane Patterson 😊
“Thank you so much for the video!!! It was indeed a good time to see good people that I haven’t seen in a long while!!! Yeah! You had super runs, wowzers!!! You pulled a landing side blind in JWW that was spectacular!”
Looking forward to Bobbie’s class…. Guess I better go sign up! Take care. Hope to “see” you soon
Oh no Kristie, SO sorry about your knee. Hopefully it’s not too serious! Hope your appointment goes well tomorrow. Kim and Sly
Yes, again…..all makes sense. Thanks for the references for the Threadle Wrap and Slice stuff. I definitely will be doing some more with those exercises. Here’s the 3rd Standard Course Breakout. We played with it last week, before I had to take it all down 🙁 There is SO much to play with with this setup!!! I keep a stack of interesting course maps, exercises that when I don’t know what to setup for a class, I pull something out of the stack. This one is definitely going in the stack!!!
Anyway….when I edited the video I realized I should’ve shot myself – too much “need to get this done” and not nearly enough tell Sly what a good boy he was 🙁
This is the 2nd Standard Course breakout. I started it so we were “in motion” like in the middle of a course. Loved Sly’s backside at 2, I definitely need help with the Threadle Wrap and Slice that I tried at the jump out of the tunnel. If this had been in a “real” course I probably would’ve tried to get there for a regular backside wrap but I think doing it as a threadle warp would be a better choice once we get better at them! Thoughts?
We also played with the 3rd Box Sequence. Same layer…sort of. It was harder for me not to get “too far in” and have it just be parallel line. My inclination was to blind the tunnel exit for the end line but I tried it with a rear cross too. I didn’t include the walk through but since the middle part was the same as Sequence 2 I tried to focus on the verbals ….. but I’m not sure you’d know that from the run. 🙁 I also wasn’t sure what the verbal (if any) was appropriate for the tunnel? It’s kind of a Go, but not very much or very far?
