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I’m developing quite a list of “sit down” verbal projects š But YES, absolutely want to have this discrimination “on a verbal”. What I loved in the sequence was the level of Sly’s understanding for his backside verbal – and that backside/tunnel discrimination š One of the things that I’m learning about Sly is that when he knows something, he KNOWS it. š
This Box (and the 2nd Standard Course breakout that I’m going to post in a minute) both showed me how not fluent I am with Threadle Wraps and Threadle Slices. I think I need to go back and find both of those is some of the earlier classes I’ve done and work through them from the beginning again, do you happen to remember which courses they were in? If not, I’m sure I can find it pretty quickly by going through titles of my videos in YouTube. And while I’m thinking about it do you know what you are going to be offering this Fall? Bobbie’s class sounds really interesting…. Anyway……
Yes! All makes sense! Especially the thought process for blinding or fronting at the jump before the layer. As Lo likes to say āput your distance in the right placeā. And the choice of front or blind just makes putting it in the right place easierā¦.and I am definitely all for easier š
Hereās the first breakout from the Standard course. My setup is really hard because of the tunnel under the Aframe but figured this would be a good ātestā for us. Nailed the backside š, but the tunnel/Aframe discrimination needs some work!
Also 2 short sessions today with the 2nd Box sequence. Not a first run, best run but a LOT of good learning. I totally did not see how difficult the 3rd jump would be with the tunnel layer š„ŗ But makes sense where the dogās ability to see you is obstructed by the tunnelā¦.better connection and better verbals š„° were needed. No idea why I spun 5 the first time I did it with the blind between 4 and 5ā¦. my body just did it. Much better there without it. Another really great learning sequence!
Well it wasnāt a one and done. I really wanted to do this with the Threadle Wrap but the angle between jumps 2 and 3 āmessed with my headā. Got it eventually but Iām not really comfortable with the Threadle, Sly on the other hand nailed the wrap š„° Easily able to get to where I needed to be to front between 2 and 3 to do the wrap with Sly on my right. Tried this with me on both the landing and takeoff side of the jump. I liked going in for 7, 8, 9 better than layering the tunnel. My 5 and 6 are a little closer than yours and when I walked it a front felt better than a blind there. Tried both, not sure I have a preference, need to figure out how to time the 2. I feel like I need to cleanup the Threadleā¦..
I totally see the difference in the striding now that you pointed it out. That was cool to see. Jim and I are headed off in the morning for a few days of āpeopleā vacation so Sly and I will be MIA until the middle of next week. See ya then!
Thanks Tracy for both the compliments š„° and confirming what I thought caused the dropped bar in that Standard run. As AKC courses go these were pretty nice but still āan AKC courseā. I never really thought about starting my decel before he landed the first jump, but with the spacing that was just too late. Hmmā¦so I really need to think about speed heās going and how much distance he needs to process the decel cue so that heās able to respond and adjust striding before takeoffā¦..and that could well be before landing of the jump before the turning jump? And a verbal could definitely be helpful here!
I am beyond thrilled with how he is getting more and more comfortable with those starts with the longer lead outs. Iām really trying to be careful about asking for just a little bit harder but not asking for too much and to really understand where his head is at as we walk to the line to know just how much I can ask. And some days itās definitely more than others. One of the many things that I do love about about him is that if I pay attention he is really clear (and consistent) about letting me know where his head is. Anywayā¦ hereās Sequence 1. I didnāt video the walk through. I donāt have quite enough space to have the wing wrap to start so my setup has a tunnel to the backside of jump 1 to start (I need to work on that tunnel connection anyway š) 3 reps here, 1st one pretty good but 3rd one .3 faster. Stronger connection and more aggressive running from tunnel to backside and held a slightly stronger connection from the wrap to the next to the last jump a little longer, keeping my chest just a little more open and it felt like that allowed him to be just a bit faster through here. I tried to count strides from tunnel to backside. Should do it fro wrap jump to end. Oh yeah, also tried to think of my WOO!
So hard not to help even when sitting down!
Weāre still here, lots of life stuff to do last week including building courses for my Brittany Club AKC trial on Friday. Anyway, we setup a modified version of the first part of Package 4ās Standard Course 1 and ran it last Thursday. Didnāt video the walk through but here is our first run.
And just for fun here are my two favorite runs from the trial. I knew the choice to run the whole line with dog on the left in T2B could turn out to be a really bad idea but knew we had a good send and I didnāt like any of the other options at all so WTH..go for it! I really liked the Standard run, my take in the moment was that the dropped bar was on me. My intent was to decel to cue the turn (a verbal wouldāve been helpful too I think!) and in the moment it felt too late. Hoping to play with the Connection Sequences from Package 4 tomorrow and Tuesday. Hope all is well in your area of the World!
We worked on this quite a bit a few weeks ago and decided it was time to bring it back out since itās too freaking hot to do much else. I think this is from Package 2. This is where we are with this skill work as of now. He really needs a setup cookie between each rep to reset his head.
Had to go to the Training Center to pick up a few things so I took Sly with the intent of doing the same Threadle Wrap training we did yesterday on the other side. Too hot to do more than a few minutes so I really planned to just do 4 or 5 reps and call it good. Well, we went back and did a 6th one just so I could video š Not sure if this side is just easier or if he is really getting the concept. Either way I was so happy with this that I had to show you š„°š„°š„° Hope itās cooler there than it is here!
Set my timer for 5 minutes and walked Sequence 3……wasn’t First Run, Best Run but it was First Run, Clean Run, I’ll take it. I then rewalked the section that I didn’t like….7 to 9. I didn’t change my plan (which I actually liked) but tried to better plan the execution of it and to run the whole sequence more confidently (first time was a little tentative on my part). Much better the second time but 7 to 9 still could’ve been executed better. I timed the full run both times and just cleaning up 7 to 9 took a full second off the run. As I was doing this today, I was thinking about the EO runs that I watched and just how hard it was to get through those courses without Eing, much less getting a score! And then just how perfect Angie’s EO Finals Jumpers run really was… Unbelievable how “perfect” that run was!
Here’s the Walk Through……..
Here’s the Run
We’ve also been doing some short sessions this last week with the Threadle Wrap, figured I ought to video one to make sure we’re on the right track. I have to be careful about releasing with our Threadle Wrap verbal which is Flip. And I didn’t even realize it that when I switched to the other side that the tunnel (that is out of frame) would be as hard for him as it was. So instead of moving to a different jump or moving the tunnel I tried to make other parts easier and help him work through the tunnel distraction. It was interesting as I was editing the video that even when he does the Flip correctly that you can “see” him still thinking/knowing that the tunnel is there. Good boy!
Since this was still setup, I ran it again this morning incorporating your feedback. You were 100% right in that I could easily get to where I needed to be for the FC without the layer and he did read it much better. Even with that though it really all came down to the intensity of the connection at 3! The “looser” the connection the bigger the turn, never took the tunnel but definitely wider. I struggled when I kept my arms tighter on the blind, low arms had me fronting instead of blinding and when I was finally able to keep my arms low and blind it was really, really late. Who knew that “airplane” arms were such a crucial part of my ability to blind š I’ll definitely put this on my list of Skills to Teach Kim!
Well this was certainly not my finest hour š The walk through video is long, really longā¦.be prepared to fast forward! I struggled with deciding how to handle 1 to 4. I think my setup is a little narrower than yours. I really didnāt like not layering 4, because I thought my motion to get from between jump 4 and 2 to between the tunnel and jump 4 would tend to cue the off course tunnel but I wasnāt sure we had the skill to layer 4. Turned out it was an easy layer and I probably shouldāve recognized that sooner as the #2 jump was pretty much on path when he landed 1. And then God only knows why but I then questioned my original choice for 9 to 11 and wellā¦.. And then somewhere in all that I decided I had to walk it at speed with verbals that I hadnāt really thought through š„¹ Anywayā¦. I did end up liking the layer, Iām not sure how to improve the turn at 3. And although I did like my choice of side for 9 to 11, Iām not sure the blind was the best choice, but when I walked a front there I really didnāt like that.
Thanks for the feedback and I totally agree! I find that I “need” – either for real or because I think I do, to get a course “in my head” and that if it’s not in my head that it’s not going to matter how many times I walk it. And if it’s in my head I can frequently “get through” it, even if I don’t walk it. I think I tend to overthink the get it in my head part, which does cause me to not put enough emphasis on the “at speed” walk throughs. And it’s not like I don’t generally have plenty of time (well except for Snooker!) but instead of doing the at speed walks I just do another “thinking” walk. So, this is really good for me! Especially thinking about the verbals.
And yes, I saw the little “wobble” from the tunnel to the backside when I ran it. Agree about the connection out of tunnels and I definitely can be better about that. Funny story…I went to a seminar with Rachel (Sanders) during the winter and she asked the group what the most frequently faulted obstacle on course was…she got all the expected answers; weaves, contacts, dada, dada. The “correct” answer, whatever is after a tunnel. All about that connection. š I think that also at play here is the strength of his backside verbal. I almost never get a head check or hesitation if I’m good about the timing of a GO on entrance to the tunnel and almost always get that little wobble to a backside out of tunnel, even with good timing of my verbal and good connection…..combination of understanding of the cue, stronger connection needed and experience? We occasionally get the wobble from a line of jumps, but in those cases it’s almost always because I disconnected.
Anyway……..I definitely plan to do the other two sequences, this is really good for me! Do you want to see the whole walkthrough? That’s a lot of video for you to watch! Or I could edit it to the last couple of at speed walkthroughs…..or something in between. Let me know. Thanks as always. Have a great day!
Well, other than the fact that I walked and ran the wrong course š± (left out the last obstacle) I thought this went pretty well. Someday I will learn to not try to do this without actually putting down numbers and checking against the course map. Anywayā¦ first video is my entire walk through, kinda long (6 minutes) but I figured youād want to see the whole thing at least for the first sequence. Second video is the run – 1 and done!
Played with 1 to 4 on the Standard Course one last time this morning before I had to take it down. These are all the reps, feeling good about his understanding and my handling of this layer š Timed from tunnel exit to tunnel entrance again, tried to be sure and get off his line on the landing side of 2 blindā¦ When we did this last time and I got off his line our time was 4.8. The blind between the tunnel and take off of 2 and staying in was pretty consistently 5.1
Repeated what we had done on the layering exercise again, I tried to be better about cueing the Go before takeoff of the 2nd jump. Again, feel pretty good about his understanding even with my less than perfect verbals š. Then we took a break and we tried the exercise with ānoā handling and more pure verbal. Hard to not handle š, and I had to use a lot of brain cells to try to move exactly the same so I think I frequently forgot the GO before the yellow jump.
