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I debated a front or blind at 9 to 10….blinds are my “go to” choice most of the time. I find them so much easier for me to do than fronts. I think the reason I opted for the front here was probably because I was stuck thinking Mags, who would have definitely needed me to front and almost shape the turn a bit for her. I need to remember that Sly’s stride is smaller and he’s very happy to turn on his own when given the info.
And yep…that’s kinda what I figured about the start. I set him up kinda sloppy and although we’ve done some take the jump training as you said he’s young and I’m asking him to process lots more stuff all at the same time in these sequences than we have been. I decided to restart here because we were on home turf and could reward. My plan in a trial setting would be first, do a better job in my walk through so he’s setup well but if I mess up and don’t do that then just keep going. My question for a trial setting is though what if I am sure he’s setup well and I cued it well and he doesn’t take it? First of all I’d be shocked if that happened because he’s such a good boy that way that my inclination would be to assume that even I though I did everything right I must not have so just keep going.
And yes, I need to make the leap to walking at speed both for Sly and for Mags. You’ll laugh but one of the things I frequently say to the folks that take lessons from me is that I’m really good at this in slow motion without my dog! I’m going to make a real effort to get at least a couple of walks at speed in all my walk throughs for both dogs tomorrow. Sly’s just got one T2B run so it’ll be fast, fun and FEO
I didn’t bother to post the Sequence 2 Walk It and Run It videos….they really were a mess and the thing I learned was to not try and do all the verbals all at once and as you said prioritize! Which is what I did with the 3rd Sequence. Here’s our Walk It and Run It videos for that sequence.
Yeah, I did feel like I was a little overhandling/helping in the first loop. It was a pretty wide loop and I think the most jumps he’d ever done “in a trial” before either being rewarded or being sent to a tunnel and I wasn’t sure just how good his “look for the jumps in my path” was in that setup. He was great! And yep I got “in trouble” at :41. My line after the blind was little off and I thought he was going to come by the jump with me so I pushed when I think he had already decided he was supposed to take the jump (good boy) and as you said he definitely thought rear cross 🙂 After that I got a bit discombobulated trying to get back on track for a “good” entry to the weaves and I was 100% confident in his ability to run those 2 fast lines from the weaves to the first tunnel and then to the 2nd tunnel. Overall I was really, really pleased with how well he was able to focus..and once we got going I think he was comfortable and having fun 🙂 Another day of AKC this weekend. Can’t remember if there was a T2B class or just JWW..or maybe there was both. Anyway, he’s entered in at least one class, maybe 2. Any suggestions on things to change, do differently?
Two days of AKC at American K9 Country on Friday and Saturday with Mags. I wanted to try to get some “ring time” in for Sly and he’s been doing REALLY well in Lo’s classes there so gave it a go. In AKC the only two classes you can run FEO are Time2Beat and FAST, neither of which were offered on Friday so I entered him in Novice JWW with the idea that we’d play it by ear depending on how focused he could be in the environment. He was great upstairs in the crating area and outside the ring, standing in line..could do all his tricks, wasn’t concerned about the other dogs nearby (that is HUGE!), had a little trouble focusing when we were on deck as the dog right before us was VERY exciting but he was able to do hand touches and setup between my legs before we went in so we kept going. Really hard for him setting up at the start line but once we started he was “all business”. We ran just the one class on Friday…and then just T2B, FEO on Saturday. Course we chose to run was 2 jumps to a tunnel, 2 jumps to the seesaw (which he rocked), jump and play. He was able to tug all the way to where his leash was. Unfortunately no video from Saturday. But here’s the JWW run on Friday. This was our first time in the ring without a toy….
OMG! And that would be why I have been hesitant to add a lot of verbals!!!!! We did the 2nd sequence several days ago and as nice as this first sequence was the 2nd one was almost equally ugly. I tried to make sure I got some verbals in in the walk through and I didn’t have as good of sense/plan for the connections and the course flow and it’s kind of a mess. 🙁 I’ll get the video edited tomorrow I hope. I also ran the 3rd sequence today because it looked fun and I’m really learning a lot about myself with this exercise and I needed to take the setup down and put up something new for classes this week. This time I decided to just focus on getting one verbal done well……. and this seemed to be an improvement over trying to do “all possible verbals”. Anyway…..I’ll try and get those videos edited and posted tomorrow as well.
Changing subjects sort of…I’ve signed Sly and I up for a working spot in the one day Engagement seminar. Looking forward to it…besides when I got the email from CleanRun announcing it and the picture in the email is one of Snoop and I from many years ago how could I not sign up? 🙂 Hope you had a nice weekend. Videos tomorrow……. I hope.
Well this was interesting 😊 I actually consider walk throughs to be one of my strengths… but wow, the distraction of doing it for video really threw an element of pressure that really made me much less effective and I ran out of time. Anyway, this is a great exercise and I was totally thrilled with our first run 😊
One and done!
Good Morning! We’re headed to the Northern Maine woods for a few days for some R and R 😊 so there probably won’t be anything new from Sly and I until Monday. I did get to watch all the Package 4 videos yesterday… lots of great stuff. I don’t think we have any sort of hangout behavior. At home if we’re hanging out he’s either sleeping in my lap or someplace on the floor. He will when he wants me to to interact pick up a toy and bring it over, my husband calls it bringing a carcass 😆 And when we are training and he’s fully engaged he’s one of those dogs that will just “hang off his toy” with minimal interaction from me while I think about what’s next. Can we use this a starting point or should I think of something else that doesn’t need a “prop”? Thoughts? Have a great weekend!
We also did a couple of the Decisions Sequences….the 1st one and the 3rd one. I need to reset the first one so that we can go both directions at Jump 3. And I just realized that I didn’t do the 3rd one correctly….ran 6 as a front side instead of the back…..and added a jump between 5 and 6 🙁 Anyway…it was fun and we played with a send at 4 and tight wrap at 5 and then setting the line at 4 with more of send at 5. Guess we’ll run this one “right” tomorrow! Stay tuned….
We’ve played with the Threadle Wrap a couple more times. Decided to (for now anyway) just do one side per session. Today’s “right session” was short and sweet 🙂 I think I see smoke coming out of his ears 🙂 and light bulbs switching on!
Holy crap…where’d this week go? Oh yeah….he’s a LOT happier just opening up and running 🙂 And yes…..Masher could cover some ground in hurry!!!!! Not sure if you are a fan of any kind of car racing but those guys all understand that the short/tighter line is not always the fastest. Lots of understanding about fastest lines in and out of turns in most all motorsports. Anyway….. Finally going to get a chance to do a little training this afternoon. 🙂 Before I head out I’ve got to share something with you though. At our class/lesson with Lo on Wednesday we did a little bit of up/down by our crate as we waited our turn to hand touches into the ring (no food), got to the first jump and as I reached down to take off his leash he immediately setup between my legs….at which point in time Lo said “Well, he’s all business today” 🙂 Have a great weekend! Oh yeah….and he did a picture perfect, run all the way to the end and slide into his two on two off seesaw 🙂
We also started playing with the Threadle/Wrap game. We’d done some of this awhile back… in one of the MaxPup games maybe? Not sure if turning to his right is just easier or if it was because it was the first side we did.
Played with the sequence again this afternoon… definitely better setting him further back at jump 1. I played with the 2 different ways to handle 5 and tried to time a couple of them off the video, tunnel exit to tunnel entrance. It looks to me like they are very close in time. Also worked on my timing at 11. This was a fun sequence.
Yesterday was GREAT! Went pretty much as I had hoped…..some better than I expected, like his ability to actually walk around upstairs where all the dogs are crated and focus. We did lots of up and downs while we walked through the crating area and then would stop, ask for some hand touches and some Throughs, all of which he was able to do 🙂 A little black Lab puppy really got him tweeked but we both backed away a bit and Sly was able to reconnect. A friend of mine videoed the time we “stood on deck” for me and the run, although the run is kinda hard to see and I’m going to buy the video from the videographer that was there. The on deck time is long…..over 5 minutes. Not sure if you’d like to see any or all of it….synopsis of it was that Sly was able to focus enough to do all his tricks….hand touches, Throughs, downs and could almost tug outside the ring but not quite. A little bit of disconnect on the way in …I don’t have enough hands to hold the leash, the toy, hand touch and open the gate 🙂 But we quickly reconnected at the line. Setup, I led out quite aways, I thought he was totally comfortable but he did drop the first bar. Anyway was able to tug after the tunnel at the end of the long jump line. He did get a little unfocused at one point but came back and finished strong 🙂 I’ll post the run video as soon as I get it…probably not until tomorrow sometime. And let me know if you want to see any or all of the prerun stuff…again, it’s long …a little more than 5 minutes. Tracy, thanks for this class, it’s exactly what we need 🙂 I got so many compliments from folks yesterday about how far Sly has come. One person who saw him at a seminar about a month ago was amazed at the change in just the past month. Yesterday was a GOOD day 🙂
Yep!…..all makes perfect sense. Raining here today so a good opportunity to go over to the Training Center and play with this one a little bit more. And YES….should’ve rewarded all those times he did it right while I worked out what the cuing for that turn needed to be for him. As you said, he is pretty responsive, unlike Mags who I like to say “responds when she’s damn good and ready” 🙂
