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First Skills Sets session…..
Warmed up with a couple of Crazy Elevators, used his target to “help” as we really pushed the independence. His teeter is pretty terrific 😉Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the link to All Things Tunnel…….We’ve been working to bring the 2 sets of 6 closer together for a full set of 12, unfortunately no video…technical difficulties and lack of time! Anyway…..working off my right went really quickly, with almost no errors. But off my left when I got to a full 12 he skips a pole in the middle, always on my side and I think always in the same place….pole 5? or maybe 7? And then he re-enters and finishes all of them. I know it’s hard to “analyze” with video but I wanted to throw it out to you in case it’s something you’ve seen before. My plan is to just back up and lots of reward after the first 6 and bring them together more slowly. And add my speed more slowly. I think I just expected both sides to “go at the same pace” and for whatever reason that isn’t the case. Also we need to work through the Find It track so lots to do between now and when Camp starts 🙂 Have truly enjoyed both of these classes and we both have learned A LOT! Have a great Memorial Day weekend. See you in a few weeks for camp!
Loving his Holy Rollers and his weaves 🙂 I’ll do this same thing but from the other side in a couple of days and assuming that session goes as well as this one then I’ll start to bring the 2 sets together 🙂 A side benefit of these sessions….his retrieves are getting better too 🙂
Love it that all the courses have lifetime access!!! 🙂 I’ve found all the MaxPup ones but can’t seem to find All Things Tunnel. It’s probably obvious but ….can you help? Thanks and have a great weekend!
A lot of reps in this session….but I really wanted to see how me paying better attention to where I rewarded in the Elevators and continuing to run on the full teeters worked out. Wait til you see his last full teeter 🙂
Tracey, this has been a really good class. I’ve played this game a long time and seen a lot of different methods for teaching teeters over the years but never have I seen it broken down in such detail. I couldn’t be happier with Sly’s teeter 🙂 THANK YOU!!! Really looking forward to camp 🙂
Will do! Makes total sense.
Couple of quick questions….when does “camp” start? And how long do classes we’ve taken stay available to us to go back to after the class is officially done? There’s lots of stuff in this class that we still want/need to do and I was also wondering about All Things Tunnel. I’m finally getting my act together about what I’m going to use for verbal cues for my tunnel turns. I had sort of skipped that when we were doing Tunnels and would love to go back and play those games now. Are you going to offer that class again sometime?
Got it! We’re now in a weekly group class with Lo (at least until the person who’s spot it really is comes back) so we’ll get to AK9 with a group every week. It’s a Masters class so we’re just doing short sequences of what everyone else is doing. Yesterday our part was pinwheel to a double to the teeter (Clip N Go) to a 2 jump serp. Did it 3 times ….full teeter. Rewarded the H___ out of each one. First was what I would call his “typical” teeter, just a little short of end. Second was about the same, 3rd (and last) he drove almost to the end……and I kept really running past it to handle the serp. I think I need to setup something to do after the teeters to make me remember to keep moving! There’s a couple of USDAA trials coming up (CATS in a couple of weeks) that I’m going to go to….outdoors, fully fenced so a “safe” environment for him. I’ll keep you posted. Also some UKIs on day before either some AKC or USDAAs in the next couple of months so those might just work out well too! We’ll continue our local “on the road” trips as well.
The other thing I finally figured out in “my head” while driving yesterday was that I need to think about my placement of reward for all the Elvators (regular ones and crazy ones) to be in the same place as with the Teeter Trainer when we were doing Mountain Climbers……just over the end of the board. I think that’ll help me stay lower where I’m rewarding so my hand doesn’t look like a stop sign ……I think if I can consistently change that it’ll both help him drive all the way to the end and will reinforce the focus “down”. I’m going to play with this later today….video later 🙂
This is our 2nd session since our last post. He nailed the session 2 days ago when we straightened up the set of 4 so we went with 2 straight sets of 6 this morning. I need to pay more attention to my speed …. we both like running fast 😝
We had a lesson with Lo today and I couldn’t resist showing her … 2 sets of 6 at AK9C and he nailed it!!!! PARTY!!!!!
A little more speed…..send to straight tunnel (just out of camera range), big loop over jump to the teeter. Also worked on my trying to keep the cookie hand from looking like a “stop sign”. We did a couple of regular elevator warmups before we did the crazy one – just didn’t include them in the video to save you some viewing time. I think you are right in that at this point in time it’s about experience to get him comfortable driving that last 6″ or so all the way to the end. Anything else you see that I ought to tweak in my mechanics at this point?
This is our second session of 6 + 4. The 6 are straight, the 4 are slightly angled. About 6’ between the two sets. Holy roller balls work great for this game!
We played with the Clip N Go Teeter today…. unfortunately no video but he was absolutely fine. Lo set up a sequence that was tunnel, tunnel, jump, tire, triple to teeter. He was SO happy because it was a run, run sequence. I don’t think he even recognized it was different…. 😊❤️😊
Played on home turf today…but changed up the picture….straight tunnel, both sides and tried to remember to use my words 🙂 He’s just a little hesitant to run all the way to the end of the board sometimes.
The problem with living where I do is that the closest trials to me are over 2 hours away and most are closer to 3 or more so hard to motivate myself for that long of a drive for a few minutes of training in the ring but guess I need to get on the road. We do have a lesson twice a month with Lo Baker at AK9C and they do have a Clip-N-Go teeter and I’m sure that Lo will be more than happy to have us play with teeters. The other thing we are working on is that Sly can get so worked up just getting from the car to the building at AK9 that quite literally his head explodes. We’ve been back trialing with Mags (mostly AKC cause until recently that’s all we had available, but USDAA this coming weekend – yeah!!!!) so I’ve been spending time just working with Sly to be able to walk relatively calmly around the parking area, hang out near the door where other dogs and handlers are going in and out of the building. Last trial (a few weeks ago) we were actually able to calmly do that so I’m close to making the leap to actually go in the door. Anyway….all that is the long way of saying I’m not sure we’re ready to actually try our skills in a trial setting with lots of other people and dogs but lesson/class with a couple of other dogs I think is good. I’ll keep you posted.
This is our 2nd session on grass at home. He was cranked tonight…..this is new favorite toy. 🙂 We definitely had to back up a bit in the first session a couple of days ago, started this session at the point where we finished the last one but ended up backing up just a little bit and then he had it. Looks like my toy throws are just a touch late in that he glances at me as I throw and not straight ahead on exit. I do think that he’s really starting to figure out the rhythm and footwork. 🙂
A short session on Friday on home turf
And then on the road on Saturday. I was able to duplicate the tunnel to teeter setup “at Home”. He worked hard with the distractions, lots of ball playing and lots of Happy Howie. Instead of ice cream we went for a woods run….which he thinks is awesome. And then we spent a 1/2 hour “picking ticks” 🤬
Think I’ll have a chance to go on the road tomorrow…… the same place as we did the first time, Max 200 teeter, same as mine but outside and near a road with lots of traffic (distractions!). He did really well there the last time we went. Suggestions for what we should do?
Ooops….I’ll put my dog trainer hat back on and take off my oh my gosh we’re going fast and we’re stuck in the vortex hat 🙂 Thanks!!!!
And I had to laugh….I was also wondering if he was slipping a little bit on the mats so I had actually just this past week “called in” my loaned out 2nd set of 2x2s so I could have a set here at home out in the yard. Brought them home today! We’ll play with them tomorrow….
Have a great weekend….hope you are doing something fun tomorrow!
