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Not sure what happened with the sound on the last one but clearly from the first two reps on this one you should never assume my markers are perfect 😳 Although they were pretty good for the wing wrap!!
In hindsight I did way too many reps…and the MM is only mildly rewarding…too damn slow and 3 kibble isn’t much of a reward in his opinion. I think I need to figure out how to make this more fun.
OMG…. there was clearly a reason my parents made me take piano lessons and didn’t let me take dance lessons!!! WAY too many things for me to remember and then execute in this one 🤪🤪🤪 The “dancing feet” at the end of the board kind of through me off… it felt like as soon as the treats were gone he wanted to back away from the end of the board and something in my brain went wacko and I started double counting. By the end of the session I got it together a little better 😊 Thank goodness that for the most part as long as he gets food he’s happy to keep playing!
Elevators on “home turf” – no target, some motion and changed my “mechanics” just a little bit to get him all the way to the end of the board as you suggested.
And then we got to go “on the road” this afternoon. 🙂 A vet appointment took me right by a friend’s house with an “other than Max200” teeter. Although I wasn’t nearly as well prepared…forgot my target and treats so bought a bag of Pill Pockets from the vet to use as treats :0 Good for us to work outdoors and as you can see he was definitely a bit distracted but overall I was really pleased. We definitely will be adding regular road trips to the schedule 🙂
One of the good things about living in the “agility wasteland” of Maine is that anyone who is even a little serious about the sport has their own equipment 🙂 I think I know of at least 6 seesaws within an hour of the house. The closest is probably also the “hardest” – outside, next to a road and today was windy as all get out. I came prepared…Pet Fresh and DD hash browns. Had hoped to be able to get him to focus enough to just get some solid sits and downs. But we got this!!!!! 🙂
We’ve been doing short sessions with sends, movement, etc. and the wide channel of 12 for breakfast several days a week….3 or 4 reps and that’s it. Started to do a little with closing up the channel with 6, no video, handler technically challenged that day 🙁 One of my concerns with the one session we did starting to close up the channels was that his striding was “all over the place” so I’ve actually been wanting to do that session again and get video this time for you to take a look at. Well it rained today so I “made” the time to catch up on all the games videos and after watching the one about Troubleshooting striding issues I decided to get my s___ together, watched all the 2×2 track videos and incorporate some 2x2s in with the channel training. Short session that introduced the 2x2s…and I think because of the channel work he was pretty quick to pick up “entries” on the 2x2s so we quickly went to angles on the 2 poles. I thought it was pretty interesting how he’s already figuring out how the “hopping” movement. 🙂
Fading the target with the Bang Game…..
Some Uphills to Downhills to Target Position with me moving (put the target back for these) and also some Elevators with me moving (kept the target for these too). I tried to remember to keep moving past his stop and also do everything from both sides. He was a LOT less comfortable jumping up on the board for the Elevators from my left side than from my right?
Downhills……
And Elevators 🙂 He likes this game….and I can’t believe how much the teeter base is bouncing when the end hits the ground 🙁 Doesn’t seem to bother him…..kinds scared the crap out of me when I noticed it while editing the video from this session.
Downhills with a little more tip….
And I still can’t figure out the countdown for the Elevator…. 🙁
Have a great weekend!
Some Sends from the other side with 12 poles. Seems like we never quite get to playing weave games while at the Training Center – having too much fun playing all the Teeter Games 🙂 I finally brought a set of channels home so we can now play weaves whenever we want. Anyway….before we headed home yesterday we did a few reps from the left as part of our end of the day tug games. I loved the rep where I had the lousy throw and he stayed in the poles instead of coming out to get the toy – my good boy!
I did have my duct tape target about 9″ from the end of the seesaw (this seems to be the best spot for him to have enough room for his front feet and still stay in a weight shifted back position) but swapped it back to a more visible target for today’s games. I probably ought to stick with the more visible one for a little bit as we continue to work on him not looking at Mama the Food Machine until after he gets in his end position, huh?
Downhills to the ground…….. no decel by me 🙂
Rebounds
And a few Elevators, where I tried to have a consistent 3, 2, 1, Feet Countdown….
