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Thanks as always for the great feedback!
So…..downhills setup like in the Week 3 game now? Get rid of the table, use the Teach It….more “downhill” but less hit/tip at the end, right? Use his target and me move past. Have him get on the board where ever is comfortable, have him walk up and turn around and then go down? Think I’ve got it! And oh yeah…both sides!!!!
I was SO focused on my mechanics for the Elevator game that I completely forgot about having a consistent countdown so he “knew” the drop was coming. Got it.
And Sly and I are DEFINITELY in for the Learn Your Dog Camp!!!
Jumping on the end for food is now his favorite game 🙂
Downhills to the ground – with him on my left 🙂
And then some Bang Game with more height…. He thinks this is WAY fun!
And then we did just a few Elevators to work on my mechanics……
Downhills with the small Teach It posts. One of the things I noticed with this is that he’s “better” off my right than off my left. Need to put my “good trainer” hat on and do more of these games off my left, can you tell I’m right handed?
And then a little Rebounding……
And some playing with getting him to focus more ahead and less on Mama. We’ve been doing this on the tippy board in the living room for meals the last couple of days. He’s really solid on being able to stop on the little board with the food bowl ahead and release to the bowl but as we were playing with this yesterday on the “big” teeter at the training center with treat on the floor was too many changes for him to resist just running straight to the treat……but we’re figuring it out 🙂
On to some Elevator Games 🙂
Bang Game with a little more tip and fading the target….duct tape worked great as the smaller target for fading.
and then some more Downhills…played around with a bunch of different rewards…ball on target, throw ball, tug toy. The last rep is my favorite 🙂 I think this is the setup I’m going to start with for Downhill all the way to the ground 🙂
Actually had a few minutes this morning and played with a preplaced toy….no concerns leaving the Mama for this 🙂
Hi Tracy…Yes, we are still here! Been a kind of crazy few days and have grabbed a few quick sessions that I didn’t video. We’ve been “pre-baiting” the MM with liverwurst (his fav treat) and just letting him run to it which I do think is helping rebuild the value. I think the other thing that happened here was we hit a place in his RDW training where he wasn’t getting a very high rate of reinforcement which I think contributed to his disillusionment with the MM. We’ve backed way off on the RDW stuff for a bit. Anyway….just wanted to let you know we are still here 🙂 If it ever warms up I’m going to bring a set of channels home so we can play in the yard. Have a good weekend!
Oh yeah….he did jump on with the tennis ball still in his mouth. The boy LOVES his balls 🙂 Hmm…..not sure about how that sounds 🙂 And sorry about the video link mixed up. That’s what I get for doing things in a hurry before I go to bed.
Yes, all your comments make total sense. We’ve been doing a lot of backup to a wobble board, end position on his wobble board and backup to the inflatable for meals this week. I can fit all that stuff in the living room. Here’s our first time of Bang Game on the actual seesaw since doing some of that work. I think he’s still not totally confident in the 2O2O position as he still sometimes stops in a 4O and then steps into the 2O2O. He’s definitely happy with this game 🙂
And yesterday’s Downhills……we try to get a few in everyday. Yesterday was the most recent that I videoed. He really prefers anything where he gets to start from a run or finish with a run…especially if its a chase the ball run 🙂
Finally made the time to edit a bunch of videos from the last few days…..
First one….some downhills…which we haven’t done for awhile…just one short session today. The last one is the best 🙂 The boy does love his tennis ball!
And then some Uphills…..highlights from a bunch short sessions since Friday. I’ve spent a good part of 3 of the last 4 days at the Training Center and was able to just leave the seesaw setup with the Teach It so several of these were one or two and then done….and then we’d do another few a couple hours later and a couple of longer sessions somewhere in there as well.
and this last video is our latest attempt to find a setup that I think will work for the Mountain Climbers 3 Game
I’m thinking that I’m going to take a break from the Uphills and Downhills for a bit and focus on helping him learn/get comfortable shifting his weight back. It looks to me like he’s really working hard to maintain his balance as the drop on the Mountain Climbers gets to be more and more. I don’t think he’s looking so much for the tip like he was when we first started but he really is trying to figure out the balance. I tried a bunch of different ideas for something to use for the end position in the Mountain Climbers 3 game and I think this last one might work. It’ll probably be Friday or Saturday before I get a chance to try it out with a board…keep your fingers crossed. One the things this has shown me is that he really doesn’t know how to rock his weight back at all so we’ve been playing with some fold back downs and thus the fold back downs on the Bosu. Anyway…guess we’ll see where this all goes the next few days. Thoughts? Oh yeah….one other thing I did with the Uphills and Downhills is a “chase the ball” between each rep….I cut these and the rewarding at the end of the seesaw out of the video….otherwise this would’ve been one REALLY long video!!! The boy is going to need to go on a diet after this class is over 🙂
And we’ll play some end position games again 🙂 So many games, so little time 🙂
He’s for the most part fine with 12 but it’s interesting how if he’s at all unsure you can see him really start to think and doubt what he’s supposed to do. I’m thinking that the soft side entries aren’t quite as “solid” yet and I took for granted how well he had done with them the last time and didn’t pay enough attention to making sure the first was one he was definitely going to get right…..took him a bit to regain his confidence…..bad trainer, good boy!
And I forgot all about moving on the tougher angles….which I think he could’ve handled on the wrap entries but not so sure about on the soft sides. And a question….when I do stretch our skill level with moving sooner on those entries would you got back to doing those with just 4 or 6 poles?
And a little bit of Morning Weaves ….. I liked the setup cookies, I remembered to move, but my clicks were all over the place. Needed that 2nd cup of coffee! Have a great weekend!
OMG!! You’d love my backseat then 🤪 It’s also how I justify have 2 Manners Minders 😊….. don’t think I can justify 2 seesaws 🤔. Yes, all makes perfect sense. Should I start to play with the Mountain Climbers 3 game from the 2nd set of games? That one looks like a really good one for helping him learn/get comfortable shifting his weight back.
I for the most part LOVE having the Training Center but damn….I always end up with stuff at home that I want here and vice versa! So…since the inflatable was at home I thought I’d just give a quick try to see how he was backing up on the teeter….. and he did great I thought! Just a smidge of motion and it didn’t seem to bother him at all…other than the time there was some significant noise where you can see him look around like “what was that?” I’m trying to reward in position to get a weight shift, seems like he’s still a lot on his front? Thoughts?
And then we did a little end position on the plank…..Sly REALLY likes ‘Think less, Teeter more”
