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Thanks for the feedback. I’m looking forward to giving these another round & seeing what he does. ☺We did an indoor minny pinny to avoid the heat! I was pretty impressed with his sending. We just did the baby level. I started with treats and did some with a toy. It took him a minute to get excited about the toy and then he got really excited about it – but he wants his treat for his out – hahaha.
Hi Tracy!
>But for the American-style threadle and AKC premier threadles, the off-hand is used more (the lines are very different and a lot less intuitive to the dog). And for those classic Premier threadles (where the jumps are set up like a serpentine and the dogs come through the gap), the off hand is very helpful and I also use foot rotation on those!>
Thank you for the description – I get it now, it makes sense!
Thanks for the help with my mechanics on the tight turns game. It was helpful to watch the reps you pointed out. We gave it another try. Lew was driving around the pole much better by the end. Not sure my mechanics got much better but he did in spite of me!
We did the Backside Slice Foundation game! He did so good!!!!
Towards the end, I stopped backing up & he was pausing before coming over the bar. I’ll keep moving next time.
Funny story, I started with Bazinga and Frankie on this one for rainy day fun and watched your video so many times that I did their turns saying “back, back” instead of our “push” verbal. LOL I guess my body cues worked!
Baby Chin does Threadle Wrap Barrel game!!! Eeeek!
We did another round of the Shpile game and I wilded him up with a toy and he was much wilder jumping around the pile. I could see him working to control his body when it felt out of control. I messed up the video though 🙁
I want to revisit the baby tunnel games with him the last time we did it, he was not really driving to the tunnel. Maybe if the manners minder is more valuable to him now, it will help.
Thank you! Hope you are having a great weekend!
Hi!
We are slacking but got back to some games!
We did the Shipile game & Lew thought it was awesome! I really thought he would be afraid of heights but I am learning that the saying that Chin are catlike is pretty literal and he really seems to like to climb up high.
We tried the Tight Turns & Leading with the Head 360 game and it was very hard…for ME!
I am having a hard time figuring out where I should be, where the pole is and where Lew should be. I couldn’t quite understand how to put the magic cookie hand turn away into the mix with my mechanics.
We did the Strike a Pose Threadle Slices and I think he did really good. He needed more help moving towards the manners minder than he did moving towards my hand. Yay Lew!
I have a question about the progression of this one. When we start alternating Threadles & Serps, if I am doing a cookie toos to start, do I just say nothing for the Serp since I’m not asking him to “break” from a stay?
Also, you know that I’m going to be one of those people that asks about the alternate off-hand position. When would you need that vs the other hand?
Thanks for the help!!
Hi Tracy!
If I am getting too far ahead, that actually makes me feel better because I am so worried about getting ahead of her at a trial because she is so fast. I know distance & commitment are going to be my friend. I think these distances are a little closer than they would be in a trial so I hope her commitment will be there in that environment. These exercises are great practice!
>but you can also start the blind when you see the blur exit the tunnel, so it is a little earlier to show her the new connection.>🤣😂🤣 “look for the blur”
We tried again. I flipped the course to try & make it new to her again. I tried to stay moving and see her commitment better so I could be early.
We tried the advanced 2 jump games!!!
I see her having to swerve to get around me, am I too far over the mouseline?
Or do I need more room between the 2 jumps? I think I can spread it out a little more.
I broke the games up into a morning & evening session. I think she got hot in the evening because she was pulling off the tunnel and the jump after the tunnel so we rested and then did the last rep that you see on the video.
Morning session
evening session
Thanks so much!
Good morning!
We did another session of the Strike a Pose Serp game. I think he was more confident this session.
He had a few hiccups where he wanted to come around the jump on the hardest position, but he thought it through.
I added an empty bowl and got him used to it instead of taking a treat from my hand. I made the mistake of just giving him a treat in the bowl for no reason & then he bowl visited for one rep but he got it back together after that.
He was doing his extra credit mat work last night & had fun! We have catching up in here to do though!
Thank you!Lew is back in the game & he was MAD that he wasn’t getting to play games! LOL
We are still working on week 6 & 7 but we have been working on the startline stays and reinforcement game here & there.
This is our second Get Out session. I had trouble getting him to come to me on the contrast reps!
This is our second Strike a Pose (Serps) session
Thank you!
Hi Tracy!
We tried the 2 jump game. I broke it up into 2 clips. The first one the jumps are aligned and the second one, I moved the 2nd jump out twice. I’m not sure I moved it out far enough. It was interesting. Things were going smoothly & it made me question if I was doing it right…but I think we are actually getting it!!! Eeeeek!
How do you think the timing is looking? I feel like I am either waiting to see her commit to the first jump & then I’m behind for the BC (we dropped a few bars) or I am blinding too soon, but she’s just being really good about repeating the pattern.
I’m excited to try the sequences when we are ready! is 40x40ish enough room for those?Straight jumps
Offset jumps
Thank you!
Good morning! I bet you suspected that there would be a tunnel in today’s video 🤣 There is!
>Interestingly, the backside verbal helped connect you better. When she was not going to the wrap wing, you were a little disconnected and pointing forward while she was still behind you (:24 and :35 for example). But then when you went to the backside verbal, your connection also got much clearer: >
Thank you for this feedback. So it was really my body language that was working not the verbal. I had a lightbulb moment that, if I am seeing what I want in my head, while I say the verbal, my body actually does what it is supposed to. Like “believe in your verbal”.
We went back to week 1 & did the Tunnel game. I was late. a lot. Bazinga gave me lots of grace!
It is hard to tell (because of my lateness) but we started with the blind cross on the flat & then tried to do the blind before she got into the tunnel. I was so slow to react when I saw her headed to the tunnel! I think I actually got a few in before she was in the tunnel. Then I tried the front cross before she went in the tunnel. It really felt like a “cheaty” front cross, so I’m not sure I did it right?
Bazinga was very happy to zip through some tunnels tonight though, so she was happy either way 🙂Earlier we did a session of the 1 jump game & we worked up to moving the wings. Then I flipped the course but when I watched the video, I realized she was still going from my right to left. (face-palm)
In the first half, I see that I was early a few times. I need to remember to stay connected to her until she finishes the wing. I guess I’m rushing.
Thanks so much!
It is supposed to rain all day today (tuesday) I’m hoping for a break in the weather so we can play.Good morning! (maybe it is morning! haha.)
Thank you for the feedback! Especially about being early. I did not piece that together myself but now I see what I did and how Bazinga did exactly what I asker her to do. What a good girlie!
We did another session. I needed to work out my verbals for sending to the wing. Once I got the right one, she sent out great. I usually use a backside verbal for a wing send but I was using the wrap verbals.
Weird question, on the wings for this game, are we supposed to be imagining where the bar would be if it were a jump or does that not matter for the purpose of the game?We are having a rainy weekend. I’m excited to go back & try the tunnel game from week 1.
Thanks! Hope you are having a great weekend!
KathyHi!
Bazinga had a big trial weekend and moved up to the Excellent level in Standard! She did so good!
I ran the courses with rear crosses but I can see the spots where, if we work on commitment & my timing that I could have gotten blinds in and we might have been even faster.Would you do a private lesson on running dogwalk criteria? If so, I’d love to sign up for one! Bazinga really understands her target criteria on the teeter (thanks to your teeter class!) and I’d love to figure out a way to get that level of understanding on the DW. I also have
a question for you about tunnel threadles when the dog can only see one tunnel entrance. That came up with weekend a few times.We did our first session of Week 2’s One Jump game. We had to work on her send commitment but we did get a few good reps in. I was surprised at how complicated it was for me to get the wrap directions in my head but I worked on it without Bazinga so I wouldn’t confuse her. I did mess up a few times though.
I think we could use more work on the send commitment. Should I throw the lotus ball out to the wing to reward that?
Thank you!!!
Good morning!
We did the 2 wing blind game – it was fun! At the end, I tried to do a few more reps of the front cross to blind cross on a wing for practice.
We tried the Wing game 2. I had never heard of the mouse line before! I’ve been wondering how some handlers are able to do a quick blind without crossing all the way through the danger zone between jumps. I really, really, really think I need this skill with Bazinga! Excited!
Good morning!
Lew got to run his first offical Fast Cat runs this weekend! He did really good! We have some MaxPup catching up to do!
We did a refresh on the Rocking Horses outside.
We did the Threadle Wrap foundations with the full spin. I tried to take a break to play tug in the middle but he was allll about food tonight. It seems I kept offering him boring treats today during our day to day stuff – which he refused every time. When I pulled out better treats to play, he was all about it!
We did our first session of the Remote Reinforcement concept. He moved with me! We can change the location up for other sessions, right?
Startline stays
He is letting me move and waiting to hear the “catch” verbal!
Thanks for watching!
Hi!
We have just been doing short sessions of the parallel path game and just doing life skills stuff. We need to jump back in to the games!
Tonight I introduced the Strike a Pose concept transfer for Serps indoors. He was figuring it out in the beginning & gained some confidence as we went on. We played with a tug after to let him get wild.
We also did s short session of the Running Contacts Foundation with the box. It was right after the other game so maybe he was a little tired. He wasn’t really bouncing back through the box after the treats.
I have a question about the Startline stays with “catch”. When should we start to add the “wait” verbal to this game? Or do I just keep building on him letting me move & waiting for me to say “catch’?
Thank you for watching!!
Hi! & Thank you!
I totally thought I was doing the 2 blind crosses but I see that I was starting on the wrong side!
We did another session & a short session of the first wing work. Can you tell me if I am doing the Front Cross to Blind Cross wing wrap correctly? I will be doing a session (or more) of just me to get my mechanics in order. I’m still having trouble talking & crossing at the same time! 🤣 I know I don’t need a blind cross verbal for Bazinga but it seems like my brain needs me to say something in order to do change sides.2 BCs on the Flat
Post Turn to Blind & Frnt Cross to Blind
Thank you!!!
