[Kristin Omdahl]

Hi Tracy!

I’m finally getting my act together and submitting my Week 1 videos for your commentary. Lots of work but so fun to start! Some of it was much harder (for me) than I thought it would be, so certainly give me your honest critiques. I’m not that sensitive and will not be deflated by your pointing out of all the places where I need to clean up my mechanics, follow instructions better, etc., so don’t hold back. 🙂

Pre-Games 1 and 2
A pretty good start. I had done one session of each of these not on video, so I think this was pretty good.
https://youtu.be/k2zvCTs7nEQ

Building Sends and Commitment
I forgot at first we are supposed to have them turn back to us to get the reward instead of throwing it, but remembered after I watched the first video.Tried to be better in the second session! I felt kind of awkward with this one, perhaps because I was also using the wrong hand to cue on several of them as well…geez!
https://youtu.be/aYh1txMA-ac

Decel and Turn
I should’ve had his platform moved over a bit so you could see him better, but hopefully that doesn’t detract too much from the video. In his case, the platform may not really have been helping me because he’s been rewarded so much for being on it that when we turned in the circle and faced he would tend to want to run back to it rather than continuing to turn with me.
https://youtu.be/fJurQolLpxw

Driving Ahead and Focus Forward
First things first… yes, that X-mas tree has been up since last year, so I guess I’m all set now for the season! Ha!!
He was so squirrelly on this one that I realized pretty quickly I needed to have a collar on!
https://youtu.be/Y45Lroe2qEE

Wing Wrap
This was by far the hardest one for us I think. Part of the issue is that I have been doing so much practice with waits, stays and impulse control that he kept thinking it was a trick and he needed and ‘OK’ to eat the food from the dish. Never totally got over that this week, so I think we’ll need to keep working this one to get the true lesson out of it.
https://youtu.be/-X1eK8A-GbE

Blind Cross
I joked to hubs before starting this one that it would probably be the easiest…boy was I wrong!! It took more tries than I care to admit to STOP the muscle memory of switching the toy in my hands instead of reaching around with same arm to maintain connection like you mentioned. Seriously have been doing it the old way for so long it was hard not to switch hands for the reward! Tell me what else I can fix as I am sure there is plenty!
https://youtu.be/3huxGPy-HBw

Looking forward to your critique! I know this is a lot in one post though, so I understand if this takes some time to get through.

[Kristin Omdahl]

Hey Mary – I had thee same question so I email support and got this reply:

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I probably won’t sign up for Gravatar, but it’s good to know how it works.

~Kristin

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