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We played with some wraps.
I wrapped the middle jump in the pinwheel as well as the one facing the tunnel and I’m not really sure why I did that. Grin was a good boy though. This is a bit tentative on my part as the ground is still a bit muddy, I also repeated one blind cross and tried to get a bit more lateral from the jump this time.
BX to the tunnel take 1.
I love how baby dogs keep you humble. This was a lot of fun.
I feel I am not lateral enough from the jump before the tunnel but also feel that at this stage if I am too lateral I will pull him off. It’s a fine line.
Some 1 step sends. This was one session where I had to stop and attend to something after the first couple of goes and then I changed the camera angle when I came back to it.The set up was probably not ideal as I used the wings in position for jumps in a sequence I am working with my other dogs, but he coped pretty well. I think it’s hard for me to stay still at times.
Our first go at the pinwheels and some plank work, hope it was OK to put it in the same video.
Grin has a pretty good understanding of going out to a jump I started the pinwheel at stage 2/3, however it was really too muddy to be working on this so after one go in each direction I stopped the session and went into the shed for some plank work.
He is used to working on a slightly elevated plank for turning around but we haven’t done any left/right spins away from me on plank this narrow yet. He is currently doing that on a plyo box and as he grows into his giraffe legs, I will get it on a plank.So much fun even though I got hammered for time towards the end. We are still working through the exercises and Grin is looking forward to Max Pup 3
Thanks for the feedback, really helpful (as always) and the screenshot was great.
I will have another go at this one and make the adjustments.I’m also thinking this might be a good exercise to introduce his ‘look’ cue on the first jump. At the moment I have just worked it on the flat away from agility with various objects that have nothing to do with agility and he’s doing pretty good at that so maybe it’s time?
So many things to catch up on but we skipped ahead to the Lateral lead outs today as I’m starting to work on building more lateral distance with him. I also find this set up so interesting with the walking out and putting body pressure (sort of) on t6e dog.
First time he wasn’t sure but he picked it up pretty quick. I started using my jump cue as I’ve also started teaching that to him. Although I won’t use it on every jump I thought this might be a good place to start.
I also found it helpful to wait him out if he didn’t look at the jump. I’m also teaching him a verbal to mark the first jump but it’s not trained well enough to use it here.
At the end I also tried it on the tunnel so he could finish the session with some extension.Oh my bad last time on the tight blinds, lol. Yes, I was doing a K Turn on the wing lol. I’ll fix that next time I set up that exercise.
This is our first try at layering on a jump. He’s done a lot of layering on the flat to a dead toy, with scrunched up tunnel, stick in the ground poles, etc. but not on a jump before.
I used my weave poles as they were already set up and he has no idea what they are as yet, or any interest in interacting with them. Net time I’ll use the tunnel. I had my husband throw the toy in so I didn’t hang it up on the poles with my crappy throw and cause any issues.
I think it might have been easier to rotate the wing and just have a 90 degree turn to the jump, but he was a good boy and I liked the way he was seeking the jump out. I need to start getting my verbals more consistent now, I think because I haven’t taught all the ones I want to use yet, I’m just saying anything at times. So that might be a good focus for this month.At the end I added a tunnel after the jump as it was already set up there and then let him so a straight line for decompression.
Here is our first attempt at beginning the Ladder Grid and also first try at the Minny Pinny.
I’m only using my turn towards me verbal at the moment and also helped him out a little with my body and at the end a toy. He hasn’t quite got the idea of jumping through the bend grid yet but he’s getting there.
Would you change the spacing to try and encourage a jump or it doesn’t matter at this stage?A very quick session with finding the jump. This was the second time we did this, the first time the jump was closer but my tripod blew over and I didn’t notice, so no video.
He did well the first time so I moved the jump a little further away.
The last repetition here I did put the toy on the ground for him to make up for 2 sessions of my crappy throws.We redid the set point with a little more distance, hopefully this was better for him.
We also had our first go at the tunnel turns. I haven’t taught soft turns at all yet but this is what I will use for soft turns towards me so we went with that.
We’ll keep playing with this set up until I think he is ready for some more sequencing on it. I was pleased for a first try.Thanks Tracy, yes I totally agree about the distance.
Last lesson I gave him the full 6 feet and this time I moved it in probably around 5 and a half feet just to see what difference it made.
I think the other change I probably didn’t take into account is I added a bar behind whereas up to now I have just used 2 regulators.
He’s only seeing low bars very sparingly at the moment, but I have noticed a big difference in how he jumps with a bar compared t a regulatorI’ll do this one again with the tweaks and see how it goes.
Our first try at the set point with moving target.
I sat him up a little closer to the regulator this time, but not sure if it was too close or not?Grin really enjoyed this.
Oops I didn’t realise I was so close to the wing on those wraps, will definitely fix this, thank you.
Now speaking of fixing things, here is our first attempt at the Pill Bug Game (We call them Butcher Boys here, no idea why)
This was hilarious, not just because Grin had lots of fun but because it was so hard for me and I wasn’t expecting it to be.
At the start of the video I’ve left in me standing there thinking about what to do as I think it sums up my whole session,
I couldn’t get my heard around having to toss food, have a toy in my hand as well, which hand to have everything in, not to do a front cross after the food toss which was coming naturally, where to run to and then trying to connect. Poor Grin. He was a good boy as he always is.I’m so used to just doing and not thinking with my more experienced dogs, this was a really good exercise and it also made me realise that I don’t have the connection with him yet that I do with them, which I wouldn’t expect to have but still something to be mindful of at times.
I ended up with the toy in the hand of the side he was coming to rather than the opposite hand, will fix that next time. Blind Crosses are late, we only had one go at the double cross which was super late but at least I get the idea.
We will definitely be going back to this one, in fact I’m going to run it with Sonnet as I figure if I can get the timing right with her then Grin should be easier next time lol. Is it possible to do this one from a stay or a wing wrap so I can take one more thing to think about out of the equation. He’s not a real foodie, happy to work for it but toy is King.
