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Hi Tracy,
I like that there is a theme with Ruse, find the fastest exit. This will help me greatly on course. It’s a bit of a busy week this week and I don’t know how much more I can get done. I reset the course numbering today but haven’t run it. We have a competition at the weekend so am hoping to get a couple of videos of that for Ruse and Hero is only entered in one jumping run.
I opted to do a quick session with Ruse on verbal discrimination as suggested above, tunnel tunnel vs tunnel weave on the line 7-8. Poor Ruse. I didn’t get smart til the end when I realised she needed to see my body turn as well as hearing the verbal. So my take away is the verbals are not that strong yet. Hero had the benefit of going second lol (not on video)
L.
Hi,
I did a little more training with Ruse today before attempting the course. She understands! Thanks for the tip to bring the weaves closer, that really helped. I also tried the start with the backside from the other side of 2, and tried to help set her up more at 5 and 6. And I was able to get a slice on 16!
I tried this with Hero today as well. He really had his wheels on and I had to run! He is scared about the seesaw. This turned into a seesaw training session. His second to last attempt was kinda bad, his landing was a bit weird. We did one more assisted rep, but I really need to get his confidence up. Should I got back to the elevator games? He is avoiding or stopping just past the pivot point when I am not assisting.
L.
Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the feedback. I think both pyrs are doing really well. I think as long as I remember connection we will do much better! Ruse did seem to know the wrap really well. This is not her full height though. When she is jumping 500 mm she jumps more in a square and it doesn’t look as fluid. Thanks for analysing the differences in each sequence. Find the straightest line out of the turn…. I will, thanks!
Today I set up the standard course and ran the first setup. I had to break it down because there are a number of things we have not practiced enough yet. When I read your notes about the layering of the dw and the non-numbered jump letting Ruse do the weaves independently I thought that’s crazy!
I wished I had broken it down more in the start. Ruse didn’t know to look for the weaves even though I was yelling weave. I trained Hero after (not videoed) and I started him at the tunnel exit and told him weave while I ran parallel. Then I made it harder by me getting further away. The whole time I had him driving to the TT. I didn’t even attempt the sequence leading up to the layering until he understood what I wanted, and he was nailing it at the end. I wish I had done that with Ruse.
I did not even know that Ruse would turn away from me on the DW just by giving her a left turn command. She didn’t the first time but my hand was in the air and I should have handled low so she could see my handling. The second time she nailed it. I had done some left turns away with the TT beside the jump before we started. This is a very challenging course for us, just what we need to push us harder!
L.
Hi Tracy,
Hero and I practiced some more movement on the wing today with threadle, turning and take nothing. He was pretty good. I got him once. Also when I use dig dig at the end he jumps at my hand and then wraps the wing. I think he thought I had food in that hand. I hope I haven’t inadvertently trained that in!
Ruse did some sequencing today. I always thought she was a better slicer than a wrapper. I did a blind on the flat in sequence 3, 5-6, but it doesn’t look that smooth. I got in the way a bit. Running 4-5 in sequence 2 it was hard for me to decel to get her to turn on 4 to take 5. I felt like I had to run hard because she was chasing me down! Then I am rushing when I want to be indicating the left turn.
L.
Hi Tracy,
Looking forward to games package 3. I started with skills tonight with Hero. He has actually done the starting part of learning the cue before, but it was ages ago and I didn’t think he would remember. It seems he still knows what to do as long as he can see me give the cue!
L.
Hi Tracy,
I managed to get a session in before the rain today. Thank goodness for the weekend!
Ruse
It’s funny, the blind does not feel as natural in the opening 3 jumps as it does after 12 into the tunnel. But it does seem to work with Rusey. I feel like it could have been tighter, maybe I need to move over more and turn sooner??? I agree doing the turn between 2-3 does line her up much better for the weaves and gets me out of the way.I practiced the FC-BC combo 11-12 before I did the course today, just to make sure I could turn the correct way and get my verbals out. It’s hard to hear me saying Tsssst for a tight left but I definitely got that down today!
The FC-FC last time was really un-co because instead of making forward motion all the way through, I took a step back and got behind. I agree with you Ruse does read the BC well.
I really hope we get a chance to look at blinds on the flat later on, this is my absolute worst move timing wise, but because Ruse reads a blind I would really like to be able to pull it off.I tried to stay connected and stay off her line. I think I am starting to get the hang of it🙂
Hero
I practiced some blind crosses in the opening 3 jumps with Hero, and rewarded him for turning towards me. I wasn’t moving much, do I need to move forwards more to help him turn tighter? If I see this on a course at competition I would definitely use the FC for now, but I need to practice the hard stuff too. Hero is a quick study 🙂He’s definitely getting the hang of the moves now and when we attempted the course he did a pretty good FC-BC combo 11-12. I was proud of him.
Thanks for the help with this one Tracy, very reassuring.
L.
Hi Tracy,
I set up and ran jumping course 1 today. I wanted to do this with Ruse, but I have added a little Hero as well, I hope that is ok.
I apologise for mixing up my cues. I am in the process of changing all Ruse’s cues to match Hero’s. Ruse use to have left, right, turn turn for tight right and back back for tight left. I only realise part way through that I wasn’t using the new cues for tight turns tsst left and pop pop right.
My very first round I didn’t even notice that Ruse popped the weaves, which shows you that I wasn’t connected! I found it easier to blind into the weaves rather than FC. I had to have a wee practice at completing the weaves as I did notice when she pulled out early later on. This is still a work in progress. I didn’t have the TT out there today.
Ruse comes with me if I go quiet and stop sending clear signals, so we had quite a few pull off obstacles today due to me not putting in enough effort! Hero doesn’t do this though, he seems a little more independent. His main goal is to “go fast”.
I tried 3 different ways to get the turn on 12 going into the tunnel 13. I think I like the blind-blind the best. I think it gives ruse the best turn?
With Hero that first turn on 2 was very loose lol. I didn’t give him enough advance turning cue, he’s so fast. When I first started I was silent and lost him to the tunnel which I didn’t even enter my head was possible!
He also popped the weave, but was much better the next time around. After 5 he so nearly took 7 instead of 6, but at the last second decided that I meant 6. He’s such a good boy. How do I communicate this turn better? More brake arm and better connection?
I also liked the blind-blind with Hero on 12. The FC felt very dangerous and hard to execute.
Looks like we have bad weather on the way, but hopefully I can have another crack at this course after your feedback.
L.
Evening Tracy!
I don’t have iMovie unfortunately, I have been using Kinemaster. There should be a way to do layering cos there is a button for that, I just have to figure it out!
Hez: I worked on some rotation for the tight turn on 11 first. I think I am doing it wrong as I am arriving there way too soon and end up stopped. I did some stationary reps but then realised I needed to move forward out of the way! Still a slight deviation at the end but I think not too bad. I tried to show more decel 8-9, I think he did ok.
Ru: I broke the course down first. I have the same issue on 11, so it is definitely something I am doing. She was pretty speedy, but haven’t watched back the baseline to compare.
Lastly I did the motion overide game with Ru. It was pretty easy when I was walking slowly. When I walked with high knees she had a WTF moment. Adding speed definitely made it harder and she wasn’t able to go all the way down when I said mat. But I paid her for the attempts. I waited a long time the first time, it was so hard not to repeat the cue. But she eventually did mat and I paid. The very next rep her mat was instant! She’s so smart.
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Hi Tracy,
Thank you for your feed back. I absolutely agree that movement is affecting the RDW! When I put the hammer down, Ruse loses the ability to maintain criteria. Way more proofing required!! I will take a look at the motion override lesson and go through that with Ruse.
Today I set up sequence 1 and I did a baseline with Hero and Ruse. How did you do that comparison video of your two dogs? I would love to see where Ruse and Hero differ by overlaying the videos.
Anyway, here is our base line…..
L.
Hi Tracy,
Ruse and I did some work from Skills set 1 tonight. I tried to get the mechanics right lol. I forgot that she should have been sitting to the side of me when I was asking for her stationary and moving positions. I also realised watching the video back that the commands sounded similar! Mat (down) and Back (spin to the left), I also have to use a hand cue for the spin. I used catch to throw the reward to her and get it for her to come forward to take it from me. I didn’t use a reward cue when she came around the wing. I feel like she had patterned the wing wrap as I asked for left and then right and it was predictable.
It was super hard to resist saying the command more than once. Interestingly she could do the stationary position when I was moving quite a lot, but the moving position was hard for her.
L.
Hi Tracy,
I finally got back to having another crack at the standard course 1 from games package 1 after a weekend away. I found your comments very helpful, although the major lightbulb for me is the holes in the independence that both my dogs have to allow me to get to where I need to be on course.
Ruse is now anticipating 5-6 so I had to put the treat trainer out from the weaves to make her complete them while I did an early fc. I was then easily able to line her up for backside 8. You are right, the seesaw is still lacking independence and she is pushing me to release because I know she is going to break. I don’t want a ride n go at this point, there has to be a release. I will keep working on the nose touch independently and add that in.
So I wanted to do the slice on 13 and was trying to figure out how. I did a blind after 11 and backside 13 which was obviously never going to work as it puts me even further behind. Then I realised I didn’t need to get on the other side of 11 to make 12-13, all I needed to do was connect out of the tunnel 11, and allow Ruse to come over 12 and send to 13. That gave me so much more time to get upto 16 for the double blind, although watching back I was still late for the second blind.
My tight turn of the dw for Ru is back back back. I realised that most of the practice I am always behind or level and she hits easily. I actually had to do a few reps where I made her wait at the beginning of the down ramp while I call her to position so that she knows what its like for me to be ahead on the dw and that the criteria for the turn is just the same.
To line up for the spin on 20, which side of the tunnel do I need to be on? I thought a blind before the tunnel was best, but she still beat me out of the tunnel and curled in before I could connect and show her the decel and spin. Trying to blind at the end of the tunnel was just plain scary lol.
Still plenty to learn here, but this is helping my handling and thought process for sure. It got quite dark tonight and I turned on my light, but it’s not enough to light up the whole course. I moved the camera so you could see each part of the course a little better.
L.
HI Tracy,
I am so glad I am doing this course, maybe by the end of it connecting with the dog will become more engrained!
>>it was not really a timing issue, more of a position issue. Both of those spins set a bit of a wider line because you put yourself on landing side so he had to go around you – getting one more step up the line to takeoff side will keep it tight like it was at 1:09.
Ah, thank you! I couldn’t understand why he kept coming in and taking the jump from the wrong side.
Last night I set up the standard course 1 with and did some segments with Rusey.
She was able to do 1- 5 then the wheels fell off lol. After the tunnel 5 my body was aimed at 13, when I really wanted her to do backside 8 to come and do the seesaw. I was rushing because she was coming at me fast.
After seesaw I did left turn to tunnel and I did a blind before she came out so that I could do a wrap on 13 and take off for 14 and get the aframe. I knew it would come unstuck at the aframe. I got my first blind in and then it got messy because she was already jumping 16 when I did the blind. I was too slow. Ideally I wanted to get a double blind to send to 17 so that I could get away for the dw.
I knew we would have trouble turning off the dw. She is not strong when I peel away. I did a few reps putting my beep mat and TT back in play to show her what I wanted no matter what my body was doing. It’s that independence thing again. She either doesn’t know her job properly or she is most definitely aroused by what I am doing. Same as in the weaves she anticipates my moving away and tries to take a short cut.
I had no idea how the heck I was going to get from 19 to 20, but in the video you hear me praising Ruse at this point. That is because she found a line I didn’t even thing of. If I keep dog on right and wrap the left wing of 20, I avoid the trap of 13 and she heads straight for 21. Clever girl.
Clearly lots more work needed here!!!
L.
Hi Tracy,
Yes, attacking the course is a must with a rocket like Hero lol.
I went back and repeated 1-4. Instead of lingering and trying to help at 2, I just left the Hero to do the backside and it turns out he doesn’t need my help there.
I was able to just get my rotation in for the fc before the tunnel before Hero took off for 4, but I think it still could be quicker as you can’t quite see on camera but the turn was wide.
Your advice for the weaves was spot on! I could have pressed the button on the TT sooner and he would have gone straight there the first time. When I had a second crack at it he was looking forward and finished the weaves and I was able to finish the whole course!! Wow. I was so out of breath and there were not many cues coming out of my mouth by the end.
I switched the camera angle so you could see a bit more of the closing segment. I practiced a couple of times trying to get Hero to turn tight on 10 and let me get a blind in after 11 for the tunnel send. It was ok when I practiced it as 10-11, but when I started from 8 my timing was shit lol. I couldn’t get in my head that I needed to keep dog on left until I was at the wing of 11 before doing the blind. I finally managed it.
I was also able to do the double backside to blind 13-14-15 which allowed me to fc for 16 and the correct end of the tunnel 17. I didn’t get my verbals out though so I didn’t give him a turn cue over 15. I said go-go-go, but that is a straight cue, but it showed me that my body language over rides whatever drivel is coming out of my mouth.
I feel more comfortable with the blind between 13-14 because I don’t feel like i’m gonna get caught, and I feel like I have more time and I can actually give the correct cues lol.
Anyway, we had fun with the do-over and I am really happy with Hero’s progress.
L.
Hi Tracy,
I felt like I was starting to get the hang of the blind turns with Ruse. Then I changed the course to the 3rd numbering system today and tried it with Hero and I was like a novice all over again lol.
I decided that 1-4 would work best with a backside blind to line me up for 3 & 4. I practiced the push behind first. Hero is so fast I was quite slow. I could only think to do a front cross between 4 and the tunnel 5 to get him to turn. When I practiced with Ruse I actually did a threadle wrap on the left wing of 2 with a blind to 3.
I had trouble getting Hairy into and out of the weaves today. Usually getting in by wrapping the first pole is his best. Maybe he needed one more step to the outside of the weaves and a low hand cue to see the entrance?
I tried not to do too many weaves, and moved on to do the second part of the course. You really had me puzzled! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out the best way to do 9-10-11. I was trying a hard right on 9 with a wrap around 10, but then I got caught on the wrong side of 11. I wanted to post turn and push behind to get 11 and fc to the tunnel, but Hero was much too quick for that. I suppose I could have blinded 9-10, then turned Hairy left round the far wing of 10 which would have lined me up better for a push to 11, but getting him to the correct end of 12 was harder than I thought.
13-14-15-16 worked as a double backside with a blind on 14 to get 15 with a fc to 16, but I had to move quickly. The last couple of sequences in the video I was trying to do a bc on the flat between 13 and 14 so that 15 was then just a backside send, then the fc to 16 was much easier.
I hope this all makes sense. Here is the video anyway. I wished I moved the camera for the latter half of the course so you could clearly see which way I was turning, where Hairy went, and what cues I was giving him, which in some cases was none! I was thinking so hard lol.
L.
