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Thanks for indulging me. Coincidentally, I have been having similar struggles in Snooker, and before I read your comments, I came to the same conclusion about running the last two snooker runs on Sunday (today) as if there were numbers in the Snooker opening. She cued the advanced snooker run, and the masters run right afterwards! Our Gamble previous to these two was a huge mess. We’re taking tomorrow off and will get back to package 3 on Tuesday.
i was at an all-gamble trial on Thursday: 3 Gamble runs in a row.
I am trying my hand at analysis. If this doesn’t work for you, please let me know. I have linked a Google Doc (just for this exercise) to see if I’m getting any better at analyzing my runs:
Run 2
Run 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qV89_aJHTUgpKKbYzyKQaWhrNUtHSBA4c1LlI4SksnU/edit?usp=sharing
Backside Drill L – I think this is her stronger side
Pkg 3 Sequence 1 walk through and run
Pkg 3 Sequence 2 walk through & run
Pkg 3 Sequence 3 walk through and run
Pkg 3 Sequence 4 walk through and run
I need to fix my throw. I get the impression that she’s only taking the bar because the toy is there.
Kyla was looking after Muso while we were away, and she practiced backside slices. Do you think it had more impact on the behaviour to only reward if she takes the bar? Here’s the video:
Hope you’ve found some cooler weather.
How do I find the balance between running parallel on big lines and layering, and moving to the new line on a more extreme angle and trusting her to hold the line? You’d said that more than one run had me moving parallel, which supported an off course something, instead of moving directly to the new line. I’m not sure how to differentiate when to support and when to get moving.
Hi Tracy,
We’re away this week (without dogs! Gasp), so we’ll get to these next week. Hope you don’t melt down south.Package 2 Discriminations
Dog on left
Dog on right
Threadle Wrap
Part 1
Part 2
I got a little muddled on the sequences, but I think the gist is there
Video editing took way too long, but here is the rest of package 1, the teeter problem when I am behind or too far laterally, and the remedial work we started from MaxPup on the serp problem:
Serp Drills
https://youtu.be/RnTFGXFjmrEPkg 1 – Agility Course 2 – Part 1
https://youtu.be/qwEp5VaLmNkPkg 1 – Agility Course 2 – Part 2
https://youtu.be/xzOWHEmskdQClose-Up Teeter Problem
https://youtu.be/D-s4qr2YAGIMore video coming soon, but the teeter issue is that she’s not going to the end anymore. She’s flying off (usually the first run) or stopping early, like before the yellow or just inside.
Tracy,
I REALLY appreciate your feedback on these courses. Thank you for taking the time to analyze them and give me the overview.
Masters Series Agility
There was an error at the beginning of MS Agility where she turned to her right after the frame in the opening, then considered wrapping the jump again (another reason I never cue multi-wraps on course LOL!) and then continued to a line elsewhere. I couldn’t see the handling on the video, so I am not sure why it happened – do you remember what your plan was there and what happened?She wrapped the jump after the A-frame correctly, then I stepped in to push her to the jump so I could take off up the line to get the backside after the broad jump. She took the step in and literally ran with it to the far tunnel. I was worried that if I let her wrap the far wing after the frame, she wouldn’t turn tightly enough and I’d have to hang back to correct and be late for the backside after the broad. I neglected to walk the dog’s line and didn’t see that the tunnel pointed to the jump and far tunnel, however, she usually curls towards me out of tunnels, so I didn’t give a turn cue at all and she just went! On a later course, when I thought I’d supported a line out of the tunnel, she did curl in and missed the jump (didn’t get a video of Snooker), and when I supported the same exact line again on Senior Speedstakes (with even more enthusiasm), she missed it again. I am having a hard time knowing when she will curl in and when she will stay out on the line. We seem to have a handle on AAC, but UKI is kicking our butts. I’m not used to these big lines and I am really struggling to know when to cue a turn, just use her name, or show her big line support and trust that she will read it. I definitely thought I had supported the line in the Senior Speedstakes, but also didn’t want to launch her into the next off-course tunnel by overrunning it.
For the gamble, I slowed the video down to see what happened, and she skipped the whole down-ramp and only hit the contact, so I think that she couldn’t have turned if she wanted to. The Frame and Teeter are both problems when they are in the first run, as she is usually high and doesn’t break enough and goes flying.
Sweepstakes 2 – She went on a big line after a tunnel at :25. There was a lot of GO info but no turn info before she went into the tunnel there… so she took a guess of the big line based on your forward motion.
Yes, in my walk-through, I hadn’t considered that tunnel an off course at all, so I just trusted that she would curl towards me, as usual, and off we go. Every time we went off-course on all of these runs, I was surprised, and then I was thinking “Damn, I don’t know if I could do that again, on purpose!”
So now my big question is: how do I get even more independence on weaves (and the teeter) without adding pressure to these obstacles. She tends to bail on the last 2-4 poles if I’m moving laterally, but sometimes she doesn’t. I have a hang-up about making her weave 12 poles over and over just to reward the exit, but I don’t know if 6 poles gives her enough time to think about bailing.
I did a seminar with Alen Marekovich and he warned not to add weave guides or pre-position the toy because then it only LOOKS like they have the skill, but then don’t have it if the support isn’t there. So now I’m feeling very conflicted about how to fix these training holes.
Thanks for your thoughts. She’s such a good girl.
