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I can’t thank you enough for all your help and feedback in this class. We will continue working our way through and see you in Pup 4!
2 sessions on wingin it tunnel entries and exits – she seems to like the straight lines. 2nd vid she is working on not being distracted by Dream who may be helping out a bit in her directionals.
Thank you for the explanation, made perfect sense!
We had a few sessions on the threadle wraps. Found them a little harder:
I am a bit worried we won’t catch up before MaxPup 4. We have 1 more week of video review and 4 weeks worth of MaxPup 3 to get through before MaxPup 4. Is there anything in particular we should focus on in preparation?
So… week 4… is a threadle wrap a 360 degree tandem turn?? A bit like a lap turn has a double lap variant.
Backside circle wrap did my head in when it came to the mirror image but I finally figured it out and we’ll have a session tomorrow!
She did well on these but maybe I over-helped?
Tandem turn/lap turn? Short vid just to make sure I am doing it right: https://youtu.be/i5TauTijNKw
She is enjoying the focus forward work. My main issue is getting her back inside the house so someone else can have a turn.
Maisy had a trial last night – did two beautiful jumping courses, one novice, one open. Two bars in each. Couldn’t be happier. 7m/sec seems to be her average speed in jumping. Layering and distance work from Camp really paid off. Mainly she needed me to watch lol while she followed her lines beautifully. Agility: one broken startline plus one missed set of weaves in the 1st course. On the 2nd open course I only walked up to the weaves because I anticipated taking her off – held her startline and completed her weaves. Oops, needed to have more faith. Stumbled on for a few more obstacles.
Rear crosses went better! Then we revisited the blinds and… if I turned earlier she tended to skip the jump. I thought I’d try cross body toy but that made me spin into a FX for whatever crazy reason but at least I could see her not miss the jump.
Lol, all I need is another dog too fast for me to run!
I did move the jumps to make the blinds easier in the second half of this as well as adding the toy. By a few reps in, they were mostly back to their starting position. It would have helped if I had revisited the maps that send her into the tunnel first. I think I got confused with the last pinwheel exercise.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback as always!
Send and go and blind to tunnel. Not much sending…left side was a struggle. We did better when I moved the jumps closer to make it easier for me to get to the tunnel blind on the hard side.
We practised some different entries and layering. Our rear crosses need more work to come up to scratch.
I tried hard not to say too much meaning I forgot to give some wrap cues and then I said a lot of “go”s… I can see myself doing more blinds than fronts. She is a speedy little demon. Most of the barking is courtesy of the neighbour dogs. I figure it is good practice for the trial environment. The jumps etc were 18-20 feet apart.
