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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.
I think I was using her name way too much. She hit a bar on the first go round because I had one end on a different height. It was a light bar and she didn’t seem to notice thank goodness.
Ah, weave challenges! Her main challenge is never weaving in competition. Just running past. I might get one or two weaves when I put her back in. Or not. Every course in our big comp at the end of September has weaves so it is DQ city.
I put up a couple of barriers at the end of the soft? entry because the first go through I sent the ball flying past her and it pulled her out so she decided the last 2 poles in that direction were clearly optional. Mostly she stays in with the ball throw but we haven’t been practising with 12 poles for a while.
We started the switch cue – I think I’d call it a tandem turn? Cut down the course to fit better, sequence 1 anyway!
I am a little confused… so, no cue for middle jump just more extension? [Last comp with Maisy she took off straight after the middle jump of the pinwheel so I see some danger in this] Or a different cue? I thought you used a left/right for the middle jump?
