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This did not go as expected but lots of valuable lessons.
I do not think the walk-through was as fast as the actual run.
My first run-through I noticed I lost connection at the startline after ‘break’ and swivelled my head to the tunnel instead of watching her.
I forgot to turn the camera back on when I went to get her. We did 2 runs – in the first, she wrapped the backside before the tunnel. I talked to the camera and said I’d re-run but get further along the bar and keep moving. This seemed to work and it was a nice run. None of this was on film
I gave her an hour break and we came back to have a go at recording the run – it just went from bad to worse then. There is a limit to how far I can push on her line – she missed the backside althogether then headed to the no. 1 jump before going back to the tunnel. The law of diminishing returns!
We had another go.
We found the second threadle on jump 15 difficult… I took it out of the sequence, practised it a few times but results were hit and miss.
We started the week 2 handing whammy exercises. This resulted in several revelations.
I find it really hard to keep going after mistakes…
Our threadle needs work. Jump 3 proved a challenge which wasn’t helped by the tree in the middle of the yard compressing the space a bit.
Our tunnel sends became iffy from 4 to 5…meaning I had to go deeper and struggled to get in position for #6 so had to change my handling from a forced front cross to a backside blind. I just got more frantic with the waving arms which did not help. Her sends are usually really good but I think she was confused by jump 6 which she seemed to think required a wrap as we ran towards the tunnel, presumably because I was near the wing. Fun exercise!
Yes, it was just the thrown reward that got her over the middle jump on the other side.
My blinds were a bit late here. I was focussing a bit on beginning and end of run routines… she came in on lead and at the end I picked her up after giving her “pick up” cue/put the lead back on/rewarded then moved to food was on a table. She did well with this but it couldn’t be seen on the video so I edited it out mostly – it added a lot of time. She is still running off during training at the Club so that’s on hiatus – I don’t want to risk losing her in the dark or her approaching an unfriendly dog.
Hi, I sent off the private lesson form and I have a couple of weave videos for review.
Maisy won’t be doing anything for a while – she has a torn calf muscle/gastroc tear. Came home just before Christmas and she was on 3 legs.
I do not underestimate how important the closing line is going to be for us. This is our 2nd practice. A couple of times she has gone round the last jump but I’m thinking that is just baby stuff.
We might need some help/feedback with our weaves. Would you be open to private/lessons/video review over the holidays (January/February)?
I noticed those bobbles at the wing on the video. More connection, got it!
You ruined my illusion I was doing blinds to the tunnel by pointing out I was doing late fronts, lol.
Unfortunately I was practising running without my treat pouch at the time she came out of the tunnel and got the surprise in that course… wish I could have rewarded when she came back!!
We have been working thru all our ARE toolbox stuff this week. “Find my face” was a game she just didn’t “get” as a puppy but now she has it down pat. We did tunnel discrimination today – there was heavy machinery doing who knows what on the other side of my back fence. Good distraction noises!
