[Wendy]

Grass has been mowed and dried out some for the accordion grid work. I am also using a dragged treat ball and setting her up further away. I am not sure I see any difference in her head position? My setup distances were also pretty inexact.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Wendy.

[Wendy]

She was mightily unimpressed with the wet grass – it’s been raining for 2 days so the lawn is pretty sodden.

[Wendy]

This was our third session on the lateral send and is a bit hit and miss still. I think it will probably be an important skill in its application on course for us so we will keep practising. I cut out a lot of stay rewards. The stays are mostly good.

[Wendy]

We did find this challenging but after 2 sessions….improvement:

[Wendy]

Thank you for your always valuable feedback. I just need to work through this at my own (slow) pace, lol. Do a few more reps minus little miss till I have the sequence and correct verbals in my head.

I did practise this with the Borders. No words for how that went. Just fast, furious and pretty silent, although they knew what I meant. I can see the verbals would be terribly useful if I wasn’t right there on top of them.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.

[Wendy]

Smiley Face tunnel threadles – oh my! This one blew my brain for sure. My cues were pretty random…I could not think what to say when she came out of the tunnel to go to a threadle after a tunnel cue. Sometimes I just used tunnel. I thought I’d get better after 3 sessions, but no, no better.

[Wendy]

A few seconds of zigzag 2 with closer bars: https://youtu.be/h6bHPxB4i8g

Lap turns and tandem turns: Alas, I fear there was flinging! Can I just say how satisfying it was to do a couple of tandem turns on courses on the weekend in a couple of tricky spots. They worked so well I impressed myself.

I struggle to replicate a racetrack in the video because I have to work out what I’m doing next and where I should be in quick succession and I don’t think my mind works that fast…

[Wendy]

Thanks for your feedback. We’ve improved a lot just going back to 2 wings to start:

ZigZag 2 (1st session)

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.

[Wendy]

We had a big local trial at my club on the weekend so I have been out of commission. This is our 3rd session of wind in hair transitions… there isn’t much transition yet because she stopped dead on the bar if I tried to leave OR she back-jumped. Hey, why not? Anyhow, we are muddling through!

[Wendy]

Proofing Get Out – off to a slow start, our 2nd session. Little late on the throw and not sure about my feet…

[Wendy]

Rear cross transfer…

[Wendy]

Set point grid today using the 39″ (1m) spacing you suggested after the last exercise:

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.

[Wendy]

This was tough! I cannot even imagine trying to get a blind in here with the BCs. I have been practising because it’s all down to my handling and footwork I realise. And connection, lol, always! So far only just the beginnings of a diamond.

[Wendy]

We will need to work on this I think.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Wendy.

[Wendy]

Wind in hair rear cross seemed to go ok although not sure about me, lol. None of my other dogs could do it using this setup, hmm, so she must be a genius. To be fair, if I used their ‘turn’ cue, that helped…except Maisy who turned right regardless…

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Wendy.

[Author]

Posts