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Decided to break it down with Maisy and tried hard to get my reverse spin in time – but at least she didn’t knock the bar. Put bars lower as suggested.
I think I did better.I practised running faster lots of times till I was puffed.
Ironically, the last course I did my big takeaway was “stop looking at Maisy’s face over bars, it makes her drop them…” I think you are saying the opposite? Anyway, bars flew like confetti. I think she prefers them on the ground because it is faster that way.
I recovered my equilibrium by running the small girls who always supply plenty of R+
Thanks for the feedback. Sassy lacks a lot of confidence on course so I will definitely work on making sure she is right all the time.
I don’t know what to say about this next video. It is pretty bad and yet so typical of every run we do – it’s always over before I can blink which makes careful course plans seem redundant – my mind does not work as fast as her legs 🙂
We tried for more connection and distance…then did the 1st sequence in Handling 2 – seemed to be easier than the exercises! She managed to miss taking me out by a smidge when I tried to be right up at the wing – was this what you meant?
I edited out most of the parts where I was fetching her treat pod but left in some of her “ma feet won’t move Ma” moments. It went ok today but I think she’ll probably enjoy the next exercises more. After the first few reps, I set her up in the middle except when she missed the jump. Her urge to complete the course is strong!
I will definitely go back to 300, then 350 with the zigzags.
Back to the backside slice. We started the session tugging which seemed to send her a bit high and unfocussed. Switched to food.
No feet coming over the end of the board – moving it forward a bit was the answer. I cannot see her having any issue fading the board, lol.I may have skipped ahead a bit… 3 jumps at the next height 400 – 16″ (her jump height is 500 – 20″). I will go back and add some tugging and revisit the jump platform work.
We tried the 3 jump zigzag. It was very windy. She did well so I tightened the angle. I think she is really learning from this course and has gained a lot of muscle 🙂 Not sure if she is using her rear, though.
This is our backside zigzag session with “move faster’ starting closer to the wing and move slower starting “further away”. We weren’t tugging? I’m not sure if she needs the higher arousal here too?
We tried some backside slice. The tugging certainly makes it harder for her to stop and pause before the jump. I used the toy as a reward briefly but she wanted food because that is what she s used to, I guess. I still did some tugging, though. I thought she did pretty well with the movement although it clearly made a difference.
Thanks for that – I will be clearer. I had no idea I was using the terms interchangeably.
Expected the discrimination warm-up to be easy. You make everything look so easy. I realise I need a lot more work on my handling! My main takeaway was ‘stay off their line”. There was about 6 feet between the jump and the parallel tunnel and most of them took the backside of the jump (although my feet may also have had something to do with that).
I am also curious why do a blind there? You lose sight of them for a crucial second and also, does a blind not cue extension when ideally we want a tight wrap with collection at the jump? and may also help cue the tunnel? I kind of like the throwback option (assuming it is an option). I can see we would really struggle with something like this if she had some speed on in the middle of a course so we will practise this useful exercise!
