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Hi Tracy,
We are back on a hot streak so it’s hard to build at the park as the dogs need to stay in the car. Luckily, my agility instructor built a course for this week that could be tweaked. The spacing is not ideal and I couldn’t move the small yellow tunnel. Gemma taught me to block it. 🙂
Sprite clearly thought about it even though the wing blocked it. It’s 95 degrees out, so we didn’t do too much. She remembered the switch!
Hi Tracy,
At the park at 7:30 am. I forgot my wide angle lens. The course I show walking is the one that made the most sense to me. On course 3 turning right over 4 seemed like it would set a better line to 5 and 6. She’s still jumping long on these 180 turns. What else do I need to do? I did turn her left over 4 and it worked out. But, it wouldn’t have been my first choice.
Pop out 4 I only did 4 two different ways. I am not great at two threadles in a row even though I think I could get 1-2 easily on release. But, then I wasn’t sure what to do at three. If I wanted to wrap to the inside would it be a double lap turn? You’ll see I chose the back side push to a wrap. But, I did try turning her both directions over 4. I was too chicken to try a BC between 5-6. So, I did the threadle wrap for her. It went better than expected. Back side to serp still a work in progress.
Hi Tracy,
I might be able to go back to the park Thur or Fri. Should I try these again or the even harder pop outs 3 and 4?
So, one sequence one the layer of jump three is from the landing side. Somehow I thought you wanted us to layer from the take off side sending to 4 and 5. Also, I’m not sure about the threadle comment for jump 5. Is it a threadle, brake arm or false turn? And, is that if you are layering 3?
I still struggle with lines I should run. Sprite thinks so too!
Well neither of these went as expected. It’s warming up so I thought I’d do the ones with just jumps. Easy, right? The hazards of park training are the lawn people randomly show up. They were there when I arrived and stayed about 15-20 min while the temp increased. Then, Sprite stepped on the water bucket and dumped it.
Sequence one I couldn’t layer the jump with Sprite. It looked like serp position. Gemma got it.
Sequence two I kept getting unexpected turns with Sprite. Gemma was 2 for 2. It looks like decel might be causing her to turn away. Or, I’m just not clear. I cheated and did more than two as we had lots of issues and bars.
Ah..this was right after I tore my calf muscle. That’s likely why I didn’t purchase it. Will you run it again? Or available for purchase as independent study?
Oh…I’ll play with the blue green screen then. Thank you!
Ok, so backside S curve aka German or back to a serp. I need to shift my gaze and the dog side arm as she’s approaching the wing? I know I’m watching to see if she passes by the jump. But, she did produce a nice tight turn!
Also, the threadle wrap I need to be lateral but PAST the jump plane? No wonder she’s struggling. It’s a tight turn and I thought I needed to still be closer to the front side of the jump and have her pass me.
Hmmm…what’s the name of the jump class? I’m sure I’ve taken just about everything. But, Sprite needs help jumping up off her rear to elevate over a jump. She’d rather take off flat. I’d love to revisit that class.
It’s so fun to nail the first run. Yay. Did I earn an adult beverage? I’m pretty sure the answer is yes. Lol.
Hi Tracy,
Thanks. Gemma still wants to play at 10! It’s hard to believe that Sprite will be faster, but Gemma is slowing down. However, I feel less frenetic as Sprite doesn’t bark.
Here is RYG challenge one and two. My eyes are still not happy with contacts and I’m trying to adjust to running in glasses. They better get over themselves soon! I left the bars at 16 for Sprite. Both of these courses had skills were aren’t fluent at. Course one the RC turn away and backside slice. Course two the dreaded threadle wrap.
I know, I know. Run through the end. Clearly that’s a bad habit!
We did course one twice. She got it the frustration time, but I wanted to see if I could improve the backside slice.
Course teo we struggled with the threadle wrap in ore run training. I decided yo just run the course and she got it! I was tempted to run it twice, but stopped myself. I wanted her to sleep on success. Plus, it was heating up and it takes awhile to get everything down. Both dogs were in the car under a tree. But…still. Also, I noticed she clipped the wing on the backside into the tunnel. She tends to drop bars on that skill. How to I get her to target the bar and not the wing? Do I need to do something different. I suspect the bar would have dropped at 20. However, I only noticed it on the video.
I haven’t figured out how to do overlays. On the iPad I only have side by side, Picture in Picture or some blue or green screen option. Do you have directions?
Sequence one:
Sequence two:
Hey Tracy,
I’m showing Gemma’s three runs. I was able to get the threadle wrap, but then I lost my spatial orientation and almost tripped over the jump. Oops!
Hi Tracy,
I was able to build the course from the lives today. However, it’s close to 90 degrees. We ran all three, but Sprite was hot for the last sequence. I still cannot get a threadle wrap with her. I was able to do it with Gemma. The links are long with all of the walk throughs. I’m posting 3 links. I’ll keep working on that part. I didn’t see some of her lines since we aren’t walking them and got a few off course choices.
We played around with turns on one jump. This was before your recent feedback. I’ll work on shirting my eyes to landing for the German turn.
Hmmm. It’s a theme. Stop moving and get my shoulders turned. You’ll say the same for this which was filmed yesterday. But, she sometimes turned different from what I expected, so my cues aren’t clear.
I guess I forgot about tunnel breaks since we’ve been going to the straight jump on the prior course.
Second rep pop out 3. I thought I was trying for tandem turn, but shoulder towards the jump and she did a lovely right slice. It was a bit of a threadle to that jump the way I set the course.
Third rep. I’ve no idea why she turned right so tight at 6. My plan was left. Obviously, I didn’t execute that. But, it was a lovely turn!
We need work on German turns. Not quite ready for prime time and then I can’t get out of dodge.
Hi Tracy,
I managed to film our sessions today. This is the agility pop outs one and two. I filmed 3 and 4 too after a break. But, she was tired. I’ll post those next.
I’m still not getting the threadle wrap or tandem turn away turns. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but she’s locked on the jump and not looking at me or my hands reliably. It’s a similar skill for me so I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.
