[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

I got up pretty early today to train in my backyard and avoid the heat, I was out there before 7 a.m. and it was already hot and humid 🙁

I had the bars at 20”, I am using the wrap verbal combined with the soft turn verbal and it worked. For me, both the tunnel or the jump after the wrap were a wrap 🙂

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks!!

Nelci and Grizzly

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

Package 1 – STD course 1 & 2 with your advice, I love it!! I need to stop praising him while we are running hahaha. But I am getting better. I do like not wrapping him :-). His DWs were all good except for one that was a bit high, also 1 missed AF, which I am glad he is having these mistakes so that I can teach him better.

I also tried to use different intonations and I think he likes it, he was running very fast at 20” 🙂

Thanks,

Nelci

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, (again 🙂 )

Here are a few videos from this week:

1) Pack 1 STD course #1:

2) ESC – Discrimination Prep

3) ESC – Layering skills. Grizzly had some difficulty with sequence 5-6, with DOR (turning left to right) 🙁

Sorry to send them all together, but I did not have time until now.

Thanks!!

Nelci and Grizzly

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

Great feedback. Thanks!!!

About the WP and the wing, don’t worry about the picture, Linda knew how to set it up and we did this morning on Pack 1 STD course #1 with the wing, and Grizzly had no trouble with it, I didn’t even do a “practice to let him see it”, I just went and did it on the course 🙂

So your suggestion is to not wrap him on the back sides but slice him regardless of the “distance”? I agree with you he slows down on those back side wraps, and he may be faster on the slicing regardless that it looks like more strides. I will try tomorrow.

The “break” after the seesaw, yes, it is WIP, I still need to get used to releasing him with the next command instead of the “break” and he also needs to get used to it :-).

Enjoy your trip!!

Nelci

I also did some RDW this morning before Linda got to the site, and the reps helped him to stride it better.

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

STD Course #2, I just remembered I also have a verbal for a situation like 16-17-18 = Fufu (Argh, and I am just creating the list but I have not completed it).

I am also still practicing on the changing the verbal sounds, but I could not think about it on the big course, I even forgot what verbals I needed to use hahaha.

More videos on package two coming tomorrow 😉

Thanks!!

Nelci

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, so better than I thought 🙂 Thanks for your comments, I need to really work hard on the “.. keep your verbals sounding more different in terms of rhythm, pitch, length, etc.” I need to practice them and determine what I am going to say now, meaning before I continue training with him. Let’s see what I can come up and feel comfortable with.

Also, I wanted to discuss with you the turn commands, I have noticed that even when there is a soft turn he responds better when I give him a verbal, maybe I can “add” another verbal, for example I am thinking for a soft turn I can say left (or right) and for a harder turn say “lefty” (or righty). Thoughts?

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

I analyzed your comments on the second attempt at the Jumpers course. I am soooo late at thinking about “solutions” to problems, I am one of those persons that a few days later I go “Ahhh! That is why … “ or “Ahhh! I should have …” Soooo, I just realized that Grizzly has a verbal command for a treadle such as in the black circle course from 10-11. I say “hoap”. I am pretty sure that if I had used it I would have not needed to rotate as much as I did!! Oh well, I am just like my digestive system, very slow to process hahaha

One good thing I am noticing, is that I am able to feel when I disconnect and cause a problem in course more that I used to. So progress 🙂

Now about the “Live Class 1”. I am not sure if I set up the course too tight, I have more room in the backyard to make it bigger, so I am not sure what is better for me and Grizzly at this time. As I mentioned in my prior note, I do better with him in UKI than in AKC, I really don’t like the “close quarters” that we have to run in AKC, and that is why I refused to do Premier with Grizzly in AKC.

Back to the Live Class 1 😉 I struggle with the first course, but not with #2 (not on video since I forgot to turn on the video) or #3. Then I tried to combined #1 & #3 and I also failed (I thought it will be a good idea). So be patient, this one is not as fun to review ha!

Thanks,

Nelci

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, quick question, can we submit videos for the “Live Class” courses. I did it this morning, and I was having problems with the 1st sequence. I set them up closer together in my backyard, trying to resemble AKC, since I have more of a hard time with AKC courses than with UKI courses (sigh).

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, second take trying to apply your advice. All went well and he was great. The only one I couldn’t do was on the White circles course the BC between 18-19. I kept looking at him coming out of the tunnel and the easiest rotation was the FC, it was like I could not take my eyes off him hahaha. I had a lot of fun with this one!! (Less limping also).

Thanks!!!

Nelci and Grizzly

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy,

Here is our attempt at the Jumpers course. A few notes before you see the video, my knee is still not 100%, you’ll see me limping towards the end 🙁 and my stride has also changed, it is very short and I am still favoring my right knee. I hope it gets better and I can run better soon, but right now it is what it is. At least I am trying to run 🙂

Second and last, the second course (black circles), was very hard for me to remember. I need to be more diligent at feeling confident with the course before I run it. I felt a bit rushed and I did not have a good handle of the course. So it is in pieces.

The course was also set up in a large field and we kind of use the entire space, maybe be good may not be good, ha!!

Linda and I are going to try to repeat the sequences next Monday after we get your comments.

That’s it, enjoy 😉

Nelci

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[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, I am planning on having two different verbals one for the backside slice and one the backside wrap, I have not started training the back side wrap, so yes, thanks for the reminder of the toy/reward position. I thought about it mid way through this training. Thanks for all your help and feedback on this class!!!

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, last video for this class, I did a few more threadles with one jump so not to bend too much 🙂 And I did the serp sequence with the 3 jumps. We had a few breaks during this session. Looking forward to your comments!

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, here is the Front Cross To The Other Side Of The Tunnel, my camera shut down on its own, so I thought I had not pressed the record button so I did the sequence with the FCs again. Not recorded was a short session where I rewarded for the BCs. Looking forward to your comments.

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, here is my threadle exercise with 1 and 2 jumps. When doing the two jump exercise I mixed in the threadle and the back side.

You will laugh since when I was doing the 2 jumps and the threadle, at first, I did not know what to do with my feet hahaha but them I think I got it. Looking forward to your feedback.

[NELCI OBRIEN]

Hi Tracy, yes that is right, that is how I have started it, I have not done much of it, but I will show you before I do the exercise with more than one jump. Thanks!!!

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