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Back chain! 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Those grids are fun! She loves to run. There was once, in the beginning, she went around the last jump. (Can’t blame the videographer, he’s usually spot on.) I repeated it, but I also moved myself closer to the #4 landing, and then ran so she could land naturally. I felt like it showed her the jump,and made her more confident. I’ll move farther back next time.
Pinwheel – when I reviewed I felt like I wasn’t cueing smoothly. In spite of me, I think I saw some improvement.
Pinwheel sends … my first question was where to start. I got there and didn’t know if I should line up with the jump, or run into it. After that I realized I was looking at the obstacle, not Demi. A horrible habit of mine!! I also noticeD when I reviewed, that my reward was being offered way too late.
Jump grid … this turned out to be more of a learning experience than an stride evaluation. It took me a while to convince her to drive the line. I def need to play more lazy bastard games. We both love it, and I can see positive results. When she did perform the striding exercise, I thought it was pretty smooth. It helped that I recognized that I was starting her way too far back. I didn’t move any jumps or raise any bars here, in either exercise.
I moved each of the jumps put about 18”. She certainly hangs with me regardless of the distractions. And around here, there is never a dull moment!
….and then the skys opened … and snow tomorrow. So over it.
I kept the jumps close on this one. I’m going to move them out a bit more today. I really tried to watch her eyes at all times. I have a tendency to move my eyes from her, to the obstacle. I felt like the last rep was the best because I kept my eyes on hers.
Trying this again. It was a Murphy’s Law kinda morning. Tried starting with tug toy, but the smell of the cheese balls was too much. Switched to a lotus ball, and the treat kept falling out. Decided to just throw the cheese balls, but that wasn’t much better. Argghh…
And … despite all the great issues and multiple disconnects, I feel like she had a better understanding. I tried to monitor my voice better, and move closer when she appeared not to understand. Maybe it was a tad bit better?
I’m still struggling to see which form of positive reinforcement works best. We try with a toy, but she really doesn’t love them. No doubt from her early experiences. I think I’ll try a treat hugger next.
Eh … this wasn’t my favorite session. I feel like when she got it right it was a fluke, and when she was wrong, she had no clue.
I was very uncomfortable being restricted from motion and handling. She obviously didn’t have an understanding of what I wanted , and I really don’t know how to fix it. Is it just a matter of more repetition? She also appears to get a bit nervous when we work too long, or tells me in no uncertain terms that she doesn’t uNderstand.
We had so much fun with these!
I have no clue why I am all of a sudden saying gogogogogogogo, when in reality I say gooooo go! Must be this isolation thing. 🤷🏻♀️
The good news is your tips and suggestions worked! It was so much better!
The bad news is, you jinxed us. We have snow on the ground! 😡
Have a good lock down kinda day!
Uh …. we’ve been struggling a bit on these. In the rocking horse, I got caught in the FC vortex and couldn’t get out. I know I should never had said “go” when I did in the first repetition. It went much better when I git her more engaged. Then I did a very unique pass-the-toy-behind-my-back Thing! What????
On the 3rd rep for the “go”, I was waiting for her to look at the jump, rather than me. It didn’t happen, so I moved on since that wasn’t the skill I was working on at the time.
