[Sandy Mainardi]

Question: I have only ever had 2 sets of 2 x 2 weave poles. I’m working on getting Brioche thru 4 poles. It’s going pretty quickly. Jess is over in the Netherlands. I don’t know what the progression is once he gets 4 poles. Do I need to borrow another 2 pole set?

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Sandy

[Sandy Mainardi]

Hi Tracy,
We have been working on more tip so I did one rep straight and one to each angle:

Lead Outs, part 2. On the second video I did not maintain good connection and he broke his stay. Lesson learned. He really wanted to go on one of the reps but he stayed!

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Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
Started with the see saw angled entries. No problems. He took it upon himself to climb right up the see saw while I was reloading the food. Guess he likes it!

Zig Zag Grid went well. I put the bars at 6″. He has not been seeing bars at all aside from locked in on the lowest jump cup previously so it’s time to let him see a bit of height. Wasn’t sure how it would go but he did fine.

Lead Out with BC. Figured we would do one type of lead out at a time. Again bars at 6″. I was relieved he didn’t knock the bars. Except for the last sit/stay I was using food to line him up. I know I shouldn’t get him reliant on that…but we were outside and you know….birds were flying etc…

He’s doing well with the tip-it so far. I have that foam pipe insulation on the cross bar where the see saw hits to cushion the tip and reduce the sound. Should I keep using that? It’s metal on metal otherwise. In the very beginning he didn’t like that sound so much. I don’t have problem with keeping it on for now unless you think it is detrimental.

Thanks.
Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
I tried the set point down in the basement tonight since it’s raining. The difference is I did not use jump bumps like I have for the past sessions. I used the grid jumps from my Susan Salo days so they are about 4″ I am guessing and then the third jump at 8″. Interestingly, he added a stride in the first space. I gave him a couple tries to sort it out and then decreased the space from 5 ft to about 4.5 ft and then he was fine.

Here is the past video from March:

And here is the one from today:

Was it a bad idea to use the Salo jumps? Or why do you think he was adding that stride? Did I set him up too close to the first bar?

Thanks.
Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
Such fun at the seminar! Thank you.

Back to serpentine practice. Kind of seems like he understands it better with the send and on that one I did not angle the jumps.

Continuing to gradually increase the tip on the see saw:

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Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
After reading thru the feedback I tried to to do better with repeating a couple of games. Let me know if these are any better.

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Sandy

[Sandy Mainardi]

Hi Tracy,
Started with the serpentine refresher and the second angled jump:

Teeter Games. I do have a question on the mountain climber. Jeri Prekop sent me a couple of videos of her training one of her dogs and she was asking him to lie down at the end of the teeter while he ate the food. You haven’t mentioned teaching that behavior so just asking if there is a reason to do that? I know she is probably doing it to keep the center of gravity low for the dog. Also, I happened to have yellow duct tape so I am using that. First rep the bits of roast beef bounced off the board so I switched to peanut butter again for the bang game and then he stays on there forever!

Thanks.
Sandy

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Next question. I do not have a target cue for anything. I say “hit it” for both dog walk and A frame as he approaches them. I say “see saw, see saw, see saw” for the teeter. Benni was taught the see saw using the 2 table method so I did not do these games with Benni as they were not incorporated in Max Pup at that time. So just say “ready” then?

And do I continue keeping the board about that high off the ground for the bang game? Do we ever make it a bit higher or there is no point to that?

Also, because of the shape of my teeter board, the red band does not fit snuggly at the very end. I was using that small container to take up the slack but that will not work when the teeter is actually hitting the ground. It was fine for mountain climber.

Yes, Brioche got a modified German clip. His tail is also clipped straight without the plume effect. He has very heavy coat and his ears were very thick and messy. This will be good for summer at least.

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Sandy

[Sandy Mainardi]

Hi Tracy,
Bang Game. He kind of looked at the board as if to say “don’t we usually climb up hill on this one?” Do they get confused by switching back and forth from bang game to mountain climber?

Do you notice anything different about Brioche…? 🙂

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Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
Just watched the target game at the end of the board. Brioche will have running contacts except for see saw which we are currently training going all the way to the end of the board and eat all the food placed there. How does the foot target training get incorporated into this? Should I do the foot target at this point in time? If so, I am assuming I will not be using the actual see saw? And would I use the same exercise band target for this or something different?

Thanks.
Sandy

[Sandy Mainardi]

Hi Tracy,

So…I think I will be using “dig” for backside (push to the backside) circle wraps. It will be a DIFFERENT verbal for threadle wraps correct? I think this is the technique where Jessica uses “me-me” and I’ve heard some people say “flip”. I think I prefer “me-me”. But before I go outside and try this, I want to make sure this assumption is correct and that I start using the right verbal.

It blew my mind to see the threadle wrap (not to mention after a spread jump!) in the STANDARD course at the NAC in CA! I would most likely not have been able to get thru that with Benni. I never taught it to him. We have done it in slow motion in training but have never used it nor seen it on a regular standard course. Geez. If I wanted to do these things, I would do premiere. I don’t choose to do that. We can do all the other premiere type things because we are seeing backsides here and there now. He’s good with that.

Thanks.
Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
I hit pause instead of stop so you will see one rep of the see saw (I have not moved it yet) and then we go into the double crosses. It would have helped if I actually remembered to say the verbals for the left and right turns to go back into the tunnel. Oye. This was very hard for me!

one rep see saw…get your microscope out…it did tip every so slightly…

Tandem turns. I was saying “here, here” a lot. Is there a verbal I’m supposed to be using? I don’t use my outside arm for this.

I tried to do the things you suggested on driving ahead game (staying closer to the tunnel and let him run ahead, sending out to the tunnel and running ahead of him past the jump). I’m not sure how successful I was at it but here you go:

Hopefully, I posted the correct videos. Guess I’ll find out when I hit send!

Thanks.
Sandy

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Hi Tracy,
Sunny day…rain the next 2 days so we tried a couple of different games. One is back from week 2 that I never got to.

I kind of drifted away from the wing unintentionally.

Thanks.
Sandy

[Sandy Mainardi]

PS I practice with Benni first and I still have to do a little rehearsal before sending Brioche into the tunnel. Easier for me with the wings on the right side I think… 🙂

[Sandy Mainardi]

Hi Tracy,
We were at U Dog today with Jess. Brioche did the mountain climber on 3 different see saws: max 200, galacan, desert paws. The first one was Max 200 and he declined the first attempt to get on but then after getting on he was fine for everything we did after that on all 3 see saws. Jess really liked my red band! And those see saws it fit much better around the board because they are thicker. So we did our homework on that.

Here is the next Wingin’ It game:
I see that he goes wide coming out of the tunnel to go around the first wing. What am I doing to cause that? I must be encroaching on his line too much to push to the backside?

Thanks.
Sandy

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