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Hi Tracy,
HOT today! I forgot Benni was going for chiro this afternoon and I always rest him for 24 hours after he gets adjusted so I set up the novice sequences, ran each one 1x and took him inside to cool off after each run while I studied the next sequence. We got it done before our appt.I have a 10 foot tunnel so I think my distances were different from the map and may have affected the choices I made for handling but anyway here goes…as per the map for sequence 1, I set jumps 1 and 3 at 10″ and kept them that way for all 3 courses….I forgot he had to do a 360 wrap on jump 3 for sequence 3…probably should have put that at 8″ but see what you think.
Also, in looking at map 1, I tried to see if he would read a split step for that hard left turn on a couple of practice reps on just jump 3 but he kept going out to take jump 4. He also was not responding to “left”. Maybe my set up at jump 3 had too sharp a left turn to the tunnel for sequence 1..so I ended up saying “Tight” which really isn’t the right verbal but also did a physical cue….oddly, I found the simplest sequence to be the hardest because of that particular spot from 3 to 4. Help! (PS…after watching other people do this sequence, I think I was making it more complicated than it needed to be although I did see a couple other dogs take jump 4 instead of taking the left to the tunnel which is what Benni was doing when I practiced just that part).
Video 1: Sequence 1
Video 2: Sequence 2
Video 3: Sequence 3 I was saying “back” on jump 6…is that correct or should be “tight”….I felt like he would have to find the backside coming out of the tunnel.
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniSorry, I think I clipped part of the link off. Here is the missing video of set 4 skils.
Also, I’d like to do some of the course work consistently at 10″ (not the drills but the actual courses). So far I’ve only put certain jumps at 10″ like the first jump or an extension jump. How do I prepare him for the increase to 10″ on wraps and backsides?
Thanks.
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SandyHi Tracy,
On the video 3 from last time where you said not to run the curve of the tunnel to get to the BC faster…I was remembering a past conversation where you said to run more into the tunnel curve so now I’m a bit confused as to when I do that and when I don’t…?
Today I did the serpentine sequences with the tunnel and one more try at the progressive striding grid.
Video 1: Serpentine sequence 1 plus a sequence I apparently made up…after I did it, I realized it was not the way the map was…hence Video 2 will show what I was actually supposed to do for sequence 2.
Video 2: Serp/tunnel seq 2 as per the map
Video 3: Progressive Stiding Grid – rep 1 oxer was 6″/10″ for the 15′ distance, rep 2-3 oxer was at 8″/12″ (thought he could use a second rep on that), then it went on to 18′ and 21′.
That wraps up Max Pup 4 for us. I did not attempt any more threadles.
Thanks!
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
Happy birthday!!!
We finally got some homework in today. Perfect weather too. So we did a bit more of the zig zag with 3 jumps after doing the combo sequences which were lots of fun!
Video 1: Sequence 1 and 2
Video 2: Sequence 2 with a toy to tighten the wrap, I also put jump 3 and 5 at 10″ just to see how he would do but left the wrap jump at 8″.
Video 3: Sequence 3 and 4
video 4: Zig Zag rd 1
Video 5: Zig Zag rd 2
If the weather is good on Monday, I will try to get the serpentine sequences done but not sure about the threadle sequences.
Should I try the progressive striding grid again with the 12″ jump?
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy
I won’t be posting anything until the weekend. We had our pre-novice class last night and today is rest day then tomorrow is a private lesson with Jessica Ajoux so Friday will be rest day. Working with Jess on running contacts and see saw. If he doesn’t happen to do any jumping tomorrow then I could do some homework on Friday. We’ll see.Can we post videos thru late Monday night? I doubt we will be able to get thru everything especially since the threadles didn’t go well. Is it worth trying the sequences anyway? At lease maybe the serps and crosses…
The heat and humidity is bad again today anyway.
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
Well…we tried threadles today. Started out gang busters and after I mixed in the 180, he totally lost the concept of the threadle. I tried going back to a more angled second jump but to no avail. So I then went back to the one jump exercise which I did not video but it went perfectly fine. Then I tried one rep of the very angled second jump except that when I watched back the video, I didn’t set up the jump correctly so it really wasn’t a threadle…but at least he didn’t go around to the back of the jump again. Oh well. I never got a chance to do it in the other direction so it’s all dog on right. I did a couple reps on the set point….10″ once and 12″ once. He doesn’t know “in in” verbal so I’m just pairing it with the training but right now quite meaningless to him.Doesn’t seem like we’ll be able to do the sequences this week if he doesn’t understand the concepts. Kind of disappointing.
Video 1:
Video 2: this was the last thing we did after reviewing the one jump threadle except I didn’t have the second jump set right so not even close to a threadle for him but I did try the dog side arm movement on this one. Oh well…
Video 3: Set Point oxer 6/10″ and then 8/12″
How much space should be between the threadle jumps?
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
When you say warm up one rep at 10″ before trying 12″, do you mean set point, progressive grid or both? Striding grid adds up a lot of jumping with repetition which then limits what else we do that day.Thanks.
SandyHi Tracy,
The humidity finally broke late this afternoon so I decided to do the 12″ set point, 12″ with the progressive striding grid, and then the zig zag grid but did not attempt to get the jumps all the way to a straight line. I didn’t use so many wings as I couldn’t figure out how to fit them all in there! Also, not sure what you mean by possibly using weave poles instead of jump bars. As I straighten out the line from zig zag to serp…is the distance mid-bar to mid-bar supposed to stay the same which for us is 4.5′? I’m a bit spatially challenged!
Video 1: Set point at 12″
Video 2: Progressive Striding Grid 15′, 18′, 21′ – I feel like every time we have done this grid no matter the height he seems to struggle most with the 15′ distance. I only did 1 rep of each to keep jumping to a minimum for my game plan for the training session. Perhaps I should address this again working on the 15′ distance in some specific way? Maybe he would have improved if I had done a second rep. Who knows.
Video 3: round 1 zig zag grid
Video 4: round 2 zig zag grid – I only changed the angles a little bit
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
Yes initially urgent care said no fracture. So I waited 2 weeks and started PT….immediately it ballooned up and became more painful than the original injury. So I went to the orthopedist this morning. Fracture is at the base of the radius near the thumb. Hoping the pain subsides soon.Do you have a different angle video of you and your dogs doing sequence 4 on the serpentines? I can’t picture how I would stay close to the tunnel exit to send him to the jump and get far enough ahead for the serp. Sigh. It was a much easier line heading towards the tunnel than coming back up the line for sure!
As I plan out the next 2 weeks of training, did you want me to work anymore on the set point (last one we did was 10″), ladder grid with handler motion or the progressive distance grid (also last done at 10″)? And also, where do we go with our young dogs next? Will you be offering something appropriate for this group of dogs?
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
Just finishing up week 4 with serpentine sequences and a review on the bending grid with middle jump at 8″ as recommended.Video 1: Serpentine sequence 1 – it seemed to me with dog on right he went a lot wider
Video 2: Serpentine sequences 2 and 3
Video 3: Serpentine sequence 4 – yikes…coming back after the tunnel was HARD and I hope I was not flailing my arm too high… was guessing at what verbal might work (“right”?) or should he get some sort of verbal before going into the tunnel….I don’t know but he was blasting wide out of the tunnel which was not helping get the line to the next jump. So I look forward to help with this one. Of course, “right” isn’t all that meaningful to him yet…
Video 4: Bending grid, spacing 4′, middle jump at 8″, other jumps at 4″
PS…after 2 weeks and still so much pain, went to an orthopedist…radial fracture…
🙁Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
I’m a little confused on right/left verbals….I thought they were more for soft or 90 degree turns. On the serpentines the dogs are doing more of a wrap as they send away and come back in for the serp. So I am trying to decide what the verbal should be for my handling vocabulary or at least understand when/when not to use a directional cue.Thanks.
SandyHi Tracy,
So on the bending grid….you previously said left wasn’t as smooth as right and so I did the middle jump at 6″ turning right and 4″ turning left. Do you want me to put the middle jump at 8″ for both directions now?Thanks.
Sandy
Hi Tracy,
Outside serps…MUCH better. Thank God! LOL. Jumps are set at 8″Video 1: one jump
Video 2: 2 jump dog on left
Video 3: 2 jump dog on right
Video 3: 3 jumps
Later afternoon session to revisit the bend grid as recommended…bending R middle jump at 6″, bending left middle jump at 4″ with the addition of the wing wrap
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
What is your take on the 10″ jump height for him? Should I only do random jumps at 10″ and some at 8″ or continue to shift more towards 10″. I felt like he had the skills for those tunnel FC drills to be able to handle the 10″…perhaps that affected his commitment? I kind of feel like he’s not really jumping at 8″ and so if the increase is affecting his commitment then at some point I need to be training a bit higher than 8″ as long as it isn’t something hard or confusing…like the serp which I did at 8″.Also, as much as I wasn’t that happy with the session, I thought his sends were great 🙂
Thanks.
Sandy and BenniHi Tracy,
Fair warning on these videos…not a good feeling for me at the end of the day. We’ve had a lot of rain so I wanted to squeeze in something for the week before it rained again tonight. Anyway, since the tunnel was set up I decided to do the pinwheel to tunnel exercise…I didn’t think it was going to be a difficult exercise but I just couldn’t get it right and kept pulling him off the jump before the tunnel. I did decide to see how he would handle 10″ jumps so I have no idea if that had something to do with it or not. Oye…here they are.
Video 1: pinwheel right to tunnel
Video 2: pinwheel left to tunnel
Later on we went into the basement since it was raining to try some serp work which again I didn’t anticipate so many issues. When we did them in the past, he did quite well. So maybe my mechanics got worse and sorry for the camera angle so you can’t see my face and what I am looking at on the 2 jump exercise. Sigh. But he did some really wonky stuff on the 1 jump exercise. Something we need to work on more. I think in March I used my outside arm more as a stronger cue and maybe that is why he wasn’t getting it today…although we haven’t worked on it since March…my bad.
Video 1: 1 jump serp
Video 2: 2 jump serp, dog on left
Video 3: 2 jump serp, dog on right
Video 4: 1 rep, dog on left with the second jump angled
Oh well. Hopefully we do better in a couple of days when we try again.
Thanks.
Sandy and Benni
