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I never even know I’m saying ready!! Sigh… The first step is acknowledging you have a problem. LOL! (from the manual of ‘Over Cheerers Anonymous’)
I’ll give the slice a try and time it.
I looked at the coursework and I guess I could try it with Wager and work on distance, but am thinking I might be better off staying with the sequence stuff. Your instructions to us were to do 1 level in each category, but what do you think about us trying the Master’s level sequence instead of the coursework with Spot since I don’t think I can do the running involved in it yet? I know – breaking rules in the first week!
I’ve never taught the multiple wrap thing either – I didn’t see the point. BUT, until Wager I didn’t see the point of It’s Your Choice either, so maybe I’m not the best judge sometimes. LOL!
<Question: what does your chchch noise mean in terms of how much collection you are asking for? I think you were using it for the wraps on the skills, so you don’t need to use it here at 3 – just a soft ‘left’ or shoulder turn will do it – you dug in a little and actually got too much collection there.>
Yes a wrap cue, I actually looked at that 3rd jump to decide if it was a wrap or a soft turn and since his left and right aren’t strong yet I talked myself into it being significantly more than 90 degrees, but looking at the video I see that he over turned the first time. When I tried it tonight I used a left and I think it was better.
Here’s my redo of these… on the first sequence I sent him to the wrong ending jump and just fixed it really quickly instead of repeating the rep again. I tried to not cheerlead. He was such a thinker and slow before I’m doing it without thinking. Hopefully my connection was better on these. I tried for less words and more connection.
Please see above for the end of the skills stuff…
So I’m getting brave and tried the Nov Sequences. Knee didn’t get any worse for it. Yay!
So, here’s our work on all 3 sequences…
Well, my knee was a little more tender that night but not any different the next morning, so I call it success! yay! Not ready to run yet, but after doing the last 3 skill sequences this morning I think I’ll try to do the Novice sequence stuff. Cross your fingers!
So, we had a heck of a time with skill 6. I wasn’t focused, he wasn’t focused. Sigh. After this we stopped and took a dip in the pond. But, here you go…
After a quick cool off and mind reset Spot found a stick and was way more interested in that than playing with me and his tug toy, so we did the last two with the stick reward – not as easy as a toy to put in your pocket. LOL! BUT 7 and 8 went better and I only tried one rep since he wasn’t quite as ‘on’ with this today compared to last time.
Here’s 7
And 8
I tried to do some of the skills stuff. We’ll see how the poor broken knee does tonight. I took big lead outs and didn’t move much. Anyway, here’s the first 4 sequences. Spot let me work through all of these at once and <gasp> ate a treat then went back to playing with his toy! First.time.ever!
Sequence 1 – he doesn’t really know his threadle cue but I threw in one attempt of that just for fun.
Seq 2 – I tried just doing a send and also a got brave and did a front cross.
Seq 3 – I look like a granny. sigh…
Seq 4 – Gave it one try…
Someone jumped the gun on FB so I just assumed….we all know what happens when you assume. LOL!!
BTW, little dude was 100% on wrapping a cone to 2 weaves poles for entries from 7:00 today. Before this We did wraps both directions twice. So much fun!
Well, the verdict is to try to avoid surgery with rest for 4 weeks then see. If it doesn’t lock up on me I may get to avoid surgery. 🙂 So far I’ve done a little of the pinwheel stuff, am working on his target touches to progress to targeting into a 2o2o instead of using my hand. He’s also done some teeter stuff and has worked up to going across a very low teeter to a manners minder for the first time today. I’ve never trained a young one to do a teeter with me standing at the start of it and just sending him on, but he was happy to go across to the MM and after completing a few reps and us leaving the teeter he ran back and put himself on it again, so Yay! I plan to work the running frame box too. I”m free shaping his weave entry – he’s about 90% from 5:30 to 3:00 and about 60% from 6:00 after a couple of sessions. My plan is to move past 6:00 once he’s about 85% there. Once I get loosened up I”m to the point where I can walk, but totally can’t even do a little ‘trot’ or fast walk yet. Got any other ideas of things I should be working on with those restrictions in mind?
dammit!! I tore my meniscus. I see the dr tomorrow to figure out what we are going to do now that the mri is back. Hoping it’s a little rest time them back to it. I may be doing a lot of lazy handling for a while. sigh…
Got this in also before the big rains yesterday. Today we got 4″ so this will be the last for a while.
I was turning off the phone when I heard the first thunder rumbled yesterday. Wager’s been in a thunder shirt since then. Poor guy – a hard 30 hours!
I tried to get in as much as I could as fast as I could. He started losing steam on the fc to blind so we took a little swim break and gave it one more try then stopped. I taped all these at once, but divided up based on the exercise because they all seemed so long! I couldn’t figure out why, then after I posted on youtube i realized I had taped it in slow motion. Ha! So, I used iMovie to speed them up – if the speed seems funny that’s why. I’ve got them all downloaded in slo mo as well if you want to see those, but here’s the ‘regular’ speed…I hope.
We got a break in the rain – you can see/hear a kildeer running in the background on part of this on the other side of the puddle – he thinks owns the place now. LOL! Starting to rain again this pm thru the next couple of days. Sigh…
We did a little running reward. Now that I”m getting a little ‘umph’ I’m also getting some start line breaks. I didn’t want to throw a treat back because I had steak and once it came out the toy was no more fun, so I just reset a couple times. Will do a whole session next time rewarding back for stays. First rep – disaster. Dropped the 10″ bar (up from 8″) and then went around the tunnel, BUT, he was happy. 🙂 It’s really hot so I didn’t push it – just got a good rep and stopped because I wanted to work the bending grid too.
Did the bending grid – started with 6′ between. Apparently I’ve got a right turner. The furthest space to the left he kept adding a stride so after a couple of times to see if he could figure it out I closed it up a bit. I know I did too many, but the OCD kicked in and I wanted 1 good one to the left. Finally got it. Whew!! When he does wraps around cones and uprights I don’t see a difference between left and right. Any idea what I might be doing to cause this?
Yup. Cancelled. Well, maybe I just assumed…you know what happens then. ha!
My other dogs have been ok with trying different types of handling styles at camps, but Wager has more sophisticated taste and really only likes your style. I’m thinking it’s an ok thing to not go this year and wait till the youngster can do a bit more.
