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I think this is my last set of sequences. I’ll work skills after this, unless I do it with Wager. You’ll see why. sigh…
First one, I couldn’t drive him on to the last jump but I was happy with our start. Here’s Master’s sequence 2:
I did the third sequence also. I tried a blind before the last tunnel and wasn’t close enough to the jump to really cue it. I figured I’d do better with a front cross, but it didn’t work out very well for my knee. BIG ugly pop. I had Spot just do something afterward because I didn’t want to end on a bad note.
Thanks!! Will give being on the take off side of the jump some practice. I remember having trouble with Wager on that same skill. Seems the thing in common is me. LOL!
I had a chance to work on the first Master’s sequence this morning. I couldn’t move fast enough to get the second back side nicely. I tried to not go all the way to the first back side jump but still wasn’t moving fast enough. Wager made an appearance while Spot was taking one of his breaks. I included it because I’m so happy with how far he’s come on just everything about agility, well, maybe not the start line but everything else. 🙂
Spot doesn’t really get the back side serp yet or how I’m cuing it is off, so after I did the sequence I went back and worked that. It looks like I did a zillion reps in a row, but it’s actually 3 separate sessions. With the toy was during the sequence work, then he had a break and worked with food because the toy wasn’t fun anymore. Stopped in the middle of those reps and came back to finish out. You may want to mute the back side work. It annoyed me when I was editing it – so many of the same things over and over. I wonder if it annoys Spot also… LOL!
OK, I went back and tried the last Novice Wk q sequence with a slice at 3 vs a wrap. You were totally right! Over a second faster with the slice. I started to not include the first two ‘oopsies’ then thought you could tell me what the crud I was doing wrong so I don’t do it again in the future. He hasn’t had trouble with this wrap on in other sessions.
I just need to trust my dog. I thought he’d either take the back side of 4 or just bypass it if I did the slice, so chose the wrap the first time I did these. He did it really well IMO. I think he’s turning his head when he turns, but what do you think?
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.
