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I really love the Skills challenges this week because they are exactly what we need to improve on. I have just started Levey on the weaves, and he has built up to going through 12 open poles with support from me. I hope you don’t mind but I decided to go ahead and let him try the entries even though he is not weaving yet. Watson’s session went well. I tried to hang back a bit since I know he is dependent on my motion. However, I noticed his head turn at the end when I did this, so I added some motion back end to try to prevent the head turn.
Watson’s Behind the back starts: Lots of confusion as this cue looks like line up and the first time he ran into the back of my legs. LOL, I have had him do this mainly going to his right and have to teach him how to do it to the left. I am thinking I need a different body cue. What about a head tilt instead of the verbal and hand cue. Thoughts? Also Levy has a great Behind the back going to his right. I use this in disc. Should I have another cue for doing the same thing to the left?
Levy’s Weaves: https://youtu.be/FJwLo1hxkLM
Watson’s Weaves and BTB: https://youtu.be/VgQfnAirI4o
I gave the jumpers course a try this beautiful morning. My plan was to run the 1st course taking out 8,9, 10 and then go back and work that section separately. Also, the threadle slice at jump 14 I know we do not have that at speed yet. I am super happy he got the backside at #12.
My 1st attempt: I was in trouble by jump #3
My 2nd attempt: overall much better he stayed out on the line. I need stronger connections as he exits the tunnel and making the turns. I still working out moving and spatial awareness on the course. On the last line; jump, tunnel, jump, jump, jump. I had planned on layering the jump after the tunnel but went too far in to support Watson’s forward motion. When I try this again tomorrow, I am going to support that line and blind the jump after the tunnel to get Watson on my left.
Threadle slice practice. I really want that skill and a reliable rear cross. I am putting that out here so I will get this done LOL
6-12 part of this sequence: I was happy at how well the BC to the tunnel went. However, I can’t seem to get 10, 11, and 12. It zigs zags so much I can’t seem to get the crosses in on time.I played the lazy game with Watson last night which really helped on our 2nd attempt at Sequence 4. https://youtu.be/F0OkUKIAR6Q
I did better at the verbal cue but I need to show the turning cue with my motion as well. He is still wide out of the tunnel which makes getting the jumps or turns after difficult. 2nd try we almost got it but I got discombobulated at the wrap cue. I was late gave the wrong verbal etc. Did that last part and Yeah we got it LOL. My plan was to set up the jumpers course for next week. do you think I should hold off on it? PS I love that Watson’s Woo is so much earlier than last year. I think that shows a lot of confidence.
I decided to just run each seq one time to see what would happen. LOL I did not anticipate that we would struggle getting the jump off the tunnel # 4 in the 1st seq. but we missed it in all the 4 sequences. My set up has jump 4 slightly off set and the tunnel a bit more curdled so it is not a straight exit to the jump. I think I need to add a get out cue before he enters the tunnel. Cues were late even though I thought I was on time. Here are my notes from this morning. I will not post this every time, but I want to see if I am on the right track. Seq #2 Clean, and Fast Seq #3 Watson missed jump 5 and jump 8 in this sequence. Also had a refusal at #3. I stopped my motion too soon. I may have had too much forward motion on the pinwheel. Need a strong get out cue on 8. Seq #4 I ran the pinwheel instead of the outside jumps on this seq. Watson read the pinwheel nicely. He came out of the tunnel very wide at #7 and had trouble finding # 8. I did not use decel motion cue to get a smooth tight turn and got a refusal at #9. Watson missed jump 12 took #6 instead.
Here is the good the bad and the ugly from this morning. I am proud at how happy and engaged Watson was. I don’t think he noticed my mistakes except for the refusals but he happily kept going. I ran the pinwheel instead of the outside jumps on this seq. Watson read the pinwheel nicely. He came out of the tunnel very wide at #7and had trouble finding # 8. I did not use decel motion cue to get a smooth tight turn and got a refusal at #9. https://youtu.be/k5OWpwLerYY
Good morning, here are our 1st 2 games:
The Lazy game: the treats were a bit hard for him to find which slowed it down a bit. I added a little motion at the end which made it much easier for him. Next time I will have larger treats and try seeing if he can find the jumps without any motion on my part.
1 Step Sends: I thought he did pretty well with this.
Good Morning Tracy, As I am sitting here sipping my tea and over thinking things I thought I would ask a question. I know you covered this in soft turns but when does the left right turn go away and a name call used in stead. Also OMG Independent wrap verbals is proving very difficult I have definitely have a few more grey hairs this morning. LOL I send a picture to clarify my question 🙂
Hey Tracy thank you so much for these two games this week. Just what we need right now. In the Remote Reinforcement Game You give the cue Let’s go – return to the reinforcement Do you tell the dog how you are going to deliver the reinforcement? Snack (food from hand cue or get it toy cue) or just leave them out for this game?
Hey Tracy, Contraband looked AWESOME yesterday!!! I wish I had a photo from the box loaders angle of him powering down the lane to you…Breath taking. Also Give a Big THANK YOU to Nacho for putting up with Watson’s naughtiness. Maybe an extra cheese stick from me.
Quick question Levy is now a year and I have intro him to the flyball jump. How often do you recommend I have him do a little jump work of no more than 7 inches at his age? Should I hold off a bit now that he has seen them and reintroduce later? When did you start Contraband? I am trying not to compare as his litter mates are running the whole flyball lane now. 🙂 Operation be patient LOLOn another Note: We are struggling a bit with a toy on the ground as seen in our last session. He is a bit faster than I am and is getting the toy faster than I can and getting a little party of one. Any suggestions on how I can modify this, so he isn’t getting rewarded for getting to the toy. I think it is turning into race to the toy.
Hi I hope your travel is going well. Waldo is still grounded. I am finding it hard to get anyone to look at the generator. I want to thank you so much for all your help and I am sorry to miss Hot Sauces Debut but I could see from the stats she was amazing. I am so happy to see your long recovery with her has really paid off!
I was able to get out for a bit between the rain showers. I played around with Standard course 2-1. I struggled with the opening and getting to the serp. after the 1st tunnel Watson was past the jump and missed it 2 times so I went in to show him the jump before the tunnel. I never got the middle serp at all. I think I will have to have more independence so I can be further ahead. Coming off the dog walk was also challenging for us. He got the turn and the 1st jump but I wasn’t able to show the next jump. Overall it was a fun session and Watson stayed in the game.
Hi Tracy Watson and I did Sequence for Success challenge 3. I took out the tunnel to shorten the sequences and have a little less speed. There were gun shots in the distance so he had trouble staying focused so I only did 2-3 jumps at a time.
Here are the comparisons:
Over all I think the slice is faster but our skills are weaker on the backsides. Once we get these skills a bit stronger I think I would like to try this again.
Sequence for Success Challenge 3: OMG!!!
I knew this one was going to be a bit of a challenge. I just haven’t gotten the push cue at speed. I am going to finish the backside course that I started this spring when Watson was injured so I know our skills just aren’t there yet. I broke this sequence down but we struggled with every part. On the first push I may try to lead out past the wing and BC on the landing side on my next attempt. I tried to show the tight turn out of the tunnel but he still came out wide. I thought I was showing the turn with my feet before he went in but Watson said no I didn’t. What I learned if Watson is at speed backsides don’t exist. LOL
Hi I got to play with Sequence for success challenge 2: I did a quick session of right and left turns. I didn’t realize the last jump was not in the camera shot so I will tell you that Watson did turn back towards me and missed the lst jump on the Go cue the 1st time barely got it the second time on the right turn sequence. I did not show the line and was pulling out the reinforcement as he was running.
1st attempt: https://youtu.be/bXPkX5KyOTY
2nd practice attempt: https://youtu.be/iUa2j7zaVCA
Waldo is a Thor Majestic
Practice the last challenge Course 1:
I did the last section with the Aframe. I am embarrassed to say he hasn’t seen this obstacle since last fall. I haven’t spent much time with it so overall and I was surprised at how well he did. I think he is hitting the yellow too high. I am thinking a strider and his mat when I go back and work with this. Your thoughts?
Handling: I could just kick myself for not connecting and showing the dog walk. I kept losing connection and the dread arm came up. LOL he nailed one exit on the dog walk and missed the second so I put the cone back out.Practice serp checking handling cues:
I practice the serp that we struggled with earlier. I tried to zoom in so you can see. I think I my body cues are better. On the baseline run Watson took the backside but did make his right turn.“Are you coming to the PA flyball tournament next weekend? I think we can play the pattern game/transition to trials game with Watson to help him learn to acclimate to new places! ”
Yes I plan on going to PA next weekend. I am hoping Waldo will be ready. I was supposed to pick up the RV last week but not quite ready… fingers crossed. We have been playing games at home, it would be nice to see if I can play them in a new location. Better fine my ear plugs LOL
Tried the teeter challenge course 1:
I am super happy with the teeter performance. I really did not have to go to the end of the teeter but I wanted to see that he met criteria. I was able to easily send him to the jump and tunnel. The struggle with this section was the push and the serp. I think I need to open up my shoulders a bit more. I was trying to show the tight turn at the end of the serp. Do you just use a verbal here? He usually serps quite well so I was surprised we missed this.
PS I just love this course and am so happy I took the time to set it up. It has everything I wanted to tackle this summer in it. Are you a minder reader? How did you know?
