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I think I need to work on getting her to drive to lines better so I can feel more confident with layering things. I definitely need to be able to layer with her since she is so fast!
The water idea is interesting! I’ll have to give that a try one day!
I understand the value of continuing on and the impact it can have on her frustration level, but I do struggle with it. Partly, it’s because it’s such an ingrained habit to fix it (one I’ve bene trying to work on but it doesn’t always happen in the moment). However, it’s also because I don’t know how to keep going with her. She’s very unforgiving when I make a mistake, and she is so busy yelling at me (and trying to trip me, lol) that it’s hard to do anything other than stop her and ask for stillness before moving on. In training, I can throw a reward (when I remember!), but in a trial, that’s obviously not possible, so it would be nice to be able to do have the option of continuing on.
I am trying to almost exclusively use thrown rewards, although I do use a cookie from my hand when I’m just resetting her after we’ve had to stop sometimes.
Hi!!
Here is Package 4 Standard Course 1. Unfortunately, it was getting a bit dark. I didn’t realize how dark the video was since it was actually lighter in person. Hopefully it’s not too difficult to see! If it is, you can skip to 4:01 for some daylight, lol.
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I had a lot of catching up to do on editing and posting videos. I apologize in advance for the barrage of posts, lol.
Here is our Package 4 Jumpers Course 1 video. It’s a bit long, but we had to break down several parts. After the walk through and first attempt, there is a lot of training in the middle. At about 5:45, there’s a final attempt that was pretty good.
When I was editing, I saw A LOT of connection issues and my arms were often pointing at obstacles and not the dog or her path when a lot of the problems occurred. I know some other things were due to holes in our training (like sending ahead and not turning in to bark at me!).
>>>As you were driving up the line, your motion was showing a parallel path line to the backside and she got it.
So once again, she was reading something that I didn’t even know I was doing, lol. I am definitely pleased with how good her backsides have gotten. I just need to make sure I don’t cue them on accident now!
>>> when she barked at you, you were kinda looking at her but your arm was forward so she didn’t really see the connection. Keep your arm low and back, so she can see your eyes and shoulders.
I know you’ve said this to me a million times this summer! I’m working really hard on this, but I’ve been doing it wrong for a very long time and it’s been hard to change. Thank you for the reminders!! I have caught myself on several occasions with my arm forward when she’s something I didn’t want or expect, so at least I’m starting to recognize it some of the time. 🙂
We will definitely keep working on sending to things, and I like the idea of throwing the toy earlier. I always try to avoid luring (it was so taboo for a long time…), but I am now seeing the value of using luring in the beginning stages to build confidence and drive away from me and then fading it out later.
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This is our session for Package 4 ESC.
We struggled with the first sequence quite a bit, specifically with the 3rd jump. She was POSITIVE I wanted the backside. I didn’t feel like I was pushing her there, though. I can see in one of the reps that my arm moved in that direction a bit, but most of the time I feel like I wasn’t showing her that line. Was she reading something I’m not seeing? I did move the jump after taking a break to think about the session and what was going wrong. It seemed to help quite a bit.
Sequence 1:
Sequences 2-4:
Hi, Amy!
I’m glad you have enjoyed watching us work. I know I’ve had so much fun trying to figure her out! You are right that shelties are not border collies at all!! They have their own quirks and so much attitude. Nox has all the opinions about everything. Sometimes it’s frustrating and sometimes it makes me laugh. 🙂
Maybe we’ll run into each other one day if you’re on the east coast. Enjoy the journey with your sassy girl, lol!
Here is our final Package 3 video! This is from the “live” class. This was a really helpful exercise to work on our distance skills, which we will need for our next NADAC trial in October. It was really fun, too!
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This is Package 2 Jumpers Course 2. It was very challenging for us!! I think we are missing a couple of skills to do it well. The hardest part was bypassing the jump on the way from 4 to 5 and again towards the end before the weaves.
That threadle wrap at 10 (I think that’s the right number!) was also still really hard, but we’ve just started trying that skill out.
The video is a bit long. The walk through is at the beginning followed by our first attempt. I did not include our second attempt because it was just garbage dog training. I apologized to Nox after that session, lol. We took a couple hour break and worked on pieces. I did include that in the middle, but you can skip to the final run at 4:34 if that’s more helpful to watch.
I would like to work more on using a brake arm, but I haven’t done anything with that yet. Another thing to add to the list!
It’s funny that she had such a hard time with the backside at 9, but on the ESC from package 4, I couldn’t get her to NOT take a backside for anything, lol. I will post that video soon.
I never considered staying on the other side of the tunnel for 10-11. I feel like I would get so far behind her, though. If I handled it as a backside at 9, I’d have to go so close to the jump that I think she’d be out of the tunnel before I was halfway past it, lol. I don’t have this course set anymore or I’d try it out, though! I do have plans to set pieces of these courses over the next few months to work on some skills based on all of the feedback you’ve given me. Maybe I’ll give it a try at some point.
Ugh! Decel is still such a hard thing for me. It’s such a new concept to me, and I’m always thinking “GO FASTER OR SHE’S GOING TO BEAT YOU AND YELL AT YOU!!!”
Yes, the layered weaves were really cool! That was the first time we’ve ever tried it and she didn’t even question it! 🙂
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This is Package 3 Jumpers Course 1. I think this is the last one we did before I got your feedback about running the walk throughs faster. 🙂
Here is Package 3 Standard Course 2. I ran this before I posted the last couple of videos and got feedback (just didn’t have to edit them before), so I already know that I didn’t do the walk through fast enough, lol.
What I get from all your feedback is here that I need to run faster, lol. You told me once at a seminar that dogs run better in grass than on most artificial surfaces and that it was pretty much the opposite for humans. I am definitely finding this to be true. I think this might be why I am able to get my crosses executed on time more often when running indoors than outside. In the video I shared of our run at LUDS, I was able to get much farther ahead of her than I can at home. Part of that was her being unsure of the surface, but I think I also run faster on the turf. I am going to start working on some sprints outside on grass and see if that helps at all.
Going back and looking at the front crosses you mentioned, I can see that I need to work on my footwork at speed so I don’t want to back up while executing them.
