[Tina Reynolds]

All things thank you! I just sometimes have to get out of my head over analyzing and because let’s be honest I have not had a lot of success in the trial scene in a very long time I feel like I need to do it differently or something and I’m trying to figure it all out and it’s a lot.

All good things.
Good news I did the same serp and tunnel and despite the set up he did it all right. Oops. This is what happens when I don’t stop and look at the set up before I work. These 5 minutes to train the dogs between work and taking care of my mom is not helping!

[Tina Reynolds]

I do want to keep diving and I never mind showing struggles. It doesn’t help to hide them

So- my connection I’m not even sure I can be better. I will try but I’m watching him. I even made sure th reps I sent were good from me lol!

As far as errors go: I may have taken one skil and that one time you said something about not rewarding and employed to all. Oops!! Generally I reward everything then I get the “why did you reward that” ( not saying just from you. Not a dig at you lol!). And with that, at some point I’m gonna be wrong in handling training trialing, but Christine reminded me he wont need to deal with that in real life for a couple years lol!

As far as food rewards, they are there with food. He doesn’t like to eat but I am giving him food for every “middle” leg set up. You may not notice them all because it’s more cookie in his face vs him like ooh can I have that Cookie mom.

Today I did the reps again but he’s always calmer when Christine is there. Prob bc I’m not as wild either. Not as many ready ready! Like I do when alone. That said he got the first rep right. That almost never happens. ( may also be because we have Been at this all week) and then I re visited again later in the day when I was alone
I moved slower and more strategically but I did maybe test to see if he would spike when I changed one thing. (I always put him in the middle, take his collar, and step over him when I’m doing stuff on my right mechanically it’s easier for me and I don’t want to manhandle him. If I do something on my left I generally just take his collar or he orient to that heel side) so we’ve been working mostly dog on right for the past couple weeks and when I switched over to the left there a minor moment. Mechanics, clarity ,
or him going wait a minute we don’t do this routine. Which is fine.

The only thing I just can’t wrap around is being perfect all the time. It’s not real life, So I’ll focus on the concept of rate
of reward to help me work through that. For example. Yes I usually start a rep at x seconds. sometimes a girl forgets her word and needs an Extra second. LOL! He can’t lose his mind every time that happens.

I’m all in to keep working on rate of reward, mechanics, clarity especially when it’s related to th sport. I do need to be able to be human with life tho. If that makes sense.

Here’s
Today’s attempt to work with what you asked

Fist session when we had friends there second with our. Normally I’d shorten the video but I think you need to see it all.

Overall the sessions went well

[Tina Reynolds]

Here’s some more of our rears.

One video shows nothing other than the wing. Oops but actually good because it’s what’s going on at th wing I want to touch on.

It’s fairly minor now and of course you can’t “feel” the energy in the video. He hits harder he grabs the toy when not asked and he mainly doesn’t want to wait.
This happens when I first get him out. Usually we have 3-4 fails before we succeed. This can be skills he knows too. If I ask for tricks he’s wild about them too.

When I did the same skill when Christine was there he was less wild.
So it could be my energy or time of day. I don’t know. I don’t want to obsess on it unless we need to deal with it if that makes sense.

[Tina Reynolds]

I didn’t think I was supposed to use words yet! I’m fairly confidence if I say go he’s got it. Is it intended to say go before he goes in the tunnel to cue extension or after the tunnel? I ask because a tunnel for me with nothing else should mean exit in extension so I just want to make sure if the timing.

For the SERPs yeah he almost clipped me but I’m noticing patterns and I’ll post my next video to figure out how to address his cray cray moments as he’s getting older he’s hitting harder so to speak.

When you say be a step ahead you want him in a sit stay or still hand in collar
Type send?

[Tina Reynolds]

Will do!

I forgot to post these with the other thread.

I’ll work these SERPs until we retire lol

Find the jump. I remember it should be close like 10’ initially so I went ahead and did it correctly and it was better

[Tina Reynolds]

I think my steering wheel is broken ! Is he really committed that soon? More space needed? I didn’t dare do more gos! lol

I did sprinkle his feet with water

[Tina Reynolds]

I did the wing close because he wouldn’t send from farther and it’s felt the same as when I had the issues with julee a that’s what we did so I just guessed how to help. This video was like our 3 or 4 go so it’s taken a few tries!!

As far as wrapping- it’s not likely to happen. I train in five minute bursts. It’s just not feasible. Maybe spray is warranted. He only slips IN the tunnel when he has to change leads.
And it can’t be just me having to do it. Meaning, Am I the only one with dip sh*t dogs? I can’t believe in that concept. Eddie Tulsa chases mom,
Wish, Josie all crazy fast all train there no issues. I’m not trying to be confrontational I’m just not understanding why it only happens with my border collies. What am I doing wrong?

With the find the jump- I should not need a go to exit him out of the tunnel?

[Tina Reynolds]

SERPs- still not my friend ( not just with Chase) it’s me not them lol!

We have to start back a bit each time. It’s more about releasing an he steals the toy. After a rep or two back to basics that stops.

Zig zag- I’m claiming I was tired from the trial. We did it but I needed coaching on which side to be on !

Same claim- I was tired. Tho I didn’t share the first part because I want to forget about it. Chase slips in the infamous orange tunnel and only when it’s there. That part is clearly coincidental I assume but he did it when I tried a FC wrap on the wing and send into tunnel. After that I pretty much bagged the wing. I have a lot of worries about tunnels since that’s how Ella blew out her shoulder.

[Tina Reynolds]

Time flies when you’re having fun!

All good fun things happening. Our biggest challenge seemed to be the turns out of tunnels. Not sure if it’s me or if I can help reinforce it more.

Pill bug I was rescue by Christine. I struggle with this one lol!

And I left a piece of fun commentary on my mini pinny. Christine was trying to keep me on track and I was trying to avoid th one way to do it because julee failed so bad I avoided it but chase is smart.

Discrimination round one

Discriminate round 2

[Tina Reynolds]

This was fun!
Still need to try the other side 🙂

[Tina Reynolds]

As you know we did some smiley faces.
Here’s is the full version

Could I be on his line any more? Lordy I suck!
He’s getting quite amped about all this. Hoping it stays as a focused amp. Right now a cookie in between here and there helps take him down. He looks all nice and cute but you can feel the energy when you’re near him lol

[Tina Reynolds]

Here is the next grid with the moving target

Cut out the tugging moments. We definitely had a start line issue. I believe I figured it out. The toy has to be in some sort of motion the entire time once I started keeping it visible in motion slowly, putting it to the ground and walking, he was much better so we had quite a bit to sort out on that one.

[Tina Reynolds]

The jump for the set point was 6’. I was saying how normally 6’ is my max for most large dogs but chase an julee push me to want to open more so try 6.5’? I’ll add the other stuff too.

[Tina Reynolds]

Funny story on the wind in your hair. I never hit record so I worked up to the final stage and when I was all done, I realize it didn’t record so this is a finished product so to speak, just two quick reps with him because we had already trained the things, but I didn’t know when I’d have another chance to do it.

I’m not sure if YouTube will take out the volume because the radio is on in the background, but we’ll just assume my verbals were also amazing on this one.

I don’t know why there was no sound on the moving target there was no sound on my actual phone when I went to upload it either

And the grids

[Tina Reynolds]

Ok we have been cleaning up our act working the serps

Tunnel barrel take 2. Getting ahead and slowing down seemed to help him the most. I did not abuse the raccoon like my friends lmao.

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