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>>I took the jump after out, but I do see that he is coming out looking for me to toss the toy. I just didn’t think I’d have the coordination to toss the toy back between the poles & the jump today.>>
I don’t think we need to worry about it for now – his head is straight in the poles and he is focusing ahead on task. Good boy! You’ll see games added Monday that introduce the dog to the concept of what happens after the poles when there is no reward (in other words, sequencing LOL!)
>> I thought about using the Pet Tutor, but he accelerates more for a thrown toy.>>
I agree with your choice of the thrown toy, and you used it effectively to add in poles 5-6 with good throws for poles 1-4!
The addition of poles 5-6 are a big visual change and he definitely was looking at them like “wait, what??”, so we can isolate them and let him think through it – take out the wing wraps for the next session and let him work it out in terms of finding the new base with poles 5-6. Your throws were really good about helping him get the new base! So now we can let him work it out – and if he slows down for now, no worries – the striding will come back as soon as he realizes what poles 5-6 are doing 🙂 Then you can add speed back with the wings, and also you can add the variables of the different angles of entry too! You’ll see his lightbulb turn on and the striding come back – then you can straighten out the poles 🙂
So in a nutshell – give him one more session with just poles 1-6 set like you ended here, and no worries if he slows to think it through… just keep rewarding and then when he sorts it out you’ll see him ask for more “giddy up” into the poles 🙂 I think he will literally only need 3 minutes of getting rewarded for finding 5-6 before he says, “got it!” and then you can add back the wings and running and tighten things up.
>. We had a break in the middle when what sounded like a dog fight erupted in the yard kitty corner behind us. He had to stop and stare- didn’t bark or chime in, but I figured a short break and then some easy tricks would be prudent.>>
That was crazy! He was a good boy – and at some point, that might happen at a trial. So file it away as trial prep LOL!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! This is looking super, big progress! She is finding the entries and looking ahead while you are moving (or standing still, she was great with both). Check out her wrapping that entry! SUPER! I even see her striding starting to percolate.
And a MASSIVE click/treat to you for having a timer running and making sure your sessions are short and successful. I am doing a big happy dance about that!!!
>>If she goes without my sound cue, what do you recommend?>>
If the dog leaves before the cue, I call them back happily (something like “c’mere! I have a secret to tell you!” or something goofy :)) But, ideally, we don’t let them make that decision so you can create a slightly different ‘loop’ for her in the process:
give the cue, she weaves, you reward in the reward target like you did here, then catch her attention your hand (on the side opposite the weaves, the hand you will send with) – have her come to your send hand as you move to the next spot, give her a cookie – then give the weave cue. So basically, she will get her weave reward then a reward back on you at your hand then the send to the weaves and so on. Let me know if that makes sense or if I need more coffee to better explain it 🙂
For next the session – I agree with your assessment that you can move forward.
Leave the first base where it was at the end of the session here (it looked pretty straight!), do a warm up rep or two (maybe one on each side) with poles 3 and 4 where they were at the end here) and then keep working the progression of tightening up the 2nd base. They looked like they were at 2&8 here, so go to 1&7 before going to straight poles.
At some point, we will be seeing her striding both bases (yay!) and at that stage, before you finish straightening them out, I recommend the Find ‘Em game where she has more speed coming from the wing wraps:
https://agility-u.com/lesson/find-e-track-2x2s-game-2/
Great job here! I am super excited by her progress!!!
TracyGood morning!
>> I didn’t plan this so no pet tutor… forgive me I must work on throwing skills. I did try to not stare at him to see if he did the weaves correctly so I would keep moving.>>
I think he liked the thrown rewards!! On the first short video, he was a little surprised and needed a moment to remember the weaves on the first rep but then he was a good boy on the 2nd rep! Your connection and motion looked spot on here.
>>He’s very graceful thru the weaves and not as fast as some I assume that will come let me know when we should discuss striding.>>
He is getting there in terms of speed and striding. You can see it percolate in these 2 clips – on the 2nd short video, he was faster AND finding the striding. Because of his size, he will definitely be a bouncer and not a swimmer. And that striding will percolate with understanding and excitement. I think the position of the poles here mean we are ready to add the excitement (we really have not asked for that yet).
Leaving the poles at these angles, check out 2 things:
The Find Em with wings to add speed:
https://agility-u.com/lesson/find-e-track-2x2s-game-2/
2x2s striding ideas (but on 4 poles for now):
https://agility-u.com/lesson/weaves-striding-troubleshooting/
I think he is ready for both on 4 poles and when he is feeling zippy, we will go to 6 poles.>>PS I did email you about summer classes hopefully it went thru wasn’t sure I hit on the correct email>>
I haven’t gotten into my email yet today 🙂 I will find it shortly!
Let me know what you think! Nice work here!
TracyGood morning!
>> It took me a few reps to get the whole, don’t be loud and throw the toy early thing…but I eventually started managing that. >>
I feel that – the mechanics of being in motion and NOT yelling/flailing are always a challenge for me hahaha!
>>In the evening I made the rather bad decision of telling Eric I wanted to get him out for a quick weave session before I left to teach when he had already opened the dog food container. So, Presto was thinking DINNER!! and then I took him outside to be a thinking dog. >>
So there was a new variable introduced… hungry! That can definitely change the internal state, and I think that was happening here on the “easy” side. As a human, I feel that – I can go fast and work hard when hungry but I might not necessarily be as focused and accurate 🙂 At least he was not HANGRY LOL!!
Recognizing that as a variable, I think it is actually a good one to train with – not because we will ever really be asking them to compete when they are hungry for dinner like that, but because it is a great way to change internal states and simulate trial arousal. His errors here are exactly what young dogs do in trials. So feel free to do another pre-dinner session with the “OMG MY SISTERS ARE EATING” variable but dial back other variables – don’t run fast. Raise the rate of success working through the dinner variable and then we add back the motion on the easy side.
>>> I kept up my motion and was also working on being quieter and throwing the toy earlier. But I think his misses were mostly about not collecting for the entry, although he was doing a pretty valiant job of trying to make it work.
Yes – definitely liking the earlier throws and his head was lower already – plus when we add something *after* the poles, it will get even better 🙂 When you get a miss, though, allow the red flag to wave in your mind: these sessions are short so either change a variable right away to get success or definitely change it if you get one more miss.
>>After one particularly rough entry, the next rep he kind of skipped the poles. So, that could have been the angle of the entry, but might also have been a lingering aversion to how he jammed through the previous rep>>
Right – and I am fine with him choose body safety over weaving 🙂 Good boy! But that rough entry can also count as a ‘miss’ even though he did weave – definitely still reinforce him but then since it is out of character for him to do that, you can change a variable.
There are a lot of ways to change variables: when the dog is in a higher arousal state, I tend to use less motion as my first variable reduction, with easier entries being my 2nd choice. Those are easy to add back in because they already successfully exist in other variations.
>>So, based on your previous plan of action – another session similar to this with walking on the difficult side and see if he has a higher success rate on his “good” side if I don’t pull him away from his dinner?>>
Perfect! And another option, separating the hard side from the easy side:
do the hard side session as planned when he is not hungry.
Just as Eric is whipping up dog dinner, take him out to the ‘easy’ side for a few reps but with other variables reduced to help him be successful.Another way to look at it: by the time I take Contraband to an agility trial, he will have a lot of weave skills at home 🙂 But at his first trial, the environment is going to get him very stirred up, internally. He was quivering in excitement at his first disc dog event and he doesn’t even really know what it is LOL!!! Lordy. So, assuming he will be REALLY excited, I will be dialing back the other variables to get success when he is in that state: I will be parallel on an easy entry and trundling along rather than sprinting. And the environment (internal) is the challenge – so I won’t present any others. I will add back to the other challenges when the environment (internal or external) is not a challenge anymore 🙂
It takes a decent amount of planning but then it turns out to be SO MUCH MORE FUN (and successful, and reinforcing) for both human and canine 🙂
>>>Next time, he may also have the added distraction of an audience because I think my family will want to see him in action. Might be several people doing the wave in the background and singing Presto’s theme song.>>
OMG what an amazing opportunity!! It will be exciting and distracting for YOU and also for him. So plan for it – dial back other variables, so his first association with being watched by a crowd is an extremely positive, successful one. It will be his very first ‘national finals’ atmosphere!
And what is his theme song? LOL!!
>> and I even brought my channels along. Eric was rather stunned and impressed when I pulled out the pieces and reassembled them and he had no idea! >>
HA! Your Eric and my Eric are probably not really surprised anymore by what we can fit in the car hahahahaha
Great job here! Enjoy family time <3 and keep me posted!
Tracy
Hi!
>>> She’s doing good on her RC’s. I think I am a little late on the rights. Maybe because I think she is better that way so I am lax.
She looked GREAT on the rear crosses! You got your verbals in too (you said GO then right on the first one, then caught yourself and only did right or left on the others, which is perfect). The rights are a little wider than the lefts because you were a little gentler on the rear cross diagonal. On the rights, she knew it was a rear but on the lefts, you got on her tail immediately 🙂
>>And the left I start my push sooner. But she is doing good on those so I need to push the same.
Exactly! Start early on the right turns and get right upon her tail like you did with the lefts. She was perfect finding the wing when you did put it out there, no problem at all. You can move it further away to see if she can find it 🙂
>> Did these yesterday, day off today. I’m trying to stay caught up here because on May 6 I have to have bunion surgery. (Just want to get the dang thing over with figured now is as a good a time as any) 4-6 wk recovery. Not sure what to expect. Maybe I will be able to stand outside and do some of the stuff. We will see. If not, I will just print off all the games and do them later when I can. “Gotta do, what cha gotta do!” >>
If you can move around and stand still, you can save the proofing stuff that doesn’t require running for the surgery recovery, or the jump grids where you get to lead out and stand still. We will figure it out and make a plan 🙂 And the games are all available forever, so you don’t even need to print them out 🙂
TracyHi!
My reply somehow did not show up! Hmmm…… Sorry about that! I must have typed it and then magically deleted it. Sigh. Anyhow, here is the reconstruction 🙂
>>Got some more video of the ladder grid to further investigate the slight hips to the side as she’s coming in on last jumps. I’m thinking it may just be her approach to the toy or item of value.>>
Yes – I think she was totally lining up for the toy. On a couple of reps, the toy was off the center line so she bent towards it. When the toy was straight, she was straight in the grid and only bent towards it when she was out of the grid and getting ready to grab it 🙂
She is probably just being efficient, to get to the toy! She did it in both directions, but with a couple of left turns away from you like at rep 5 and also at 1:02 – the girl is a lefty! No worries, though – as long as we pay attention to doing balanced reps in training, it will not be a problem in agility (3 of my current dogs are very strong lefties and 2 are righties… but you would not be able to tell in agility for 4 of them because of all the balance work. The 5th one is young and VERY lefty so I have more homework :))
>> When you asked if she’s right or left handed and referenced fly ball, is this kinda how the dog comes in to approach the object? >>
Yes – in flyball, generally, we use the dog’s natural inclination to round themselves to make the turn, to teach the box turn. The dog should approach the box sideways, not straight on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkaPhl5r5tQThis dog is a strong lefty in flyball training but “appears” balanced in agility because I do a lot of right turn reps 🙂
>> I think it’s always the hips kicking out to the right of her shoulders if your facing her, not matter my side or toy location. Thanks for helping me think through this and investigate!>>
She does also do a lot of good right turns here and in the next clip, so I think she will end up being perfectly balanced in agility.
>>We also did our diamond work this afternoon. I had to stop and let her play with me he toy and “walk it” bc I could not get myself doing a tight blind. I still think the toy was not in the correct hand for me as you described. I was also thrown off a bit by trying to hold her and get her rev’d up. I’m trying to do that more so we aren’t “practicing” doing agility with low energy but instead trying to maintain enthusiasm and higher energy if that makes sense?>>
Your diamond work is going well and the blinds are coming along nicely!!! They probably go against a lot of your muscle memory, so you will need to keep reminding yourself to turn away from her. One thing that will help is motion: you were ahead so you were decelerated, which makes the FC and the spins pop out. So if you run deeper into the tunnel then move towards the wing only a couple of steps ahead of her, you will find it easier to move through the blinds. The blinds you did at :12, :30, 1:42 and 2:11 were really good and she reads them amazingly well. True, the toy was in the dog side hand and ideally it would be in your opposite hand across your body – but you did a GREAT job of finishing the blind with connection and you had your dog side arm back and down so she was able to respond really well.
In a couple of spots, the muscle memory took over and you had some front crosses (:21, :45, 1:25) and some spins (1:06 and 1:18) so getting the tight blinds into your muscle memory will be just a matter of reminding yourself to turn away from her and not towards 🙂The racetrack elements look good! Good connection from you and lovely commitment from her! Yay!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! She is doing well with both of these!
>>Ruse and I worked some more minny pinny tonight. Things seem to be going a bit better and she is turning her head when I play back the video. How do I transition from having her on one side or the other and giving her the cue without motion? She was reluctant to move at all because she didn’t know what I wanted. I obviously need to do a few more sessions so that she understands what the words mean.>>
She is getting the flow of the minny pinny setup, so now we can get the independence without the motion: the way to do that is to hold her collar, start saying the verbal a ew times – *then* let her go. If you do the collar and motion all at once, she is likely to just be cuing off the motion. So I like to make a big gap between the start of the verbals and letting her go. You were holding her collar more towards the end, that was perfect! So the only thing to add is saying the verbal a couple more times before you take your hand off the collar. Then you can work your way back to center and to the neutral position with more success on verbals alone.
On the head turn wraps:
>> But her head is definitely wrapping the cone and the body is following.Yes! She was definitely leading with her head 🙂 It went better when you cued the 2nd wrap, because without the cue she was unsure if she should keep wrapping or offer something else (I prefer that the dog only wrap again if I cue it, otherwise I want the dog to drive to me).
My only suggestion other than that is to use your wrap verbals rather than left/right verbals here, because it is more of a wrap behavior (you might have been in left/right mode from the minny pinny)At this stage, move this game to a wing! Yay!
Great job!
TracyHi!
>>Silly comment: I found myself singing TRANSITION to Fiddler on the Roof, TRADITION. Sorry, if you can’t make that go away now…>>
HA!!!! Now it is in my head forever, complete with a bit of the Tevye dance from Fiddler. LOL!!!!! Love it 🙂
Good work on these sessions! Starting with the get out games:
On your first video, your line of motion was really good!!! Keep that line!
Your first rep of follow the momma was great. The 2nd rep (get out) was spot on! Check out the cue at :10 where you had connection back to her, and used your outside arm to clearly indicate the exit wing of the jump. Perfect!
On the 3rd rep, the cue was more ‘forward’ meaning you were looking ahead more and not at her, and the arm cue was not as clear – so she knew it was something out there but not sure what.On the 2nd video – you had better connection throughout and clear arm motion, so you didn’t need to add the step to the jump as much – that is what you were probably feeling when you mentioned stepping across the line. So use the super clear connection and arm you had here, with the running line of rep 2 on the first video 🙂
Adding the crosses looked great! Nice timing 🙂 Try it now with adding the blind cross, so you will be turning away from her (you were turning towards her). That is easier for you (as long as you can convince yourself to turn away) and harder for her to maintain commitment as you turn away. I think she will be fine with it 🙂Your traditions – I mean, transitions – are going well! A lot of it is really just about getting comfy with the timing she needs. A couple of ideas for you to make it even easier:
– on the wing sends, you were doing post turns starting pretty close to the wing. I think you will find it easier to get the transitions going if you are ahead and coming off of a FC wrap like you did at :27 – that FC line will set her on an easier path to the front of the jump (and not the backside of it)– as she is committing to the wing and you start running up the line, think about her position on the line more than your position. When she is halfway to the jump or less… start your deceleration. You were starting it a little late, when she was closer to the jump and you were halfway between the wing and the jump. So keep thinking of it as her position, not your position. When I was working on these with 2 of my other youngsters, I had to mark the ground so I could focus on where the dog was, not where I was 🙂
Here is what that looked like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZqorl5UpIkOn the video, the 1st rep set her on the backside line and you were not connected, so she drifted a little wide to the backside. On the 2nd rep, your line of motion wa sa little too much to the center of the bar, so she read it like a RC.
By the 3rd rep, you were getting better and better on the transitions! That is where starting the decel when she is no later than halfway between the wing and the jump will help: when you were a little earlier starting the deceleration (slow forward) like at :29 and :42 and 1:05 in particular, she was setting up really nice turns! When you were late starting the deceleration, she was wide (:35, and the 2nd to last rep). So keep going with the earlier timing of the deceleration – that will also make the FC sooner too!
And nice job with the backside balance reps towards the end, it is always good to add balance reps 🙂Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>It doesn’t appear that Cowboy was bothered by the noise but I do wonder if I should have done that warm-up rep because it looks like he was a little surprised when the degree of tip increased within the same session.>>
I do like the warm up sessions as we add more height; the dogs take a moment to remember what we are doing before we add the crazy stuff 🙂
>>Today, I worked on the Bang Game and also added more tip. I started with the tab leash and then did a few without it only because when I used the tab he would repeatedly do a “4 on” and I found myself asking a second time to get the 2O/2O.>>
I think his question had more to do with the saliency of the target – the black target on the black mats seemed to blend in, so he was looking at you on those reps and trying to measure the stopping point based on your stopping point and position, rather than using the target to assist in the position no matter where you were. He got into the 2o2o when you were ahead or moving but the 4on when you were stationary or not past the board. When you switched to the cookie toss starts, you were out ahead of the board and moving before he got on, which helped to pull him forward into the 2o2o position. He still wasn’t using the target though… so rather than focusing on your motion/position, let’s focus on getting him to use the target so you can get the 2o2o even when you are behind him 🙂
Looking at the April 23 session with the red target – it looks like he was looking at it and using it rather than watching you, so I think a more salient target like the red one or a contrasting color will really help. And… do all of the reps on the next couple of sessions with you sending him into position with you hanging back a bit, no motion from you 🙂 This will really help the independence on course because he is a speedy dude and is likely to get to the end of the teeter before you do 🙂 And also we can get him to keep his head low and straight with with the target.
He does well with you ahead and moving, so we can set that aside for a bit to really build the understanding of him driving into position without you being there too 🙂
Nice work here! Let me know if that makes sense!
TracyHi there!
>>That’s understandable about doing the weaves and seesaw on alternate days. It’s quite a lot of work for the joints.>>
Yes, it is hard on them so I try to do 2 days “on” for training then 2 days “off”. My dogs have a better scheduled calendar than I do hahaha!
Really nice session here!
Your reward placement looked really good! I like that delivery for him, to keep him wanting to be right at the very end of the board. You can also release him forward off the board mixed in with the delivery – maybe think of it like this:
if he gets his feet right at the very end, release immediately to the reward, big party!
if he stops a tiny bit short, you can go back and place it exactly where you did to reward the good choice and keep encouraging being at the very end of the board.It looks like he is no longer using the target, or using it very minimally – it doesn’t appear that he is looking at it. So…. yes! Let’s just get it out of there 🙂 Do a quick warm up with it there, then take it off as he is off hunting for a treat in the grass. Try to do it in the flow of the session: 2 reps with the target in, if they are good – throw a treat somewhere, remove the target, and then go into the next session in flow 🙂
If it works and he is fine, perfect! If he goes “where is my target?!?!!?” then we will have to make it smaller 🙂Then we repeat the process on the teeter using the bang game 🙂
Great job here!
TracyHi there! All sorts of good work here 🙂
On the downhills video:
Downhills – I agree, he seemed very happy! And he was getting good speed going and this is a game where it is hard to get a lot of speed. Nice!!!! And also it looks like you were able to add a significant amount of tip, and he had no questions. My only suggestion is to slow him down before leaping onto the board and help him jump up (like you did at 2:05) so he doesn’t splat himself trying to get on (don’t let him talk to River, she also has anti-self-splat homework LOL!)
So, for planning: in the next session, with the tip you ended with here: keep moving past the target position (not with a lot of motion yet). And if he is happy with that, add more motion: run! Wheee! And then a little more tip. That might all happen in 2 or 3 short sessions – and that is probably all we need on the downhills before we get into the crazy elevator game.
Elevator game: so much good! When adding motion, do the first motion rep with a little less motion as kind of a warm up, then you can add more to get in to the running.
I think you can add more height here too, building up to the board being level with your hip (my guess is that you can get that in the next session) and then in the session after that, higher than your hip. As you add the height, though, dial back the motion – so like with the downhills, you can do between 2 and 4 more sessions to get both the height and the motion, starting them separately then building them together.At that point, we move to the Crazy Elevator Game 🙂
Uphills:
Ice cream WALRUS in a top hat!!!!! With a mustache! This is my favorite so far. Top Chef: Teeter Edition. Best thing ever! And the session was brilliant, he was happy of course 🙂 Keep adding tip 🙂 I think this is more for us than him at this point but that is great – the entertainment value is totally worth it 🙂 and I appreciate it LOL!Target fading: the cat! Why do they like to make appearances in the teeter class? I feel like your cat was judging me through the camera. Ha!
For some reason, he seems far better on his targeting when he is on the actual teeter than he did here at the beginning – maybe the toy out ahead helps here? And also maybe this is just less stimulating compared to the excitement of the teeter itself 🙂 When you added more motion and tugging, he was more into the game – and higher arousal also built in more success!
He seemed to do well without the target here – I think he was taking a heartbeat to look for it, which is fine – you can let him do that but try not to slow down your motion at the end to help him. Keep moving through (slowly) until he makes a decision.This game can go outside on the plank to work through the fading on the grass for one more session to help solidify – and then onto the teeter for the bang game 🙂
Great job here! He is moving forward beautifully on all tracks 🙂
TracyGood morning! Hope you are feeling well today!!
This was a really strong session:
Great job introducing this crazy game very progressively! He did well here and looked just fine adding in this bit of insanity LOL
He is getting the full idea of the elevator game now – note how he is looking for target position during the countdown in the warm up!>>He was looking off to the side a bit as if he was wondering how we has going to get down>>
I think this was when he was looking down at target position? He didn’t look concerned about getting off the board. The first rep of the crazy elevator game was a little surprising to him but then he was perfect!
From the stay – yes, we do it without a lot of speed at first so he figures out he game and you figure out the catch. You two got it really quickly! It looked nice and smooth. And then adding in the speed from the fox barrel (hello, old friend LOL!) was also really strong! The mechanics looked good!
When you play this again, add motion with you moving away after you give the target cue – warm up it on the regular elevator game like you did here, then from the stay and then from the barrel wrap.If that goes well (and I think it probably will) for the next session, add more of your motion (jogging, then running) as he is finishing the barrel wrap. Wheeee!
Great job here, he is advancing really quickly!
TracyHi!
Things are going well here, a couple of thoughts for you:At this stage, a lot of what we will be doing is assessing what just happened and planning for the next session(s). I’ll only go full-on-obsessing on the videos if there is something weird happening – but everything is moving forward beautifully so no need to over-obsess on this one haha!
>>These channels move a lot as the base isn’t heavy. It looks like in the first rep he may have hit the third pole but I don’t think I saw it happen again. I don’t think he’s one of those dogs who will just plow through the poles but just wanted your thoughts on that.>>
I don’t think he will want to slam himself on the poles, so no worries about it for now. Also, I think the channels are in that slightly-awkward position for him here – not quite running, not quite weaving. So… let’s move them in a little more and start to get striding.
He seemed to do pretty well with the various angles of entry and with you in different positions (especially the straight entries with you far ahead). So I think it is important now to get the striding and then revisit the various handling challenges.
So move the poles in by the width of another finger, and do an easy entry, and see if he strides. Yes? Cool! We stick there for a bit. No? Move them in a tiny bit more 🙂
When you are working the striding angles, work the ‘top’ of the clock (10-11-12-1-2) and have him start with you so you can send and move up the line (no need for wings or stays, just sending from next to you is perfect for now).
The first striding session will tell us what we need to know for planning future sessions – he is doing well with understanding a lot of challenges so I think we will be able to focus on the striding for a couple of sessions – get that rolling, then back to the challenges.Let me know if that makes sense! It is hot here too so I am doing super early or super late sessions. I love the heat but it does make training harder!
Great job here 🙂
TracyWheee! This was really hard for him – but that is fine, it is a really hard game 🙂
One thing that will make a difference will be motion: when you want him to go past the weaves and into the tunnel, use a couple of steps in towards the tunnel to support the line. If you don’t move, he would have to layer the weaves and I don’t think he is comfortable layering yet (I think a lot of us don’t do much layering right now, so one more step will help).
And then when you want him to do the weaves not the tunnel – be moving but don’t use as much motion – slower, steady motion will help him ‘see’ the weaves. If the motion is too exciting for now, he will struggle like you saw 🙂
And then after a couple of sessions with this setup or a similar one… it will be MUCH easier for him and he will be able to find the correct obstacle with lots of motion or with just verbals (or motion and verbals :))
So after a day or two off of weaving, I suggest another look at this setup and see what he does – I think it will really help him sort out how to get in and stay in on course!
Tracy
