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Nice work on the one jump exercises!! The get out was easy for him 🙂 You can add in more of a parallel line for your line of motion (you were moving a bit towards the jump, I bet he doesn’t need that). On the backside pushes: the first one looked really good, you used a position was easy-ish to get it rolling. On the 2nd rep, you had a more challenging position but I think you might have released him with you too close to him, so he assumed front side. On the next rep you adjusted your position to a little further ahead and the really lovely connection: and the next ones looked GREAT!! And then great job seeing his commitment and getting the heck outta there – his commitment looked great and your toy drops were awesomely timed. Yay!Moving into the short sequences: these went really well overall, some small tweaks to get them super smooth. It was funny that I would type something then you would say it on the video LOL!!!
Some details:
For the get out cues after the tunnel, you can start your get out cues right before he enters the tunnel, so he is prepared to turn away on the exit (he turned towards you for a step after the tunnel when you were quiet).
On the get outs: try to keep your feet moving towards the wing of the straight jump rather than towards the get out jump – that will add good distance (and help him see that it is not a RC on the flat) so when you add the FC or BC at the next jump, you are there even earlier 🙂 And for the timing, we can push and see what his commitment does: you can start the cross as soon as you see him heading towards 4 (jump before the tunnel). At :32 you were started as he was already jumping, so he dropped the bar. You were a little earlier on the Fc there at :48 but he was already lifting off. In that scenario, I bet you can start the cross before he gets to the entry wing of that jump so it is finished before he starts to take off.On the 3rd sequence – I liked the distance you used on the get out, this first rep of it at :59 had the best line so far! Then at 1:01 you just needed one more step of holding him on the come in cue – he turned his head but then you stepped him back out, so he went back out. I think you were trying to move backwards there, so the more exaggerated close cue (you gave a little extra shoulder turn on the next rep) really helped him!!
4th sequence – On the first rep, the backside needed more exaggeration of the upper body to show the difference between the front side and the backside but your running line was really good! On the 2nd rep, you had moved the running line in closer and that really helped! On the third rep, I think your upper body was REALLY strong which also helps, but with such a strong upper body cue, you didn’t need to get as close to the entry. So with that strong upper body cue, your running line from the first rep here should be perfect!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyWheeeeee! The go lines look good, it is really fun! She was totally driving ahead there! Perfect! You can add in the sequence from the tunnel now – keep throwing the toy nice and early like you did to maintain this, it looks fabulous!!
Great job on all of these!!
TracyHer commitment looks a great on all of these!! It is really cool to see such a small dog with such strong commitment!!!
Subtle tweaks in mechanics should help it feel smoother. You can be in your position at the start, but using your dog-side arm/leg to give her a swoosh of motion to get her rolling. On these, you were rotated before the release which might be why it felt harder to get her moving into them.
On the backside wraps – her commitment is all good but you can totally move forward into those rather than send her behind you from a stationary position. She can start on your left arm and leg, take a step to commit her with the dog-side arm/leg, then rotate and leg. It looked like you felt weird pulling and sending all with the outside arm.Front side wraps can be more stationary like you were doing, but don’t have to be (she turns really nicely so you don’t have to grab her head like we need to with dogs that don’t turn as nicely) You can also start the cue with the dog-side arm and then kind of transfer her to the throw back arm. You can do a BC after jump 2 on any of these – it should be no problem because she is committing so nicely 🙂
She showed a really great understanding of countermotion on these, allowing you to leave really early and disconnect early too – she still committed and turned nicely, with zero questions. Yay!
On the backside slice – you can also use the dog-side arm/leg to cue these then step directly to the new direction. You were rotated on the cue for it at :44 and :54 so you ended up doing a spin then stepping out of it. That will help you get up the next line faster, and she doesn’t need the extra rotation.
Great job!!!
TracyHi!
Yes, after all of these months of connect connect connect…. disconnection is weird LOL!
No worries about her bringing the toy back to you over the jump – she had to shake it first LOL! Her commitment looked really good so you can ever-so-slightly delay the toy throw and plop on the wrap side of the wing. Then you can delay it entirely til after she completes the wrap.
The slices looked great! No trouble at all and she always appeared to be coming to take the jump even when you were leaving really early. The step backs at the end went really well too (they look like they felt weird LOL!). These are good ones to revisit here and there to make sure her commitment remains strong but at this stage, it looks great!
TracyHi! These are going well! It is mainly about strategy now with her – a little bit of timing, but mostly strategy 🙂
Here’s more:
Sequence 1: She is doing really well with your transitions for the FC at 4 at :06 and :17! Nice tight turns there!!Sequence 2
This is also going well! You can start using your get out cue before she takes off for 3, so you can stay straighter to the line. At :29 and :44 you were doing it as she landed so she needed a bit more support to the line, which is why you ended up moving towards the jump.
If you do need to move towards the jump at all, move towards the outside (exit) wing rather than the center of the bar, so it doesn’t look like a RC on the flat. You moved towards that outside wing really nicely at 1:01 and 1:17 and the line looked great!
For the FC at 5 – you can send into the get out and then run forward more – at :49 and 1:02 you were facing her for too long so she slowed down there. But you ran forward for longer at 1:19 and she was fast and tight!
So strategically, you don’t need to use as much distance on the get out cue because it might put you tooooo far ahead and cause too much decel.The same thing goes for the backside at 5 on sequence 3 – getting there too early causes you to decelerate a lot, so she slows down (1:34). Moving into it more will keep her speed up and also you can get to the blind on the landing side of it, so she drives to the last tunnel on an inside line (on your left) which will be faster than the outside line (on your right there)
Strategically on this one – less get out and more send to the backside will get more motion (more speed) and let you more easily commit to 5 so you can do a blind on the landing side. You mentioned a FC there but I think the BC will be easier for you to out run her to 🙂
Seq 4 –
You are starting to give the get out cues sooner (before 3, like at 1:43 and 2:00) and her line keeps getting nicer!!
You also moved into the backside more (by waiting a bit at 4) at 1:47 so there was more speed there too. That is what I meant by strategically not needing to leave 4 as early or use as much distance. You can also run in closer to run out of it, because the sends to 5 and 6 are the important ones.
For those 2 backsides: You can send her away more to 5 and move to 6 even sooner, sending to 6 so you can get past the wing as she is getting to the backside there. That will allow you to get that blind in – you were tending to either be a bit too close to the entry wing of 6 so you couldn’t out run her to the exit (she smoked you over 6 :)) or waiting a bit too long to send to the 5 backside (2:19 and 2:35) You did get the blind at 2:23 and on the last rep, but we want you to be able to get into the blind before she takers off (she had to wait for you for a step on those).Great job here! Now that she is doing so well on the get out, the strategy of just how much to use it and where will be the next bit of fun 🙂
Tracy
Hi! Did I miss this video?? Eek!! It looks great 🙂 The more I see of Tokaji in this class… the more I think she works best when you send her away using her distance skills, then leave to get to an ‘important’ spot then cue it and leave before she gets to it. She doesn’t even have time to bark at you, and in order to chase your line, she has to turn nicely. Yay!
The get out looks great on all of these. On course 1, you handled from a pretty big distance to get to the wrap jump at 5 – then cued it and left. She had a nice turn and she did the grunt that means she wanted to mouth off about it but did not have time hahaha
2nd run – even more distance on 4, easy peasy push to 5: then you were outta there so fast and so early! She turned wicked tight and found a new gear of speed 🙂
3rd rep looked great too – you can be even further across the bar at 6 as you cue the backside so you can be off of her line sooner for the blind to the 7 tunnel.Her commitment looks great so I feel like you are able to really use that to get where you need to be, commit in collection (without trying to get in her face about it, because that does not seem effective) then leave again. Let me know if that makes sense!
T
I *completely* feel the pain of country internet! I run the Zoom classes out of the CoLab down in Roanoke (across from the Grandin Theater). If you ever want to watch the class from there, let me know – there is great internet and plenty of space for social distancing 🙂
T
Bummer about the snow in the forecast, I like the 70 degree temps!!
The added distance is getting your to run forward more… he likes that a whole lot! As you send and leave, be sure to maintain connection – if you looked away too soon, he came off the line (:30).
You had good mechanics on the turn aways: just enough patience to cue them then drive out. He totally liked that and really drove through them, as you noted 🙂 Only one blooper on a turn away – at 1:17, you rotated your feet as you were trying to ‘catch’ his attention on your hand, so he thought you wanted him to go to the wing. On all the others, you kept your feet facing the line longer (the tandem turns) and he read them nicely! On the lap turns, you had your feet facing him til he was within the 2in zone and that worked really well! Yay!Great job!!!
TracyHi!
I am glad you had such great weather!
As you nsaw right at the beginning, the turn aways work better when you are not that far ahead (like the first rep) and you are not that close to the wing (also the first rep LOL). He read them best when you were parallel and making it really obvious with your shoulders. Speed/motion made it harder, so feel free to call several times “KalKalKAL!!” and he really did well when you dipped your shoulder to show him the outside arm like at :19 and :47. And it looks like at :51 you stepped in towards the wing before you turned him, so he went around the other side (good boy) but you were much more patient on the next reps 🙂 Yay! On session 2: ooh, I like the double blinds 🙂 I think you were just trying to get him hustling – even 70 degrees is hot when it has been chilly for a while. You can also run closer to all of the lines on the race track elements – he decelerates when you send and aren’t moving a lot. Running in closer to the tunnel will help that, plus it will help him drive into the tandems – on the first tandem turn, you were way ahead and stationary at the wing so he slowed down (also at 2:30 and 2:46). You drove into it more at 1:52 and the last one, and he was MUCH faster 🙂 Tandem turn aways work best when we are pretty parallel to the dog, so getting closer to the tunnel so you can set them up will help drive through them. You can also play with doing blinds on the tunnel exits instead of turn aways: send him to away the entry then do a BC to get him to the other side rather than drive in closer to set up the tandem turn.
Fingers crossed for more good weather! Nice job here!!
TracyHi!
I have not posted the next class yet… my to do list is longer than I thought it would be! I hope to have it all posted up by the end of the week – the hardest part has been trying to figure out how to get the class (that is normally all outdoors) to also work for folks who will be indoors for the winter 🙂The Starfish is looking good! The first rep with the FCs went really well. Her sends to the wings look good! On the verbals – try not to call her when she is exiting the tunnel, as it causes her to look at you rather than continue to look ahead. You only did that on the first tunnel exit – the next one looked good!
The 2nd run looked really good! Nice connection and early verbals so she was able to really drive the lines.
On the 3rd rep, you did a FC into a tunnel threadle at :40, which she read nicely. It puts you behind the line on the next around, so be sure to get big connection to her at the tunnel exit. I think you wanted the other side of the wing at :45, but you were pointing forward so she took the inside route (connection will keep her on her line more).The next starfish session can have tandem turns on the wings on the straight line before and after the tunnel, so she gets the hang of turning away on the flat in those moments. And you can have her go around the single wing on the other side of the tunnel and do a tunnel threadle on that side! Fun!
Great job!
TracyHa! Potpourri, I love it! She did really well here, I like the variety of options you showed her and she seemed to respond really well to each of them. My only suggestion is to change the verbal to correlate more to the turn. You had your jump verbal going, but you can be more specific: for example, you can use your right verbal when you were having her take the front side of the next jump, so she can collect sooner (“OK, right right right”). Or, when you were having her come through the gap to take the other side of jump 2 (when you did the tight FC or the in in cue) – you can use your wrap cue so she collects more before take off and can turn into the gap even sooner. Her understanding of the lines looked really strong, so now it is a matter of how early you can give info 🙂 You can also start moving away to the next line sooner and challenge her to still commit to the jump! Give one step after the release and move away, rewarding for commitment.
Great job!
TracyFabulous! I think we can now say that 6 feet is the sweet spot distance 🙂 Yay! All of the bounce sections looked really good! The longer distances had shorter one strides than I think she can give; I am confident she can open up her one stride more. I believe she was shortening up because of the reward being relatively close to the 3rd jump (so she was collected to get it rather than slam herself into it – good choice :)) On your next visit of this grid, place yourself and the reward a solid 15 feet past jump 3 (as the jump moves, so does the reward) and I bet we see her really open up her one-stride as the distances get bigger.
Nice work!!
TracyYes, have fun with all the different handling you can throw in there! Anything that you might see on a lead out or on a course is perfect to try here.
Hi!
He cracks me up!!! One of my dogs is nuts for that same ball – I spend zillions of dollars on toys and treats… and the Walmart special is the one they want. LOL!!Sly did well here: this game is *especially* difficult because the jump is the only thing out there so the pups try to offer it. At the beginning, he was perfect because the jump was not in play yet. The outs looked good when you added them – yes, your feet were moving to the jump on the first one but I think you then got on a good parallel line and didn’t step in to the jump. As soon as the jump was in play, things got harder. So you can move more slowly so he can process the upper body and also he did a lot better when you called him. I think you said “pup pup” or something, which is fine and helpful and his name is fine too. It will be easier when there is something out ahead for him to lock onto. You can also throw the magical bacon ball ahead when he looks towards you. The goal is that we fade out the arm across the body being so obvious for the ‘regular’ line and only use it for the get outs.
Because his get outs are going so well, you can add in the advanced level of the crosses!
Nice work 🙂
TracyNice run!!!! And yes, the get out connection there would get that last jump but no worries – it was a GREAT RDW and the rest looked really good! I think her jumping effort was strong – the only questions she seemed to have were on the triple (I hate that jump) and the panel (also an annoying jump hahah) But no massive flings in this run, so bubble mission accomplished here! You can also train to weaknesses but trial to strengths… so a rear cross in the opening here would be great – within the bubble AND a super strong skill that won’t leave you behind, if that makes sense!
T
