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>> I switched to all the pulls to get through the course a little tighter on the later reps but I don’t care for them because he does read those as converging on his lines (it’s also why I very rarely do rear crosses with him and if I do they tend to be on the flat).
We will work more on RCs this summer, it is a good skill to have 🙂
>> I just don’t know if I can get there for the BC either!
You totally can!
Hi there!
This was a really informative session! Yes, he is totally confident on the tunnel sends and that is great – it allows us to figure out what turn cues he needs. Here are some thoughts:You got earlier and earlier on the timing, which is good – the first couple of reps were a little late on the turn cues (he was already in the tunnel or inches from being in) but then by then end you were more of what I would consider on time – he was several feet from the tunnel and you gave the physical and verbal cues.
Based on what we see here, I think that the ‘left’ verbal is for when he goes to the backside of the further away jump (like on the 3rd rep) and the lateral send is the physical cue to match that. It was producing a nice left turn each time, and he worked it at a distance. You can see it happening even when you didn’t want that line, like on the 4th rep at :37 – he turned left and looked at you, but your motion supported the line to the jump way out there… good boy. You even mentioned that is was technically a left there and I agree 🙂
At 1:26 you changed the delivery of the cue (more chattered) and added rotation (FC) before the tunnel entry: big difference! Great turn there, versus 1:44 when you did a lateral send and left verbal (he was wide again).
So based on the various tunnel exits: I think the left and the lateral send get you that 90-degree-ish turn, and the tighter exit should be a wrap verbal and a rotation (spin) for now. You probably won’t always need a rotation, the verbals might be enough later on – but the rotation certainly doesn’t hurt in this particular setup.
One more idea: the GO on the entry and lala when he exited on the last rep were a bit confusing so he had questions – the GO was too much giddy up 🙂 but I think that just motion and the verbal to give a soft turn is all he needs there.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyOh no, that’s a difficult diagnosis! Poor Summit! I’m glad you found out what the issue was. Did you get a 2nd opinion on surgical options? I know dogs that have had similar issues corrected. I can get more info for you if you are interested.
Keep me posted!
TracyGood morning!
>>These long straight lines with turns and avoiding tunnels are a weakness I didn’t know we had 🤣.
I don’t think the lines were actually straight, that was part of the question 🙂 More below 🙂 I don’t think he was avoiding the tunnel either – the setup was causing some questions, also more on that below LOL!
On the video:
Overall, I think your connection and line driving was great, and he was SUPER speedy and doing exactly what you asked him to do. Good boy!On the opening:
You both did really well here at the beginning of the video and at 2:15!! The better line for the backside at 2 is the natural entry line (where the #2 is on the course map) rather than turning him on the tunnel exit and then pushing to the other backside. That might be why it felt late? So let him go straight out of the tunnel and slice the backside the other direction: it will be a faster line and easier for both of you, with fewer zig zags.
Tunnel #4:
>>I also added his left verbal coming out the tunnel.>>
Yes! I did a little happy dance when you said “FEVER LEFT” 🙂 He seemed to pick up the turn nicely! Also, he was committing nicely and you were getting your verbals and cross in sooner… but I will keep bugging you to be even sooner LOL!! You can start the blind and call him at :06 and 2:18 when he is no closer than 3 feet from the entry. Going the other way at 2 will help because you can get up the line sooner.8-9-10-11
This section relies on the independent weaves otherwise the handler is toast 🙂 Skipping the weaves was fine – but you made it harder on yourself by not setting it up so you were where you would be if he was weaving independently – I think you were also setting him up at the entry of the poles rather than where he would exit, perhaps doing a mash up of courses 2 and 3? That is what made it so hard (the start position). At :18, :29 and :39 you were right next to him when he got into the 8 tunnel so while you had excellent hustle and he picked up the line beautifully and with a ton of speed… you were too far behind to get the blind.The line up position caused some errors at :29, :48, :56 because you knew you wanted to leave to get up the line but you had to stay there to handle the difficult tunnel entry. You can line him up facing it from the weave exit and that will make your life much easier.
At 1:40 you can see that the 10 jump is ever so slightly offset so he needs a bit of a push to it (he would have to lead change to pick it up) running closer to the line like you did at 1:56 helps (the placed toy did not help him find the line, it was your handling, but it was definitely a good reward!) Since you were down there to support the line, a FC would get the turn in that moment.
On the reps where he did not take the jump, you were looking ahead as he landed and deceling so he came off the line because there was no push out info (this is a good place to add a ‘get out’ cue)
Saying GO sent him past it at 2;30 (which is technically correct, because go is straight and not a lead change away). 2:43 and 2:52 was really nice driving the line from you both!>>I also thought about serping the 13 to a landing side blind but still wasn’t in a place I liked.
I didn’t see this on the video – did I miss it or did you edit it out?
>>I feel like there’s too much I’m trying to control here. I’m worried about him extending to the final jump, controlling the turn, and preventing the off course which unfortunately is taking too much mental energy for me to handle well.>>
That is good insight? Don’t worry about off courses – only worry about the lines you want to create and then off course options will go away. Since we are training, it is all about asking questions to find out what he knows. Send and leave! If he gets it, yay! If he doesn’t get it? Also yay, because we can train it 🙂 If you control all the things, you will find that you have trouble getting to where you need to be on course. I really do think the only real error here was the line up before the tunnel after the weaves.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
He is doing well on the weaves – and we got some REALLY useful info about how he reads things too! These were definitely harder challenges!
On the first rep (abrupt exit) – he was fast but lifted his head a tiny bit.
Second rep: opposite motion (also happened at :30) – definite challenge! And he turned away on exit, which is interesting and can be useful when the course requires it. More below 🙂
The other handling skills also went well – a little head lifting but he was fine with them – I think he does a bit better on the harder skills when you repeat your weave verbal. The dramatic RC at :38 is a handling skill I am seeing a LOT of on courses lately (AKC Premier and UKI) so I am sure you will be able to use it on course at some point soon. It is very fashionable LOL!The highest level challenge for him was the rotation towards him with the hand/toy in his face and he had to pass you. He did well about weaving past your hand, and past the toy in hand: until you said “good boy”. That is something I am also seeing in our dogs: we have trained a “yes” or a “good boy” inadvertently to be a ‘come get your reward” to the dogs make little mistakes like coming off a line or popping out of the poles (ok, maybe the dogs are correct if the verbal is actually a come-get-your-prize moment LOL!). Then he had questions and needed you to keep saying weave, which is fine of course, because it really supported him.
So one of my summer goals it to get all of us more aware of having accidentally installed that, and changing that: quiet praise and either continue or reinforce but use a different marker to mean “reward is coming”. I personally am trying to shut myself up with the big loud YES and just replace that with a reward marker – the dogs find that MUCH more helpful although I find it very hard to shut myself up haha!
So for example, when he passes the challenge on the poles, you would throw it and say “get it” or something which means “reward is being thrown out there”. Let me know if that makes sense – looking at it has eliminated a lot of those little errors.Now back to him turning away on the exit: when you rotated and did a FC as he was weaving and started running alongside the poles and right next to the them: he read it as a flip away on the exit every.single.time. He also did that when you were stationary after the FC. This is GREAT info because we need that turn away skill – judges will often put a tunnel there for us to ‘flip’ the dog to without us wanting to change sides. If we have discovered the physical cue that gets it done? Super! And to prevent it when you *don’t* want it? Do you FCs more laterally or if there is ever a moment where you would be close to the poles for a FC like that – delay it a bit to make sure he exits correctly.
Teeter session: He is getting more and more comfy with his new 2o2o!
>> The “straightness” is not strong enough to do without some kind of target. Of course, I don’t care that much about that but as long as I can I might as well work on it.>>
I agree – he needs some kind of target. And straightness would be nice, but a slight curl towards you at the end is fine as long as he is speedy across the board and hits & holds the position.
The MM as target is a good starting point to prompt the position and get the independence going. In order to fade it, we are going to need a secondary type of target so the MM can move further away. I am not sure if you have use any other target – I use a super fancy lid from whatever random plastic thing I can find (I have also used old masks LOL) that just sits on the grass a couple of inches past the teeter. Then the MM gets moved further away, first 6 feet or so away then increasingly further up the line. It is easy to fade the little target at the end of the board, after he is more experienced with the 2o2o without the big visual of the MM.
The other great thing about those little targets to prompt the behavior is that you can bring it into the ring on a training run to transfer the position into the trial ring. I know for sure that UKI and USDAA both allow us to plop a little target on the ground – and I know for sure we cannot bring the MM into the ring (dang it LOL!). I don’t know what AKC training rules allow but I can find out! We can transfer the behavior into the trial ring without the target, but it is much easier if he gets one or two training runs with the target there to help him out.Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
98 degrees plus humidity? EEK!!! It is ‘normal’ weather here with highs in the low 80s and some humidity. But it gets really hot, really fast when the dogs are working in full sun. I max them out at about 5 minutes each and only train in the early morning. I am not too worried about her pacing herself here – she definitely looked hot and all of our dogs need to get acclimated to working in the heat. You can still get plenty of training done even if she is not super fast – plus you were pacing yourself so she was decelerating to match that too.
On the teeter – she looked really good driving across it without needing you to also run 🙂 She seemed super confident and independent!
One question though: what is her criteria for the end of the board? On most of the reps, she kept moving through the teeter, no stopping. She did have a 4on, on a couple of the other reps. So I am not sure what the criteria was – and we want to keep it super clear to keep the teeter fast and accurate. If it is a ‘running’ teeter (hit and go) then you can give the next cue sooner so she doesn’t look back at you. If it as a stopped teeter (2o2o or 4on) then you will want to maintain it and reward it (and you can totally use a target to help her out when you are hanging back or moving laterally.The handling looked really strong! You have consistent clear connection throughout and also did a really nice job on the backsides and sending away. Yay! At :33, :51 and :59, you had her wrap the jumps to create the turn. I think slicing those the other direction will be faster 🙂 and it challenges teeter independence even more as you move away to get a blind cross (for example) so you can set up the slice lines. I think she is ready to see that additional challenge. In coming weeks we will be specifically comparing the wraps versus the slices in terms of speeeeeeed 🙂
And the only other suggestion is to give the physical wrap cues sooner at :59 and 1:03. You had the verbals nice and early so now you can match that timing with rotation as well.
Great job here! Let me know what you think and stay cool!
Tracy>>I have learned that to do a blind cross, one must first be ahead of the dog.
I don’t always feel like I’m far enough ahead. Some of that will improve as independence and commitment continues to get better. I haven’t had one that’s gone wrong per say because the fear is strong>>Ah! Only kinda sorta ahead, because you can keep commitment to the line while starting the blind. If yo ucan do a FC, you can do a BC 🙂 Just stay out of his path and he won’t hit you. The motion into a blind helps with commitment too! Definitely give them a try in easy places and we will keep getting you happy with them 🙂
Hi there!
>>I tried running a jumpers course with Emmie this weekend but she was absolutely positive that the wrong entry was correct.
That is odd! You can break that down of course with the wing or guides. Giving her a break is also good.
>> However, my camera got too hot and I didn’t get video.
Ugh! That is my current fear too! It has been really hot!
>>So, here’s my older dog Kip running the first and second jumpers course. He really has only one solid verbal (switch) which basically means turn away from me. He’s got a “back” and “in-in” which are not solid. We are taking a class for fun to try to solidify the threadle cue.
He was great! Good boy! And you can totally just add Emmie’s verbals to his world… he might not know what they mean but it is great practice for you to be able to say them all 🙂
>>Of course he expects nothing less than perfection on my part 🙂
Ha! How old is he? Some dogs of a certain generation expect perfection in handling. Then we got smart with our younger dogs and taught them to deal with our imperfections LOL!
>>I don’t normally “pull” as much as I did on these courses but we had a really hard time with that second tunnel exit.>>
Yes – I have ideas for you! Onwards to the video. Looking at the courses in sections:
Course 1The opening 1-2-3-4 looked good!
On the hard spot you mentioned (exit of the tunnel #5) – you can call his name and start the FC before he enters tunnel #5 at :08 That will get you a tighter turn. The FC has to happen REALLY fast there though… so a blind will be sooo much easier to do on time here because your feet can just fly forward and your upper body will show the turn. Then all you would need to do is reconnect, get up the next line, and give him a little more decel and turn cue on jump 8 before the weaves at :13 (you were in a great position, just too much power in your running there so he was a little wide).
Looking at the pulls in that section:
The pull at 4 at at :34 and on landing of 5 at :38 set wide lines (and got the bar at 4) and ended up pulling him off the jump before the weaves at :41. At :53 and 1:01, he was going around 5 because you were stopping then accelerating & converging and it almost looked like a backside cue – he felt the pressure of the sudden change in motion. You got the jump by holding still at 1:12 but that put you waaaay behind the line and messed up 8-9. And you have considerable running ability and if you get behind, that means you were definitely in one spot for too long 🙂You got it cleanly at 1:27-1:32 but I think the original plan (but with a BC replacing the FC) will be faster and keeps you ahead.
Weaves: if he will allow it (I don’t know how independent his weaves are), you can do the cross and start moving up the line before he exits, so you can be further ahead after the tunnel #10 at :18 and 1:38. He looked pretty independent here!
That can allow you to get the FC 12-13 at :23 and 1:39 sooner (he was already in the air when it started (a blind would work here too :)) Ideally you would decelerate and start the FC when he lands from 11.
Course 2:
opening 1-2-3-4 – nice, both times!!!! A little decel on the “in in” threadle at 5 will tighten up the turn to 6 on both reps there.
Layering the tunnel while he weaved was awesome at 2:04 and 2:26!!! Yeah!!!!
After the weaves: you can call his name before he goes into the tunnel then keep moving at an even pace – you were quiet and stationary then when you re-started your motion, it read to him as a little bit of convergence (like what happened in course 1 after the tunnel 4-5) so he pushed out around the jump.
He got it on the next rep because you were standing still – I think he can get it if you are in motion the whole time, it seemed like stopped then accelerating again is what was the hard part.
Depending on his commitment understanding on jump 11, you should be able to keep moving through it to a blind cross to get him on your left, rather than serping then doing a FC on the landing side – moving through to a blind is easier and also gets you to the next spot sooner, as long as he understands the commitmentThe ending looked strong too! He dropped the bar on 18 at 2:44 – when you suddenly accelerated. So he finds that sudden accelerations to be challenging! That gives us a good training opportunity to be able to show him that and reward for keeping the bar up. And it is linked to the opportunity to reward him for finding the jump after a tunnel and not running around it, even if there is a sudden change in motion or a bit of pressure on his line.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>Unfortunately Carrie does not have channel weaves. She has a set of 2x2s. Should I just avoid them at her place for now or just use 3 slightly open 2x2s?
I think he would be fine to do it with the 2x2s, just show them to him first to be sure he agrees with that idea 🙂
>>Blinds are still really hard for me to get with him.
When they go wrong, what happens? Does he end up on the wrong side of you? Or…? Let me know and we will sort it out 🙂
>>I’m still learning how to run a fast, big striding dog.
Lesson #1: More blinds. HA! But for real – they are survival skills with the big fast dogs.
>>ended up running backwards to ‘catch’ him… and backwards motion is same as forwards motion
>>zero awareness of me moving backwards ever… unless I fallUsually that backwards stuff happens when people try to do a FC where a BC would be better 🙂
>>not sure if you caught the best verbal vomit I spit out last night which was “wait! slow down!”
Ha! I missed that but now I want to go back and find it 🙂
>>You mentioned left and rights.. I haven’t spent a lot of time training them. We did the stuff in your previous course but haven’t spent a great deal. He also knows turns for circles on the flat… Should I just start incorporating these? I need to get better about utilizing his wrap words more on course.>>
For now, just start using all of them so you get used to using them. And put the training game for the left/right into the rotation so he plays it once a week or so.
>>This is a great example of me using my wrong words. Pass means backside slice… I should have said seek seek if I was planning to get the wrap. On the last one, I said zip zip cueing a threadle wrap which was also incorrect.
We will be emphasizing turn skills in the next few weeks so you will get good practice with the verbals, and then in Games Package 4 I have my FAVORITE handler torture to help solidify the verbals – but I won’t tell you yet #Cliffhanger
Reviewing your handling hints for the jumpers course one
“Super Independent 1: Set the line to tunnel #4 so you stay on the ‘backside’ and blind cross to handle
5-6 on your right side.”
I cannot visualize how to end up handing 5-6 with dog on right.No, I was having trouble with my written verbals there – I meant left. Sorry!!!
>>thanks for pointing out the need to reinforce more. I did edit most of it out, but he probably still needs it more often.>>
So if it was there but edited out… you probably need to do it sooner. Most of the edits happened about 2 seconds after something was finished, so he should he getting rewarded more immediately. It is always better to err on the side of fast reinforcement 🙂
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Hello and welcome!
I hope things settle down for you so you can play with the dogs! Lanna is ready for more action and it would be great fun to see Pippin and Haydn 🙂Stay cool!
TracyHi there!
>>Both had the opportunity to handle the 3rd jump with a “throw back” and I really didn’t remember at all what I was doing!!! I remember doing these in one of the MaxPup classes but it’s not something I’ve done a lot of and would definitely like to add them to my toolbox!
Yes – they are a FC melded with a spin. Ideally, you would be standing with your butt to the jump and you toss him back behind you. But standing still facing him is tooooo much decel cue for a small dog. I only use that much facing the dog for my 8 year old dog, who really needs to be sledgehammered to convince to turn LOL!!! So the smaller dogs, you can let him see you do the FC to get him on your right then rotate into a spin.
When he was coming from the stop on the teeter, the lack of motion from you slowed him down – so you can also stand still there, release him, then fling a toy (ball!) for him to chase when he comes towards you. That will get him driving to you more even when you are not moving.
He didn’t have as much question about it or slow down as much on the weaves video, because he was moving and you were moving, so it had more flow 🙂
>> They seemed like a good handling choice in both of these sequences…but maybe not?
Yes, good choice on the weaves. Coming from the teeter, a little more motion would help him power off the teeter.
Speaking of the teeter – looking good! I think he did *not* have a target on those? He did really well – because of the lateral distance/lack of motion, he took an extra moment to step into 2o2o but overall he was really strong and drove right to the end. You can mix in some ‘easy’ ones where you run past the teeter so it is not all about adding the really hard deceleration and lateral position – we don’t want him to get too thoughtful about it 🙂
>>He’s figured out his weave rhythm 🙂 and is getting quite comfortable and confident.
Heck yeah! The weaves looked great!! You can definitely add in the other sequences and also try this on 12 poles 🙂
>> Hope you somewhere where you can stay cool
We are having ‘normal’ weather here – low 80s and a bit humid, so it is fine. Nothing crazy like what the Pacific Northwest is seeing! EEK!!!
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>He does settled down with his harness on after a while. so I will put that on and once he seems not to notice it we can head out for a fun training session.
Perfect! Leave it on him to acclimate him as much as possible to wearing it, so it fades into the background.
>> He is doing well with the big loop so I will start making it smaller. I did use his slip lead this weekend and he was handling me slip it on pretty well. I am seeing some improvement. I will try to get a short video of a session with either the loop or the harness this week.>>
Also great! Leave the loop super big for now so you can bring it into more distracting environments. And always give great cookies after putting the slip leash on, so he thinks the slip leash = cookies LOL!
>>I have a quick video of skill set 1 with teeter. He hadn’t done the teeter in a while so the 1st one was a bit rusty. The only struggle I see is when I stopped my motion. ( ran out of room on the right side) I noticed he curved into me. Over all I was pretty happy with this session.>>
He did well here! Yes, I see what you mean that he needed to warm up a little bit on the first few reps. But then he settled in and did well. I think you had the MM out ahead (no sound on the video for some reason) so that really helped him. He did want to curl in when you were lateral or stopped – when you originally trained his teeter, did you use a target? You can put it back out on the teeter for the training reps where we add the independence. If you didn’t use a target – we can totally add one really easily then fade it back out. He was amazing on that last rep though – he ran all the way to the end and didn’t even look at you, even though you were really far away. Yay!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
There is a massive trend towards independent weaving in trial courses, so I figured we would get it rolling here 🙂
Both dogs did really well!!!! Only 2 suggestions for you, one of which you already knew:
– start to add more motion now 🙂 But you had already mentioned that 🙂
– the second idea might sound strange but I think it will help: Try to eliminate the “yes” and “yay” markers (because it causes them to look at you) and just use a marker that tells them where the reward will be (out past the poles). I say “get it” which tells them the reward is being thrown, so don’t bother looking at me. You can’t say ‘get it’ because that sounds too much like the weave cue – so something different like “toy toy!” can work. The goal would be that they just keep looking straight and not at you or not at your motion – if you build in “yay” as part of the reward, you will get more looking at you and less independence. Badger is better about staying straight after the poles because of his experience, but Mochi definitely would benefit from more emphasis on looking forward. I am personally working on getting rid of the yay and yes markers too because it turns out they do more harm than good – my dogs think they are reward markers to run to me for reward LOL!! OOPSIE! Clearly I have done some exciting “YES!” and thrown a toy so the dogs glue themselves to me when they hear it. We can fix that issue before it even starts with your pups by focusing on just using placement words and not yes or yay. This is for before the reward – after the dog gets the reward, you can definitely use your YAY!! words 🙂 Let me know if that makes sense.>>One question – I only used 6 weave poles (to save bodies) – does it make more sense to use all 12 for this? They both did 6 with little trouble and a fair amount of distance from me (but not a lot of motion). I am pretty sure 12 would be harder to stay in, so I probably need to practice that? >>
Yes, they will need to see this on 12 at some point. Make sure they are happy to do this with you really running on 6 poles, then you can do it on 12. The courses have a lot of independent weave opportunities so you can work the 12 poles there 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I am glad the initial love-the-weaves-project worked so nicely!! Over the years since then, he might have lost some value for them. He was really good with the double Manners Minders out there, but I think he is in it for the payoff 🙂 And that is fine: for now, on the independence games, leave a MM out there about 10 feet away and reward lots. Then we can fade it back and out of the picture – basically incorporating it into the transition to trial game where you put it on cue and that is the end of run reward (or weaves reward!) My Papillon runs for it at trials: the MM sits outside the ring and the Pap knows where it is. He goes and runs the course, then I give the cue and we run to it at the end 🙂 That way we will be hitting on both things: refreshing the value of the weaves, and getting him happy to do them in trials again too!
Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>tried it with Hero and I was like a novice all over again
Not at all! It took you a moment to get really aggressive on course but then it went really nicely 🙂
Looking at it in sections:
Opening 1-2-3-4 to tunnel:
I think you chose a good option! You had a good push to the backside at 2 but then you can get outta there faster, no need to cue him to come in or hold your arm out for that long over the bar – he ticked the bar at :02 because you stayed there. He also dropped the bar at :09 because you were there for too long (also he sometimes doesn’t ‘lift’ with his hind end hen he is distracted if you are in the way or late or something, so you can working some jumping plyometrics with him and see if he will push off his rear even if you are disconnected).
he FC late 4to 5 at :12 on the first rep, he was lifting off for 4 already. The FC works well there! Or you can do a spin then get him into the tunnel on your left, but that makes it a lot harder to get the line from the tunnel to the weaves.
Leaving sooner at 2 will get you past 3 sooner to let you set a nice line to 4 – so you can also do a forced blind on the takeoff side of 2 to see how far ahead you can get!On the next attempt starting at 1:43:
One tiny detail that can make the difference between a win (or not a win) is how you line him up at jump 1. On this rep, he was facing the center of jump 1, so he had to land and turn to find the backside of 2. That costs you a couple of tenths on the clock. You can line him up on a slice for 1, so he is facing the backside of 2 and doesn’t have to add an extra turn there.This rep was great – you left 2 really early which let you set 3-4 really well AND the timing of the FC at 147 was much earlier too! Yay!
>>When I practiced with Ruse I actually did a threadle wrap on the left wing of 2 with a blind to 3.>>
Interesting! I would bet the slice like you did here was faster, but we will be timing these things to compare in a couple of weeks.
Weaves:
He definitely found the weave entry line to be difficult from the tunnel! You probably needed to set the line from the exit of the tunnel and take one or two more steps to the weave entry to help him see it: he exits the tunnel turning slightly to his left and a lead change away will set up a nicer line to the entry.When resending to the weaves, you can reset the line from the tunnel to help him learn to find the weave entry from the tunnel.
Opening the last couple of poles definitely helps and one other thing to help will be placement of reward – either have it in your hand and throw it early (use a ‘get it’ so he doesn’t look at you) or leave your MM out there so he doesn’t look at you (and yes, it is a nice challenge for him to ignore it the rest of the time LOL!) When he was successful at :40 and :59 you praised a lot which drew his attention up to you then rewarded next to you – which will make it harder for him to ignore you when you run away laterally to the next line.
8-9-10-11-12 looks good! You might be able to tighten up the lines with more decel or a brake arm or the other ideas you mentioned but that might *not* be faster – he was turning but in extension so that might be the fastest way to do it.
When you came through there again on the second rep, I think you were a little in his way on the FC at 1:29 so he added a stride. The BC there at 2:15 allowed you to get out of his way (but the threadle worked really well too!).
You had a spin on 10 at 2:04 and he collected. Later in this class, we are going to time all of those options and compare which is faster! That will help you select what to do in trial runs. Stay tuned for that!At 2:05 you said “go on” as he was approaching 11… so he went on indeed, to the off course tunnel. And the threadle cue was a bit late which didn’t help your cause there LOL! Good boy.
Closing line –
>>13-14-15-16 worked as a double backside with a blind on 14 to get 15 with a fc to 16, but I had to move quickly.>>YES! And you did 🙂
Very nice double backsides 13-14! It looks like he sliced the long way on 15 at 115 and that threw you off for the turn at 1:17 to get the correct #17 tunnel entry
I loved how you got in for the BC before 15 on the 2nd time through there – it set up a MUCH nicer turn at 15 and allowed you to get the correct entry at 17 too.
On the next rep at 2:17, you were MUCH more aggressive in the handling choices: blind to 15 then a FC to takeoff ide of 16: LOVED it! So fast!!!
You did a threadle on takeoff side of 14 on the last 2 reps – it worked well, but he had to collect more. So I am not sure it was faster. That all goes on the list to compare when we get into the timing.
Great job here!! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
