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Hi! Welcome back, it is great to see you here! I have been following your adventures on Facebook and it looks like Synergy has had a lot of big successes!! Yay!
The forward focus work looks terrific! You were really very far away and she did super well.
Your ‘look’ cue (I think that is what you are saying) is going great and she is responding beautifully to the hand cue too.
One suggestion: You can release with the wrap verbal rather than break verbal then wrap. That will give her more specific info and give it sooner too!
She only had one blooper on the forward focus, when you were really far away. When you are MILES away (like at the end of the tunnel :)) you can step to the jump when you release her to support the line from the huge distance. But she really did well overall!!
On the parallel lines/layering session: this was another strong session, and she gave good feedback on the cues needed for the layering!
First rep – you were set up too far from one and had no place to set the acceleration for 2-3, and you were looking a bit forward a 1:33 so she curled into the tunnel on the Go verbals.
You had more acceleration on the next rep and you used “out jump” and it went great! The ‘out jump’ cues worked really well on the whole session.
You had gorgeous blind timing at 2:15 followed by nice ‘brake’ arms to get a lovely turn at 6!!! Nice!!!
I also really liked the blind at 2:32 – great connection on the exit! You stepped back to the jump more than needed there so she went to the other side of the jump, good girl! You had another lovely blind there on the next rep and didn’t push back into the line, so she got the correct side of the jump at 2:55.
It was also super easy to get to the backside there at 3:12 – her layering was very strong and you had time to make a phone call while you were waiting for her to catch up 🤣😂😁
As you were putting it all together at 3:23 – she kept you honest 🙂 You didn’t move much from 1-2 and you were very quiet and turning as she was approaching 2 at 3:24. You did say ‘get out’ after she landed but it was oo late, she was already reading the cue to the tunnel because you were already turned and moving along the tunnel. Good girl!
The last rep had more motion and earlier cues, so she got the opening line very nicely!!
Fantastic timing of the blind and brake arms on the 4-5-6 line! And great job sending her back out on the layering line to get a terrific blind at the end. Super!!!
Great job here – you two are really working as a smooth team! I am excited to see you tackle the bigger sequences/courses!
Tracy
Hi!
Welcome back to CAMP!!! I think your goals are good ones for both dogs!
Looking at the jumping video:
>I noticed she was drifting way to the right as she exited the bounces and went to the stride part.>
Yes! I totally saw all of that. The striding was fine as she was sorting out the distances/height, and the one rep at the beginning where she popped up high seemed to be the only one.
But yes – she was drifting to her right on all of the reps here.
>I have not seen it on set points or in general coursework. >
Agreed! Seems like a new behavior (and I don’t remember it on this same grid a couple of months ago).
>Wondering if it could be vision related?>
Without diagnostics it is hard to know, but it doesn’t seem like what we typically see when there are vision issues.
>Other potential factor is that her regular monthly massage was last Wed and she did have more tight spots on both sides of her lats and behind her shoulders (perhaps from weave sessions even though they’ve been short and max 2x/week?). >
This is more of what I have seen when dogs are drifting to one side of a line – compensating for soreness somewhere. When we vet those dogs, we have found a range of reasons, like rotate pelvis or sore hamstrings/psoas or sore shoulders. So it is best to bring the video to the chiro person/rehab vet or anyone who would be willing to take a look 🙂 I doubt it is from the weave training, but I guess ya never know!
>Massage therapist worked those out and then she lazed around with Dean & Demi while I was at the Cup so this morning was her first grid (or any training) since last week’s massage.>
Even though she had a good massage, it might not be fully worked out: when my CB had an ouch (from an accidental collision with Larry), it took multiple trigger point sessions and chiro sessions to work it out. So if Lift has something going on, it might take a couple of sessions. And since you are looking for sore spots, has she had any tick tests lately? Tick stuff can manifest as soreness or being “off” in gait.
Let me know what you think!
Tracy
So they could do it with the jump and tunnel alone… but it was harder if there was more of a course behind you? Clever to set it up!!! And yes, keep rewarding the waits by throwing the reward to the dogs, to help convince them that waiting is good 🙂
Tracy
Oops, no, that was something that should have been deleted but the site held onto it. It is gone now 🙂
I’m glad you are here, and I bet some of this (like the forward focus stuff) can be done seated!
Tracy
Hi! It was great seeing you last weekend, and Reacher was great!! He’s ready for the harder CAMP skills, which we will balance with the big fast lines.
He really seemed happy with the layering stuff, so I’m looking forward to adding more of that because it will make it even easier for him to chase you on course!!Have fun!
TracyHi!
Oddly, i couldn’t get this to play any sound! But it looked good and
went really well!! She has a very obvious forward focus behavior, which makes it MUCH easier to see when she is locked on (thanks, Lu, we love the obvious indication!)Her only question was when you were lateral and at the tunnel entry… she looked at the jump but then went to the tunnel. I like that you gave her a reward for a good effort. She got it right on the next rep and on the other reps after it, so no need to make an adjustment. When you try it again and you are near the tunnel, you can add in taking a step forward when you release to help her on the first rep.
About the stay – yes, you are probably spot on that she was extra excited to be doing something, so she was anticipating the release. You can mix in a ton of rewards for the stay early in a session, by throwing the reward to her for her to run around with. That will hit the double whammy of rewarding the stay AND burning off extra yee-haws 😀
Great job!
TracyHello and welcome!!! Your list of stuff to work on sounds really good, and of course Emmie can do any of the big courses or super crazy sequences 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome back!!!
This is a great question about the verbal…
>>Seems like teaching a verbal look has become quite popular. >>
Yes, very popular. Verbals are all the rage 🙂
>I’m really interested in why you aren’t doing it here. I started one with Sly but it turned into more effort than I was ready to give it.>
That’s part of why I never put a verbal on it… more effort than needed for the skill, and so far the skill has not evolved to the degree where the dogs can’t see the physical cue.
Another reason is that while my dogs all are very good with holding stays, they are right on the edge of go go go… so I don’t want to add a verbal that might potential cause confusion about what the release is. If things evolve where I become invisible to the dog (which i don’t see happening at any point)? OK, I’ll add a verbal.
> Although more than one person tells me I really need to teach the verbal.
A trend lately is to add verbals for EVERYTHING. ALL THE THINGS! This includes different verbals for specific tunnel exits (a whole new set of directionals that are different from other directionals), different verbals for backside-slice-to-the-left versus backside-slice-to-the-right, and on and on. I’ve been watching the trend carefully… we really don’t need to do it! It creates extra work and redundancy, and confusion (especially when the humans screw it up 😀 ) I mean, you are welcome to add all those verbals, but you don’t need to add them 😀
We will keep watching the evolution, of course, and if things change where the verbals are actually needed, we can add them pretty easily.
Let me know what you think!
TracyWelcome back! It is great to see you and Ripley – I have really enjoyed watching him go from “baby Ripley” in puppy stuff to grown up Ripley on podium!!! So fun! We will work on all of the things you mentioned – they are important independent skills and show up in the skills stuff and course work.
Have fun!
Tracy
PS – those photos are awesome!
