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Hi! This video was tunnel fun 🙂 It looked great of course 🙂 Can you repost the strike a pose video? Thanks! 🙂
Hi there! Turn and Burn is looking great!! Her commitment is lovely and you were connected and running on a tight line – excellent!!!! Two little details to add now (they are related details) – on the send, your eyes can follow her around but your arm does not need to at all. As you send, your arm can give a little push forward but you don’t need to do any following of her line with your upper body, you can just relax the arm. The following of her line causes an extra rotation that will slow down your running (and you will need every ounce of speed with this punster, she is going to be faaaaast!) Which brings me to the next detail: start her a little further back, and start to leave even sooner 🙂 You were doing the FC as her nose was arriving at the barrel and she was great. So now you can leave before her nose gets there, when she is about a foot away from it. That will mean rotating sooner, which is why you don’t want your arm following her at all. Let me know if tat makes sense 🙂
Rocking horses looked perfect! Great start!! There was one little miscommunication when she came back after a cookie but I don’t think that was anything to worry about – the other reps were perfect. So now you can spread your two fancy barrels further apart 🙂 And add a little more speed, turn a little sooner and run a bit – it will challenge her commitment and your connection.
Great job!
TracyHi! Definitely do the package 4 walk through stuff first on the sequences then on the courses. – it is harder for the human than for the dog (perfect for now!) and it should be helpful in learning how to run the Red Rocket 🙂 I figure we all be looking at videos at least until after Labor Day, so no rush 🙂
T
Hi! Sorry to hear the weather has been so hot, it certainly shortens the summer in unexpected ways.
The skills sets went really nicely 🙂 Your ‘regular’ slice seeps (front side and back side) all looked good! The first convergence rep was a tiny bit late showing it to him at :25 (the convergence should be in progress as he is making a takeoff decision, which would be before the release on this rep). The next one at :33 (and later at 1:00) was spot on, he saw it as he was rounding the backside wing! Same with the convergence to the blind at :45 – the running path was early so he read it really clearly. And big happy dane for the normal slice after the convergence reps, some BCs like to ‘self-diverge’ and send themselves to the backside when the handler is not cuing it, but he was perfect. Nice!!
Onwards to the sequences:
Both tries looked good. The slice at 2 on the first rep ate some time up, he didn’t collect that much in front of the jump. I broke out the 2 timing spots to see exactly what was making such a big difference – the turn at 2 had a slight edge of about .15 on that lovely right wrap you did on the 2nd run (it was niiiiiiice!!! but only a tiny bit faster to the tunnel – if you can tighten up 2 on the left wrap, maybe with a stronger brake arm on takeoff side, it will be faster. The 4 jump was the make-or-break: the left turn wrap was the clear winner by about half a second there. Also, you drove him a tiny bit more on the 2nd part of the sequence (5-end) so that was overall about 4/10ths faster too – so the difference in times was spread out. I think the ‘which is fastest’ lesson is about getting the highest quality turns, straight lines to the tunnel, and driving him as hard as you can on the other sections 🙂 (The wrap on 2 might be slightly easier on grass, easier to grip coming around the turn with more extension).That turn on 4 is a clear winner, which is good to know (and surprising :)) When I filed it with Voodoo, I was quite sure his ground speed turning to the right on 4 would make it the fastest – especially because I had to handle the left wrap as a RC which is not necessarily the strongest cue for me. But, as with Enzo… they both turned brilliantly AND smoked the next line, with the shorter distance and fewer turns on the tunnel entry making a big difference. Good to know!!
Seq 2: this one was more about the convergence 3-4 🙂 I agree that the slice line ‘decision’ jump was the clear winner, but it is fun to see that the other options are close! he is getting good at wrapping!!!
On the convergence lines – you can converge more on 3 to get him turning to the 4 backside sooner there. Your first rep had your best convergence, you were right into the gap and he had an almost straight line. On the next rep, you were one or two steps later, so he turned after he landed – a subtle detail but it can also contribute to the overall time, because it requires you to take one more step to guarantee the backside at 4 before leaving for 5. The last rep was pretty similar to rep one. So, if you converge more immediately, you can also leave sooner for the 5 jump. Something to play with is doing it from further away – cuing the backside from closer to the tunnel and still showing convergence – but from more of a distance to see if you can get him turned away to 4 and then it is easier to get to 5 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyOh yay! She is really getting it now!!!! Three ideas for you to expand the skill, now that she is solving the puzzle:
-with this set up, lead out a little and add just a little bit of walking (everything else is the same – motion is a big distraction)
– with the same spacing, put the start jump at 4 inches and start her closer, so challenge her to come in right off her rear and not tap her front feet on the ground in front of the first jump. The easier height will make the plyometric element more palatable – then that first bar can move back up when she understands to push from the rear. You’ll probably need to experiment with exactly how close to start her to get that – maybe play with it on one jump before putting it into the grid.
– going back to the sequence where she had trouble with the slices on the backsidey jumps, you can revisit those parts of it (even if you don’t set the whole thing up again) – do a warm up of the grid for 2 reps, then the sequence for one rep, then the grid for 2 reps – let’s see what she thinks of that version of the puzzle 🙂
Keep me posted!
TracyHi1
yes, you can use a get out – but it is easier to have it on a threadle cue which means come in- go out. I posted up more about threadle foundation stuff to give you training ideas. And it is fine to post videos in any order, I am excited to hear Lit’l Bit is back!!! 😍Hi! Yes, I would be saying the backside verbal. And ideally, I would also be giving a directional on the exit of the jump before the backside verbal – but that is a lot of words LOL!
Ah yes, I see what you mean 😁Yes – prioritize in that way for sure because there are plenty of skills she won’t need for a year or so – like layering the dog walk, weave entries with a tunnel behind them, etc.
THi!
I feel the pain of the heat and humidity! Anything done in the morning needs to be done at 6am here!
On the video – this looks great! Perfect position! It is so hard to stand still LOL! She did a great job of coming in and going to the lotus (you can totally still give her the ‘get it’ cue as long as you stay frozen like that for now :))>>Her last set cracked me up. I put her in a spot where she had to pass by the lotus on her way to the wing. Look at the careful avoidance she gave it!>>
That was *hysterical* !!!!! She is so dramatic LOL!!! But, good girlie, she got it right! Yay!
>>Anything else you’d like to do with this now, or are we headed for motion soon?
Motion is coming soon – but first, do a session or two where you show her the difference between the serp position and the threadle position (and associated verbals) – all in the same session, alternating. You can see the demo in the Advanced level of the game video. If she does well with that, we will add motion. Yay! Great job!
TracyHi!
>>Barrels
I’m pleased with the distance and sends I have with her, since I’ll need that down the road. You are suggesting that I send less and run more – is this so she sees more different types of motion and speed from me? >>Yes – sometimes do the sends, sometimes run in and out of the turns. We will teach her all the options, she is like a sponge and soaks it all up 🙂
>>Also, you suggested I exit forward which will cause her to speed up the chase. This is what I was doing with the reward on the wing side – to increase her speed and tightness on wraps. I can certainly do that around the barrel, too. Both with a reward and with my own running.>>
Yes, perfect! Stay nice and close to the barrel so you set a really tight line.
>>Yes, she almost stuck her nose up in the air over the MM.
She almost looked offended that we would even suggest such a thing. LOL!
>>I, too, loved the moment when the thought processes kicked in and she said, “so this is what you want!” Those a-ha moments are the best!>>
Agreed!! So fun to see her light up!
T
Hi again!
Another training opportunity at a trial, that is so awesome!! He did really well, both with the games and with the environment. Lap turns look fabulous! We will do a concept transfer on those soon.Are the tandems feeling more comfortable? They look really good! Just remember to keep moving as you walk forward – you were doing a really good job of turning him away and then turning your feet, it looks great!! You commented right at the end that it felt better, so hopefully it felt comfy. You can try adding in the prop to these now! Great job!!
Tracy
Hi there!! This also looks great! Baby dog is doing really well 🙂
One tiny slightly obsessive detail 🙂 – when you do the arm motion as part of the send, you can use the arm as a gentle cue forward, but then kind of let it relax and not follow his line. when you were following his line with the hand, it was turning your chest more than needed, which delays your exit a little bit because you have to unwind your rotation before you can leave for the FC. If you relax and lower the arm as he starts to move, you can turn your chest the new direction even sooner which translates to leaving even sooner 🙂 The chest turning to follow his line is causing you to step back and then do the FC – one extra step that you won’t have time for when he is in full on speed demon mode as an adult LOL! If you don’t follow his line with your arm/shoulders, you will be able to turn and move away more immediately.
No worries about the oopsie at the end, he had a TON of good reps and many that were similar. He is doing great! You can start a little further away so you can leave for the FC as he is arriving at the barrel and then before he gets to it 🙂 He is also looking ready for the rocking horse game!!Great job!
TracyHi! He is doing really well with this too! His targeting looks great and that really helps establish the behavior. Yay!
As with the serps, you can stop feeding at the hand target – only rewards are in the bowl, so he can get the rhythm of the in-then-out to build the default.
And I see you are pre-planting the cookie in the bowl (did I miss that on the serp video? Maybe – he is cute, it is distracting :)) so now you can just send him to the cookie with your verbal cue (I think you said ‘eat it’) but not physical cue to help develop the default commitment to the bar without any arm or shoulder motion. That is the hardest part – keeping your upper body frozen, no pointing 🙂
He did an AWESOME job of threadling even when he started *right next to* the cookie bowl!!!! I am impressed!Well done!!
TracyHi! You’ll be fine, don’t worry about screwing up the signals – that is why we do all of this on a random prop 🙂 It allows us to figure out the exact mechanics before transferring it all over to the real equipment. You always maintain a high rate of success, so she is happy to let you figure out your signals. You’re doing a great job with her!
Tracy
