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Her 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
Good morning!
A general note on the sequences when 1-2 was the serp start:
1-2 – stay closer to the line so the turn back to the tunnel happens before takeoff not when you step her back on landing. That will allow you to leave earlier than when you lead out further away and have to step back towards the tunnel. Then keep driving through it at the end, with shoulders facing the bar so she can see it before takeoff.
For example, at :20, you lead out pretty far away but then had to step back towards the tunnel, which delays your running line to 3.
The rest of seq 1 looks good!Good timing on the BC at :28 to the other end of the tunnel on the first rep of sequence 2! You are getting connection with your outside arm up high and shaking, and I worry that this will begin to look like a threadle cue. For the exit line, the outside arm should be soft and on your belly, just enough to get her seeing your eyes.
>>I’m going to go back and revisit the one where she was coming in over the jump on the BC instead of staying out. I think it was the 2nd sequence.
On that sequence, the BC was too early a :40 and :51 (she didn’t really see a backside cue for 5) – so be sure to keep cuing the backside and watch her head: when you see her head turn and look to the backside line, then you can start the BC.
Seq 3:
She did really well on the backside pushes at 4, both in going to the backside and coming back to take the jump as you left. Yay! Try to keep on a very parallel path to the center of the bar, resist temptation to run towards the entry wing – you went to the entry wing at 1:24 and then got delayed in the timing of the turn at 1:26 on 5 so she was a little wide there. Being center of the bar will allow you to get further ahead ofr a decel on 5 to tighten it up.
At 1:42 youwere movig to the entry wing but not as strongly connected so got the front side o 4. You compensated with more motion to it and more connection at 1:57 so she got it – but then you were totally smoked for 5 LOL! So just use the connection and verbal, not the motion to the entry wing.
On the very last rep, she got the blind on the backside really nicely (it looks like she is really understanding to take the bar on those types of backsides) so you got the next backside really well too. Your line showed the wing so she was tight going to it. You did a full post turn there at 2:08 – that delays the exit line so she looked up at you as she landed. I think a spin (deceling and turning your feet) will get you out of there sooner and also show her the line to the tunnel sooner.>>Let’s just say sending to the backside and then blinding was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do with her in those last few sequences. I think I did it like 5x to make sure she knew where she was going then I couldn’t do anything else but a full post turn on the next jump, my brain couldn’t handle it !!>.
Ah, that explains all the post turns LOL!!! The main thing is to get you further across the bar on 4 so when you cue the backside, you have a lot more time to get to the next thing – spins require decel and rotation, so you need to be further ahead to have time to set them up If you run to the entry wing, it is really hard to outrun her to the next line.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>So as you can tell we took this session on the road to SOTC. First time there since last winter. My main focus was keeping her engaged and happy. She had besties there as well doing obedience homework ( bleh) but she handled it super.>
I think she did really well!! And the turf looks good there too! Such an improvement over those old mats…
Circle wraps – this is going well! I can’t hear if you were using a verbal cue on it on the first side for the first couple of reps, but I did hear the push push on the second side. She is bending really nicely on these!On the backside slices – I think the mechanics when she was on your left for the last rep were the best – she was line up properly, you were moving up the line and then disconnected with a good toy plop. The first couple on the other side weren’t as clear but that last one at 2:04 was great!
For both of these skills, begin adding more distance, starting her further away. Then you can add more motion!
2 jumps skills – On the wrap on the front side, try to decelerate and turn your feet sooner so it looks different from a slicing RC cue, She was committing really well, but your feet were facing the slice line so it might make it harder to get the slice in the future.
On the 1-2-3 sequence from the wrap – the full post turn works at 3:01 and 3:32 but I think it takes longer to ‘snap’ around to the new connection so her turn was wider. The spin move on 2 and staying tucked in on the inside of the wings will tighten up the turn and line to 3.
Circle wrap – these are going well too – her commitment on these is really strong, both going to the backside AND taking the bar! And her turning looks lovely too.
>>I tried SO hard to be in the right place and off her line for those last BC and watched later from my perfect camera angle to see me in her way; lol!!>>
Bwahahaha yes, got out of the way! Plan your running line to try to let her see the wing for a heartbeat longer so she can get past you. You were blocking the wing at 3:41 and 4:02 so she had to go all the way around you, widening the line to the backside. Your running path should be to where the wing meets the bar.
Same with the send to the slice – don’t block the wing 🙂 On this one, your running path should be towards the center of the bar. That will give her a clearer view and also make it easier for you to outrun her for when you need to get past the exit wing.
And plop the toy in sooner on the backsides as you leave, to reward her decision to go to the backside (which she did really nicely!!) You were a little late at 4:46 – it was earlier at 5:03 but can be even earlier to really expand the default behavior of looking at the bar. There is so much countermotion on those backside slices that we want to get the reward in nice and early 🙂
Great job!
Tracy
