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Hi there!
RC on the flat: the trick to consistently get her to come in is to draw her to your hand before you step back, then step straight back and not to the wing. At :16 and :30 and :41 you had the slight delay on the leg but at :22 and :52 and 1:0 and 1:260, for example, you moved too quickly (you might have also been too close to the wing to give her enough room to squeeze in there). This cue can be done pretty slowly, to get her focused on your hand (I find it helps the young dogs for us to look at our hands too!)
About the verbal… what does “close” mean? Threadle? If can work for this, but usualyl in threadles we are moving forward (feet turned the other way) and not rear crossing. So you can consider calling her name here then either a wrap-away cue (or wrap directional).
The dig dig dig on the 2nd part of the video is looking good! You can use a bit less of a hand cue, just kind of pointing towards the wing (like at 2:08) rather than using your hand for the fulll circle. It might have been too hard for her to have the cue hand also have a treat in it, so you can try the empty hand and see if it is easier. Although it was fine with the cookie hand on the other side!And the quick session of one then the other looked really good, your mechanics were crisp & clear so she was able to read the cues nicely!
And her hand touches at the end looked really good! She is not quite as precise when your hand is a high enough that she has to reach up or jump up to do it, but the reps where your hand was nose-level were pretty perfect. Nice!!!
Great job! See ya over in MP 3!!
Tracy
Hi there!
1st rep looked good! On the 2nd rep, she didn’t know which side of you to come to at :13 and :20. This was a conection break, meaning she could no longer see your eyes so she thought maybe it was a blind cross starting, or not sure of which side to be on. So to fix that, keep your dog-side arm low (like it was, yay!) and back – and make a moment of eye contact with her as you turn. The arm back plus eye contact will give her the connection to know which side to be on.
At :28, you show her a cookie and that helps, but compare the :13 and :20 connection with the connection you had at :32 (getting her on your left) and then getting her to your right at :45. Those were really good and she knew where to go.
She did well here on the commitment – she wasn’t quite ready for you to leave really fast, so keeping to smooth for now will allow you to build up to the fast 🙂Jumping shaping:
She loved it! Good girl! And no worries about the big hello to the paparazzi LOL!!! She was also happy to let you expand motion in the lazy game. You can add challenge to this now in 2 ways:
1 – note the 2nd jump out there – you can do a 2 jump in a row lazy game by walking by both of them – rewarding each sometimes, rewarding only the 2nd one sometimes.
2 – you can do the lazy game by starting her on an angle with you a couple of feet away (I like to hold the collar and the let go as I start to walk) and see if she can pick up the jump from angles!Nice work! Have fun!
TracyHi! The arms are fine for this beginning stage because it will feel really unnatural to not use them 🙂 So as long as your leg and arm move together, and your arm stays relatively low, it is fine 🙂 Just use as much of a soft arm cue as the dog needs, without making it feel bizarro or stilted 🙂
T
Yay! He is the perfect age to start layering in these games. Fun!!!!! Can’t wait to see him in action.
Tracy
Hello and welcome!! This will be fun!!!!We can add challenge if anything is too easy 🙂 Fun times ahead!
Tracy
Hello and welcome! Let’s look and see how he does in the commitment games and then figure out what to do about bars. You can have a low bar in the lazy game and see what he does! Lazy game will be key (and I am pretty sure we didn’t do it in MP3 last year LOL!) Running around jumps is generally a commitment question and not a jumping question, but we will figure it out! Plus we have specific jumping skills coming too 🙂
T
Hello and welcome to you and Robie Kenobi!!! So fun to see you here. Looking forward to seeing him in action!!
Tracy
Happy 10 month birthday, Lanna! Welcome! Games will be posted shortly 🙂
Please check out my tunnel question below and let me know 🙂
T
Hellooooooooo! Welcome back – 10 months already, but also only 10 months old. This will be fun.
Please check out my tunnel question below and let me know 🙂
Tracy
Hi there!
These all went well – good job with the mechanics and she was all on board with offering the wing wrapping 🙂 Your cookie placement/rewards were strong throughout, I think the early ones and the late ones were good! Most of all, she was driving in and out of the cues – to your hand then away from you hand, which is exactly what we want. Nice!!!!!!!! You can also use a toy or a ball instead of treats, or an empty hand to draw her in (cookie in the other hand).
Well done!
TracyPerfect! Aaron’s method is turning out a lot of seriously amazing flyball dogs! He is an expert dog trainer, I knew him a while back in agility when I spent more time in Canada, and it has been fun to see him again in flyball. He bred my BorderStaffy.
I’m totally looking forward to MP 3, this group is amazing! MaxPup class of 2019 is turning into some seriously amazing agility dogs, and I have better training ideas this year. The MaxPup Class Of 2020 is going to be fabulous!!!
T
