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Hi! Feedback is very boring for this one – fabulous! That is really all I have to say about it LOL
More specifics on the fabulous:
Dublin thought lunch training was GREAT FUN! His stays looked great he was focusing on the cookie target, and moved really well through the grid. Yay! I am proud of him for holding the stay – that cookie was a long way away 🙂 but he was perfect waiting for the release.
Since this went well, onwards to the next steps! The next step is to move to a moving target instead of a stationary reward target. You can lead out and start t he moving target where the cookie target was here, then release and walk forward dragging it. This might challenge his stay a bit more (so definitely keep mixing in rewards like you did). And it will also get more power from him so you might see him get off balance sometimes? But I think if that happens, he will adjsut immediately and it will look great.
If the moving target gets added and it is still looking fabulous? Onwards to the advanced level where we change the visual picture and angle the jumps.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
The lunch break training looked great! And hopefully not too hot.
She looked good here too – it looks like you were dragging the toy (the camera didn’t catch the toy) and she did great! You can definitely move to the advanced level with the angled jumps.
>The neighbor let her dog out mid-way through and I completely lost Macklynn’s focus >
Does the dog bark or fence fight, or is it simply the presence of the other dog? If there is barking or even collar tag jangling noises, you can record it with your phone or get barking noises on YouTube, and play them on a low volume in the house while doing fun things: tugging with favorite toys, or doing tricks, for example.
If it is the presence of the other dog without noise, you can peek back to the under pressure games from MaxPup 1 and start to add novel tings to the environment, so she learns to ignore anything in the environment even if it is really interesting.
Nice work here!
Tracy
Hi!
>I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time the last couple days either walking around my house practicing moving in the open/serp upper body position, or walking the rear cross lines in the yard>
This is relatable 🙂 Walking around the house is the best practice LOL!
And the temperatures sound gross! The lighting on the videos was still good, no worries about them being too dark.
Looking at the rear crosses: she is getting the idea going to the left, and that was also where your line was the best! And you were making good adjustments when you were too early (which pushed her to the backside).
One suggestion on this setup to smooth it out is to start it a little differently. Start with her lined up at your side – the side closer to the jump. Send her around the side of the wing (in this setup, the side without jump cups) and then do a FC on the wing. Going straight from tugging to the wrap and sending her around the outside of the wing doesn’t give you time to set up your RC line, plus sending as a post turn lines her up to jump the wrong way or trying to be earlier pushes her off the front of the jump
She was getting it on the left turns (probably her stronger turn direction) but I think you will be able to get it in both directions with that small adjustment to the start!
The jumping video looked really good – super nice stay and it looks like she had no trouble looking for the toy on the ground without breaking the stay. Her form is good here! That means you can go to the next steps: it looks like you were a few feet past the last jump and started dragging the toy on the last rep for sure. You can keep going with that – lead out 8 to 10 feet past jump 3 and drag the toy when you release her. If she still looks good like she did here, you can angle the jumps a bit too! That creates a different visual which can also be challenging for her.
The strike a pose proofing game also went really well – it is definitely challenging with the tunnel right there 🙂 She did great on the first serp rep but then went into tunnel mode a bit after the first tunnel rep. If that happens, you can change the angle of her start position and have her facing you more and not on the line to the tunnel. You can also call her name and shake the serp hand. Your upper body position was good but shaking the hand can make it even more obvious in the presence of the tunnel. You were wiggling your fingers a bit and that helped 🙂
>We did attempt the Diamond Handling Game in our arena time and Macklynn LOVED getting to run and practice her turn/wrap verbals and tunnel, but my exhausted brain completely neglected to do the blind cross. I’ll try to do it correctly and get a video uploaded this weekend.>
Fun! And even without the blinds, it is still a fun game for practicing sequences 🙂
>When I come across course maps, I’ve been mentally walking them to practice/reinforce some of the new-to-me verbals>
Good for you! That is smart!
>But my understanding at this point is that 1) would be a true wrap (or ‘dig’ for eM), >
Yes, a normal wrap cue
>2) would still use a wrap verbal (?) because she would cross back over the plane of the obstacle, >
It depends on where the bar is, if it is a jump. If there is no bar (like a barrel) then yes it can be a wrap cue like the turn and burn game 🙂 If there is a bar that the dog goes over before turning left here, then yes, it is a front side wrap cue.
But if the bar is on the other side (the dog goes to the wing, turns left, *the* see the bar), then it can be a backside circle wrap/360 cue.
>3) would be a true ‘left’. I’m assuming it’s not necessarily a rigid concept, so a loose interpretation would be the little sketch below in pink?>
Yes – the left verbal does have some collection to it, so it is almost a 90 degree turn. If it is a gentle left turn, it doesn’t have to be a left because there is not a lot collection to it. Let me know if that makes sense!
Great job here!
TracyGood morning!
> I definitely do think I try to over- help with cues sometimes, especially when I don’t trust her to follow through. My brain feels so broken in half between running Kida and Sól. Hard to break habits I have with Kida when running Sól!>
This is totally normal! We all feel like this with our young dogs because we are still figuring out how much help they need or don’t need. I promise the feeling will only last a few more years LOL!!! But you will get used to running them both and it will be much easier and a TON of fun!
The threadle session went well! The backside send on jump 2 looked great! On the first few reps, the timing of the threadle cue was late: you were starting it as she landed from the jump before the threadle. That made her a bit wide.
You got clearer with the threadle arms too – at :33 and :49, you were giving her more visible arm cues back to her. You probably don’t need the opposite arm as part of the threadle arm as long as you swing the dog-side arm back to cue the threadle.
The threadle wrap at 1:02 was really nice! And it set up better timing on the threadle slice: you were giving that info as soon as she got to the wing and before she took off so that was her best line here.
And one thing to do on every threadle setup is to also balance with no-threadle reps, like keeping her on the line to the backside of the jump. That will help you know more about her response to the timing or if she is getting on autopilot because she has sorted out the sequence.
The driving ahead sequences looked great! She definitely likes the GO GO GO to the reward out ahead 🙂 Two ways to expand on that:
start to raise the height on just the first jump of the Go line to add a little more challenge and see if she can stay balanced while actually jumping a bit. We will gradually increase the height on all the bars 🙂You can also move the reward target further away (or tuck it behind a wing :)) so it is less visible – that way it becomes easier to fade out 🙂
The distance work is going really well! She was definitely thinking HARD about finding the line after the tunnel under the dog walk – super!!
The camera angle has a good view of the threadle arm – your right arm at :13 is pointed more to the jump so it doesn’t open up your upper body as much to make it visible to her at a distance of when she is behind you – she was checking in a lot there. You can swing the dog side arm back and show her more of the threadle arm. That will really make things visible when she is behind or at a distance (or both).Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
>So you asked if we had gotten closer to other dog distractions in class. We did not. We were still working in the back ring. It had simpler handling setups. We will see what this week brings.>
No worries, it is better to get lots of success into the bank!
>We did some work today on the drive ahead handling. He is much cleaner at jumping when he is sure of the path and does not have me in the picture.>
That makes sense – he only has to process his mechanics and not his mechanics AND your motion/position. He is likely to be a dog that loves verbals because he can process that and think about how to execute it rather than have to also watch the handling to see what to do.
He was figuring out the straight line really well! He did best when you were running more at the start of the line (:53) but you can also build up the driving ahead with you further behind and not running as much: you can put the reward target (MM) between the 1st and 2nd jumps on the go line after the tunnel, then between the 2nd and 3rd jumps, then eventually past jump 3.
Looking at the RC timing: the first one at 1:01 was a surprise to him partially because he had done a bunch of straight lines but also because it was late: you can freeze the video as he was taking off for the rear cross jump and the RC hadn’t really started yet.
The next RC reps had excellent adjustments to show the info soon! You can also send to 1 from further away (1:10) so you can be closer to the line for the RC when he takes off for the jump after the tunnel (1:13) It was definitely an earlier cue for the RC at 1:14, but giving it one or two strides earlier will help with the bar. You were even earlier on the last rep (yay!) and he was predicting where to go, so the bar stayed up, Super!! You can also lock the bars into the wing so he doesn’t get desensitized to them falling as he learns to power through the jumping.
He had trouble with the bar on the send to 1. Have you ever done ‘organizers’ with him on the takeoff side of a jump? What I mean by that is does a nice, tight sit on the takeoff side of the jump on a platform (sit platform or Cato plank) then you release him to go over the bar from the sit. That helps him organize and push from his rear rather than lift from the front and hang his rear over the bar. I am guessing he has a tight sit skill & platform from his fitness work. It looks like this, from when Contraband was his age and learning how to organize:
Then you can change your position to make it more of a send.
>We are entered in one run at AKC this weekend to work on some of the things from class.>
FUN!!! Get video of all the things! I am excited to hear about it all!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Oh no humping toy. Don’t think Dublin will do that yet. Got to love this time of their lives 😂>
Teenage boys 🤣😂 🤷♀️Mine started it by humping his leash in public on a potty walk at a rest stop. I guess it was a really exciting rest stop LOL We did get some interesting looks from other people LOL
He was definitely a happy excited dude at class! Great tugging but also great focus and engagement on his ‘job’. Yes, it might be that the work schedule has changed his daily routine but also it could be the glorious air conditioning at the Farm compared to the humidity and distractions of the great outdoors 🙂 Either way: he did great! I like training when they are a bit wild, because that is more like the arousal state you will see at trials!
You can add in some rewards for NOT moving when you put your serp arm in position – you had releases happening at the same time as the hand movement so he was pairing the release with the hand movement. To maintain the stay, you can put you hand/arm into serp position (but don’t release) then throw a rewaard to him. And sometimes put your hand/arm into position, praise, wait a moment… then release. Try to avoid having it all simultaneous.
The serp that he missed (1:59) was more about him breaking the stay when you moved your arm, and not about the serp 🙂
2:23 & 2:43 did look like threadle cues there, he could see you through the gap. And the threadle you deliberately cued at the end looked awesome!
There was a discussion about how to reward towards the end: Yes, rewarding across the body for now with the non-serp arm is correct because it produces the ‘go back out’ line we want on serps and threadles.
You can increase the challenge of this game by changing the jump position relative to the tunnel entry. In this session, the tunnel entry was parallel to the bar. You can turn the jump 90 degrees so the tunnel entry is perpendicular to the bar – in other words, the tunnel entry is highly visible in front of him when you release him and he can see directly into the tunnel 🙂
> Later in class we did some tunnel exits for our 2nd turn. Need to get that video from my friend. We had more distance between obstacles and it didn’t go as great but there were some good things for sure. Will share that later.>
Looking forward to the video! Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
I agree – he liked this a lot 🙂 It is real agility and he kept getting faster and faster 🙂
He had no questions about finding the jump even with it further away and with you getting further away too. Super!!!
The next step is to build it up even more 🙂 A couple of ideas for you:
When he exits the tunnel, add more connection by looking at him and not pointing to the line. And instead of praising or using his name between the tunnel and the jump (that gets him to look at you), switch to a jump verbal or a Go verbal. Don’t throw the toy until you see him locked onto the jump.
And you can vary your position even more: two sklls to show him are you being further away lateral (closer and closer to the start wing) and getting him to drive ahead of you more. To get him driving ahead more on this setup, you can run down to the tunnel entry instead of sending him, then start moving forward. This is where the Go or jump verbal and connection will really help support him as he drives ahead to the jump.
Great job here!
TracyGood morning!
>I am really struggling to get up the lines, and it is really obvious that I am over-supporting things because I don’t trust the skill.>
This is a perfect time of year to break down this skill to build it up, especially now that big event season is almost finished. Do you have the jumping course still set up? You can isolate the send sections – starting 3 or 4 obstacles before the sends then do the big send, then throw a reward to the landing spot area as you drive away. We can mark the ground with a line or something so you organize the send to not go too close to the jump. On Course 1, the big sends would be to jump 3 and jump 17.
>Two significant problems that I don’t know how to efficiently solve is her increasingly terrible start line>
Let’s look at the start line first: is this mainly a trials? She has been pretty good with the stays in recent training videos. I will go back through the other videos to see the practice stays too.
> She even tripped the eyes at Nationals because she creeped forward and messed up a faster time on a clean run. >
Do you have video of this run? I am interested in seeing when the movement is happening. And feel free to make a bad-stay compilation video 🙂 The training is going to be to have much clearer criteria of what is allowed – and it really needs to be incredibly black & white otherwise it will be a lifelong struggle. That can include adding more criteria to the stay so she is anticipating the release less (and doing it in ultra high arousal) and also maintaining the stay so that zero movement is acceptable and communicating that any movement is incorrect without developing stress or frustration.
>The big course running and troubleshooting without stopping is great and has made a difference, but I feel like I’ve hit a plateau and am now compensating for weak skills.>
It has made a big difference! And also, don’t think of it as compensating, think of it as finding the weaker skills and now we focus on them very specifically.
> her tendency to run past backside slices. I’ve had to really over-handle backside slices and it really made things difficult this week at two seminars where she wouldn’t commit to the bar without my support, so I couldn’t leave and it ruined the next part of the course.>
Taking the bar needs to be automatic, so isolating that in training now with a reward thrown on the landing side every time is going to be key: indicate the push to a backside and as she commits to the backside entry wing, you drop the reward in on the landing spot while moving to your next position. Don’t handle the bar – the backside cues are compound cues (‘go to the other side and jump the bar’) so the reward should be instant without requiring a 2nd cue. Getting the reward in immediately creates a conditioned response to look at the bar – this is using classical conditioning more than operant conditioning because it gets her to automatically look at the bar and go over it, rather than have to make a decision about it. If throwing it is too hard due to distance, you can place it there, tucked in near the wing. Start with a low bar so it is very easy for her to jump the bar (4 or 8 inches).
And you will find the send commitment work and the backside commitment work will help build each other up – it is really the same “jump the jump automatically” concept.
Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
>I’m back home after a fantastic week with Skizzle in Colorado, including 3 days at the Danish Swedish Farmdog national specialty. >
It looked like an amazing event! I know a whole bunch of folks who were there and it was fun following their adventures 🙂
> Best laid plans – I thought we’d practice and video some pre-trial activities – but, I didn’t. >
No worries! You were busy having a great time 🙂
>Good news is that we used some of the pattern games with food before some events. Skizzle handled the environment well, and was engaged with me.>
That is fantastic! What a grand adventure!!!!
He did well on the video! He was leaping into the tunnel 🤣 I don’t think I have seen him do that before! And there was a delay on him exiting on a couple of the early reps, not sure why. The connection on the opening line of the sequence looked great!
He gave good feedback on showing the line: When you turned a little too early at :19 or pulled away from the line too much at :38 & 1:19, he didn’t take the green jump. But when you connected more and stepped towards the line at :31 & :50 & 1:14, he got it with no problem. It will get easier as he gets more experienced 🙂 but he keeps you on your toes for now!
>but actually changed how I moved – he came right with me >
He was super good! You did the tunnel threadle as a FC here, changing sides to get it and it worked well. The other option is to keep him on the same side, turning like a post turn then using the outside arm to cue the tunnel threadle. So if he is on your left for the 3 jumps before it, keep him on your left side and use the right arm to show the in-then-out to change the line to the other side of the tunnel.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
He did really well with the left/right minny pinny game! He loves the action of it for sure 🙂 and the toy play. He doesn’t love waiting for you to send him LOL so 2 things you can add:
-have him line up at your side and gently hold his collar, so you can start saying the verbal when you are ready and he can’t start without you (this also buys you time to remember which darned word to use LOL)-also, since we are working on building up his food love, you can send him through the left or right, give him a cookie… then give him the toy 🙂 The work is already rewarding, the toy is very rewarding, so you can actually make ‘happy eating’ what we are training using this game 🙂
>I think I will have a harder time remembering which way he needs to turn during trials as I will be nervous.>
We practice this a ton in these early stages, then work the verbals in the walk throughs in training and at trials. So when you get to a trial run, the verbals will feel easy and natural 🙂
He was super good with the set point jumping! Stay is NOT his favorite thing 🙂 but he was so good about letting you lead out and put the toy on the ground! You were reminding him to stay and I think that helped a lot. Good boy!!!
His form is looking good for this – he wants to go FAST but he was also being good about trying to control his movement and NOT let his butt get too high over the bar 🙂 Yay! To challenge him more, you can go to the ladder grid (3 jumps). He will have to really control his striding and core on that!
>I am thinking I might be taking this class again, just because of timing…we will see how much progress I feel we can make.>
He is doing well with all the new stuff, so see how it goes! He is really loving all of the action, which is helping him learn really fast too. Great job!
Tracy
Hi!
>I can try running a little more. I think the suggestion of starting near the wing will help and also doing more go’s.>
Think of the motion as a fast walk/slow job – we do NOT want to make your ankle angry!
>For the other games this week do you think it is ok to do the ladder the same day as another game if the time is spread out? >
Yes, absolutely 🙂 That will work well!
>I am finding new job will get in the way of doing something every day especially if the weather doesn’t cooperate. These newer games have more movement so don’t want to overdo with him. >
Good job looking out for him! He is still really young. But a couple of minutes of wind in your hair and a couple of minutes of the ladder, for example, can all be done on the same day.
>At 10 months I do question his adolescent stuff showing more too lol.>
Well, yes, I am sure it is LOL. but that is more in the form of ‘noticing’ and being more sensitive to things in the environment, like all those sirens. At least he is not humping his toy during training (in public) like my adolescent dog is doing LOL
Have fun!
Tracy
Hi! This went super well!!!! Lots of great execution!
I really liked the walk through – the only questions I had were getting the backside at 12 and 13 the jump before the weavers.
On the line to 12 in the walk through, you were cueing it with a high dog-side arm (:21) which usually pulls her off the line (turns your shoulders away from the line and blocks connection).
But at 1:05 in the run, you were massively connected and used the outside arm at 1:06 to convince her to go the backside while you layered the weaves – yay! Lovely!
For the 13 on the walk through, I was not sure what the plan was: wrap or slice? During run 1, there was too much motion through the flip away so she read it as a left turn wrap (nice job continuing there at 1:09!)
Working that section in isolation: think of it as more of a RC on the flat to set up the turn: decelerate and get her focus on your hands as she lands from the previous jump (12). Then flip her away 🙂
The BC there followed by the wrap worked GREAT! The hard part is to get here in time (see below for ideas :)) The RC option you chose was best, based on where you would be coming from the previous line.
Saving the line on the first run made the BC after the weaves a little late but you got it done! The timing on the BC in the next run (1:50) was great! She came out of the poles on the blind, as soon as the toy in your right hand was visible. A good experiment would be to try that blind really early with the toy in the new hand very visible. Then try a blind at the same timing, with no toy in your hand: is it the toy, or the blind which is challenging her?
You don’t need to reward her if that happened (I know I am a pain about rewarding all the things, but that can mainly apply to things that are potentially handler error). You marked the oopsie before she got to the next jump, basically as soon as it happened, so you can withhold reward. We just don’t want to keep withholding reward or get multiple failures, it is better to sort out why it is happening.
She got the weaves really well on the last rep through them, so I think the experiment of “why is she pulling out there” should be when she is fresh on the first run through it, then try the other option on a different run.
The threadle on 16-17 might have been set even harder than on the map, making the line to the threadle side of 17 very hard so you got a little spin on the first full run. It was gorgeous when you revisited it at the end of the video – so that spot plus a couple of others made me start wondering if we can get you further up the line by working more on sending her away with you further back (rather than moving into the lines).
Here is what I mean:
You sent her kilometers away from you to 6 (having the DW there made it kind of mandatory to do that, plus the BC 8-9 required the big send there too.You can run that section with your arm down, though – she easily went to the tunnel on motion and verbals, and having your arm down will get you to the BC 8-9 faster!
The 9 jump is a place I think a BIG send will make the next line easier: decelerate into the blind and give her one step to 9, then leave to get down the line. That will put the send closer to the landing of 8, which is closer to the backside at 12 and the potential blind 12-13 🙂 You got relatively close to 9 and decelerated into a rotation: super nice turn on 9! But you had to really hustle to get 12 and 13. I bet a send to 9 will get the same turn and get you up the line to 12-13 sooner.
Another option is to forgo the BC entirely – this is a perfect spot to flip her away into the layer 🙂 So she is on your left for 8-9, flip away from as far back as possible – then you layer the weaves, converge to the 12 backside and get the BC 12-13 🙂
Another spot to do more of a send is 15, the jump after the weaves. It was well-executed to do the BC and send her, but you got close to 15 which made 16-17 much harder. You can do the BC right at the weave exit and send to 15 as far away as possible – which will get a nice turn and also easily get you to 16-17 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi! Thank you for the update!!!
>Just got results for Lennan today and he is indeed dealing with Lyme. >
Poor buddy!!! But at least you know what it is and can get meds on board.
>The Quant C6 test had a result of 428 where 0-30 is considered normal/not affected. >
YIKES. That explains a lot. Numbers like that and he still gets on a podium at Nationals and wins his way onto the World Team? What a good boy <3
>Thyroid was all normal. >
Super!
>He hasn’t been tested for B12/folate, but I guess we will complete the doxy treatment and see where he’s at.>
It is a couple of hundred bucks for the test, but you can also just supplement because it is water soluble and his body will pee out what he doesn’t use.
>Interesting that the timing of the vaccine was so coincidental as it was a Lyme vaccine and not the first time he had received it. >
Ticks are tricky bastards. Interestingly, we sent out a tick panel for my Ramen today – he was a little more noise sensitive recently, more concerned about his feet than usual… then had a massive reduction in appetite in the last 10 days or so. The initial bloodwork was a little weird but basically inconclusive (there is something happening, but we don’t know what). The vet prescribed doxy because they are happy to prescribe it early on here because there are sooooo many tick issues.
The good news is that the meds are great and Lennan will be back to normal very soon (faster than rehabbing an injury!)
>I do normally like to give my dogs maintenance probiotics. Aelfraed unfortunately will no longer accept them. I have tried a few kinds but temporarily gave up as he only has a few types of food he will reliably eat and I don’t want to turn him off his food.>
Oh Aelfraed, Shelties are supposed to be easy when it comes to food! LOL! And I agree, we don’t want to turn him off. I wonder if we can bake it into some fancy buttered bread or something.
>He has to have these in a separate dish as he is offended if his supplements are contaminated with food and he can’t fully enjoy them. Such a funny little guy.>
He is so funny! He sounds like some of my friends who won’t let different parts of their meal touch on the plate 🙂
Keep me posted!
Tracy
Hi!
I love how you are including walk throughs for ALL of this! Yay!
Looking at the walk through – you can definitely be more conencted to the invisible dog in the walk through 🙂 remember that she is behind you on a lot of the planned handling, so remember to look back for her.
The pace of the walk through is actually faster than the pace of the run – but that is pribably a good thing, because it might give you the feeling of having more time and not being as rushed in the run. You didn’t looked rushd during her actual runs here!
The only thing that seemed like it might not work was the threadle to spin at 17-18… it caught my eye as “wait what happened there?” and I think she had the same response during the runs 🙂
The questions she had during the opening of the runs had nothing to do with the handling – it was all about the toy being on the ground out there. She was thinking about the toy, got sticky, you got too far ahead… Leaving the toy there to work through it while running courses is just making her stickier and then you get annoyed with it and that makes her stickier and then the handling goes sideways.
So for now, when doing course work: don’t leave the toy there for 2 reasons:
first, the toy on the ground needs to be worked through in isolation (using the Under Pressure games).
second, having it there at the end when she runs to it is rehearsing the undesired behavior of running to it when she sees motion in that direction. Yes, you did say “get it” but she was already locked on it so would have gone to it even if you had said “free tacos at hte weave poles” LOL!! So for now, let’s take that question out and train it separately.That way you can get a clean turn on 3 and drive her up the next line. What was happening was as she was getting sticky, you were getting ahead and decelerating- and the high arm/shoulder turn was pulling her off the line (she was unsure and looking at you). You can connect more and use a GO rather than a jump verbal, with a lower arm – and having her not take detours after 3 will make setting the line a lot easier. Eventually the toy will get added back but she is not quite ready for that.
Everything else went super well (excpet for 16-17-18). I LOVED the aggressive blind to the poles. All of the other lines looked strong, including getting the blind at the end.
Muso agreed with me, saying that the rotation at 17-18 was confusing. I don’t think the rotation got you to 19 sooner because you had to really support 18 – I think one more step of forward-facing support there without rotating will get the line very easily.
She only had one other questin, on the 2nd run, where she went past the bar on the jump before the weaves. The BC was a little late and the verbal might have been too quiet (I only heard one quiet verbal that was before the previous jump).. It is possible that she read it as a layering cue, with you running parallel to her line. You can finish it sooner and head to the poles soner like you did at 1:16 to show her the difference, and keep repeating the backside cue so she doesn’t miss it.
Nice work here! YouTube says course 2 is stll processing, so you might need to reload it?
Tracy
Hi!
> First part of clip here is taking your suggestion and doing a blind from 6-7 with push. Is that what you meant? >
Yes – that was it! You can totally take off when he is heading to the tunnel to get past the jump after the tunnel for the blind. He will love the chasing there 🙂
Pop Out 4 – this went well! He read the lines well and the teeter layering went well too! And he supported my idea that he loves it when you take off ahead of him on a line by kicking into a high gear of speed when you took off on the 8-9-10 line 🙂
He had a question about the threadles – he was looking at you at :10 (2-3) and :22 (6-7). Your shoulders were turned forward like a post turn, so he was not sure if he should go back out to the next jump. You can give earlier info on the threadle by having your dog-side arm back and eyes on his eyes – that will rotate your shoulders to the line and help cue the in-then-out of the threadle.>Since pop out 5 had that same sequence in opening, I actually pushed him to backside of right wing for fun. It seemed to work out ok, but probably would take longer. >
It might actually be faster, because there were fewer collections/more extension, and the same or similar yardage. He did well with it and was fast!!
He also really liked the blind cross 6-7, where you sent to 5 and took off to get past 6 for the blind. He kicked in more speed, chasing your line 🙂
>Also in PO 5, I must have lost connection from 10-11. Tried again with better success.
Yes – on the first run at :48, as he was landing from 10, you were looking forward and pointing forward. Since he was behind you, that could have indicated a blind cross so he was watching you for more info and wasn’t sure where to be. You were more connected at :51, but remember that having your arm up to show the line ahead of him often results in disconnection. He will see the line better if your arm is pointing back to him so you can look for his eyes (and he can see your eyes :))
>In 6 I decided to do the threadle again from 1-2-3.
Pop out 6 also looked strong! Bringing him to the threadle side of 2 went well, he is very solid with this skill. But I think pushing him to the other side of 2 will be faster – it is a pretty straight line to the backside of 2, and the slice will be faster than the wrap. That is also something to play with on jump 7: pushing him to the far wing (next to the teeter) rather than pulling to the wrap. Yes, the far wing of 7 opens up the teeter-jump discrimination but it highly likely to be the faster line.
Great job here!
Tracy
