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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!!!
TI totally agree, you two are becoming a fabulous team!!! I’m honored to be able to watch him grow up 🙂
Hi there!
Yay for the RDW training! And yes, if you are using the mat training for the flyball box turn, I agree that it needs to look pretty different. But we do mark similar things – back feets even though the rest of the body is different. On the video, reps 1 & 2 were clicked for front feet so she nailed rep 3 as front feet… but didn’t get clicked. The next reps had a bit more confusion because of that but then you got several rear feet clicks in a row so the session ended up strong. So for the RDW, you can stare at the mat to obsess on rear feet only, then either call her back to you around the mat (not over it) for a tug toy moment, then reset & restart, or let her play a bit of back-and-forth and reward good hits as she is coming towards you. The back and forth over the mat is a fun element (I clicked her rear feet on the mat even when she was coming towards me, either with a clicker in my hand to reward near me or with the MM and she went back to it) but I didn’t use a mat in flyball for the box turn (only used it for the RDW).wrap blinds:
these are hard, they feel so weird at first LOL! Everyone wants to do them as spins which is what you did on the 1st rep. But then you got it nicely! It helps that her commitment is really strong so you can turn away and do the blind. As you got more comfortable, you started doing the blinds earlier. My favorite was at :53ish, when you started it just as she was arriving at the wing. You can even start them sooner, when she is one stride from the wing (throw a reward back to her at the wing if she questions commitment). The earlier you start, the better her turn was and also the sooner you can leave for the next line 🙂Slice blinds: going nicely too! Nice emphasis on your exit line connection too, she could immediately read the blinds. As with the wrap blinds – as you gain more and more comfort, you can push the timing up to start the blind as early as one stride before the wing. You were starting it as she was maybe halfway around the wing. Her commitment looks really solid, so I bet starting sooner will be easy (motion supports commitment on these) but you can also throw rewards back to her at the wing if she asks any questions.
Really nice work on these!!
Tracy
Hi!
Shaping sessions can go on for a while when the dog is doing all the work, so remember to set a timer so you can keep it to 2 or 3 minutes. Or limit the number of treats you bring to the session so you end it when there are no more cookies (maybe 20 treats). This was a 5 minute session, but I didn’t get the sense that it went on too long – he didn’t get tired or give up. So throwing in a longer session sometimes seems to be just fine with him, during these “thinking” games where he has to solve the puzzle to get the treats.Sitting directly in front of the plank (giving him just enough room to get on the board) will smooth him out and straighten him out on the plank. He doesn’t need to play this with you off to the side – I think your position was why he was a bit sideways. And being in front of the plank will also help him realize you want the plank – off to the side leaves too many options. Also, try not to help him out with verbals or hand motions – that will direct his focus to things you don’t want his focus, so be quiet and stationary (so hard, I know!! LOL!)
And he did a nice job sorting it out – He was definitely happy to get the target & cookies going, so he really was able to think about where to put his hind end and front feet , even with you off to the side. Good boy!!!! He persevered all the way through the session and was a super clever boy!
Good job getting some toy play between reps! Not so easy with all the food right there but it went really well. Nice work!
T
Yay! You are getting it! Nice! On the 2nd and 3rd reps, you started the blind really early (before he got to the wing) and that made it work really nicely. You were pretty late on the 1st rep (you made sure he was all the way around before starting it) so it wasn’t as smooth. Keep on with your mechanics of the 2nd and 3rd rep – trust his commitment so you can start nice and early 🙂
T
Hi! The footwork on the wrap and on the slice looked really good. Think about sending and running away more rather than staying near the wing. On the blind, you run towards the wing then directly away from it (back to where you started). This is what you were doing, it looked good! On the slices, you can show the difference by running away on a line that is parallel to the wing, to create the letter “L” with your running path. On your slices here, you were a bit too much like a wrap.
Nice emphasis on connecting on the exit line!!
And nice job getting it done with ChiChi, she will for sure let you know if you were wrong haha!T
Hi!
He did well targeting the mat! He isn’t quite sure about the MM, as you mentioned, so it was not exactly as reward for him. So since Sue lent it to you (thanks, Sue!!!), you can work it separately from the mat – just get him eating from the MM without it moving (I toss treats into it for a while til the dog isn’t afraid of the device) then add the churning wheel sound with high value food, then eventually the bee;ing sound. He is really very food driven so I bet he gets happy with it really fast!
But no need to work on shaping anything with it til he flies to it when he hears it – in this session, he was offering lots on the mat but wasn’t going to the MM for reward, so the mat behavior deteriorated. Keep them separate for now til he thinks the MM is a magical, amazing thing 🙂T
