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I think the angled approach to serp training worked a lot better for her – you were able to tighten the jumps up really quickly! And she got the idea beautifully and all you had to do was run forward showing the serp cue. Yay! So the next step would be to add a 3rd jump, still with all the jumps slightly angled. When she can do that, you can work them all back to being flat.
>>Is this class over now?
Yes, today is the last day.
>>And …. talk to me about CAMP. I have a not-too-large space, 5 jumps, a tunnel, weaves and a teeter. What do you think? What can we do for Demi?
CAMP has 3 different sizes of courses: a tiny one with skills that has 2 or 3 jumps. A bigger one with a tunnel and a couple of jumps, and then “full” courses (that you can also just do parts of) So you will be plenty busy in a not-too-large space 🙂
Grear job with Demi in this class, she is really looking great!!
TracyHi!
Yes, I think she was anticipating that when you arrive in position off the start line, look at her, put your hand in place… release is next so she was very ready. Too ready haha!! So you can show her the entire physical process and physical cue… and separate it from the actual verbal release by either praising then releasing or praising and throwing a reward back. She wasn’t being naughty… just being an over-achiever haha!!!
Nice job on the sequences!!! First rep – really lovely! Nice connection and running line! She had a question on the last jump heading back to the tunnel at :12 – you can open up your chest to her more so she can do the in-and-out serpentine – your shoudler was forward poitning your chest to the tunnel, so she came in and looked at you (not sure of the go back out element). It will look like how you handled the first jump on this rep and also the first jump on the next rep.
I love how you call her a rock star… because it is true LOL!! She is growing up to be SO AWESOME!!
2nd rep – really nice serp cue on the lead out! A bit of broken connection caused her to miss 4 at :58 – it was what I call “soft” connection where your arm came forward a little bit and you were looking forward to the green jump. She came in to you. Ideally, your arm would stay back and your eyes would be on her eyes the whole time… but also you can revisit the lazy game where you stroll by that jump with a bit of pointing and minimal connection and reward when she takes it. Her lack of experience requires you to be super connected, but we can also teach her to pick up the lines even if you are not entirely perfect 🙂 Perfect is impossible but training the lines is totally possible – so when I make a handling error of soft connection, I often repeat the sequence twice (or that section of the sequence): first repeat is ‘lazy’ to help the dog learn to cover my butt when I screw up. And 2nd repeat is a better attempt on connection from me so I can learn to be more perfect 🙂
The next rep had better connection! You can ramp up the connection even more but also I am glad she was finding the lines even when the connection wasn’t perfect. Yay!!
Great job on these!!!
TracyHi!
>>, I am planning on having two different verbals one for the backside slice and one the backside wrap, I have not started training the back side wrap, so yes, thanks for the reminder of the toy/reward position. I thought about it mid way through this training.
I think you can start training the backside wrap verbal on a wing where he does a full circle (360 degrees) around it – I am 99% sure I have seen him do this 🙂 And the verbal on the wing there is fine because that is the only time he will do a full circle around the wing (no a “U turn” wrap).
T
Hi there!
Threadle video – the first rep was the best rep in terms of line of motion, where your feet were facing the line of travel and you didn’t turn them – on the next reps, you were turning your feet and then it became all about the physical timing of the foot rotation. So send to the first jump and head towards the MM – with your upper body doing a bit of turning. I think you are using the dog-side arm too much and it is turning your feet, so less arm motion will help you be able to move forward. Using the dog-side arm only on those threadles means it is mainly a verbal cue, so you don’t need as much of a physical rotation as you work through these.
Jump grid: I think on the first rep she just needed a warm up on the MM as the target – she was looking at you and not really powering. THe 2nd rep was much better! On the 3rd rep, she came in with more extension lost her balance and flung herself to save it LOL! Oopsie. She fixe it on the last rep – so it is a good thing to keep showing her motion on these grids to challenge her to stay nice and balanced.
Serp sequences – the serping is looking great!! She is finding the serp jump really nicely on the first 2 reps out of the tunnel! You can be closer to it so you don’t have turn turn your shoulders forward to cue the next jump.
On the 3rd rep at :13, you used an arm change on the serp – I think a threadle is a better place for an arm change and the one-arm serp is easier like you did on :20 (next rep) – that rep was really lovely!On the threadles- I suggest backchaining them – starting her in the gap between the 2 jumps then gradually working backwards to add in the previous jump. She was not getting it while you were moving properly, so you were altering your movement and adding motion changes… so it did pull her in but it didn’t teach her to threadle. The foot movement (running line) you did at 1:33 was completely correct – feet facing forward up the line. But she doesn’t yet disciminate the verbal cue & arm from the motion – so keeping the correct line of travel (no foot rotation and not change of motion, keeping it a steady pace), you can isolate the exit of the previous jump to the last jump and work through that with you moving (catch yourself if you end up turning your feet!). To get it on a verbal only/one arm threadle will take a little longer – I am a bit too instant gratification for that, which is why I use an arm change on the hard threadle lines like this one. Be careful of rewarding for just coming in through the gap, as the in in means come in AND go back out, so breaking down the cue to get both parts will make it smoother and easier. The other thing you can do is angle the jumps slightly so the correct side is easier to see, and then you can keep moving through them. For example, on the tunnel exit, you can angle the next jump so that is it harder to see the incorrect line, and easier to get into the gap for the correct side of the jump. Then you can gradually angle them back, while maintaining the motion and line of travel. The key is to get the motion installed as part of the cue. Threadles are one of the hardest skills!
Great job on these! She is really blossoming 🙂 See ya in CAMP!!
Tracy
Hello and welcome!!!! That is a great profile photo 🙂 Can’t wait to see more of you and Juno!!
Tracy
Hi! Welcome and have fun with your boys 🙂 I am looking forward to hearing how they do with the challenges!
Tracy
Hi! Welcome 🙂
You can do the skills and sequences as much as possible at home, and then maybe apply them to the set up you find in your training center? I believe they don’t really let you move things, but we can get creative 🙂T
