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Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
>Note: it’s been 90-10” degree here. I am not ok. lol!
It has been a gross summer!! I feel like I live in a tropical rain forest. Ewwwww!
I think my feedback here can be summed up in 4 words:
Less arm, more eyes.When you were connected to her by looking directly at her as you moved, with your arms low and not pointing at the jumps? No problem taking the jumps. When you got pointy by pointing ahead with your arm at shoulder height? She came off the line, because that arm point both blocks connection and changes the line of your shoulders and motion.
If she misses a jump, take it as feedback on connection and keep going 🙂 and if she makes the same ‘mistake’ 🤣😂 a couple of times, watch the video and see if she can see your connection or not.
Looking at the specifics:
Very pointy arm and shoulder turning ahead broke connection so she didn’t take the jump at :14.
At :35 – good connection exiting the tunnel! She had it! Then you pointed and it changed the line so she tried to change the line and came off the jump.
Compare to 1:29 and 2:03 and 3:42 when you had great connection (no arm pointing) and she got the jump after the tunnel, no problem at all. Then you got pointy at 1:31 and 2:05 and she missed the next jump. She actually did a threadle wrap on 2:07 which was clever, because that is kind of what the cue looks like . You moved closer to the jump t 3:44 so she got it even though you were still pointy.
So, don’t be pointy! Run with your arms low and pointing at her if you want to point at something (not at the obstacles parallel to you or ahead).
Another thing to consider is that just about all reward is from your hand right now so she is very tuned in to what your hands are doing. Throwing rewards will make a big difference. If you don’t want her to splat herself chasing the frisbee, you can throw a lotus ball or giant cheese balls or something fun like that.
>My favorite moment was when I tried to pass one on border collie and drop a toy down thinking she didn’t see it>
Haha yes, she totally saw and heard you drop the frisbee. Placing it after the jump gets her going to the jump but does not fix the handling that caused the bloopers 🙂 So be sure to ramp up connection if you are seeing her run past jumps!
Nice work here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! He is doing great with these sequences!!!
>Funny, it really felt like I had connection, but when I watch the video, I can see that my body and head are not really turned toward him as much as they should be.>
I can totally relate to this! I think what you were feeling was the difference between you seeing him peripherally, and him being able to see the full connection.
On the FC wrap video:
>Our first attempt he went really wide – not sure how much of that was me being too late, and him just not attending to cues. T>
He was completely attending to the cues 🙂 His wideness on 4 at :10 was because as he was lifting off, you were still facing the straight line (and not to 5). You had good timing with the wrap cues so he collected at 5 but than as he landed, your dog-side shoulder closed forward and he could not see your full connection (face and front of chest) so he drifted out waiting for more info.
He could see more of your face at :30 so he drove to 6 a lot better.
At :45, you got your shoulders turned to 5 so he had a lovely turn on 4! And a little more connection at :47 helped him find the line there too.
The last rep had really spot on timing for the turns at 4 and 5! Nice!
The one thing to add as you exit the wrap is to look back at him a lot more. That includes looking at him more directly, and also pointing your dog-sided arm all the way back to his nose 🙂 to really open up the visibility of the connection.
Looking at the RC video:
He might be more of a righty than a lefty, but also your right turn info was earlier than your left turn info. On the right turns, you were moving to the center of the RC bar before he made a takeoff decision, so he got it. Yay!On the left turn RCs, you were facing the right turn (post turn) wing until he was gathering for liftoff at :19 and :28, so the info for a RC was late and he couldn’t adjust his line in time.
Placing the toy definitely helps and on that rep at :40, you also had much earlier info too, going to the center of the bar as soon as you saw him exiting the tunnel! Yay! Your info at :52 and 1:00 was great too, and the right turn RC at the end looked lovely too.
It also helped that you moved in closer to the tunnel so you could set the line by moving to the center of the bar.
He did super well with the fluffy blinds, and it sounds like there was another dog working too which he completely ignored! Yay!
The timing of your first BC was good but the 2nd blind at :31 was GREAT. Same with the blind at :44! You started it when he was taking the 3 jump so it was completed when he arrived at 4. Nice job keeping your arms down so he could see the connection!
>Then tried with the spin, with a bar down >
On the bar down rep, you were rotating and running backwards at the same time, so he was not entirely sure of what to do. He kept the bar up at :46 when you only took one step backwards 🙂
I don’t think you were deliberately trying to move backwards – I think what was happening was you were doing the spin at full speed so the momentum pulled you a little backwards. On the last rep (going the other direction) you ht the brakes and did the spin in one spot, and he slipped when he landed at 1:03.
You can eliminate the bar and the slipping by decelerating as you finish the blind, then think of the spin itself as a FC then a BC. So it is 3 things one after the other: decel then FC (as you start moving the next direction) then BC (continuing to move up the next line). That will get the great turn and keep you further ahead.
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
It looks like you are definitely paying attention to the timing details and had a lot of success! Timing, connections, and verbals had a lot of great moments on these reps!!
On the first rep, there was not quite enough connection after the tunnel to get jump 3, but the 2nd rep was really good all the way through. One thing I notice here was your arms are high, which delays timing and blocks connection a bit. So running with lower arms definitely helps you move up the line better and him see the line better too.
The 3rd rep that started at :22 had a really good start – low hands, clear connections, timely verbals, and good BC timing! Good connection after the BC!! More on the bar down on the wrap jump below 🙂
The timing on your blinds are going well – Really good BC timing at :39! And you got even earlier on the next ones – super!
He had a bar down on the jump before the tunnel at :31. Something I notice is that he is not really pushing from his rear there (not just over the bar, but also kind of short striding the line). It happened in a couple of other spots too – he just was not pushing to jump from the rear. Maybe he was hot and needs more significant breaks between reps? Also, does he like getting massage or body work? If he doesn’t want it from other people, you can do it for him to keep him loose, in case the shortening up is coming from a restriction or trigger point somewhere.
He had trouble with the bar on the wrap jump when he was turning to his left. It looks like a decel issue, mainly: your decel is happening when he I pretty close to the bar so he is not shifting his weight back. Since your blind cross timing is really good, you can help him with the wrap after it by decelerating as you finish the blind, so he gets the collection info on time.
I think you were working hard to get right to the wing but that made the decel late so the bar was coming down. And by getting to the wing, you were also running a bit sideways out of the blind so he was not always sure of what line to get on (like at :40) where he hit the bar of the pinwheel jump. So do the blinds with the good timing you had here and running straight to your position… but decel wherever you are when he is over the pinwheel jump.
The bar did stay up at :50, but he didn’t use his rear there – he slowed down to step over it with his front then carried his rear. It might have been because he was hot even though the session didn’t seem very long.
I know you do conditioning stuff with him – what kinds of stuff are you doing to get his hind end powered up? And maybe he is old enough for some endurance work too?
Nice job here!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
This is great! Was that Jamie’s voice on the 2nd part of the video? Sounds familiar LOL! He was a VERY good boy on these! It was interesting to see him totally notice the difference on the first rep for each teeter. But he continued up the board and was very keen for the next rep, driving up the board even better!!!
He also seems to really love recalling to you, which makes this game even more fun for him 🙂
For the home base teeter (the one he practices on most) you can slide the holder a out a fraction so there is a teeny tiny bit of tip – maybe a centimeter 🙂 And repeat the game. For the new teeters on the road? No tip yet, because he is still sorting out the differences in how they feel and sound.
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
The going forward to the jump is looking good, just be sure to connect to his eyes more when he exits the tunnel as you give the jump verbal, and keep moving when you throw the toy.
About the toy:
The good news is that he loves the toy! And I LOVE using those little tennis balls because they are easy to throw and super high value.Right now you and Max have a bit of a contentious relationship about the toy. When you reach for it, he steps away – possibly because you take it away and the trade is not good enough in terms of value and that he has to work again. You can see it at the beginning of the video – you are reaching for him and the ball pretty quickly, then get it back and give him a treat, then put him back to work. He was like “but my ball! I want more ball time!” so after that he wouldn’t even trade for it. That is because giving the ball back becomes almost a punishment because it is not paired with good reinforcement, it is paired with the withdrawal of the ball.
One of my dogs, Hot Sauce, has o much love for tennis balls (especially the little ones) that she and I have a great relationship with using the back and giving them back 🙂 Bear in mind that she also plays flyball which is all about giving the ball back 🙂
Here is what I do with her which will probably work well with Max!
First off: 2 balls, maybe 3! And SUPER high value treats for the trade moment.
The first ball is thrown as the reward. Then I show the 2nd ball and when he drop the first ball, throw ball 2. Then as he is getting ball 2, pick up ball 1. Then you can either repeat the process of getting the ball dropped to throw. The 2nd ball. Or, you can do a cookie trade – using a high value food reward like a big piece of cheese, get the drop of the ball then throw the cheese to the side for him. As he is getting the cheese, pick up the ball. It is actually pretty fun, happens pretty fast and there is no problem working with the highest value reward. As Max gets more used to the game, it will get even faster and easier. Don’t fight with him or get annoyed by it 🙂 just keep making it fun to give the ball back 🙂
Try it and let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
>I’m trying to get back in the groove but I can really only do 1 thing a day (e.g., train, shop, eat out …). So I’m hoping to train maybe every other day.>
Great! Every other day will still build the skills as you are building back up to running.
>It seems to me that he continues to show a strong preference for the obstacle nearest him but I think it is improved from Friday.>
I agree! It was hard for him to override your positional cue of being near an obstacle to go find the further one, without a big send. He had to top watching you and stop watching the frisbee to do so. But he had plenty of successes! And there was a section (1:30-1:40 ish) where he had a lot of success with minimal motion help (then his brain got tired and he lost the narrative a bit LOL).
The motion help was pretty minimal overall, so think of it as a fading process – gradually have less and less turn to the correct obstacle. And then when we *do* add real handling back in? This is going to be so much easier.
>I also think that if my location is “depressed” from the entry to the tunnel, he can’t stay out enough and defaults to the jump.>
Yes, so you can keep your line of motion on the same plane and the jump and tunnel. Also, you can tweak the setup so the tunnel entry is more visible past the jump, getting it to be perpendicular to the bar and not parallel to it. There are 2 ways to do that – you can rotate the jump and wing so that the further obstacle is more visible, or you can gently curve the tunnel so the entry is facing the line he sees more (which will make the jump harder even though it is closer).
I can draw it for you and send, in case my writing is not making sense 🙂
The other thing to consider is that even though the words are different… the pitch/volume/rhythm of the words are the same. I think many dogs rely on pitch/volume/rhythm and not the actual word, so you can help him by changing the pitch/volume/rhythm of one of the words. I yell my tunnel verbals pretty loudly and extend the word, but the jump verbals are quieter and shorter. It took some human self-control for ME because I tend to yell everything LOL but the results have been great – and not just with the dogs who I consider to be good at processing verbals. So maybe quiet your jump verbal so it sounds very different from the tunnel?
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>> I have one instructor that wants me to have a thrown toy that Ven will retrieve, not self reward with. So he knows how to open the lotus ball which I cannot find right now but the clam only pays when retrieved. I will go back to using the lotus ball for agility when I find the dang thing.>
Self-rewarding is not a bad thing at all, when we are building distance and confidence on lines 🙂 If the toy is thrown and then the retrieve is required to be able to get the treat, then what you are rewarding is the retrieve and coming to you more than you are rewarding line independence.
So when working a skill, choose the reinforcement strategy that fits the specifics of what you are working on. If it is the distance work and forward focus on the line, then definitely use the lotus ball so he can be rewarded ‘out there’ for the effort of going that far away from you. Bear in mind that the retrieve requirement adds work to the work of the sequence, so keep it really reinforcing so the clam doesn’t drop off in value.
Looking at the jump grids –
I think the 4.5 foot distance for the compression looked good! It was hard to tell if the 5 foot distance was an issue or not, it would take a few more reps but I think for now, leaving that distance at 4.5’ works great.>Ven knocked the first bar twice so I might be setting him up a little close?>
I don’t think the setup was too close – I think he is pulling from his front and can push more from his rear. At 1:51 he hit bar 1 with his back foot, and at 3:01 looks like he hit the bar landing on it with a front foot. If the dogs are too close, we see them hitting the bar with their wrists on the way up on the takeoff.
>He did knock the 16″ bar once which looked like he took off too early.>
Yes, that was on rep 2. I don’t think it was early in a bad way – it looks like he was trying to really power up the in extension but didn’t quite make it. On the next rep, he added front end steps to try to sort it out – he didn’t drop the bar but I liked him trying to power over the bar rather than tippy tap into it 🙂
So based on what he was doing when he hit the first bar and when he hit th last bar, we need to get more hind end power 🙂 What is his general conditioning program? We can find ways to add more hind end strength and power to it (along with associated core strength). One simple way to do it is to use set points rather than full grids. The set point is 2 jumps set about 4.5 feet apart. The first jump is low and the 2nd jump is higher so he really has to immediately organize and push from the rear.
When doing the set point, you should still have the reward 12 feet or so from jump 2 and on the ground like it was here – but tie a string to it so as you release him, you start dragging the toy forward too. That will help keep his head down and produce more power too!
Sequence 1:
I think the walk through really helped solidify the plan so the first run went well! Great job planning the verbals!! The run went really well!As we compare walks to runs, you can see and hear the difference in the walk versus the run here. On the walk through, you were walking and saying the verbals conversationally, without connecting to the invisible dog. On the run, there was a lot more speed in the movement and energy in the handling! You will want to practice that in the walk through too, to match the walk and run as perfectly as you can. That way the connection will feel easier and the timing will be easier too!
It was the timing at :28 that brought down the bar on the wrap – the verbal started on time but the physical cues started as he was over the bar. Practicing connecting with the invisible dog in the walk through and handling at the same speed as the real dog will help you be able to time those cues sooner (physical cues start at the same time as the wrap verbal, when he is exiting the wing of the previous jump) which will definitely help with the bars.
Sequence 2: Good job with the planning and adding the verbals here too! This sequence definitely emphasized the need to run it at his speed (with connection and verbals) before running it with him 🙂 Adding the speed changed some things!
On the walk through, the threadle on 5 had your feet and shoulders and movement all saying “front of bar” at :10 and :38.
In the run, you changed your motion and verbals on the first run to get it. The 2nd run looked like the walk through so he took the front.
Doing the backside with a post turn at :23 looked like a tunnel cue, and you said ‘here’ while you were facing the tunnel. The FC on the walk through showed the line a lot more clearly!
Adding the speed was what made it a lot harder – having to hustle to get up the line change your mechanics so it was harder to show him the info –
On the post turn, the post turn did show him the tunnel and he dropped the bar trying to adjust. You told yourself you should have done the FC – but your body did the post turn possibly because it had not rehearsed the FC at speed. And there are a lot of mechanics getting to that FC at speed- timing the decel, the rotation the connection, etc. You got it but ended up being late there.There was one other spot he had a question – on the 6-7 line. He had a question on the first run about the line to 7 and didn’t take it on the 2nd run. That was connection, so be sure to add connection to the invisible dog on the walk through, both when you are working out the plan and when you are running the invisible dog 🙂 If you catch yourself looking ahead at the obstacles, remind yourself to look at the invisible dog 🙂
You are off to a great start with these walk-run games! I think that adding running with connection will make a world of difference 🙂
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
Lots of good runs here!!!! You were trying harder skills and really pushing/being aggressive on the lines. That is great!! It tells us what she needs and what we need to train more of. Overall SUPER nice work. Here are some thoughts:Masters Series 1:
Good for you for trying that big forward focus lead out! Good for her of holding the stay!She didn’t really look at the jump (kind of gave it away side eye) so that is your cue to help her out. I think your position next to the wall with your hips/shoulders turned more to it confused her. If you rotate to face 1 more that might help! That is what you did at :33 and she got it. Yay!
One thing to think about is running on hard angles to your next position. A few times on these courses (not just this one) you ran a curved line and ended up running a parallel line of motion to a line you didn’t want :). That is what happened here at :47 – you had a wide turn on the tunnel exit and you were parallel to the jump after it, so she went around it. You can be peeling away to the next line more,
You got the layering with supporting parallel line motion! Nice!!!
She almost turned to the tunnel at 1:17 – from this camera angle, it did look like a RC cue when you stepped back in towards the jump.
At 1:25 – she didn’t come on in serp. You could have looked at the landing spot to help her but the games posted tomorrow isolate that skill specifically! We are going to train the cahooies out of the skill so she will drive in hard on those.
Gamblers – nice contacts! Nice gamble!
Something happened at :17 but I couldn’t tell what 🙂 Overall, super nice!Agility – yep, you didn’t cue the tunnel at :12, she was being a good girl!
She went off course after the reset to the tunnel at :19 (and was a little wide at :27) because you were moving backwards through the FC. The running backwards sets a parallel line of motion towards the jump she took. Run forward to the teeter (and do a blind :))Nice teeter! She drove to the end but you released immediately, which might be why she self-releases sometimes. Be careful with be super consistent with releases.
Nice job working the turn on the tunnel after the DW!!! It was a great thing to work on and she did end up with a really nice turn. Her RDWs are looking great 🙂
Make sure you handle that last jump it looks like she was running for the exit in a “I am done, where is my toy!” moment LOL!
Masters Series agility – another really nice run!
She had a good question in the opening when you went past the line at 2 setting your line so far from 3 she didn’t see it. So you can plan to be in a more direct line to 3 there.
The rest was great!
Wow the big line around the back to the layering to the weave entry was SUPER!
Great job after that too, and you were super connected and helped her at the end when you were behind and the line didn’t make a lot of sense to her. Yay!Jumping was great except for exiting the poles when the other obstacle car into view and you were getting ready to head to it. Homework! She was doing a bit of that on the class courses too – so you can set up an obstacle appearing at weave 8 or 9 then reward her for weaving past it.
SS – the off course tunnel in the opening was created by parallel line motion as you hustled to get to the blind, no verbals
Instead of rounding the line with her 2-3, you can send and head directly to the blind, calling her urgently to chase your line.
She didn’t get turn cues at :31 so picked up another off course tunnel – you were facing the tunnel as she took off for the jump 🙂 In a tight section like that, a brake arm will help a lot.
You can also add a RC on 2nd to last jump in that run, or keep her on your right sided using a get out cue to get a smooth line to the last jump.
These are looking really good! The more you run these big UKI courses, the easier it gets 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
This went great! I agree, it seemed easy peasy for her but she was definitely paying attention to the cues and not just going on autopilot.>I think the one at 1:15 where she didn’t send was because my arm came up? (It was a “what’s the word?” moment as well I think, since I was switching from the tight cue to jump cue).>
Yes, 1:14 you were a little hidden behind the tunnel – your arm was higher that turned your shoulders away from the line, as if cueing the middle wing. Good reward there!
Compare to 1:25 – connection and cues began before she even exited the tunnel and she nailed it! Nice connection on the exit of the FCs on the middle wing, in particular.
Since this went so well… add more distance! That will also give you a little more time to spit out the words. How far away can you send her to the wings? Feel free to get to 20 feet, then 25 then 30 feet (in gradual increments, depending how she does). Being able to send her with 1 step to something 30 feet away is going to be tremendously useful when she starts running the big hard courses 🙂
And if you want to make it a little extra spicy as you add distance, you can put a random wing in the there so as she exits the tunnel, you are on the other side of it to send her to the wing – layering! The additional wing can be relatively close to the tunnel exit so it is easy to layer. Let me know if that makes sense or if I need more coffee 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterThanks for the video!
The questions here was about your line of motion. On the reps where he went directly to the jump, you were using your hands but moving directly to the front of the jump or running on a line parallel to the line to the front of the jump.
The key to the threadle wraps is turning to move along a line parallel to the threadle line to the backside of the jump – that is what you did at :42 and 1:31, and he got on the threadle line. But then on both of those reps, you moved in towards the jump and that took him off the threadle wrap line.
At :43 you praised him and turned to the jump, so he was not sure where to be – looking at you for the reward, or figuring out what side of the jump to be on.
At 1:32, you stepped back towards the jump which send him to the front side.I think on those reps you were trying to help him make the turn – you can trust him more and use decel (and maybe small hand cues) to let him turn himself away.
I grabbed screenshots of these moments! Let me know what you think!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d-UM-Kb4W3UrsoXcJk3fxRuGuLecvS7RF79MJP1IZlY/edit?usp=sharing
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
Pick did really well here!!! Yay!!!I like the BC on the 1-2-3 line! You had
consistently excellent timing of starting it when he was lifting for 1 on the first rep and again at :32 and :54 and 1:39. Super! Gotta love consistent excellence!!!On the opening, you can lead out more if possible so you are further past 2 for the blind and off his line to 3 – you were blocking his line a little bit so he had to go around you more than needed to find 3.
On the first couple of reps, you started timing the cues to wrap 3 when he was over 2 but your forward motion to 3 made the decel and rotation late at :15 ad :35 so he turned after landing.
You decelerated on time (as he was over 2) at :57 and on the last rep, and the turn was much better! Yay!
>First rep I didn’t have enough connection after 3 to send to the tunnel, next rep I connected but then lost where I was going and fudged up the line to 5>
Yes, the tunnel entry was a little offset from 3 so he needed the extra support on the line. And you accidentally ran a
banana (curved) line at :40 – you ran past it then curved towards it so he took the front.He definitely prefers big connection on the backside cues:
At 1:00 you had great connection exiting the tunnel but were all the way at the jump so you stopped moving. That is fine as long as you maintain connection til he commits to the backside – as he got to you, you turned forward and pointed to the backside which sent him to the front of the jump because it turned your shoulders & feet to the front instead of the line to the back.
Moving into it more at 1:05 helped a lot because the parallel path motion with connection sets the line a lot better! Note how at 1:08 he had a little question when you pointed and started to step away, and he considered the front of the jump. That stepping away parallel to the bar was just a shade too early for him (he was still a stride or so from the backside commitment plane) plus the pointing changes the line of your shoulders
At 1:17 you had even more motion to the backside one and the arm point/step away happened when he was just about arriving at the wing, which was better timing for him and connection for him.
Nice ending line (especially at 1:48 when you serped and didn’t pull away from 5-6 too much). And super nice FCs at the end – he did a great job turning tight there thanks to very timely and connected cues!! He looked a little tired at the end but that might have been related to the extra bunny chasing moments LOL!!
Great job!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
Nice tunnel exits here! You were early on a couple of the reps with the turn cues (she was landing from the previous jump) so she didn’t go to the tunnel (good girl was paying attention!!)>I could not get the turn 3-4 because I was trying so hard to manage the turn from the tunnel so I was continuously late for 3-4.>
That is a tight, hard line and based on motion (post turn) she was looking straight as she took off for 3. She knew *something* was up and it was not quite right because she was jockeying around to the outside of the off course jump (probably to get a better look at the handling) even though she was on a straight line to it.
I think what she will need on this type of sequence would be a brake arm for 3 (both arms visible to her, similar to what you are doing at the tunnel entry but without rotating towards her). Or, a spin! The spin would also start when she exits the tunnel. Both will change her line really well – the decision on which to use will depend on how quickly you are able to get up the next line afterwards.
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
Tunnel turns are going well!
If you are going to rotate into her a lot, might as well finish it as a spin. When you opened back up to a post turn, she saw it at :14 and went past the jump. She also saw it at :28 and almost went past the jump but then changed her line to get the jump (yay!!)
On the other reps (:06, :22) you were still rotated when she exited the tunnel, so we do want her to be able to see you in motion when she exits the tunnel (slow motion for now :))Great job!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
Nice job working through this! It seemed like you didn’t really trust her skill at the beginning and you were helping too much 🙂 The ideal handling is to decel as you show the cue, then let her set up the turn away on her own.I think at the beginning you were moving too much (rep 1, where she didn’t know which jump to take) then over-helping with arms and motion to the jump (really wide on rep 2 at :15). She was a little confused at :22 when you were working 1 jump and released and moved forward, she thought it was a front side cue.
But then you showed better info at :33 and she nailed it 🙂 Then at :39 you trusted her more by giving the ideal cues without over-helping and she was perfect!
And the push wrap at the end looked great!!Nice work :)
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
Flipping the setup worked well here! He seemed to think the closer obstacle (tunnel) was the correct one at the beginning especially after you cued it on the first rep. But then he was sorting it out – just be sure that you are in slow, steady motion the whole time so he is not cueing off of whether you keep moving or not.
You can revisit this in different contexts and setups – it can be something you play with or a minute or two within pretty much any sequence you set up!
>Now, for the pull threadle again>
This was the same video as the discriminations – let me know when you post the threadle video and we can figure out what he is reading.
>Pro Mosquito Tip: Wear long sleeves even if it’s hot. You’re sweating your ass off either way, so might as well get less bites.>
OMG yes! And you might notice in some of the demo videos I am wearing long pants with long socks – that is for mosquito and tick and biting fly protection, even though it is 96 degrees. Sigh.
Nice work here!
Tracy
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