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Hi! This is all looking really good!!!
The stays are definitely stronger, great job with the mechanics! Your releases forward generally looked good – you can add in praise so he doesn’t predict that the connection after the toy drop is the release (which is what I think happened the one time he broke the stay after the toy drop).
When throwing the reward back, be sure to keep your arms totally still, say the word, then a second or two later – throw. the toy. You arm was moving just before the marker, so he was cuing off the arm movement. That is why he moved before the release the 3rd rep when you arm moved, after 2 catches where you arm moved before the marker word.
The ladder grid is going really well! On this first rep, he was a bit ‘upwards’ over jump 1 but then he had a lower head and better form on all the other reps. For the next session, add in the moving target of the dragging toy on the ground. Drag it slowly for 4 or 5 steps before you release him and see how he does!
Great job here!
TracyHi! It is there – I had it all in purple letters so it was hard to see, so I changed the color to gold. Look for the gold wording:
MaxPup PIT Wingin It Tunnel Threadles And TandemsLet me know if it is still not visible.
Thanks!
TracyHi!
Yes, I am in Wisconsin in a blizzard, so I think sketchy weather is hitting the whole country! Ewww!
>>The one problem i have with lead outs is when I mover to the side rather than go straight out. If I do that she wants to turn and face me sometimes taking the first obstacle our of her field of vision.>>
Do you mean on a slice lead out or where you are more lateral? We can so focus forward work on the first jump so she holds her position and goes the jump. A placed toy can really help her focus on the jump while he move you to al sorts of different lateral lead out positions. If you have a video, feel free to post it so I can help figure it out.
She did well with her stay and finding the first jump here! My only suggestion is to head more directly to 3 as you as coming up the line for the FC and the BC. On both of this (:07 on the first video, L23 on the 2nd video) you were running straight and did the cross on the straight line between the uprights of 2, so she jumped straight then turned after landing. If you can be running more laterally towards 3, you will get a better turn where she turns before she takeoff for 2 and lands facing 3. And you can also do the lead out push more on the line towards 3 – you were on a straight line almost past 3, so you can be more on the line you want her to run between 2 and 3 (as long as you move out of the way so you are not still there when she is jumping 🙂 )
Great job!
TracyHi! SUPER nice session here!!!!
The Spins on 1 wing after the tunnel look great (at the beginning). You can add more running to this skill – take out the second wing and move the first wing 25 feet away from the tunnel exit, so you can work on timing the transition of running in and out of the spin.
Circle wrap to his right looks AWESOME 😁
Nice job moving forward on the line and also connecting after the blinds. He was tight and fast through there! And also great job with your connection on the go tunnel line and keeping your arms relatively low – he had no problem seeing the line.His only real questions were at 1:13 and 1:40 where he was surprised that it was another backside rather than the tunnel. The cue was a little late and there was a lot of acceleration to the wing. When you decelerated into it on the last rep, he did MUCH better. Plus I think he is a righty, and this was a left turn so overall a little harder for him.
Great job here! I think you can add more distance to the circle wraps too by spreading them out, so he can execute this with more speed before and after the wings.
Tracy
We did the circle wraps foundation in MaxPup 1 (week 8 I think? I will go look) when we were clicking for turning their heads away (leading with the head, baby level) then the 360 wraps in the advanced level.
I was SCREAMING for you in that Finals run!!!!! Especially on that last line. Way to go, 2 national championships in 6 months!!!!
Hi!
>>I had no idea that doing that would have such an effect!! I have been pondering my ability to anticipate handling needs in sheep-herding thereby being in position without having to rush and how that translates to smoother movements by me the handler and less stimulation of racing from Prism, and how all this smooth movement between acceleration and deceleration would be better for our team in agility as well.>>
That is a really interesting observation about herding!! And it totally makes sense 🙂
>>I TRY to rehearse the verbals before each rep.(have to move this to a more weighted value system-not just DOING it, but also OWNING it). >>
It might also be how you rehearse the verbals. In the early stages of verbal-ing 😁 I found that if I walked and rehearsed the verbals, then I was not that good at actually doing the verbals. But if I jogged or ran when I rehearsed? I could do it! It has to do with state-dependent memory, so try running and connecting with your invisible dog while you practice the verbals 🙂
>>I’m capable of forgetting something important in the 2 seconds between set up and obstacle 3! I’m very sad about this.>>
Video you walk throughs and we will see what we can add to the rehearsals!
>>Some of my biggest discussions on walk-through is the degree of the turn, whether it’s a tight turn or a soft turn, what line to create. Sometimes, it LOOKS like a soft turn, but with an off course further out, I need to cue a tight turn. Many questions on this with a powerful jumper.>>
That might also be timing: how early does he need to see the cues? Plus, with young dogs, there is extra processing time so the response might be a little delayed, leading to a wider turn.
Tracy
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Wind in your hair is looking great! She is so cute, really wanting to have a big zoom but holding herself together to be able to do the game with focus. Nice timing with the MM click!! She is totally looking forward and that is exactly what we want. And great job with the lineup on the start wing!
And to answer your question from above:
>>Would using the MM for the RC game be useful to get her to drive forward more?>>
Yes, you can use the MM but when doing a RC, place it out where she would turn on landing. So that means it would be closer to the wing after she exits the turn on the jump.
Looking at the grids – her stays and new release are looking GREAT!!! She is doing super well and there are a couple of things we can add to up the ante:
We can give her more room between the jumps, try 6 feet now. She has a TON of power so the shorter distance was causing her to have to shorten up too much.
Also, to get her to power off her rear, set her up closer to the first jump – a foot or less. She was a little too far back so she had trouble with the ‘step in’ meaning the first footfalls after the release. If she is closer to the jump, she can push off her rear and jump.
The angled jumps were a visual distraction for her on the first rep but then she sorted it out really well for the 2nd rep! Yay!
Great job on these!!!!
Tracy
Hi!
You can try using the highest value tug with the lowest value pocket-lint level food…That night work with the trading 🙂 Keep me posted!!Tracy
Hi!
The Minny pinny is looking really strong! I like how you made the verbals really different from the GO verbals for example. The will really help on course! Great job working the turn aways with placed rewards – he will keep getting stronger and stronger with those turn aways as he gains the understanding and mechanics.
The reward target for the RCs really helped! You can now tuck the target in behind the wing on the landing side, so he doesn’t see it quite as much. Plus you can add in straight line “go” cues to balance the RCs – sometimes cue him to run straight, and sometimes cue a rear cross to the target. And since this is going so well, you can add more distance away from the jump to show more motion – and then add the start wing back in too!
Great job here!!!
Tracy
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>Oh FFS, I knew I was doing something wrong. But I was so proud of him!
He was great, and it was still a valuable session to teach him to find the jump!
>> Again, it’s like I’ve never done agility before.
Ha! I can relate, I feel like this with each new puppy.
>> And it’s snowing again. Sigh.
Yep! I am in Wisconsin… in the RV… with 8 dogs… in a blizzard. FUN TIMES lol!!!
Stay warm!
Tracy
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>>We did a stay training session. Then moved to jump grid>>
Did you do the stay session right before the grids? Maybe her brain was tired? She was releasing on the toy drop here or having trouble holding the sit and she has been really good with the stays. We will chalk that up to just not having a great stay day 🙂
>>Then I forgot to hit record.
Were the stays good during the session when you didn’t have the camera recording?
Even though the stays were not as solid and also you were a little closer to jump 3 (ideally you would be another 6 feet past it when you release her), I thought her form was good!!!!! What was the distance between jumps here? She might be ready for youth add another 6 inches.
Nice work 🙂
TracyHi!
These games all looked terrific! I have a suggestion here and there but overall you and Roux did a great job 🙂Serp proofing went really well, both stationary and with the motion! It took her a moment to find the tunnel at the beginning but then she had it. The threadles also looked great! Nice job to you for making all 3 cues look entirely different.
On some of the tunnel moments, she looked at you a bit. You can release with the tunnel verbal instead of the normal OK release. I think when you said OK, she took it to mean to come towards you a bit. So just saying “tunnel” can help keep her out on the line.
You were quiet on the serp reps, so you can call her name (eventually on course it can be her name or it can be the directional like left or right
Wing games also looked strong – nice connection and commitment throughout! On the tight turns on the wings, you were doing FCs or spins. That worked well here, but also be sure to practice the blinds where you turn away from her, so she learns about tight blinds too. The racetracks went really well, and she was easily a bel to transition from going really fast in extension to doing a tight turn. YAY!! And your verbals are really fluent now, and that is really helping to support her lines.
Ncoe job with the FCs!Hooray for the rear crosses! Those are hard and she did great!! On the last RC (2:35) you ran a bit of an “L” line: you went straight for several steps so she was setting up to turn left toward you, then cut in to the right so the pressure on the line was late. She did turn correctly, but you can get her to turn sooner. Compare to the first ones, like at 2:16, where you got on the RC line to the center of the bar pretty immediately and she was able to read the RC even sooner. Super!
Backsides looked awesome on all the reps! Adding the connection as she exited the wing wraps really lined her up beautifully for the backside and your line was super clear too.
Grids looks terrific! She looked very balanced! You can try adding maybe 6 more inches of distance and see how she does? Since she did so well here, you can also add a 4th jump (on the straight line and on the angled line) and if that goes well… add a 5th jump!
Great job here!!
Tracy
Good morning!
Looking at the first video –
>>When he is on my left (coming from the can) and I want him to go around the wing from right to left (a flip), what should I be doing with my arms? >>
Ideally, a blind would put him on your right side so you would only need to send him to the next barrel. What was happening here was that you were doing a spin (FC/BC combo) which is why the flip felt so weird. The spin does not get a side change to your right side, but a blind would. So after the spin, he ended up on your left – and you would need to do turn away arms (like a tandem turn) which pulls him in between you and the barrel, then turns him away to it.
On the 2nd video – you were doing spins here too. You can get the flip with more connection nd emphasis on your hands to turn him away – you were not looking at him as much so he as looking t you (then grabbed the toy when he didn’t know what else to do).
So to make it into a true blind – turn away from him as you send to the barrels. Pick a spot on the wall to turn towards to help you remember to turn away from him. One thing that might help is to remember that you and Teagan will be turning the same direction on the blinds – and then you look over the other shoulder. The spin starts with rotation towards him (like a FC) before you look over the other shoulder – but you end up with him on the same arm as you start with on the spins. The blinds produce a side change (left arm to right arm, for example) which will make the cue for the next wing a lot easier 🙂
Your spins were good here! But they set up a harder line on the next barrel, so try it with the regular blinds and let me know how they go 🙂
Nice work!Tracy
Good morning!
The toy definitely brought the excitement to this game! He was looking forward and lower, which is what we want him to do 🙂 Super!
How does he do currently when you go back and forth between food and toys? Trading for a cookie and lining him up with a cookie will smooth out the dropping of the toy and the line up.
One thing to work on separately from the grid is to get the toy to the ground for a few seconds before he moves – he was moving a little early here, as the toy was moving to the ground and before the release. It was more obvious at 1:52 but it was happening on the other reps as well. When you reminded him to wait at the very end, he did indeed wait til you released so that might be the best bet: get the toy in position, praise, wait reminder… then release. That way you can also get the toy dragging forward before the release
>>with slightly less space/less angle. I think I need to add the space back.>>
Possibly! This was looking pretty balanced but you can try adding 6 inches and see how he does. Hopefully the bad weather skips over you and you have clear days!
Nice work here 🙂
Tracy
