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>>Can you clarify what you mean by ‘response cost’?>>
Response cost is the amount of effort it takes to get the reward. So if she goes *past* a jump, you can circle her back around to the start (might take a while and be a bit clunky), so there is a lot of cost before she gets the reward (toy or continuing the fast line). If she takes the jump, you can immediately reward with a valuable reward or send to a high value speed line 🙂
>>It worked great, but I’d be nervous to plan for it – one moment too late and she’d be in the tunnel.>>
The more you expose her to the blinds in this context, the less risky it is because the dogs begin to recognize the cue and respond sooner. A very inexperienced dog will need to see the full cue before really starting to responding. But with experienced, she will be able to respond on the very first turn of your head or shoulder movement, making it far less risky 🙂
>>Are you still planning to come to that Flyball tournament in July? I was planning on coming out if you were going to be there.>>
Sadly no… my team didn’t want to go, and you can’t play in the MultiBreed tournament unless it is your regular team. Bummer!
Tracy
Welcome back and congrats on your success at the Cup! Yay!!!!
Hope you are going somewhere fun! You will have plenty of time to catch up over the summer because Mother Nature has promised to be well-behaved 🤣🤣Tracy
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>>is it possible to list courses enrolled in in order most recent to last as I have done too many courses and need to scroll to find latest – >>
it should be sorted most recent to most distant on the My Courses page:
For the Forums, you can use the arrows next to the word “Forum” to change the sorting: click on the down arrow to get the most recent forum to the top.
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>>still have been doing away from equipment just not in agility context.>>
She might be ready to do it in a really simple format with a high rate of reinforcement!

>> Then by the time I realise she has gone wrong she is in zoomie mode as she realised first. >>Yes, the dogs are likely to process the issue before we humans do but you can still reward! Even if she is zooming, you can toss the treats out or deliver the toy – that will both dissipate the stress from the error and also help stop the zooms!
>>some of those call offs look tricky for my timing.>>
They are not tricky if you set the lines laterally 🙂 They are definitely tricky if you run near her because she will get there sooner than you 🙂
Tracy
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You are so right about it getting really hot, really fast!!!! It is great that this sequence fits in the shade 🙂Seq 3 opening was really nice! He reads that serp opening with no problem when you are ahead on 2 like at :10 and :39
SUPER EXCELLENT timing of starting the BC 5-6 at :15 – so why did she end up in the tunnel? 2 reasons:
– it is a little hard to see from this angle but it looks like your motion and line on the BC was too close to tunnel and too far from jump, so it put her directly on the line to the tunnel
– Connection not clear enough to override the line of motion: your dog side arm needs to be back so you can make a more direct connection and so she can see itYour timing was :42 to start the blind was even better (NICE!!!) and note your connection at :43 – arm back, bug eye contact, so got it 🙂 Your motion sent her a little wide, so try to skim the wing of 5 as you start the blind and don’t go more than a half-arm’s length away from it
Seq 4: She didn’t look ahead at 1:18 but was great about finding the jump when you released her!
On the 2nd rep at 1:46 you were much further back… so it opened up the line to 2 based on your position. You split the difference on the 3rd rep, being further than rep 1 but not as far as rep 3 and she got it 🙂
>>Would it be okay to put her in her startline stay, walk out and place her tug and then release her to her tug while moving my placement each time, or is that too much of a lure and not enough of a reinforcement>>
Yes, you can totally put a toy out there! It is a reinforcement as well as a lure on the first couple of reps… then you can start to move it further and further off the line and eventually back to your hand/pocket. When placing a toy, I try to fade it pretty quickly. Usually within 3 or 4 reps.
>>In all of the starts, I’m struggling to get her to look away from me and to the jump.>>
You can use the toy placement for all of them: start each different one with the placed toy, then go to a thrown reward after a couple of reps. Isolate it on one jump for now til you see her first glance away, then fully look away at the jump 🙂
On the 2nd part of this sequence, the FC worked great at 1:20!
You got the turn 3-4 with the BC at 2:19, but as with the previous sequence your line brought you closer to the tunnel so she was wider. Great connection to show the side change!!Sequence 5: Also super nice opening! Since she understands these serpy openings so well, you can try it without stepping towards jump 2 – just moving along the parallel line – and see if she can still get it.
The FC 2-3 at 2:44 and 3:10 was really strong! Taking the step to 2 out of it will allow you to start it even soonerSequence 6: This went well too! Looking at your lead out position at 3:40, I think your position was close enough to the off course jump that she looked at it after 2 on the way to 3. For her, this sequence might not require lateral distance at all: you can stay closer to the exit wing of 1, send to 2, and get the FC to 3/send to the 4 backside and still be miles ahead for the tunnel without getting a look at the off course jump 🙂
Great job on all of these! It is really great that you are basically nailing them the first time and we are just looking at the smaller details!!!!
Tracy
Hi! Welcome back!!!
>> Big issues is bars – he mostly knocks them on tight turns when he turns tightly around the wing and hits it with his rear or wraps it with his tail, makes it rock and then the bar falls, >>
Tight turns as in wraps or slices? Let me know and we can make a plan! For conditioning, what plyometric stuff is he doing? Along with training, we might be able to target some specific strengthening things and see if that helps
>>2nd most common is when he’s in chase mode when I’m pretty far ahead to get a blind or layering with distance and speed.>>
We definitely have big lines on the courses, so you can pop out those sections and worked them in a disconnected way – first walking, then building to sprinting so he learns to continue processing mechanics while things are fast and furious. Do you do jump grids with him? You can do running (and disconnected) grids!
>>We’re also transitioning to running contacts – so there’s that new fun.>>
FUN!!!!!
>>Startlines at shows are also sometimes a thing so we’re still trying to be very consistent about that at home and shows.>>
The forward focus might be able to help that by inserting another behavior before the release! That way hopefully there won’t be any accidental pairing of the arm up or reconnection with the release, so he is less likely to leave the stay early.
>>With the heat I’m trying to get into doing a quick training session early in the morning. The only issue is that it is PRE-COFFEE and pre-food. So, I’m not always quite awake or smart yet. >>
Pre-food, ok. PRE-COFFEE?!?!?! Terrifying! HA!

Here’s the first Hot Topics Sequence 1. I watched the demo video a few days ago and didn’t realize you had done a blind on 3-4. With the lead out a front was pretty easy and I felt like it made the turn tighter for us so hope that’s okay.
He read the opening line really well on all of the runs! No problem! On the last run, he got the jump but asked a valid question about whether he should go to 1 or 4 (because you were so close to 4). So in those moments you can leave him closer to 1 while you lead out to 4.First run looked great! The FC 3-4 made sense there because you were already there and decelerated. The BC only makes sense and feels right if you are in motion the whole time and less lateral
2nd. 3rd and 4th runs – the FCs were even better! You were in a great spot for it on all of them!
Getting the turn on 5 was a little harder to gt a great one: the best ones were the last 2 reps which had the earlier decel. I wonder if a brake arm (opposite arm cuing the jump along with the dog side arm) as you decel into the send will help? The 2nd arm will help override the forward-facing-ness of the send and get even more collection.
However, he didn’t hit a single bar here so I am not sure we need to change anything!
>>Do me a favor and listen with the sound off if you don’t want to hear exactly how slowly my brain was firing. >>
Ha! Of course I had to listen with the sound on – but the traffic noise drowned out your verbals LOL!!!
>>I’m literally not always giving verbals or using the wrong verbals at times.>>
That is the pre-coffee thing. I don’t know how you did it LOL!
>> Rip’s perfect anyway here.
Yes he was! Looking great! Nice work here 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
The forward focus game here will be great for more than just the start line – I bet it gets more value on lines in general which will transfer into the trial ring too!
On the first video, he did not look at the jump much (he did look at 1:54!) but he took it every single time! SUPER! If you want him to look at it more, you can isolate it as a one jump exercise and put a target plate out past the jump – that can help him look at it and then you can throw a reward to it.
He read the 1-2-3 line really well! Nice job figuring out what he needed to see on the jump versus tunnel!! At :56 – there needed to be more info to tell him it was not the tunnel. At 1:07, you had too much help 🙂 so he took the wrong side.
You did a nice job cuing 4 on the very lat rep, which set up a lovely RC on 5 to the tunnel! Yay! And great job keeping him moving after a blooper so he never realized there had been an error. Yay!The timing of the blind was good at 1:58 but you were too close to 3, so it was hard to make connection and you were running forward, so it looked like a tunnel cue to him. You can use more lateral distance by sending to 2 and 3, so you are right at 4 for the blind. That should help you get the turn and take the tunnel out of the picture.
I think on the 1B reps (video 2) he was hot and tired so he was not as accurate on jump 1 as he was on the first video. He still had a lot of success!! And I bet he will sleep on it and will be even better the next time you revisit it. If he doesn’t look at it, you don’t need to keep waiting for him – that is a lot of pressure and he was breaking the stay. He was happy when you ran the full sequence here and looked great!
>>It’s really hot here so I’m trying to make these very short sessions. Baxter does not like the heat.>>
For real! It is o hot already!!!!! Hopefully this is NOT how the summer will go or we will all be outside at 5am LOL!
Sequence 2 and 3A video:
Yep, he definitely knows where jump 1 is and he might be one of those dogs that does not look at it or only barely glances at it… but gets it right every time. So if a couple of seconds go by and he doesn’t look at the jump, you can release him and I bet he takes it. This is what you did at 1:38 and it worked really well!The sequences looked good here, no problem at all! You had 3 on the inside of the jump on sequence 2, it should be on the outside if you want to play with it again.
Seq 3B video – I am not sure he was looking at the jump when you released him but he was looking in that general direction so it worked LOL! After you cue 3, you can send to 4 and move away sooner – that way you can get the FC (or a blind) between 5 and 6 while being up closer to 6, so you don’t have to manage his turn as much to be sure he gets to the correct side of 6.
Sequence 4: Great! This is the one where he had to send forward while you are ‘downstream’ more towards 2, and he had no trouble. You can try being closer and closer to 2 and see if he will still take 1!
Nice work here! Stay cool!!!!
Tracy
Hi! Hopefully the heat clears out soon because it is SO HOT NOW!!!
>>As you will clearly see, my handling is getting less motion based and more verbal.>>
I think in many ways that this will benefit you! Course design now works best when we have strong verbals and parallel path motion plus good distance skills – but not necessarily go-faster-than-the-dog or get-way-ahead handling styles 🙂 Strategy and skills seem to be more useful nowadays!
With that in mind – you can still be earlier on the cues by planning to start to deliver them as he exits the previous obstacle: exiting a wrap, is in the air over the previous jump, on the way to the backside, etc. So for example:
The FC 3-4 at :11 and 1:10 can start as he looks at the backside as he lands from 2. That will both get a better turn (more collection) and get you facing the new line sooner. I liked your timing at 2:19 the best!
And the FC 4-5-6 can start as soon as he turns his head out of the tunnel.
>>Enzo read the line 5-6-7 as 5-6-23; I did a little zoom there and my motion clearly sent him to 23>
Yes, he was sent there, and it makes sense as a line 🙂 When we look at the zoomed in moment – at :59 you were facing the off course and you said go when he was over the bar of 6…. So he went 🙂 It also shows us how powerful the info is when you give it to him over the bar.
Compare to 2:26, where you were turned much earlier so he never looked at the off course line.
You can also handle the 5-6 line as a threadle then do a RC on the flat to 7… that will have you layering the tunnel AND the jump (maybe BOTH tunnels?) so you can be miles ahead for 10-11 🙂
>>– I had trouble with the turn from 10 to 11; I didn’t want to run and decel, so I was stuck with an (often late) verbal.>>
This turn comes after big extension layering, and it is hard to not face the 1/21 jump as you get around the tunnel. And it was moving and facing that way which was getting the wider turns. You can tighten that turn by, as he is over 9, you can begin to call him and also use a brake arm (2nd hand, so two hands will be up) to get collection and the turn to 11. The brake arm will override facing forward. It is a soft use of the 2nd arm, not a big chop, because we don’t want to pull him to the wrong end of 11. You can hang back behind the tunnel to do that – you will have plenty of time to move forward when he sees the line to 11.
And, be sure to use the tunnel verbal: when you were saying ‘come’ at 1:25, he totally read it as a threadle, good boy!
You did have a decel at 2:32 – it can come sooner and it did produce the best turn… but I think moving forward with the brake arm is going to be magic and work really well!
Nice flip to the weaves!! Jut be careful with the word “go” because it totally sends him straight forward, like at 2:38 where you used go rather than left like you did at 2:48.
The layering line 14-17 was easy for him 🙂
He did well with the turn to 17, and that is another spot you can start the cues as he is over the previous jump: left verbal and possibly the brake arm too.
>>For #18, I knew I could do it as a push from the landing side but I wondered about doing it as a call and send. Eventually, I managed to make that work.>>
Yes! It is kind of a cousin to the threadle wrap that way, mostly a lap turn. When you did it at 1:42, I think he just didn’t see your position past the wing. He got it nicely on the last rep! To make it clearer on the first rep, you can take yourself more visible on the outer edge of the entry wing.
The rest looked really good! Only one suggestion: You can handle 21 as more of a serp with shoulders facing the jump more to get a better line there. He was a little zig zaggy because you did a post turn then sent him back to 21.
Great job here!!!
TracyHi!
>>Nox is very good at looking at the first jump. I do not really know how I taught it, which is unfortunate because I’m trying to teach it to the puppy, lol! >>
Ha!! Just have Nox teach it to the puppy 🙂 Or have the puppy look past the jump to a toy. We have it in MaxPup when we start teaching toy races, and I will be adding more in MaxPup 3 about it since it is a hot topic LOL
>>She does not always continue to stare at the jump, but she always acknowledges it if I ask her to.>>
Perfect!
She did really well with the forward focus on 1 on the sequence work!
>>The challenge we had was on the first 2 sequences, she kept taking the backside of #3>>
You are not the only one who had that crop up! That is because the line from 2 to 3 is a backside line 🙂 That is also a course trend ‘hot topic’ lately – the natural line goes to the backside when we want the front side. Definitely something to look for when you walk a course!
So you can cue a turn on 2 and use your threadle verbal/arm (I say ‘close close’ in the demo, which is my threadle verbal, with a small arm cue)Moving the jump helped for sure, she saw the line as a front side.
Your blind at :38 was great! You were in the sweet spot: not too far ahead and super connected. NICE!
On sequence 2:
To set up the layering, you can stay closer to 2 and send away to the tunnel. Then as she is entering the tunnel, she sees you accelerating on a parallel line to 4 and hearing a ‘go’ verbal. What happened at :52 was that you decelerated on the tunnel send and got quiet, which cued the big turn back to you on the exit (and past the jump).You were more strategic on the 2nd rep, moved through it better so she had a better tunnel exit AND you were in a great position to cue the jump at 1:08.
Sequence 3A looked great on both runs! I bet you can get her to go to the tunnel so you can layer the jump but sticking close to 4 as she is taking it, then accelerating so she drives ahead of you to the tunnel and you are on the other side of the jump next to it.
Sequence 3B also looked great! Her understanding of the serp opening on both of these looks really strong.
You will get a tighter turn on the exit of the blind if you put the dog-side arm in your back pocket and use your eyes more to connect back to her. At 1:57 and 2:13, the camera position gives us a view of what she is seeing. That is mostly your back, so she drifts a little wide to wait for more info. If you exit the blind with your left arm behind you more and your eyes looking back for her eyes, I bet she will have a very tight turn!Great job here! You are off to a great start!!
Tracy
Absolutely! You can substitute a different dog, or you can do a rep with each: one dog doing the forward focus lead out, and Chata being sent to 1 as if you saw it on a course at a trial this weekend 🙂
Tracy
Hi! Welcome!!!
>>We are currently working on her foot target for a RDW and RA-Frame, so we will be doing modified Standard courses or small sequences that also use a teeter, if possible.>>
You can totally modify as needed or replace contacts with a straight tunnel for extra zing LOL!
>>She is capable of turning tighly, but prefers to turn wide and flank out because GOING FAST IS LIFE.>
Is she going past the jumps after going wide?
>>I am also having to wait for her so I can adjust her line out of a turn, when I really want to be moving my butt up the line!>>
AGREE!!! She is way too fast for you to wait and adjust. One thing we can do is always have you keep moving and rewarding the next line if she gets it. So big value for driving to the next line (and not going wide) and a response cost for not finding the next line.
Forward focus is looking good on these! It sounds like you have a verbal ‘mark’ cue to go with the hand cue for it – you can mix in praise when she looks at the jump, so the rhythm is not always hand/mark, look, release (she will anticipate the release like she did at :27). You had a bit of a step to the jump with the release too – I don’t think she needs it! One less step for you to take means you can be one more step further ahead of her 🙂
The jump versus tunnel discrimination is definitely hard and challenges us humans to show *all*the cues!
When you were handling it dog-on-left on the first rep, the decel at :13 then acceleration bought you the tunnel instead of the jump. So you can be moving while giving the turn cues (verbal and brake arm) and a verbal jump cue will help too.
Being more lateral and doing a FC at :30 worked GREAT, she never looked at the off course tunnel! Then you have to giddy up out of the FC to show the line to 5 – you waited a bit and she didn’t know where to go next. You moved through it a lot better at :47 (great connection!) and she got it nicely :). She did not get 5 at 1:15 and I think it was because as you exited the FC, you pointed forward which turned your shoulders to the tunnel as you decelerated, so she pulled off the jump.
Compare to your arm position at 1:30 (and :45) – on those super successful reps, you had your arm back for longer (she was well past you before you moved your arm forward). That really allowed you to emphasize connection, which turned your shoulders to the line to 5 and she nailed it 🙂
I did a blind in the demo of that, mainly to keep moving so I wouldn’t get stuck behind 4. Is the blind riskier than the FC, because we have to take our eyes off of the dog in front of an off course tunnel? Yes! But it allows us to move through it more quickly and set the line to 5 sooner.
Great job here!!! I am excited to see the next sequences!
Tracy
Hi!
I am a little delayed in responding, sorry! Part of my RV cabinets above the driver/passenger seats decided to basically fall off while driving on the interstate in Indiana so I had to spend some quality time working my magic MacGvyver skills to ratchet/bungee/zip tie it up enough to drive another 9 hours. Life is never boring… LOL!!
>>I’m still trying to figure out Sprites working space from me. It’s changing a bit. >>
I like for the humans to pick the distances, not the dogs 🙂 That way we can cue the behavior without worrying if we are encroaching on a certain space. Now, if she is working further away than in the past, that is good news (more commitment! Hooray!) but might also make timing transitions to turns and tight handler focus harder (more commitment! Eek!). We will look at that closely the summer!
>>Where to lead out is a mystery as I’ve not had a lead out for a decade! >>
Oh that is right! A few thought on lead out position: mainly, you want to lead out as close to your next critical handling spot as possible while still making the opening line clear AND not risking a broken stay. And if it is a big extension line? You can stay in motion and release while moving (that is fine as long as you don’t stop then move & release simultaneously). For collection lines, we try t get the handler as close to the collection spot as possible so we don’t accidentally show extension cues.
>>Plus, I don’t always run the most efficient lines. I see your point (now, of course) that I gave her too much space from jump 6 in sequence 3. I started correctly, and then swerved a bit.>>
Think of your running line as being on her tightest, most perfect path. That is ideally where we would handle: on that perfectly tight line then keep moving so we are off of it when she arrives on it 🙂
>>Also, I’m not used to having an arm up to indicate the first jump since we’ve been told to keep our arms back! Is the plan dog side foot and arm forward when we are lateral or behind? >
This is one of the few places where pointing is good 🙂 The foot & arm will be handler’s choice. I like dog-side arm and foot, some people only use the arm, some people use two arms…. So it will be whatever feels best for you and Sprite.
>>This was a perfect exercise for her as forward focus on the jump is on the training list. It took her awhile, but she did really well.>>
Agree! She was great!
>>I was wondering about the set up to jump one in sequence one. I totally understand your slice comment for the later sequences. But, given that I need a turn on 2 to show the front of 3 would it be better to set her up more perpendicular to 1 rather than a slice for sequence 1 and 2? >>
Your position and motion should indicate the turn at 2, so moving away to 3 when she is landed from 1/looking at 2 should get the turn. Now, that is a challenging jumping effort for sure! But you are working on that so I know the two things will come together nicely.
>>My lead out closer to 4 was better for her. Too close to three seemed to be in her bubble to push her to the back side. >>
I don’t think of that as bubble, as much as I think of it as her reading the line you set correctly 🙂 Being further over to 4 set a better line and made the threadle easier for sure.
>>But, other than a verbal “right” cue between 1 and 2 what would help her square up to jump 2 and not slice it?>>
Experience and jumping education. She is getting both! She will learn to recognize this type of opening, and that will combine nicely with her jump education.
>>Your dogs seemed to square up in the videos.>>
Experience and education 🙂 They are a little older so they have since this more often. Plus, they are less likely to stay on a line to the backside – if I wanted the backside on 3, I would have to really work it! So Sprite’s understanding of staying on the line to the backside is actually very useful 🙂
Tracy
Hi! You are off to an excellent start – he is SUPER fun!
Very nice job starting with the placed toy to help ‘warm up’ the forward focus on the jump – the cue was clear and he did great! As you work more and more laterally, be sure to connect and indicate that jump 1 before you release to help support the jumping. At :52 you were more lateral (yay!) but not as connected when you released. That caused him to have to try to multi-task and ended up dropping the bar at 1 (multitasking never goes well LOL!)
When you added the rest of the sequence:
He was able to jump the line 1-2-3 better when you added more lateral distance, which helped him turn more automatically over 2. He ticked or dropped the bar at :22 (hard to see if it fell) because you were close to the line and didn’t quite show the turn in time. You were further away on the other reps, which showed the positional cue to help him set up the turn.He had some trouble ignoring the tunnel 🙂 He will sort out the jump-tunnel discriminations this summer because we are going to see them a LOT lol!! They are very popular 🙂
He went long over 3 at :23 – you were decelerated but you can also use more verbals to help him, like his name to a right very before he takes off for 3 so he knows he is turning (and not looking at the delicious tunnel :))
You said his name as he was over the bar of 3 at :44 but that was a little too late (for a youngster). At 1:19 you used your outside arm and that really helped!! It allowed you to show the line from the landing side of 4 and get the end of the sequence really nicely.
To be able to handle on the landing side of 4, I think two things will smooth it out: Calling him sooner (no later than halfway between 2 and 3) and raising that outside arm before he takes off for 3.
>>I tried to put in a blind without walking it that way. Fail of course. I watched the demo video again when I got back in the house and saw that was your suggestion. Oh well. It would have been better if I had walked it that way.>>
I did a BC there because I had to run more, my dogs are not as self-propelled as Bacon is! You were a little more stationary (which is fine!) and ended up doing a FC.
Getting the FC 3-4-5 at :55 was a good plan! You were very close to getting it!! You got him to the correct side with no bonus tunnel til after the FC (but that was where your shoulders pointed so he was correct).
Two things will make that perfect:
– you can be more laterally away from 2 and 3, so you are passing the wing of 4 as you start the front cross.
– As you finish the FC, make a BIG connection to his eyeballs 🙂 so that he sees your shoulders turn to the 4 jump and that will help him commit to the 4 jump.One other thought: You can use directionals more, rather than just his name, because that will give him more info about exactly what you want him to do. What directionals have you been working on? Stuff like wrap, collection cues, GO, etc. Let me know and we can definitely incorporate them.
Great job here! I am excited to see more!!!
Tracy
Hi! These went REALLY WELL! YAY!
Sequence 1 – Super nice! Lovely connection! She found that opening line with lovely independence, no questions. Great timing starting the blind – try to finish it as soon as you can so she can see the new connection as quickly as possible . I keep my arms in tight to me so I can make the eye contact really quickly – because she is still young, she is really relying on the eye contact to cue the turn to 4 and not look t the tunnel 🙂 As she gets more experienced with tunnel-jump discriminations, she will start turning as soon as you shoulders start to turn 🙂
She had a good turn on 5 on both reps here – I think your decel was earlier on the first rep, which set up the better turn.
Sequence 2: On the first rep, she doesn’t seem to turn her head to look at the jump when you indicate it on the lead out… but she takes it 🙂 So we are happy, she doesn’t need to stare at it LOL! She did look at it on the 2nd rep, so it will be interesting to see if she decides to look at the bar or not (or if she was lokign at something else past the bar there).
The runs went well! The only suggestion is to keep running with connection and acceleration til after she lands from the last jump. At the end of first rep – you were stopping and pulling out the toy, so the bar went down. On the 2nd rep you were a little later doing reaching for the toy but it was still a bit too soon, so she ticked the bar.
Sequence 3:
You can set her up on a little more of a slice (thank back to the zig zags from MaxPup where she was sitting next to the wing). That way she will land on a better line to 2, so you can cue it and leave for 3 sooner. Sticking near 2 for a little too long delayed the turn info for 3 at :17, so the bar came down. On the second rep at 1:22, you started to move to 3 a stride or two sooner, so she was able to set up a better turn.The rest looked great – your connection is looking super smooth and comfortable!!!
Sequence 4: this is the only opening she had a question about – facing 1 with you behind her. Great job adjusting your position on the 2nd rep (you can see her look at the jump as soon as you adjusted your position) and then she got it nicely.
She had the same question at 1:40 the you set up for the next rep – you might have gone back one step too far for her current understanding. You did step forward to help her commit which was smart! She pulled the rail on 1 because she was sorting out the change in lead out (moving forward from a stay with you behind her is new and weird LOL!) It looked like you split the difference in your position on the last rep – one step further back from the 2nd rep but not as far back as the 3rd rep. And she nailed it. YAY!!!
Having to adjust your position to help her at 1 made the FC 3-4 late at :52. But being one step further away on the last rep made the FC at 2:20 earlier and her line was much better! Yay!
So this is a definite lead out to revisit, because it was the only one she had to really think about. The rest looked fantastic! Great job here!!
Tracy
Hi! Welcome back! It feels like forever since I have ‘seen’ you and Sly 🙂 I am looking forward to this summer- I can’t believe he is over 4 now!
>>I haven’t really been doing any skill training that improves our “course running”.>>
This is good, then, because we can add some skill to the course running that I know you will be seeing on course!
>>Just watched video for the first skill, we’ve played with this skill a bit already so it will be good to “test” where we are with it in these sequences.>>
Perfect, keep me posted!
>>Question for you…….. I think you know Rebeccah Aube from Flyball. >>
Yes! Her name is familiar but I can’t remember if I met her in person or not.
>>Would it be OK with you if I shared a couple of the course maps with Rebeccah and let her set them up at Happy Tails? >>
Totally yes! If she is happy to do it, then heck yeah, it makes everyone’s life easier. Share whatever you like!
>>walk in, look at a map, develop a plan, walk a course and then run it so I’m renting a 1/2 hour at Rebeccah’s a couple of times a month. Working on the run it clean first time thing! And with only a 1/2 hour there’s not much time to do more than that…..>>
This is a brilliant plan! It sets up trial-like conditions and that will transfer nicely to actual trials 🙂
Have fun!
Tracy
