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>>Thanks so much for the advice about starting FEO. I’m going to hold off on FEO and just let her do the tunnels fun run.>>
Perfect! She is very young, there is no rush! She is talented so we can take our time transitioning into the ring.
>>THIS ^^ This right here is why I need to cool my jets and take MaxPup4!!
Ha! It is fun and very very systematic but also individualized.
>>Also what you said about Seminars and classes allowing me to use food made so much sense! A much easier transition for her!>>Yes, it will feel like trials but you can still have cookies!
>> Can I do the 2×2 track with 3 sets of 2x2s and a set of 6 weave poles?
Yes – most of the learning in the 2×2 track is done on 6 poles (3 bases)
>>Is it best to do both tracks? Maybe I can see if I can borrow a set of channels for a few months?>>I think it is best to do both, at least for part of it. The channels are fantastic for getting the dogs understanding a lot about independence and all 12 poles. The 2x2s are great for breaking things down. And at some point, the dogs tell us which they prefer! And then you can do the rest of it using the method they prefer. It is pretty cool!
>>One last thing I just wanted to let you know that the image examples that show the filled-out field guides are not loading on the intro pages.>>Darned technology! I will take a look and see what is going on with that.
Looking at the video:
The forced front crosses looked great! Try to slowly put your hand into position before the release, so she doesn’t think hand movement is the release.
She also did well with the throwback! She looked surprised at :23 and :38 when you did it but her turns were appropriately tighter! Yay!For the balance where you are cuing the front side of the jump, you can have her on your right like you did at :10 and :30, and then have her serp to her right rather than do a FC on the landing. Or you can have her on your left and super over the bar to her left.
Great job here!!
Tracy
Hi!
>>She was much more of a velcro dog and did really tight wraps on her own, but was not near as fast as
Only your 2nd agility dog? You are doing AMAZINGLY with her!!!! JJ is fast and getting faster every day… which certainly makes it harder to get tight turns! But the timing will lock in and it will get a lot easier 🙂
>>I did make the working area larger for the whole set of sequences this day because like you had said it was pretty tight. The jumps actually ended up being about 21 feet apart on the dogs running line. I had had them at about 18.
It might be that she takes a tighter line than the average dog’s line? The 21 foot distance here did look better! I measure it as 21 feet or more center-to-center on the bar, so it gives the dogs a more accurate distance when they run on tight lines.
>>JJ needs constant reminders about her start line. She is very enthusiastic about her sequence time. LoL.
Oh yes, she is definitely excited to play! I love it! She does better when you give her one more stay verbal as you re-connect and get into position. When you don’t, you are accidentally pairing the release with the arm and re-connection, so she was releasing on the re-connection. Reminding her to stay while your arm moves and while you look at her will keep the errors to a minimum.
The sequences went really well!!!
Video 1:
These went super nicely! You can trust the FC at :06 and don’t help her land or come around the wing. As soon as she lifts off, start heading for the next line. If she back-jumps, we can fix that through training.
You might not need the spin at :32 – you can probably send and leave, and still get a great turn. If you do the spin, start the decel and FC when she lands from 1 so the spin is in progress before takeoff, and so the BC is done before she exits the wing wrap of 2.Stay more connected to her on the last line – when you look forward, she looks at you (like at :38).
Video 2:
The forced FC to the RC on the tunnel looked great on all 3 reps here. Great line up position! And excellent timing on the forced FC. This is where she was wanting to release on the re-connection as you got into position, so a little stay reminder is fine here.Video 3
>>it was really hard for me to get her to the back side of the jump just before the tunnel,>>She read the opening line nicely! Connection will be the key to getting the backside. At :10 when you indicated the backside, you looked forward and pointed forward… which from her perspective is exactly the movement of a blind cross. So she changed sides, good girl! She did save it and find the backside, double good girl! But you can smooth out that line by keeping your dog-side arm back like a serp, and making huge eye contact as she lands – then maintain that eye contact until she heads to the backside.
This video was posted twice, so I think one is missing?
Video 4: she is doing really well here too, so we can work out the mechanics of the various exits of jump 2. You can throw her back to 2 without turning your feet, which makes the running line easier for you. Your feet remain rotated and upper body (arm, shoulders, connection) sends her back to the landing spot of 2.
At :47, you can pick her up on your left side so you don’t need to RC the next jump (although she did just fine with that :))Video 5: The 2nd rep here had the best moment of throw-back on 2 – you didn’t really rotate your feet and she read it really well! You used your upper body to send her behind you and pick her up with your left, so the turn was tight and you were ahead on the next line. The first rep had a little too much rotation but the 2nd rep was lovely!
Great job here!!!!
Tracy
Hi!
>>The get out one, was meant to be more of a proofing game.
Yes, it is about showing the dog the difference between staying on the line and moving away to a jump when cued. You were teaching her the move away part, and that is great! Adding in the stay on your line part will be easy 🙂
Tracy
Hi! Lots of good work here, she is picking all this up beautifully!
The physical cues on the rocking horse game are looking good and your connection is really strong! Try to reward after every 2 or 3 wings or 4 wings, mixing it up to create a variable reward schedule (which makes the behavior really strong)
Also, try to add different verbals 🙂 Everything here was go go go so I will bug you to add your wrap verbals 🙂
Looking at the get out game:
>>The get out, we finally got after many tries, mostly failed by two things, me stepping it, though trying to go straight.>>
The bar might have helped bit also for the get out, you might find it easier to use your outside arm to cue the behavior. The dog-side arm doesn’t provide the shoulder rotation as easily (or as quickly as whippets need to see it 🙂 ) So as you are saying your ‘out’ verbal, you can use your right arm in this case to point to the jump (and your eyes on her as you say the verbal). That can turn your shoulders very clearly – on the 2nd video, you can see she was going straight with the left arm up and then turned away as soon as your right arm came up. Yes, you were throwing the treat 🙂 but the arm motion got the behavior before the treat was visible.
>>And my cookie throwing wasn’t working. She was just missing. >>
Cookie throwing in grass is hard! You can use a lotus ball or treat hugger – both of those carry the cookie and are easily seen by the pups, so you can throw it like a toy but it lands like a treat and she can grab the treat out of it 🙂 A kong stuffed with a tiny bit of cream cheese can work perfectly for this too.
The zig zags are going well! On this setup, you can add another bar in the gap between the 2 jumps (you can rotate the wing of jump 1 so the jump cups are facing the other way, and the bar basically hangs off of all 3 wings). That way she really has to zig and zag back and forth and it will be easier for her to see the bars. I think you can lead out more (as far as possible) so you can be showing the cues from ahead and not needing to run as fast 🙂 She seems to have a lovely line up and stay, so you can totally use that to your advantage.
The decel on the transition game went well!!! She had a nice turn on both reps! You can mix in lots of true “go” reps so she accelerates past you more, which will make the decel even easier. You can exit the wraps with a front cross: after you decelerate, you will turn towards her and pick her on on your other side. You did a spin (FC to a BC) on. The first rep and a blind cross on the 2nd rep – those work but they are harder than the FC 🙂
On this game too, try not to cue the wraps with a ‘go’ verbal. Add in your wrap verbal as you are slowing down, so the wrap verbal gets attached to this and we can save the go go go for the straight lines.
Great job here!!
Tracy
Good morning!
The race tracks looked great here, no problem at all – you can send her away more to the wing before the lap turn, so you don’t have to run backwards more than one step. The lap turns looked great!
For the tandems – the single wing tandems looked good!! When you added more speed with a wing wrap before the tandem – the upper body and verbals need to override the motion which is hard with small dogs. If you were not clear enough with the hands not visible or not enough verbal info, she stayed on her line to the other side of the wing like at :47. But when you were clearer and used verbals like at :53 and :57, she got it really well. Yay! So definitely use a verbal (you used her name at :53 and here here at :57, so you can use her name to get her attention then the threadle wrap verbal). And also make your hands really visible – I recommend using both of them nice and low, and shaking them really helped make them visible.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
Super windy!! But the session went well!!! Pre-breakfast training is good to add into the rotation (especially for simpler behaviors or behaviors with a lot of movement) because the physiology of working for food when you are hungry is an excellent little pressure to add in! The more I learn about dopamine neurobiology, the more we see that little pressures like that are the best preparations for the neurobiology of being in the ring. But with a puppy, you might not want to do anything new or too challenging pre-breakfast, because it could all go sideways very quickly 🙂She needed a little bit of motion to the jump to ‘put it in play’ because of the increased distance at first – good job helping her out! And you were gradually able to help less and less. Then she was able to find it more independently on the last rep, which made. The FC after it much easier 🙂 Super! You can also have the wings in a little closer so the jump is visible sooner before she gets locked onto your motion.
Also on that last couple of reps, you can see the value of the start wing beginning to wane (she was not moving to the wing as smoothly and seemed to be anticipating the direction change to the jump), so you can randomly throw in surprise rewards for the start wing. That way the value stays high and she is less likely to have BIG MADZ about going to it when the high value jump is behind her 🙂 A BIG surprise would be the rest of her full breakfast for just wrapping the wing – the best kind of pop rocks moment!!!
Great job here!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>Yes, he did have a BIG MAD!>>
Generally when they leap up for the toy or at us, it is a BIG MAD (frustration) and not a toy impulse control issue.
>>Yes, I often wake up having worked out some thing i must have been processing in my sleep.>>There is a lot of science on this, both latent learning and passive search and all sorts of reasons why our brain does this overnight 🙂
>>Yes placement of reward is HUGE! And can help so much it feels like cheating. A pre-placed toy and Prism is a superstar! Methinks CM too.>>No such thing as cheating in dog training! We get the behavior as quickly as we can, using reinforcement to the best of our abilities. The welfare of the animal is always front and center, and efficient, reinforcement-based training is next 🙂
>>I struggle with so much thoughtful planning! Now there’s an even bigger goal for me (pre-walk the path, the verbals, and the reward-EVERY TIME, GAH!)
Yep, everything is highly planned and choreographed at first with a puppy… then it becomes second nature and you won’t have to think about it as much. That is why the end result is far less important than the process.
>>I was stressed about the failures and lost my head.The 2 failure rule is what keeps me from getting stressed. It means that I have the opportunity to sort out better communication. Again, the end result is not entirely relevant, it is all about the process. Good process produces the end result 🙂
>> Good news is that I did 3 reps of the GET OUT game tonight (one GO, one short distance OUT and one longer distance OUT but neither very far lateral) and CM was brilliant! His favorite reward is frisbees which we used. (Redeemable?)>>
Awesome!!! And my dogs tell me that frisbees are LIFE so I am sure CM loved it 🙂
Tracy
Good morning!
Looking at the ladder game – it was hard to see what the jumping form was because a to of the session was about the stay (which is fine to look at the stay more than jumping for now). Just be sure there is a reward target out past the 3rd jump, so he doesn’t have his head up looking at you.
>>I don’t want his start line stay only tied to getting a treat first. Any suggestions?>>
I don’t think it was about the treat, I think it was about too much testing of the stay and possibly he isn’t quite ready for a 3 jump lead out. He had a good stay going on that first rep until you swooshed both of your arms upwards at :13 – that sudden movement definitely seemed like a release (because sudden arm movement is often paired with the release). He had a negative punisher there, and I think that set the session a bit sideways because he lost confidence in the stay. He was able to hold the sit when you did a little arm movement on the next rep, but then failed again at :53 and 1:08.
So rather than try for all 3 jumps on the lead out, you can put him between jumps 1 and 2 and do a 2 jump lead out. Try not to test or proof the behavior with sudden movements. Instead, just lead out and release separately from your movement. That can clarify things for him with less failure.
Looking at the zig zag game: Since we are talking about the stay, be super consistent with releases here too! You had some releases that happened at the same time as re-connection and arm movement, which can lead to stay errors in this game and the other games.
>>I am not sure why he had more trouble when he started on the left side. I did some back-chaining from the middle wing and he did a little better. Your thoughts?>>
There were a couple of factors in play there:
One was his line up position was a little far from the bar, so you can start him even closer the wing, just past the feet of the wing. That makes the bar more visible and also makes you more visible, while adding the challenge of having to immediately lead change a he exits the stay.Also, be sure to show the physical cue *then* release. Don’t release and cue all at once for 2 reasons:
– It messes up the understanding of the stay 🙂
– He doesn’t have a chance to look at the line because he is looking at you walking away
Showing it to him for a couple of heartbeats before the release will help him look at it and move to it.For the last bar, I think it was a little ‘invisible’ in that it didn’t have a wing on the end, perhaps? It was little hard to see from this angle. You can cue with a big shoulder turn to get him over the bar and that will totally help. The back chaining helped too, and you had more obvious handling when you did that. On the reps where he ran past it, he was staying on the parallel line that the handling was supporting there.
Nice work!!
Tracy
Good morning!
He is reading the lap turns really well in both directions! Super!! And the FCs and race tracks also looked really good 🙂
>>I like these lap turns, although I can’t imagine how I would ever be so far ahead that I would get to the jump before Mason! >>
Sending to the previous line makes it pretty easy! That is why we also work on big sends 🙂 You can spread the 2 wings out even more, to get the big sends involved so you can easily be at the lap turn wing without having to back up.
>>The main thing I noticed on the video is that Mason is leaping at the MCH. Did I hold my hand out toward him for too long?>>
I see a little bit of him looking up and popping up to the hand – in those instances, the hand cue was actually a little late and a little too high. An example of that was at 1:00 – 1:02, where you were backing up and your hand was about a foot over his head when he got to it. That draws his focus upwards for sure. Ideally, when he exits the previous wing, you would be near the lap turn wing with your arm fully extended towards him and your hand down at nose level. And when he is about 2 inches from your hand, you can start the turn cues (hand and foot moving back). That should smooth things out.
The tandem turns also went really well! I think the same timing and lower hands suggestions can help here too:
>>Maybe I need to move my hand faster on the tandem turns too?>>
Yes, showing him your hand sooner and also lower will allow you to also turn him away sooner. A ‘choppy’ moment was at :42, where he was already passing you when you turned him away.
Compare that to the smoother moment at :51: Your timing there when he exits the wing was really good, the hand cues had already started, and then you turned him away just before he got to you. That was super! And very smooooooth looking 🙂
On the wrap video: You can do it without verbals for now, to get feedback from Mason about the timing! And he gave great feedback.
You can throw sooner for the GO so he doesn’t look back at you over the jump. As soon as he is looking straight at the bar after exiting the wing, throw the reward. And keep moving, even race him to it so you don’t stop moving – we don’t want him to race past deceleration!
>>Once I figured out my part, then Mason got it too. I don’t know why he knocked the bar on the first wrap to the right.
Yes! He is very responsive and he says your decel can come sooner.
You were late on the first rep, with decel starting when he was taking off at :11. He tried to save it and turn in the air but that took the bar down. The timing was similar at :31 & :44 where he ticked the bar.
The reps at :18 and :38 were a stride sooner, so you already can se really lovely turns! I think you can be even earlier, especially as the bars get taller: you can accelerate to the jump until he exits the wing wrap. As soon as he has finished the wrap, you start the decel (doesn’t matter if you are near the jump or not, you can keep moving forward on the decel but it needs to start that early). The rotation can begin when you see his feet lifting off (for now), to help be sure he is committed. The rotation timing will get earlier as he gets more experienced, but the earlier start to the decel and continuing forward til his front feet are up lifting off is a good starting point for commitment.
Great job!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>Mostly because it was too windy for my wings to stay upright and I was too lazy to take them to the barn…>>
This is totally relatable LOL!!!
She did great with the banana line – the further away you got, the more she seemed to hit it with all 4 feet really clearly. No worries about the one miss, the rest were great! You can add more and more speed to this – can she still hit it while you are jogging? And you can do this at home, with treat tossing on carpet.
The extra wobbling did add a lot more challenge! But, teeters (and even some dog walks) can wobbly weirdly so it was still a good practice! And she is very food-driven so she was more than happy to sort it out and eat treats 🙂 I agree – she figured out how to balance on it and ended the session really confidently! Super!!!
>>We have access to full size contacts at the arena we practice at but I wouldn’t have anything to prop the full size teeter up so this is the best we can do. >>
You can bring a couple of step ladders, perhaps? Also, you can put the teeter into as many sequences as possible, so she gets used to it and that will help prepare her for trials.
>>Next time I go to the arena I’ll have to bring the cream cheese to build up that value again.
Great idea! I am sure she will be happy to eat the cream cheese 🙂
Nice work here!!
TracyHi! Great job on these!
>>but I had set the jumps at 18 feet on the dogs line I thought, but I will check it out. It might have only been 15 feet.>>
She was taking one semi-extension stride between the jumps, so I am guessing it was 15 feet? The lower bars here definitely helped and it also gives us ideas to talk about timing for collections (see below).
Video 1: Looking good! You can do a FC on the tunnel entry and then stay on your left side for the landing side of 3 – that will cue the turn on the tunnel exit and it is fewer moves for you to have to do 🙂
2nd run – nice timing of the FC to the takeoff side of 3! She didn’t take 4 at :32 – your arm was out and you turned to face 5 as he as jumping 3. Compare to :53 with more connection and a step to 4 and she got it beautifully. Super!
Video 2: Also looking really strong!
>>The wrap turns are still very wide. I know that much of that is my timing, but also needed to include my verbals not just her name.>>
Yes, the collections on the wraps are rooted in the timing of the deceleration. On these distances, she is going to make a takeoff decision when she lands (this is typical of AKC and possibly CPE distances). With that in mind, you will want to start the deceleration as she is in the air over the jump before the wrap, so it is visible and in progress before she lands so she can adjust the takeoff point. It will feel early but on those distances, it is correct 🙂 And yes, add in her wrap verbals as the can help too (also starting no later than when she is in the air over the previous bar).
For UKI (and maybe USDAA too) – you will generally see bigger distances like 30 feet so you can start the decel when she lands from the jump. And sometimes in AKC and CPE the distances are bigger, so you can make the timing decision based on the distance coming into the wrap.
So on this sequence, you had a too much acceleration on the RC wrap, so she read the RC but jumped wide, reading the accleration. The FC at 1:12 had more decel so she was tighter on that jump.
The rest looked great! On this sequence, you did a FC right before she went into the tunnel and picked her up on your left after the next jump: perfect and quick handling!
Video 3: this had more decel on the wrap at :03 and earlier rotation so she was tighter here too. With the goal being that she can collect before takeoff, you can begin that decel while she in the air of the previous jump (but don’t rotate until you feel she is committed, which might be when you see the collection on the wrap jump. You an also use exit line connection (dog-side arm back, toy across the body and lots of eye contact :)) to tighten the turn even more
The RC wrap had a lot of acceleration so she was wider on that. She is reading the RCs really well, so decel will tighten them up too.
At the start of this rep, you did the post turn to the blind, and it was more handling for you so getting to your left was later. Compare that to the quick FC you did on the tunnel entry and getting to you left side sooner at :17 – super nice!
The RC at :13 had some decel so she was tighter – starting it as she is over the previous jump will help here too!
At :20, you had decel over the previous jump (yay!) but then a bit of over-helping pulled her off the line. You stayed on the line better at :26 but the decel was a tiny bit later (she landed).
That was a great way to fix, btw: keep going and try it again in motion while adjusting the handling on the fly. Excellent!Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
>> That will be an online camp or in person????>>
CAMP is online! It is our annual summer class for the dogs that are not puppies – I think this is the 12th year?
>>We still struggle with running wild at times…the highest peak of perfection and then free fall into the bowels of hell.>>
It sounds like you are getting more of the peak of perfection nowadays?
>>How about start line training? That is probably super high pressure?>>
I think start line training is as hard or harder than a lot of agility skills! SUPER high pressure and add in the element of being stationary for dogs that are wired to move move move move 🙂 So hard! We are actually focusing on the start line element in the Under Pressure webinars, there is an entire track devoted to dealing with start lines and all the pressure involved 🙂
Tracy
Good morning!
I think the jumping games went well with the bars! She did well with the moving target (had one release before the verbal when you bent over to pick up the toy, but that was legit because she probably thought it was the release and has never been shown other wise LOL!
One thing to look at here – when she was lining up at your left side, she had her right front foot a little forward (like at 1:44 and 2:28) so she did a foot tap before jump 1 which threw off the step-in for jump 1 a bit. Compare to :43 where you faced her on the line up and her feet were more even, so she stepped in perfectly. It could also be that she was a little further away from the jump when lining up at your side.
So having her front feet together and being a little closer to the jump was more effective, but I don’t want to give her BIG MADZ but fussing with her during the line up. For now, line her up with you facing her and not at your side, so you can get the right positioning and not have to fuss with centimeters or exact foot placement at your side. It won’t make a big difference when lining up for sequence, when she has 15 feet or more to organize before the first jump. And you can separately work on lining up at your side with feet together.
Mission transition is going well!! She was able to commit really well while you decelerated! As you decelerate, maintain connection as you decel. You had great connection coming around the wing, but then tended to look forward as you decelerated so she looked up at you before committing.
The go reps went well!>>Had some feelings about the wrap even when I was trying to connect with her and have her facing the wing before asking for the wrap so switched to a leadout from the jump instead and then she decided she could start with a wing wrap after that. (SO MANY RULES!)>>
Adding the jump before the wing definitely helped! And you can surprise her with reinforcement for just the wing wrap – I realize that there is soooo much value on the jump now and we have not really rewarded the wrap in this context enough to make it worthwhile for her to adjust her rules LOL!
>>2 reps of a rockinghorse/tandem turn in the pratice jump area at Fusion over the weekend during a course walkthrough. Also got some good tugging for tricks .>>
Yay! It sounds like it was a great weekend!!
Nice work here!
TracyGoos morning!
Zig zags look good! You can add a 3rd bar, and gradually work your way back out to it (no need to start on the 3rd wing, you can start closer to the 2nd bar then work your way backwards). It is a big jumping effort, so you can put it into a rotation and visit it maybe once a week, so she has recovery time between reps on it (especially because she is doing other jumping stuff too :))
Get out – there is a definite upper-body-versus-lower-body challenge here for us humans! The more you give her the BIG connection, the better she can do the get out. You can fade out facing the duo with your feet by starting closer to the wing so your line is more parallel to hers. Then as you walk or jog forward, you can look at her immediately as she exits the wing wrap and start the upper body cues while keeping your feet straight. That will be much harder for her, so throw the reward past the jump the instant she looks at the jump (rather than waiting for her to take the jump).
Mission transition is going really well!!!
The first rep at :38 was timely, decelerating when she was about halfway between the wing and jump. :44 and :49 were a little late, decelerating as she was passing you (but you were closer to the jump, so she was close to her takeoff point). :56 was very timely but didn’t have quite enough connection – the reps at 1:00 and 1:05 were the sweet spot of timely deceleration AND strong connection. Yay!!!
Good job sorting out the RCs on the jump after the tunnel:
For the GO lines as the balance reps, you can tell her go before she enters and be sure to keep running forward. That way she is not moving in extension past decel and also not seeing you face the RC line while saying “go” (which also means you don’t want to say ‘go’ on a RC because it conflicts with the physical cue and desired behavior).The first RC at 1:16 was a little early but then you were really good about moving forward on the RC line to cue the jump and the RC, especially at 1:30! Super!
Lap turns on one wing in both directions looked great! So did adding the wing before the lap turn! My only suggestion on that is to send to the wing from further away, so you don’t need to job backwards 🙂 Onwards to the tandem turns/advanced level!
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Your puppy is adorable. Please bring to MN when you come!!
Thanks! He is totally coming to MN!!
He is doing well with the serps! I think that he was able to find the jump when you were not as far ahead (nearer to the gap or entry wing). When you were further ahead, he ran past it. So you can send to the start wing from further away, and slooowlllllyyy walk past the jump so he comes in when you are ahead on the serps.
Also, be sure to clear the environment of anything that might be a possibility of the placed reinforcement. In this session, there were toys out on the line and he looking at them. They were in a spot where they definitely could have been the placed reward, so I can see his argument there. So for the next session, pick up the other toys so there is only on visual to process.
>>We played with a couple tunnel exits too. I need to do more of these, Mochi helpfully reminded me how important they are at our UKI trial last weekend. >>
Totally agree – the days of deceleration or spins or physical tunnel brakes are long over… it is now the Say The Thing And Run The Other Way Era 🙂 He did great!!! You can move the wings further away so there is more handling visible as you run away for the next wing.
You can also clear the environment on the tunnel exit video – when he exited the tunnel and went to the first wing, there is a soccer ball (I think) and a jump bump that was visible on his line… so he didn’t know what to do there. You removed the ball which totally helped the next rep (try to have it completely out of the picture, not even in your hand, so he knows which reinforcement is in play).
Looking at the rear crosses:
>>And we tried rears. Again. I was determined to get him to turn left. I cut out the multiple attempts of me doing the same thing and expecting him to do something different>>
Try to keep the total session to 2 failures or less, so you can top a session and revisit it another day. Also, there was a high pitched squealing noise in the background, and I am sure that was not helping his brain trying to process the hard mechanics on a rear cross.
Tossing the toy helped but he was looking up and watching the toy and not the line as much on those reps. The placed reward was the right way to go here! At :25 and :39, it was too visible outside the wing. But placing it behind the wing, just past the bump like the last 2 reps, was perfect!
Let the RCs percolate for a day or two then try it again with the toy placement you used at the end here, and I bet he gets it 🙂
Nice work here!!
Tracy
