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>>she bosses all the day care dogs and rushes thru life like an energster bunny on steroids>>
Papillon. LOL!!!!
>>Now i am being thick but can you post a detailed slow motion of the spin it is doing my head in.>>
here ya go! There is some slow motion in here. It is a front cross on the jump then a blind cross before you fully finish the FC.
>>Ps in synch shocked me with how well she did apart from time needed to kill the toy at the end and the disapproval of holding the collar. I havent done very much so far apart from teaching a little on wrap and a single set wings. She said i got this get out of my eay.>>
Awesome!!!
>>I on the other hand was a mess trying to keep eyes on tjis tiny speedster.>>
I find it harder to connect with small dogs because they are harder to see. Keep thinking about looking down to her eyes and it will get easier 🙂
Tracy
Hi! Happy New Year!
This went really well, and you didn’t really need 75 hands LOL! He is FAST omg! I love it!!!!
I also love love love how he could go back and forth from the cookies to a tug.
You only got turned around once, when he took longer than expected to get the cookie and that threw off your blind cross timing. The others all looked really good! You can throw the start cookie even further which buys you more time to do the blind 🙂
>>I really struggled to get the toy tossed out, so tried just leaving it as a target instead. >>
I can see why it would be hard to get the toy out early enough by throwing it…. His speed would make that challenging. Placing it was the right choice – it added the impulse control element of ignoring it (even when a tossed cookie was near it) and then he got to practice his acceleration to it (and his acceleration was impressive, which shows that he really was using impulse control to ignore it til cued).
>>After watching the video, I wonder if I am moving faster than I need to, esp in the decel turn?>>
I think you needed to hustle like that to run up the line to the blind. What you can show him, though, is a transition into the decel so he can collect into the pivot then accelerate again to the toy. So as he is getting his start cookie, you can start to run with the serious hustle you had here. Then as he takes his first step back to you, do the blind cross then immediately start slowing down… then pivot when he gets to you. That should get the nice tight turns. His turns were not really wide here, but the added bit of decel will get him to shorten his stride and collect, before accelerating again.
Great job!
TracyHi!
Ok, she was hilarious in the backing up video. You did a great job of getting her back feet just barely off the wobble board, where it would have been very easy to just step back onto it… theoretically. She was like “Nope! I will just turn around. That is clearly the smarter route.” Made me chuckle.
All of the front-feet-only backing up was perfect! And you had one moment of getting only one back foot off the board… that was AWESOME and she stepped it right back onto the board. If you can re-create that, it is a great way to split the behavior. If you can’t re-create it, you can try adding the 2 boards you used early on and see if she has the ‘a-ha, mom wants BACKING UP!’ moment. She didn’t seem worried about the wobble board here, it just seemed like it was more efficient & easier (from her view) to turn around to get on it.
The rocking horses looked great! Her brother barking was not a problem for her, and she was able to run past the toy in your hand. BRILLIANT! And you were rotating earlier which was great too – lots of distance here and her turns looked lovely.
When you rotate earlier, you can play with transferring hands too, in order to have more rotation. What I mean by that is at :46, for example, she was on your left and you rotated really well (nice and early) but your left arm stayed across your body as she arrived at the cone. That can delay your speedy departure to the next line on a course (or cone, in this case 🙂 ) because you have to kind of unravel the arm before you can really run hard. So what you can play with is ‘transferring’ her from your left arm to your right arm as she is passing you, so your right arm ends up cuing the cone as you rotate (just like the backwards and sideways sends). And if you look at the cone (and it will be the landing spot on a jump) as she passes you and you move away, that will support commitment too while creating a lot of countermotion and distance.
That shift of connection to the ‘landing spot’ (cone) as she passes you with the countermotion becomes really important when you rotate nice and early – I LOVED your rotation at :48 and how you changed arms so your left arm cued the cone. You were looking down at her though, so that caused her to come into you (they naturally follow where the eyes go and where the shoulders are pointed, which is related to where the eyes go). Plus looking down stopped your motion a bit and your left leg never stepped to the cone, which also caused her to stop. Baby dogs are very literal especially when it come to countermotion!
She is doing well with the head turns too! One suggestion: try a lower and slower turn hand – you’ll get even more bendiness because she will have more time to bend like a noodle, plus her head will be lower which helps too.
Great job here!!
TracyHi!
Excellent job with the mechanics on the sit! And excellent dance moves! I often lead out flailing my arms to help the dogs understand that really and truly my arms are NOT the release or reward cue, even when the word is muddy and sometimes paired with the hand movement. Her stay is getting more and more solid! She did well with the toy too – you can add more leading out with the toy in hand, so she has a solid stay with the excitement of the toy as well.She did some stomach punching later in the video and you didn’t like it as much as the other day LOL! So since she will do it when in doubt, cue the sit sooner so she doesn’t keep doing it to the point where it might be annoying.
She did really well with the pivoting! She seems to pivot a little better to her right? But she is doing pretty independent steps in both directions. You can add in a small, low thing to step over on each side of the perch so she pivots over it as she returns to center after the treat toss. Because she is so little, you can use a small/narrow rolled up towel so it is low enough to step over easily.
Threadling is looking really strong – I think you can add in the threadle slidce verbal now – start saying it as soon as she finishes eating the start cookie! And if the verbal is easy for her (I think it will be) you can move to the advanced level where you show her the difference between the serp and the threadle slice.
Great job here!
TracyHi!
>>After the session I started wondering if it was the pressure of the things along the wall on her right side because she was also a bit sticky in my parent’s living room the first time I tired this and (thanks to the grand piano) I had her going close to the wall just like this.>>
After seeing the video, I think that could have been it (more on that below) and also could have been depletion (also more on that below haha) but also, on those first couple of reps it looked like the bar (baby bump jump) was a big visual draw for her. She as facing that direction when she looked up from eating the treat and locked onto it, visually. When she did see the barrel, she was like “a-ha!” And then it was no problem on either side. So perhaps the barrel blended into the stuff along the wall, and the bar was more salient because it was in the middle of the floor (plus the bar has value). And when the brain is tired, it is harder to process and it makes sense that certain visuals would be more salient.
Either way, she did sort it out nicely! And she seems to have more giddy up to her step when you do add the verbals, so go for it with the backside verbal and the toy marker. She was happiest to grab the toy when you dragged it (or dropped-then-dragged). I think that first jump up at you at the beginning was a bit of frustration, because she was heading to what she thought was correct but not getting rewarded as if it was correct.
She was definitely a little not-into-it with the barrel wraps too…a little pressure from the stuff along the wall maybe? But even on the other side, commitment was not as strong. It took her a minute (pretty literally) to get into it – so perhaps it is a question of needing higher arousal to overcome depletion for both games. And it was almost a minute to get into it during the backside game. So…. The volume dial game can do the trick (posted in week 8) by getting her pumped up before you ask training questions.
>>Maybe she’s still recovering from her NY adventure and flight home yesterday. >>
That is totally an element too! She was not moving with her usual sass 🙂 The near-behavior-vet types tell us that young dog recovery after air travel and associated stressors can be anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks. EEK! So she had a big adventure and might still be a little off kilter in terms of physiology (I can relate, I am EXHAUSTED from the very little I did over the holidays LOL!!).
So, give her a day or two of decompression which is stuff like sniffy walks, snuffle mats, etc and also the simple training stuff she loves most – probably the ones involving running around like a nut and eating treats LOL!! She might like the new tunnel game (double whammy) – I don’t think it will burn too much brain juice and can feel really fun!
>>I did have some really good tug sessions with her a few times today mixing in sits/downs and hand touches.>>
This also falls into the category of fun silly things that don’t burn toooooo much brain juice (brain juice being the glucose and oxygen it burns when working hard LOL!)
Nice work here!!
TracyThat is a good age – I think she can do the competition track, if you have had the time to show her more jumps 🙂
Tracy
Hello! Welcome back! Your double entendres cracked me up! I’m excited to see Fritzi work – how old is she now?
Have fun 🙂
TracyHello and welcome back!!!!
Yes, I think the competition track will be perfect! I’m looking forward to seeing him!Have fun 🙂
TracyHi! Great questions!
A cone or a wing is fine – totally up to you 🙂
>>“2 rounds of video’s per game”. So for example for week 1, there are 3 games (regular connection, exit line connection and combo sequences).>>
To clarify it further – there are 3 games and several sequences within each game. So….
>>My assumption is that for EACH of these 3 exercises, I can submit 2 videos EACH, is that a correct assumption????>>
Yes! 2 rounds for each sequence in each game. So if you only do sequence 1, you can post that and then post round 2 after feedback… and still have plenty of video time left to post the other sequences in each game. It ends up being a ton of video 🙂
>> And then if yes, that would follow for the rest of the weeks????>>
Yes, for each sequence in each game.
Let me know if that helps! I’m a little under-caffeinated 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
It sounds like you have plans for classes with supportive instructors: SUPER! And I know you will advocate for her too, if needed. Exciting times ahead!
The backside session looked really good! I was going to suggest using the toy since the cookie version went so well, but you brought the toy out in the 2nd half and she was perfect.
So next steps to this now:– Add in being closer to position 2 (center of the bar) but still on the same parallel line you had here.
– And as you get into the position 2 and position 3 lines, you can separate the toy placement fro your position more by having it land closer to the entry wing (I do that in the demo video). That way she rounds the wing and looks for the bar, not for you – this can create even more independence.
One question – the pussshhhhhhhhhh cue being drawn out like that is very different and I love that… but it might be hard to breath on those bigger courses if you have to maintain the shhhhhhhhhhh over the 30 foot distance to the backside LOL!! So you can try doing it as pushhhhhh pushhhhhhh so you can squeeze in a breath or two 🙂 You’ll see backsides on the giant 250 yard courses, so breathing becomes important LOL!!!
Great job 🙂
TracyHello and welcome back! This is perfect for the lovely Florida winters 🙂
Have fun!
Tracy(PS I see an email from you in my inbox – I’ll hop into it as soon as the AU stuff is done 😀 )
Hello and welcome!!! I was talking to another agility friend from the Twin Cities area and she was also saying there is no snow yet – CRAZY but in a good way!!!
I’m excited to see you and Lu here. How old is she now?
Tracy
Hello and welcome!!!
I’m wearing my Kaikoura shirt today, thinking of NZ!!
>> She is a border pap cross super fast super smart
Very fun and yes, a little different. But super fun 🙂 I’m excited to see her!
>>>but with an attitude.
Papillon. Ha!!!
Have fun!!!
Tracy
