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Great job with this! I always find this walk-versus-run to be really hard with young dogs but I think this went really well. it gets easier as the youngsters get more experienced.
>I was having a hard time even knowing how to handle the #4 jump because of the way she usually blasts out of tunnels with this kind of set up. However that was probably the best part of the whole run is that she actually turned lol.>
The turn on 4 is a definite decision-point! I turned left (wrap) there based on it being a better line to 5. It looks like your set up had 5 a little further over so it is possible that the slice to the right was better, as long as it didn’t open up the backside of 5 instead of the front.
Leading out by positioning yourself already at 4 was smart 🙂 because she can send 1-2-3 then you are already there for 4-5! And she turned really well, good girl!!!!
And specifically for Lu, in terms of planning – there is a lot of acceleration on the line to the 6 tunnel, so using a turn cue to get her to see 7 can really help. It will feel more exaggerated for now, but that is fine because as she gains experience you can exaggerate it less and less, trusting her to find the jump more independently.
Comparing the walk to the run:
The opening looked great and pretty identical walk-to-run. Super!
Jump 4 – on the run, you had to stay there a bit longer to get commitment – nice job staying connected!
>I watched my first attempt and thought I had lost exit line connection on #4. So tried to exaggerate it for the next attempt and did not go well.>
It was more of a motion question than a connection question:
When you started moving to 5, she was still adjusting her take off spot at 4 (had not yet really committed to a line) so she read your motion (correctly) as a rear cross, good girlie!
Excellent job trying to stay in motion and keep going – that is key to trial success! You were a little in her way, so she went to the backside of 5.
On the 2nd run, you put a lot of pressure on the takeoff spot of 4 which created a left turn, plus the quick movement made it an extended left turn so she went to 1 to turn left.
That pressure caused you to block the landing line you wanted, so you can be more upright and moving/indicating to the slice landing spot so the line is clear – you can indicate the slice line by pointing to the slice landing spot and looking at it, as you move away forward from the wing.
You showed it to her as a FC at :11 and she did well! It can also be a throwback where you indicate that slice line then do a BC on the exit.
She had pretty tight turn at :11 and the line to 5 still read as a backside line. So two options there: don’t exit 4 with her on your left side – you can exit with her on your right side to get a tighter line to the front of 5, delaying the blind to your left until after she is on the line. Or, keep her on your right and RC takeoff of 5. She can work the 6-7-8 line at a distance with no problem.
For the tunnel exit at 6-7 – yes, Lu said she did need a turn cue before it. Also, things being a little sideways can cause youngsters to watch more and flank lines a bit, so that seemed to play in here too. She was organizing nicely for the jumps that were clear, so running past stuff seemed to be more of a question about which line to take. So while she is still 6 feet or more away from entering the tunnel, you can give a big loud verbal and 2 hands so she turns to find the 7 jump.
Nice work here!!!
TracyGreat to see Enzo in action!!! He seemed happy to be back doing agility 🙂
Both runs looked really good – we can tighten up a couple of turns:
On both runs, you can use a wrap verbal on 2 to get a tighter turn. When you are keeping him on your right, you can have 2 hands raised as part of the cue (and also use his distance skills to put yourself further up the line near the tunnel – that will help tighten the turn and make the flip easier).
When you were doing the FC to put him on your left, you can send him to 2 while positioning yourself closer to the tunnel entry and even as far up the tunnel towards the exit as you think he will still commit to 2. It makes it easier to get 3 and will naturally set up a better turn on 2 and get you even further ahead.
>His flip was very wide>
I think he was surprised by it – you started it just before he exited the tunnel, so you can try moving up the timing so he sees it before he enters the tunnel. Another thing to try is using the outside arm too – if the low inside arm is not a big enough visual coming out of a straight tunnel, the outside arm being used with it can really catch his attention.
>I was LATE with the “left” cue on the second to last jump.>
Yes – the left cues can begin as soon as he is exiting the jump after the tunnel, on the flip or on the backside wrap. You had some extra verbals in there (like Go and Jump) which I don’t think he needs.
>Then there are the two best examples of Casper doing the organized front wrap.>
This is looking good!!!! You can add a little challenge by releasing as soon as his butt hits the sit 🙂 And you can also be slowly moving the whole time, walking though the FC even before you release him. Let me know how he is doing with the slice angles with this skill!
>Finally some weave training with Casper. This is in here just for fun – we like to train weaves. We are working on “go left to weave right”. Casper is starting to develop some mad weaving skills!>
OMG! He is doing so well, plus he seems to really really love the weave challenges! You have alway been excellent with your weave training, so I am not surprised that Casper is also becoming a rockstar weaver. Yay! In the next set of challenges, I have a set of weave challenges coming – I think it will be great to add to Casper’s toolbox!
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
This session went really well, her commitment was no problem at all! And when you asked for a tunnel turn? She was perfect. Happy dance!!!A couple of ideas for adding challenge:
The visual blockers on either side of the tunnel will change her processing, so definitely add in the wings extending from each side of the center of the tunnel as if it was a dog walk plank. And if that is easy, you can put the tunnel under the actual dog walk 🙂
You can also let her see you slam on the brakes while still cueing the GO to the jumps and weaves: as she is approaching the tunnel, you can keep using your verbals but stop your motion abruptly – that challenges her to process verbals to override motion.
For the jump – you can sometimes use the GO and sometimes mix in a turn cue on the jump, like a wrap verbal. That is HARD but great for distance work too!
Nice job here!
TracyGood morning!
I know you have been with us working behind the scenes!! And the heat has just been absolutely brutal. UGH!!!
>feel like I’m still in class with you with the Teeter & Weaves classes! >
Perfect! And I am glad you are pushing yourself to get those obstacles ring-ready. She is ring-ready in every other way, so finishing up the weaves and contacts will make for fun trialing when the summer heat goes away.
>We did a lot of practice with forward focus & lateral starts. She is getting it and it is a great skill. I’m going to try to do the independent obstacle skills for the rest of CAMP to gain more skills.>
This is a great choice for Bazinga and for Frankie too! The independent skills are becoming really important in AKC and will also make layering easier when that becomes a more popular AKC skill too.
>We are getting there with the teeter and are almost ready to start the last package. She has loved every bit of it. I think she is a thrill-seeker! I>
Ha! That sounds like her LOL!!!!
> don’t want to lump it and my teeter board is homemade from wood and has a pretty strong whip, so I want to make sure she knows what to expect once the drop is from high.>
You can change the movement and speed of your teeter a little by attaching small weights to the underside on either end (or both ends). A small light weight (like a spoon) and some duct tape can make things feel different for her. And she might be ready for a Teeter Tour where you go visit as many different teeters as possible. Of all the obstacles in agility, teeters vary the most – so getting her exposed to the Max200, Clip&Go, MADAgility, Galican, etc teeters will help. I do a teeter tour and just play end games on each new teeter at first to get the pups comfy.
>We have 12 weaves!!! We have 6 weaves not at home! We did the 6 weaves in FEO at a trial!!! EEEK!>
YAY!!! That happened pretty quickly!!! Well done!
Her FEO run looked great! She got into the weaves and looked great, then she looked surprised at the commotion (“Of course I am brilliant, hoooomans”) hahaha and the rest of the run looked awesome! You can mix in getting the toy involved so you don’t put too much value on the jump *after* the weave which could lead to popping out.
Great job here!!!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Am at a 4 day show and feel off with both Roux and my experienced dog. Adjusting to two dogs running and each runs differently is seemingly difficult for me. Trying not to be discouraged.>
That is definitely the hardest part of bringing a young dog into trialing! It is a hard adjustment back and forth between dogs.
You can consider easing into running both of them by entering them in different classes so that you only focus on one for each class – your experienced dog can do Premier, for example, and Roux and do regular Standard and JWW. And then flip the next day. Then enter them both in one of the simpler classes like T2B where you run them both. That way even though they each run fewer classes, you will have more success and you won’t be frustrated!
I have 5 dogs that currently run and they are all different – so I limit which ones get entered in which classes, in order to retain my sanity LOL!! At some point I will enter all 5 in the same classes, but I need more practice for myself before I do that.
And the other prep thing you can do is walk the course, then run them back to back on at least part of it – give yourself one run for each, not a work session, so you are feeling the differences in the rhythm and needs of each.
At trials (and at home) – I think the main thing to emphasize is your connection. If the connection is a bit wobbly, you will get errors with both dogs. But if connection is clear – you will either handle perfectly to plan or you will easily fix any bobbles before they become faults.
I mention the connection because it is what caused the error here in your first run, and also connection is almost always responsible for fault at trials: without connection, the dogs don’t know where to go so we get faults. Feel free to send me the trial runs, especially the ones that feel “off” and we can test that theory. And if it is NOT a connection question, we can figure out what it is and then make the quick fix!
Looking at the video:
The shape of the walk through was really good in terms of your plan, and the speed of it was really good! I could tell what your plan was.
But the place to add emphasis is in the connection. You were looking ahead at the obstacles for the walk through, which means the connection will be used for the first time during the actual run… which also means there is a strong likelihood of a break in connection leading to an error, especially on the important parts like sends and side changes and serps/threadles.
On the run, connection broke at exit of tunnel 3 on the send to 4 at 1:15 – you looked ahead at the obstacles which turned your shoulders to the weaves so she never got a cue to take 4.
On the other runs, you had great connection there but for trials, we want that very first run to have the clear connection.
Getting across the ring from 4 to 7:
You can send to 4 from further away to get the FC you planned (more like what you did at 2:40 and 3:30) and another option is to use the big send to 4 then do a BC 5-6 to get 7.7-8-9-10 went really well the first time through there. You had too much convergence into the line got the backside at 8 on the 2nd run – the threadle wrap is definitely the correct plan there. She hit the bar due to late cues. That is a spot to keep going so you are constantly thinking on your feet and maintaining the plan and connection no matter what happens. This will help both dogs when you are trialing them.
Super nice blind to 11! Then the line from the tunnel to the weaves to the DW looked great!
Your work on verbals really shone through at 3:10 on the backside after the dog walk – you were pretty far and already turning, and she adjusted her line to get it based on the verbal. YAY!
Layering the tunnel on the ending line – it pull her in off the last jump a bit, so you can plan an outside arm there.
So overall – I will keep bugging you about working the connection in during walk throughs. The main connection points to work on are:
– start line releases
– sends
– tunnel exits & weave exits
– Exits of crosses (looking back at her)
– Any backside/threadle/serpy stuffIf you are running a line near her, connection might not be as critical – so looking for the critical connection points and working them in the walk through will make a massive difference!!
When training on your own, doing this at Roux-speed will help. In a trial with 50 other people in the walk through, doing it at Roux-speed is pretty impossible but you have been practicing at her speed. So, trial walk throughs can be spent emphasizing the connection points for both dogs.
Nice work here! Let me know how the rest of the trial weekend goes!
Tracy
Hi!
>As far as Roots having an “extensive history”, well I’ve tried teaching this a bunch before, starting when verbals were starting to be a thing when he was 4 or 5.>
I meant extensive history of the physical cue being the most important 🙂 Verbals with 9 year old dogs are harder to convince them of!
>And so far Beat does not do much better at this.>
Wait til you get closer to the 18 month – 2 year old range, as adolescence starts to fade away… she will be able to do as her brain develops.
>how about if within a session or over the course of sessions I just move the obstacles closer and closer until the motion really could be cuing either one and the verbal cue becomes the more helpful cue?>
This is a very clever way to make motion more neutral! Love it!!! And we are seeing obstacles very close together in course design lately… totally try it!
On the video – very successful session here! Super! And the reset treats helped when he chose the wrong obstacle.
Yes, I think he was looking at your hand near the bait bag, because CLEARLY STARVING 😂🤣And the anticipation of getting a treat was overriding the jump cue. He did well with it when you hand was in more of a ‘take an obstacle’ position
Your physical cues were helping a little but there was still a major discrimination element happening. He was also really beginning to drive away past the jump to find the tunnel. And towards the end, he seemed to be processing the jump cue because his interest in the tunnel was high, but he adjusted his course to get the jump when you were cueing it. YAY!!!
Try moving the obstacles closer and see how it goes!
Great job here 🙂
TracyHi!
>Have you ever considered a fall camp instead of summer? 🤣 I’m so done with the heat index being over 100 just about every day!!>
OMG same here! CAMP started back in 2012 when summers were so much nicer!
>she does not listen as well to what I’m saying (in agility or life 😂). >
The joys of adolescence 🤣😂
Overall the sequences went well with finding the lines, and you did a great job getting both dogs to the backside!
>Nox had issues with the backside push >
I think she was strong with the backside pushes! At 2:05 and 2:27 you moved into her space before she was fully past you, which pushed her off the jump. But most of the other reps were spot on, like at 3:06 – 3:09 and 3:31 – 3:34. On both of those, you decelerated while showing her the wing, let her get past you, then looked at the landing spot as you moved forward. Looked great!!
>AND the threadle wrap, but I really didn’t feel like there was any progress with the wrap.>
She was starting to get the idea – coming nicely to the threadle side! But she didn’t know how to turn herself away, especially when you were not decelerating and kept moving forward.
So, the goal is to get her to turn herself away with minimal help from your hands. So after you set the line to get her to the threadle side, decelerate near the wing and stay in that decelerated position as you use small cues to turn her away – don’t move forward again until she has committed to turning herself away.
Two other things that will help build up the behavior:
For now, take the bar out so all she needs to do is turn back to a wing wrap – right now she is relying on your hand cues but we want to make turning back and taking the jump (or wrapping the wing) more automatic without having to think about jumping a bar.
And, for the threadle wraps, put all reward on the landing side so it really builds up in value. The rewards were generally coming near you on the next line, but throwing the rewards away from you on the landing line will make a big difference for commitment.
For Katniss – I think the deceleration will make a big difference. You were trying to keep moving in steady motion, but she needs the decel as part of the cue to set the striding. Then when she turns away to commit to the jump, you can run forward again.
Also – Even though it is the ‘easy’ part in theory 🙂 give strong cues to get into the tunnel. You were disconnected and turning away (like at 3:12) so she was not convinced she could go into the tunnel. Compare to 3:37 where it was very clear and you still had plenty of time to get the BC after it
> I have wondered if this is related to her jumping issues or if she doesn’t like bending her body and I need to do some conditioning work specific to that movement. >
I don’t think that played a role in the – it was more about delivering the info with decel and then rewarding for committing.
>When I am wearing the green shirt, it’s actually two different days. I have 3 of the same shirt, lol.>
Ha! That’s relatable. Or I throw on the old sweaty clothes to just get more sweaty and dirty LOL
Nice work here!
Tracy
Hi!
>So I tried to walk faster than I thought we’d go but I’m having a hard time cueing precisely and I feel really rushed and unfocused. I’m not sure how to reconcile the two.>
You can approach it as a full walk through – at first, walk the course to decide your handling and connection and verbals, then walk it again to put it all together (emphasis on planning timing: starting the cues when the dog is still at the previous obstacle, at the latest). These are not done at the fast pace, they are slower so you can plan.
Then when you have your plan (handling/verbals, connection, timing) you can go faster and faster, where you last moments are trying to do the full course as if actually handling Muso.And if, after 5 minutes, those high speed walk throughs feel rushed/unfocused? Then practicing them more regularly will help that! This is a skill that is largely under-rehearsed in dog agility. You can start with smaller pieces of courses at first, then get to longer and longer sequences. It should feel pretty uncomfortable at first! That is normal.
Both runs looked really strong! One or two hard parts (as expected on training courses :)) but overall really strong and generally matching the walk throughs. The bloopers also matched the walk throughs.
2 general things to consider:
Rehearse the verbals more so they are actally like what you say during the run. The verbals in the run are very different from the walk through, in terms of what you actually say, how & when you say it, etc. So really shout out the verbals in the walk through so you can rehearse what you want to say.
Also, clarify the teeter release. You need to decide what the actual release is so there is no stress developing. I believe you think the release is the verbal release, but I believe she thinks the release is when the board hits the ground or arm movement (not a verbal), based on trials and other runs at home. So she released on the slam on the first one each time in the runs and you stopped. She also released on the slam at 2:04 in video 1 – and then you released and tossed the toy (she was moving before the release) Then released on the shoulder movement at 2:27 and 3;34 (verbal happened to come with it)
She released on the slam at 2:06 on video 2 – she was successful after she was stopped, but that doesn’t answer the question about what the release is – at 4:43 she moved on motion just before the verbal release.
My guess is that you’ve paired the release with the slam or motion enough that the actual release has shifted to be the slam/motion which is why you are seeing the self-releasing. If you want the release to be verbal only, you will want to hold her long enough to praise while the movement is keep going, then release.
Course 1 – I think your plan was strong – my notes about the walk through were mainly about using the verbals as you would in a real run, plan and walk an actual stop on the teeter if she is supposed to stop :), and getting further ahead for the exit of the 9 tunnel by leaving her in the weaves so you can be ahead to show the cues for the turn on 10.
On the run, the opening looked great! Yay!
You ran a lot of yardage after the weaves so your turn cues were a little late and not prominent at 1:46 – that 10 jump is a place to handle from ahead as it is one of the harder turns on course. It looked SO MUCH BETTER at 3:36 when left her in the weaves to get ahead and really show the decel and started the other turn cues before she even exited the tunnel. Super!
The TW looked good! The only other challenging part was the slice RC on 17 – you turned your feet to the tunnel too soon and pinged her off the RC jump at 2:31. On the other reps, you didn’t quite face the center of the bar enough, s she turned to her left. Try to drive to the center of the bar as if you are running to the weaves.
And on the last jump here and last jump in the next course, be careful of the early throw! Get the last jump then throw – you were throwing early on a couple of reps so she didn’t take the last jump.
Course 2:
>Isn’t 17-18 a front side wrap and not a threadle wrap?>
Based on the line from 17, when she lands she has an option of which side of be on: push her back through the gap to side numbered as 7 on the map to get the backside, or the numbered side of 18 is the threadle side where you have to draw her in to between you and the jump (or do a cross and handle as a push wrap)
or did you mean 7-8, before the teeter? Also a threadle wrap there, same reasons, slightly different line.On the walk through:
remember to decel on your TW cues and turn feet to next line. The decel helps get the collection and allows you to show the line you are setting. Without decel, it ends up looking like slice cues.On the 13-14-15 (tunnel-weave-jump) line, you can send to weaves and layer the 10 jump to be able to push to 15 – that 14-15 line is a serp so keep your arm back and push on her line more, connecting to her til she turns away to commit.
On the run:
Seeing 1 was hard with you behind her, it is a good skill to work on with another jump right next to you! She got better and better at it in this session.
The 2-3-4 line worked well in general, only one moment where you had too much step forward which sent her off course to the jump.
After the 3 tunnel at 1:47 and 4:31 and 5:13 sending to 4 – this was a wide turn each time, for 2 reasons. When she exits the tunnel… don’t say go! Start your decel and say your wrap cue. And this is a good place for a spin, because it cues a tight turn and also gets your feet turned back down the line sooner than a post turn. Your line and post turn after 4 locked her onto the weaves briefly there.
The line from 8-9 was the hardest part here – at 1:54and 4:37 the cues except verbal said slice (no decel, feet/motion facing slice etc. When you had a little decel and threadled her more at 2:02, it worked a lot better! At 5:19 you tried to rotated sooner and faster, but it still looked like backwards motion into the slice line. So you can handle it similarly to how you handled 18, which looked really good: decel, setting the line with your feet to the next line, and turning her away.
The walk through mirrored the run a bit at 15, but you did layer 10 in the run (yay!) – so more connection and more serp arm will really help her commit to 15, and keep pushing on the line til you see her turn to it. The dog walk to the end looked great!
Nice work here!!
TracyHi! Yes, it has been such a HOT summer! And hopefully your eye is continuing to recover!!!
This was really fascinating to watch her work, thanks for sharing it! Scent sports are absolutely fantastic for dogs and I agree, it does help with agility too. I am not surprised that she is brilliant at it!!! So cool! Very impressive 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
This was a really good session to show him the concept of finding the weaves from the tunnel without you! The only suggestion I have is to get him a bit more ramped up before that first rep – he was not quite in the right arousal state to accelerate ahead of you. You can do tricks for treats will get him going, or you can run him through the tunnel for rewards once or twice – that should help getting him ramped up!
By the 3rd rep, he was fully awake and ready to roll, plus you acceleration really helped too. He found the soft-side weave entries really well, it looks like he was actively seeking out the correct entry and by the last one, driving ahead of you to find it even when you were hanging way back! So you can keep workinadding more distance very gradually, along with flipping it around to hit the other weave entry too.> since I’m spending the rest of my time on running DW training.>
Ah yes, that can time consuming for sure! This game counts as dog walk training too, because it is what happens under the DW haha!!
Great job!
TracyHi!
This went really well! His commitment on the countermotion wraps looked great. One thing to add for you is deceleration. When you were going fast then suddenly rotating, your momentum would pull you back towards the wing for another step – that could lead to a wide turn or knocked bar on a real jump. But when you added decel before the rotation like at :20-:22, you were able to rotate without any backwards motion and then you powered out of the cross beautifully. So a little decel and go a long way 🙂
I think he really liked the race track! You can race him around it to let him really open up. Just be sure to stay connection. When he was turning left (on your right side) you were looking forward more, so he was being more careful. When he was on your left, you were more connected so he was really gaining speed! Fun!
Nice work here!
Tracy
Hi!
> I’m not fully understanding how to set the line before the jump that is before the RC jump.>
As long as you are moving generally towards it, she doesn’t need you to fully face it to get her to commit to it. As you are moving towards it and past it, you can already be facing the center of the bar on the RC jump. Let me know if that makes sense (or if I need more caffeine LOL)
>. I’m embarrassed to say that we have not done any “just wing” exercises. We did some baby stuff with cones but not wings.>
No worries! Cones are very effective for teaching foundation work.
She might have needed a moment to figure it out on the wings, but this session looked GREAT! You were setting the line really well – clear line of travel, your hands and connection were clear, and she was happy to turn away on the wing. Super! You can add the tunnel now to this game – send her to it so you are pretty far ahead when she exits so she can see the handling. You can also work the threadle wraps on the wings.
> I also struggle a little with just wing exercises because sometimes I can’t “see” the big picture without the whole jump.>
To help with the visual, you can put a leash on the ground where the jump bar will be. That will let you see the whole jump… but she won’t see it as a jump (hopefully :)) Working these skills first on just the wing helps the dogs build success, because the distraction and value of the jump bar is not in the picture – so they will follow the cues more rather than look for the jump. We add the jump bar back in soon, when she is happy to do this with speed from the tunnel.
>(if we don’t melt or combust).>
OMG this has been a HOT summer!! And the humidity is double gross here. Fingers crossed for a break from the heat for all of us!
Great job here!!
TracyHi!
This went great!!! He is really responding to everything – that does not always work in our favor but it will get easier as he gets more experienced. What I mean by that is if you are early or disconnect, he will learn to save you and NOT drop the bar. Right now he is very earnest and drops the bar trying to change the line based on what he sees. Good boy!!
>he was great with the middle jump!>
Yes – the brake arms really helped!!! Well done adding them!
He had a couple of questions on the bars:
On jump 3 at :03, you started the blind too early. The timing of the rest of the blinds was great, so he had no more questions there.
The bar came down a few times on jump 7 (before the tunnel). When you were connected and showing the line? No problem! When your arm went about your head or you added 2 hands/whoa verbal – he was trying to change the line and dropped the bar.
Again, it will get easier when he is more experienced and he won’t mind if one of your arms ends up above your head LOL!! And you were super connected in general so he did really well.
One other suggestion is to run with the toy in your pocket so your hands are free the whole time – switching the toy around takes up a bit of time and he is too fast for that 🙂
I got screenshots of the moments where he had questions, and the moments where you were perfect:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t73r-WYfvf-sOcrj6oUZQ-UgfHwrfO8Kcn4gsMVaec8/edit?usp=sharing
>I was curious about how he is working for the toy vs food so I did food yesterday and toy today and I do wonder if the struggle with the last jump is because of the toy?>
I don’t think so – I think it was how the cue was delivered, and he is needing you to be almost perfect right now. That ‘needing to be almost perfect’ is pretty normal with fast, inexperienced dogs. But he is doing wonderfully well! You can test the theory and have the toy in your pocket to see how he does!
Great job!
TracyHi there!
It has been a gross hot summer for sure! This went well though!
>Looking ahead she’s pretty good at not sure if the lines you focused on were correct when I did it.
This was good! Walking up the line with you behind her and parallel to her both went well.
>,but sometimes increasing speed is hard for her. She’s more chase me vs take the jump>
Ok, let’s focus on that because we do need you to be able to run run run 🙂 Add in more motion (jogging then running) on the same scenario you used here. And send to the tunnel from further away so you can get miles ahead of her on the jump… but don’t be moving to fast yet so she can take the jump and organize herself. And send any videos of when she doesn’t take the jump so we can sort out why it is happening. She has good jump commitment so we can figure out what it going on (pointing? Disconnecting? etc.)
> Redid my rears and tacked that on the end. I think it’s better but … lol>
The RCs also went well! On the first one, she was looking at the poles (even if she doesn’t really know what they are LOL) because of your motion. That is fine, we want her locking onto a line 🙂 The last rep looked great!
Nice work here!
TracyHi!
This session went great, she is doing AWESOME with the countermotion and the commitment!Almost all of the session was beautiful. The blooper moments fall into the category of “Sighthounds See EVERYTHING” (even when there is Border Collie mixed in there LOL). It is actually pretty impressive!
> other than her mistaking the cue for the wrap from a standstill for the cue to go around my back. >
Yes – that was near the beginning, and on those 2 reps your left (opposite) leg was moving forward when you did the cue. On all other reps, your dog-side leg was stepping back to the wing so she had no questions. It is possible that on the behind-the-back moments, you might be subconsciously stepping forward as part of the cue because that is where you would go next.
She was quite perfect when the dog-side leg stepped back to the edge of the wing you wanted her to wrap. At :58 she took the threadle wrap… because that is where you stepped to (inside of wing). Watch your foot there – sighthounds see EVERYTHING plus left turns might be easier than right turns.
She had one other question, at 1:33 and 1:57 (same question each time) of ending up on your left when you wanted her on your right. What she was seeing there was you were switching the toy from hand to hand as she was exiting the wing before it, then swinging the toy hand back – the switching delays the connection, then the arm going back with toy in hand might have looked like you wanted her there (like a spin or something. Compare to the super clear conneciton at 1:43 and 2:03 – you switched it earlier and didn’t swing your arm back at all (you emphasized exit line connection) so she got it. The easiest answer, though, is to not switch the toy around – and the easiest way to do that is run with it in your pocket 🙂
You can add the race tracks around the outside, and spread out the distances here. That will add challenge because you will be further from the wing and so there will be more countermotion.
Great job!
Tracy
