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Hello and welcome back! I can’t believe he is a year old already!!!!
Because there is so much to do with puppies at this stage, I recommend scheduling your training on the calendar 🙂 You can alternate days: Maxpup handling/jumping stuff on days that alternate with contact stuff, so you do try to do it all in one day. And if you miss a day, no worries, keep going with the schedule and it all evens out.
Have fun!
TracyGood morning! Welcome to class, great to see you here 🙂
The wrap pre-game is going well! She doesn’t always go to the wing if your dog-side leg is back. So to help her always propel to the wing after you let go of her collar, you can let go then take one step to the wing (then reward when she goes around it 🙂 ). Good job with the verbals!
>>She can be iffy about things that involve collar holding so at some point we made need to adjust.
She did well with the collar holding here. You can do a lot of very quick collar touches then let go so she can go do a thing, like chase a toy or a cookie or run through a tunnel. The collar holds don’t need to be long in duration – quick and fun is the key. And, for now, it might really benefit her if you took her collar and gave her a treat every time you touched her collar during training.
>> For example we don’t have a stay, so how do we work the pregame moving target?
2 ideas for you:
– you can toss a cookie away so she moves to get it then as she is on her way to you, you can begin the moving target game.
– begin working on the stay to get her happy to hold position. She is a good age for it! It can be a stay on a platform like a Cato board for now, or you can shape the stay with toys or treats. Super short duration for high value reinforcement is key here. I prefer to use the release as part of the reinforcement, so you can begin by releasing and rewarding the instant her butt assumes the sit position, then build up more and more duration over time. We don’t want to rush the stay behavior, but we certainly want to get it going.Many of the games can be done without a stay or without a collar hold because you can start with a cookie toss or a wing wrap. And, separately, you can build up the stay and collar hold so eventually it all comes together 🙂
Have fun!
TracyThat will work! And we can adjust games as needed for the equipment and space available. Have fun!
Tracy
Good morning!
I looked through the first few weeks. Here is what ti bring, if possible 🙂
– 3 jumps if possible, with bumps or low bars. We will be using the wings separately as well.
– do you have access to a baby tunnel to bring? That will work really well if you don’t have a full-sized tunnel on the road.
– a super long toy that can drag on the ground as you walk, or you can tie a couple of toys together, or use a lotus ball or food pouch on the end of a toy too!Thanks!
TracyHi!
This session went well too! Yes, you were supposed to start out stationary like you did, then add the tunnel.
She definitely figured it out: when the momma is decelerated, add collection 🙂 She was a little surprised on the first rep on each side, but she immediately started to adjust and set up great turns. Really nice!!!
It was harder of course when you added the tunnel, especially on the left turn wraps (2 bars down). You can play this game with a jump bump instead of a bar a few times so you don’t have to worry about bars at all – she can sort out her mechanics without hitting the bar 🙂
This is a good one to revisit once a week or so – that way she keeps her decel skills sharp and you won’t have to work hard to get collection 🙂
>>Is the Transition to Trials class the MaxPup 4 class? I won’t want to miss that one.>>
Yes – that is the one! I hope to get it written up and posted soon!
Have fun!
TracyHi!
I love your verbal for this LOL!!! She did really well too, these are hard!On the first reps – you can move more towards the tunnel entry so she gets motion to support the verbal, as this will always be done in motion 🙂
When adding the wing: as she exits the wing, you should be turned and facing the threadle entry. At :30, you were facing the entry on her line, so that is where she went 🙂 You got better and better about turning to the correct entry (like at :46 and :50) so keep going with that shoulder turn route! You can use your arm a lot like at :53 but don’t turn towards her like you did there – keep turning away to the threadle side of the tunnel. And you can throw the toy down as a reward like you did, but try to time is so it happens after (and separately) from the verbal, to strengthen the verbal – if the toy movement comes first, she won’t learn the verbal as well.
Well done in this class, you and Caper are really coming together as a team! YAY! The future is very bright 🙂 I will keep you posted on MaxPup 4!
Have fun!
TracyHi! The summer has flown by – I can’t believe that the puppies are old enough to go home soon!!!
Great job with Saphira and I agree – you made important progress! And, she is maturing and that makes it a lot easier for training 🙂
Great job! Stay tuned for more MaxPup classes soon 🙂
TracyHi!
yes – there is a MaxPup 4 coming soon, stay tuned! I hope to have it posted in soon 🙂And yes – we have some neuroplasticity left! I am thankful for that because I am getting older and my dogs are getting faster 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
The forced fronts looked great here! I think the key is setting her up on the slice, that made it really obvious. Your timing on the 2nd rep and the reps after it was really good (first rep was little late) – you started the FC just before she got to the entry wing.
She took the front at 1:48 – yes, you moved too early and stepped back so she read it was motion to the front. You felt it in the moment 🙂Be sure you give her the big eye contact as you start the FC
You can see at 1:35, for example, she is a bit wide because the FC was all done with your arm so it was hard for her to see where you wanted her to be. Compare it to the last rep at 2:03 – lots of eye contact there as you did the FC and she was really tight! Nice! You can definitely move on to the throwbacks and threadles here.The jumping exercise is going well! It looks like the distance and angle were perfect. She definitely has the idea to bounce her way through it, and the placement of the reward is perfect: she is bouncing with her head down and really good form! Super! So you can revisit this one every couple of weeks, flattening out the angle each time.
I am so glad you enjoyed the class! It has been so fun watching you and Synnie! I will keep you posted on the next round of classes 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHi!
Video 1 and 2: both of these looked good! you can see how well the connection gets him past the tunnel! So now… you can move faster and control his line less, but maintain the same connection 🙂 As you start adding more speed, keep your dog-side arm back and BIG eyeball-to-eyeball connection as you go past the tunnel, and I am sure he will nail it!
On the 3rd video, you had more of that great connection – I don’t think you need the opposite arm there, because that will slow down the running when you start to add more motion. So you can try it with your dog side arm pointing back to his nose and keep using the big connection you had here – it was terrific!!
Great job :)
TracyHi!
I am so glad you had an easy time with the tropical storm/earthquake combo! Crazy!!!!
>>And the weather has been unusually delightful ever since.>>
Yes, that is the post-hurricane effect. We get that here in the southeast because we get a lot of tropical storms LOL!
>>How about that, I did end up better on the blind on the left that the right! Must have been all the practice. It just goes to show, I need to work more with dog on left.>>
Yes! Interestingly, I just heard a podcast about all the science that tells us why we can achieve excellent when practicing like you did, and that can surpass the skills we have that we consider to be strong. It was a totally interesting geekfest about how purposeful practice leads to neuroplasticity leads to excellence. SO COOL and you were the example on the video!
>She’s a funny girl, I went back and looked, and she did have a “what? We’re stopping?” Look on her face.>>
It was hilarious! And it is the first time she stood still in front of the camera – she is such a pretty dog!!!
>> So I’ve lost track, are we at or over the time limit on videos?
The last day for videos is tomorrow. Then stay tuned for MaxPup 4!
Tracy
Hi!
>>so much easier to use my jump verbal that I couldn’t help but layer the tunnel :).>>
Yes! It is intended to ultimately turn into layering, in a context that we are seeing A LOT lately! Especially in UKI 🙂 MiG did a great job reading the cues!
>>And yep – arm high/broken connection meant she took the tunnel, haha
Yes, that was at :13 when you pointed ahead of her with a high arm.
Compare to the next reps:
:28 looked great! Your arm was all the way back behind you so the full connection was easy to see.
:50 and 1:06 looked great too, and also were good examples of how your arm doesn’t have to be that far back, as long as you are not pointing ahead of her. Your arm/hand on those reps followed her nose and that worked really well. Yay!
So think of sending her out as being a connection thing: eye contact gets the send rather than arm motion (totally counterintuitive, right? But works so well!!)
>>Oh hey! I was re-reading the email you sent back on 8/9 about the Week 9 games. The first game listed is ‘Concept Transfer: Deceleration’ but I don’t see a link to it? >>
Oops, that is because it never published. Sorry! It should be visible now. I guess that explains why no one tried it LOL!!!!
Nice work here :)
TracyHi!
>> I think that caused some confusion with the stopped DW. I can sure use a flat or almost flat AF.>>
Yes – if this is only for the running a-frame, then you will want an entirely different looking target for the dog walk (if it is a stopped DW).
And also yes, you can totally use a flat-ish frame.
>>I am going to guess that as the mat gets smaller she will need to adjust her striding away from the trotting if she truly understands the behavior & it will will turn in to a pouncing thing. Ugghhh then u foresee the trotting coming back.>>
The mat getting smaller is the absolute last thing to worry about. The full size mat goes on the contact as the contact gets raised up, and as the striding gets developed (and it is find to use stride regulators on the contacts to help get the striding too!
Tracy
