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Hooray for cooler weather and wow, 9 puppies! You will be busy!!!! A short training break will probably be quite welcome here and there 🙂
I am glad she did well at 14”! Let’s stick there for a bit and then move them up again in maybe 2 weeks, depending on what happens in your schedule and how much training you can squeeze in.
The countermotion is looking good! She had to get into the groove of ignoring the toy at the beginning but then she did a great job! Well done to you for hitting all of the mechanics so precisely: verbals, arm, leg connection shift. Yay! You also added more distance and started to leave for the next direction (moveing forward) earlier and earlier and the session progressed. Really strong session! The only thing to add is your ‘strike’ marker if you can fit it in with the other verbals (it can replace “yes”).
And well done on the rep with 2 in a row! You can definitely add more of these, doing 2 or 3 in a row. And the race tracks (zipping around the outside) will be super fun for her too, she is ready for those as well.
Great job! Fingers crossed for a safe and easy delivery of 9 healthy puppies for Mazi!!
Tracy
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>>Hoke also was much slower as a youngster. I think the things we have trouble with now that he is speedy are things not trained as well as others.>>
I can relate! There are always holes in our training that we find when the dog starts going really fast 🙂
>>The zoom class you did with Bobbie B & the vet on how dogs learn was such a huge eye opener for me & changed everything I used to think about dog training. Your feedback & your instruction have supported that new understanding & shows me how to implement new training skills. It all makes so much sense. >>
I am so glad to hear this! Our goal is to take a different approach to training and get even better outcomes!
>>I see the same methods with my herding teacher although she would never think about it in the same terms. >>
She sounds like she has an intuitive gift for it. That is really wonderful!
>>Can I still access the other zoom you did at the same time about puppy brain? I would love to have that info for working with the pup. He is a handful! I am working through Max Pup 1 with him & hope to catch up if you do a small Max Pup 2.>>
Stay tuned! I am putting up a new website where people can find all of the webinars in one place! I hope to have it ready by the end of July.
The one step sends looked really good! The connection is the key: when you were connected, she was basically perfect. She is young and still checks in to see connection: note the difference in her commitment when you did the clear connection at :08 and :29 and :36 (for the wraps) and :56 (for the left turn). Gorgeous connection on all of these!
Versus when you were pointing forward at :18 (for the wrap) and :45 (for the soft left turn) – she looked at you for more info and did not commit.So definitely keep working the big connections on these – you can also add more distance between the wings and tunnel.
On the rear crosses:
These are much harder to cue!>>xI am cutting across too flat I think.>>
What was happening was that you were pulling your shoulders/feet and motion towards the right turn wing, then before she took off you were trying to get the left turn.
When you were very dramatic about it (like at :04 and :12) she didn’t commit. You moved forward more and got commitment at :18 and :25.
The other reps were also better in terms of acceleration and reward throws, but she still didn’t see enough RC info.
So to get the RC info, you can decelerate a little on the jump before the RC jump but all motion should be to the center of the bar of the RC jump until she is past you – then you can move to the other side. That RC pressure will get her to turn left more easily.
Two other things to try for the RC:
– a placed reward will help a lot, like the MM or a toy on the ground out on the left turn line
– you can also do the mirror image and try the rear cross to her right. She might be a righty so trying to teach rear crosses was too hard to her left.Great job here!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!!
>>It’s so hard to remember to connect ALL THE TIME. I suspected that was part of our problem.
Totally agree, it is the hardest part about young dog handling! It gets easier as they learn the game better and don’t rely on us being perfect 🙂
You can already see that happening here! She is looking for the wings nd not needing to look at you as much (at least not directly – she is totally paying attention!). This was a super nice session! The wraps looked great and you did a lovely job of staying in motion when you needed the 2 wings in a row. You were a little late on the FC at the beginning (probably making sure she had the commitment) and then by the end of the session, your FC timing was so much better! Nice! And your overall connection was much clearer 🙂
>>So, how I am I going to keep up with this girl!>>
You don’t need to keep up or out run her, you just need to tell her where to go, send her on her way there, and meet her elsewhere on the course 🙂 Verbals, distance, and commitment will make handling her smooth and fun!
We have a new batch of wing games coming tomorrow – she is definitely ready for those. Great job here!!
Tracy
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The 10 and 12 inch bars looked good – definitely add in some jump grids where you are using the moving target/dragging toy so she can organize at 12 and 14 with you moving.
And for upcoming handling sequences – do them mostly at 10, with some easier bars (straight line or wrap) at 12” and we will see what she thinks!
The pool swimming is SO CUTE!!!!!!!!! Looks like a nice cool way to end a session 🙂
T
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His commitment is looking really good on the wings here and you got all the verbals out too! Yay!
On some of the reps you were sending with the arm across the body, on some you were rotating early and sending with the ‘new’ arm. For this game, try to be rotated before he is passing you and sending with the new arm like at :16, :25, :36 for example. That will really expand his commitment and you will be able to move up a line even faster!
Racetracks looks fabulous! FUN!When you combined the racetracks and wraps – nice job with the verbals and connections! One detail on this: earlier timing when you go from the race track to the wrap. As he is exiting the wing before a wrap wing, he should already know the next wing is a wrap (verbal, decel, then rotation like he saw when you were doing the warp-only section).
For example, when he was coming around the wing at 1:06, and you had said right… then at 1:07 he arrived at the next wing and you started the wrap cue. He responded as soon as he heard it, but that resulted in a wide turn. The same timing happened at 1:22 and 1:37, and you were facing forward as you turned (more of a post turn than a FC) so he had questions there.
His only other question was a little refusal at 1:09 – things were happening VERY FAST and you didn’t look behind you as you sent him to the wing and tried to move forward. I love that you were already rotated and moving the new direction, so add the looking at the wing behind you as you send him, and it will be perfect!
Great job on all of these! Let me know what you think!Tracy
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I thought this went really well!!!!Go line – he is doing well here! You can throw the reward sooner and keep accelerating til he gets to the toy so he doesn’t see you decel or look at you.
Wrap – a little more patience needed here on the first rep 🙂 You were a bit too soon on the rotation at :14 (you started rotating as he landed from the previous jump). Compare to the next rep at :21 where you stared decelerating as he landed from the previous jump but didn’t rotate til he was looking at and collecting for the wrap 🙂 Perfect!!!
I think you might be too polite on the RCs 🙂 You can totally get right on his tail on the RC diagonal, so he has no questions. He turned the correct direction but dropped the bar on the full sequence rep – there was a little too much decel. You can be accelerating to the RC line until after he lands from the previous jump, then a little bit of decel as he is passing you. That can get the tight turn exit this sequence needs (or types of RCs won’t need any decel :))
The backside looked really good – it was SUPER obvious what you wanted, and so he nailed it. You might not need the outside arm when you are that close – the dog side arm can work perfectly there.
Great job!
TracyHi!
He certainly is pumped up for his teeter LOL!! Loud banging is his jam LOL!!! And he seems to really like his 2o2o position – awesome!!!
Getting on it forward looked really good. Super!
You were a bit too far away for the backing up, so he was “looking” for it with his back feet but also slipping off the side a bit. So to keep him finding it more precisely, you can put yourself about a foot from the board, so he can step back onto it (and not have a foot slip off the side at all, as that can hurt a bit).
Great job here!
TracyHi!
He is doing really well! You can definitely add more motion here, starting walking faster then see if you can build to a slow jog – that way it is more about the action and not about the staying in the sit. And if you are going fast and he sits right away? You can release pretty quickly, so that low latency gets isolated.Two smaller detail things to add:
– equal balance on the left and right sides (this was mostly dog-on-left)
– say the release or toy marker before you move the toy. This doesn’t really have to do with the sit, but it is more about keeping the markers clean 🙂Great job here!
TracyHi!
yes, on this video you can see how you fully turned to the wrap-left wing then surprised him with the right verbal. The decel was good, so try to only turn to the center of the bar. That will help him find the line smoothly like he did in the other videos!
T
Good morning! I thought both dogs did super well on these!!!
One general idea to add for the layering skills (especially as they get more elaborate :)) is to throw or place the rewards more, rather than have them near you or placed elsewhere. The thrown or placed rewards will speed the learning!
Kip – He pretty much nailed all of this – and you did a great job staying in motion. YAY!!!!
>.We struggled with Sequence 4a pushing back out to the jump after wrapping. I had a few failures on this (didn’t put all in video).>>
Yes, that was really the only question he had.
On the first rep in the video, after the FC on 4, you needed to wait (by holding your position) til he gives you the cue to move to the next line. His cue to you would be him looking at the jump. At :35 he hadn’t looked at the 5 jump yet (he was still finishing the turn away from 4) and you moved away, so he came with you.
:51 you pulled him too far past the 4 jump which made it harder to send him back out. It is counterintuitive, but more connection there (and less arm) will help with the big sending!
The placed reward at 1;02 really helped! So to solidify it, you can do a combo of the placed reward and waiting for him to look at the jump before you start moving away. (Side note: that is the only spot to stand still, you should be in motion on all the other lines and sequences :))>>Honestly – I don’t really have a rear cross with him. I have to be absolutely perfect to execute if it’s not on the flat. He does have a very good switch on the flat though – so the turn was late after he landed but he went out and got the jump afterwards.>>
He did really well with that turn away!! It can be a little sooner, so you can gradually start asking for it a tiny bit sooner each time. He read it really well and then the line back to the tunnel was soooo obvious to him – looked awesome!
>.He grabbed his toy before taking the tunnel but he got the hard parts.>>
Ha! This was at 1:18 – in his defense, I am not really sure he heard the ‘tunnel’ verbal with Emmie barking, your back to him, and the toy right there on the line (he is used to the placed toy being the target to drive to in that context). He was being a good boy LOL!
Emmie did really well too! On the 1-2-3 layering line, you can keep moving on the parallel line so it is not a send – think of the application where the dog walk is there, and you will be hustling to get to the next spot on course.
Very nice turn at 5 and nice line back to the tunnel! And also very nice wrap towards you on 4 and line to the tunnel!!!
The turn away on 4 was harder for her as you mentioned – you did a really good job breaking it down and sorting out the cues she needed. On the last rep, you had super good timing of starting the cue! Because the turn away is relatively new to her, you can then do the eturn away cues more slowly, so she can process them. You were moving fast so she kind of had a “wait, what?” moment there. Slow, deliberate hand movements will get the turn away, then you can go back to big hustle up the next line.
Great job here!!! They are ready for the next sequences!
TracyGood morning!
>> didn’t even think about the handler danger of running into the up end of the teeter. Luckily I didn’t see anyone do that. Plenty of eeek moments as dogs scrambled onto the teeter at 90deg angles though.>>
yes, those things stand out to me a lot more now that I got certified to be a UKI judge (but I really don’t want to judge hahaha). And I did see someone run into the teeter once and so now I am traumatized by it!
>> (and yes, the mowing didn’t happen before we left so there are weird tree like things trying to sprout everywhere)>>
TOTALLY relatable LOL! It is that time of year LOL!!
Looking at the video, and speaking of tree-like things…
>>but he ran around jump #4 until I did a FC.>>
He really doesn’t make mistakes like that, and if he makes a mistake, he almost never repeats it. I think maybe the tree was blocking line to the jump so he was processing going around the tree and ended up going around the jump, on a parallel path backside line? When you showed him the jump with the FC and then called his name with the blind on the next sequence, you could see him almost say “oh yeah, thre is a jump there.” Normally his tunnel exits are great so I plan to blame the tree here 🙂
it would be interesting to see if he would find the jump if you move the tnunel and jump a 5 feet towards the house, to take the tree out of the picture.
Overall, the runs looked great! The threadle versus backside on 1A and 1B looked great.
There was only one spot that can be tighter: the backside of 6. You were accelerating into it and ended up stepping back towards the center of the bar – and that is the line he picked up (correctly), which was a stride or two wider to jump 7. And since Kaladin has officially entered the “fewer strides win big events” stage of trainng 🙂 you can tighten it up without losing speed by sending/deceleraring into the backside, and not letting yourself go past where the wing and bar meet. That should set up a tight and very fast line.
Excellent job staying on the line for the big go go go ending!! He seemed to have no questions. I LOVE IT because I get the sense that being able to stay on lines like this is going to be super duper useful at big events!!
>>Just for kicks I decided to spice things up by threadling #4 and then going back to threadle Slicing #5
That was really nice! FANCY threadle on 4 at 2:01 and he had no questions 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! Lovely session here with the Minny Pinny! You nailed the adding the verbal by holding her collar, saying it a few times, then letting her go.
Also great job fading out the shoulder turns to help her go around, she did it really independently!
Not surprisingly, she was faster when the toy came out 🙂 Doing the first part with food was smart to help her get the idea, and going to the toy added a lot more excitement to the game. I am happy with how she was using her body when the toy was involved: very bendy, nice low head bouncing between the bars. YAY!
At the very end, you did a faster moving ‘turn and burn’ front cross, where you were running the other way while she was doing her ‘swing swing swing’ right turns – perfect! Do more of that now, because it will help her understand that she can stay on her line and turn away, even with all that countermotion (plus, she seemed to think it was really fun fun fun :))
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
I agree – she did great here and I think she had a good time too (which is the most important part of course :))>. I don’t know if she really knows the difference in the two different cues (still learning how she learns) or if she just takes the tunnel again because it’s there 😅>>
Ha! It doesn’t really matter LOL! The goal is to get the behavior easily and name it (mission accomplished). So even if she didn’t wake up today fully knowing the difference between the two verbals, you made tremendous strides towards that!
The next step now is to meet her more at the end of the tunnel and keep slowly moving forward parallel to the tunnel, as you say the look look cues (and have your threadle arm up). The goal of that is to teach her to go find the threadle tunnel entry, and to take out any of the physical cue help like stepping to the threadle entry or using your arm to turn her away: you will just keep moving forward til she turns away to the tunnel threadle entry: then you can turn and have a big party.
Great job!!!
Tracy
