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Hi!
These went well!
One thing on both the backsides and the tight wraps – the timing can come sooner on the cues, starting when she is over the bar of the first jump so she has the info when she lands. When you see her getting to the start wing, you can disconnect for a few steps to get up the line faster, but you can re-connect sooner so you see her taking off for jump 1 and then start the extreme connection cues for the backside or wrap. You were tending to start them when she landed and when you got close to jump 2, which made the info late. If you connect to her sooner (with the good ol’ regular connection 🙂 ), the extreme connection can come sooner to smooth out the lines. Since you are ahead on these sequences, you can start the re-connection as you pass the first jump (which is a few strides before she gets to it 🙂 )Looking at the backsides:
Using the outside arm to help get the extreme connection is going well! One thing to do is use it only as much as needed so you can give her the cues very directly, but without rotating your feet. You were using the extreme connection and outside arm and also the outside foot, so she got it but it ended up having you in a front cross position.To be able to get it from further across the bar (like you would need for a serp exit, for example) or if you were behind her, having your feet moving forward the whole time will be very useful! I put a line on the ground for myself so I practice running straight 🙂
That outside arm and extreme connection can start as she is over jump 1 (and while you run straight too the center of the bar of jump 2). That should eliminate her questions like at :17 on the 2nd video where she ended up on the front and at :38 where she had a little zig zag before going to the backside.
Great job breaking down the tight wraps! It is a fine balance between not enough decel/too much pressure into the jump, which gets the rear cross, and decelerating too much that she doesn’t take the jump 🙂 You sorted it out really well especially on the 2nd video – nice turns!
As with the backsides and the sequences on the next 2 videos, making sure you are connected again before she takes off for jump 1 will help the timing here for sure.
On the next video, the reconnection was happening as you were arriving at the wrap jump – since she didn’t have a lot of info as she jumped 1, she was jumping towards you with her head up a bit (the first rep on each video). The next reps on each video went more smoothly – you were connecting sooner so the wrap cues started sooner plus you had a transition in decel as you moved forward – the turns looked lovely! Super!!!
>>Also wondering if there is a class that would be good for J after this.>>
Yes! It is MaxPup 3 🙂 Lots of fun sequence stuff!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>After looking at that FAST video from last week it makes so much sense.>>
And that is why it is great to get everything on video – it really lets us see the big picture 🙂
It was really interesting to see the 2 videos here! She had tighter turns on the 2nd video, turning to her left. So, what was the difference? It is possible that she is a lefty (although I don’t remember really seeing a left turn side preference from her) but also – your cues on the left turn wraps/dog on right video were one step earlier.
On the first video, your cues (decel, connection, verbal, rotation) started when she landed from the first jump, so she didn’t quite have enough time to fully process the cues to collect as much.
On the 2nd video, your cues on the 2 wrap reps were starting as she was on her way down from the jump so they were in progress as she landed (mainly the decel had started, which is a powerful element of the cue). It might seem subtle but it makes a big difference to her!
So you can anticipate landing and start your cues (decel, BIG connection, verbal 🙂 ) as she is taking off for the first jump so when she lands, she sees them in progress and can set up the tight turn. The only thing that doesn’t start that early is the rotation, because it will pull her off of jump 2. So the decel and connection happen while you continue to move forward, and the rotation starts when she is approx halfway to the jump (or a little after that).
Both of the straight line balance reps looked fabulous 🙂
>>If you have any recommendations as to what I should enroll in next in terms of your courses I am all ears.>>
I am glad you had fun!!! I am currently sorting out what the next class will be for the ‘grown up’ dogs 🙂 It will probably be a short-form class like this one with a special focus topic such as independent backsides or jump-tunnel discriminations. I will get that sorted in the next few days and keep you posted 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>>She is by no means a tunnel sucker and occasionally will skip a tunnel entry too but I think overall, tunnels still get her some speed so I’ll definitely be incorporating that next time!>
I think that can help get her blasting into the opening of a sequence if the opening is setup with very little handler motion.
>>So with the threadles, I tell her close to bring her in and then I run towards the wing and meet up with her on the other side/landing spot to teach her that close means come in and jump all in one verbal?>>
Yes – it is a converging pressure towards the exit wing of the threadle. It is pretty hard for the dogs, so do it slowly at first – if you go too fast, she will end up not seeing the upper body and connection and she will go with motion to the other side of the jump. Keep me posted!
Tracy
Hi!
I think this session went really well! I agree with your assessment: backsides were easier than the threadles, and the connection on the line from the wing to wing was HARD! But you had a ton of beautiful reps! And it sounds like she had a cheering section too, so fun!!!Breaking it down into the different challenges:
Super happy with the backsides! You had really nice connection to get her to go to the backside every.single.time. And the other thing that was really strong was your exit line connection after backside serp. Convincing the dogs to turn away after they land from the backside is hard but you made it look easy, with very clear exit line connection (looking a little extra directly at her when she landed). You can see it pretty clearly at 1:38 and 1:55, for example, but you had it in place on the other reps too. Super!!!Threadles are definitely harder because they require the upper body (connection, arm, verbal) to override motion. Try not to turn your feet towards her on the threadles – the best reps were when you had your feet moving forward and the connection/upper body cues did the hard work 🙂 You can see your feet moving forward at :22, :35, 1:31, for example.
She did had a little trouble with the hard slice jump on the threadles when she was on your left jumping to her left over the bar. She had it sorted out by the end of the session, though. She seemed to have an easy time on the other side (jumping to her right) but that makes sense, because I think she is a righty?
For now, you can move more slowly through the threadle so your feet can point forward and she will still read the upper body and connection cues. As she gets more experience with threadles, you can add more and more running 🙂The bigger sequences went well – going from wing to wing is definitely hard for the dogs because they have to pass the jump and there is nothing really obvious out ahead – your connection at 1:07 got it done nicely!
You almost had it at 1:14 but then had a little disconnection when you pointed ahead so she curled off the wing. Compare that to 1:36 – you maintained that connection longer and she went miles away to the wing. YAY!
Be careful not to over-connect like at 1:58 – you were opening up too much there on the connection and it caused a bit too much swinging of your dog side arm back, almost indicating the jump behind you. Compare to the next rep at 2:08 – super connected but not too much rotation so she went directly to the wing. Super!Overall it is a really hard combo because she is moving FAST and you need all of the connections but no disconnection LOL!! You did great!!!
>>What is the last day for video submissions?>>
Feb 21. And I told mother nature that no more bad weather was allowed 🙂 so it should be a lovely week!
Great job 🙂
TracyHi!
“”Kashia was a D.U.D. – dud – last night!!! “”I don’t think she was a total dud… but I do think she thought the start of the sequences was stoooopid LOL!! She thought my course design was a loser LOL!! I don’t take it personally 🙂
She did NOT like any rep that started with the jump then the wing. She was very much trotting on all of those and also trotted in the middle of the longer sequences when she had to go from the jump to the wing. But she got nice and fast when you were going wing to wing, or wing to the backside, or wing to the threadle. She liked all of those and was running.
So why did she dislike the wing to jump so much? Maybe it didn’t have enough motion, it was too decelerated for her, as a starting point. Good to know! She likes action, and when you were able to run, she was nice and speedy! You can modify the boring starts to add more running or bring out a tunnel or throw in another wing to go around to start her (so it is wing-jump-wing) – anything that add more motion going into it. You can also spread out the distances a lot, so she is going 20-25 feet from the wing to the jump – that’ll get running going! We don’t want her to be bored LOL!!!
Your handling is looking really strong! Lovely ‘regular’ connection throughout. The extreme connection for the backside was also really strong – she only had 2 questions where she ended up on the front side. That was at :54 and 2:20, and what happened there was she just needed a little more upper body rotation to cue the backside. To help support the extreme connection, you can use that outside arm a tiny bit differently: point to the outer edge of the entry wing. It looked like you were pointing to the bar or exit wing, which did not give enough info for her to read it as a backside (she is still learning it). Compare to 1:06 where you had that outside arm pointing a little more to the wing (along with the extreme connection) and she was perfect!
The threadles (close cue) are also looking really good!!!Nice use of hands and connection to help her see it! The next step in training those is to keep moving towards the jump as you pull her in, so she sends herself back out to the jump rather than needing a jump cue from you. Ideally, she will learn that your ‘close’ cues means to come in to the correct side of the jump and go jump it too 🙂
Great job here! And if you see her getting dud-like on any part of a sequence like the beginning here, you can add more motion into it and it bet she un-duds 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
This went really well~ She found the line easily and you did a beautiful job of disconnecting 🙂 There was a little zig zag in her line over the 2 jumps, but that was because of the placement of the start wing – it was centered on the bar, so she had to come in a little extra to find the first jump then back out for the 2nd one. But she never needed to look at you, she was looking ahead the whole time and that is exactly what we want 🙂 Yay!!Great job!
TracyHi!
Ouch, I am glad she is fine!
I am also glad you have the video. What happened here to cause her question was that there were conflicting indicators (where the physical cue says one thing and the verbal says another):The conflicting indicators happened at :14 into :15 – as you were approaching the send line, you decelerated (you can see your strides go from big steps to several small steps) even though you said “jump”. That caused her to collect and look at you: “which is it, mom?”.
Then you started the out cue and accelerated a lot – that answered her question about what the next line was, so she tried to move back out to the jump but couldn’t quite get organized in time (she didn’t get her rear under her for the liftoff, which is probably what you mean by the boot scooting :))So it was not really the out cue itself that caused the question, it was the timing of it (and what happened before it). Ideally, as she was landing from the yellow jump before it, you would be accelerating and starting the out cue, so she could go directly to the jump. The send line makes it tricky because you don’t want to go past it – you can go closer to the yellow jump so you can work the send line from further away.
Backside videos: these looked great! Yay!
On Video 1 –
On the 1st rep, as you turned on the extreme connection, you had a little too much physical pressure in towards her so she was wider going to the backside. On the 2nd rep – you had a less physical pressure so her line was quite smooth to the backside! Yay! On both reps – you can start the cues sooner by turning on the biiiiiig connection and backside verbal as she is lifting off for the previous jump so she has the info before landing. That way she can adjust even sooner and create a smoother line to the backside (and will need your motion to support it even less!)Video 2:
Both reps looked really good – just the right amount of physical pressure to go along with the connection and verbal, and she was great! On this side, you can be earlier too – starting the cue no later than liftoff from jump 1. The you have bigger spacing, the cue can come later but for the AKC distances, liftoff to previous jump should work perfectly for the timing!The balance reps looked good on both videos 🙂 Yay!!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Good morning!
>When is the last day to submit?>
We have one more week – February 19th 🙂
The straight line disconnection game on the first video was terrific!
The first 2 reps (to her right) were really good!! She was not turning as tight around the wing as I think we would want on a jump wrap, so we can also play with reverse spins in those situations to see if it helps her.
Rep 3 – to her left – was the only blooper here. You disconnected a little too early (motion and verbal BOTH don’t support the wing send, there is too much countermotion) so she didn’t take the wing then chased you up the line, probably in ‘hurry up’ mode.
You kept the connection longer, til she committed to the wing, on the next 2 reps: nailed it! Looked great! And adding in the decel was AWESOME!!!! Good girlie Caper!!!
Looking at the ‘get out’ video:
Your cues on the first rep were good in terms of staying on your line (staying in motion) while upper body cued the out.
On the 2nd rep – you stopped and faced the jump so she got it. Ideally you would keep moving, so you can stay in motion and throw the reward sooner (as soon as she take one step towards the jump to get it started). That way you can be running and get it!The rest of the sequence (backside to the FC to the wing to the straight line) looked FANTASTIC. Great connection throughout and she had no questions: all speed and great turns and finding lines. LOVE IT!!
Great job here!!
TracyGood morning!
It looks like the first video of the straight go without connection is actually the backside foundation video from Monday? Let me know when the straight line video is posted.
The 2nd video was GREAT in that we can really see what she is cuing off of, in terms of connection versus motion.
The first couple of reps had more motion to get her to the backside (meaning you were moving to the entry wing a lot) so she went (like at :29) but it was more motion-based and not as independent.
At :47 – I liked your position here, moving to the center of the bar. That is where we really build up the independence! You can see you were looking forward here so she almost took the front of the jump until you stepped in towards her more.
So at 1:07 when you were not as far ahead, she did take the front because the motion did not show the line soon enough.
But look at 1:22 – you spiced up the cue with very clear connection and she really had no questions – she went directly to the backside with you moving to the center of the bar. The outside arm there helped, but the connection was really making the difference. So keep moving to the center of the bar but with the big connection – that is getting the send to the backside without you needing to move close to it.
My only other suggestion is to put a wing on the entry side of backside jump – that gives her a bigger visual to drive towards and helps set up the jumping better than a wingless does.
Great job!
Tracy
Good morning! I will have to check out the Cricket Chronicles but I can’t imagine any will be funnier than Dean’s voice – STILL laughing here LOL!!!
>>She did the rocking horses with 2 wings on a 15ft dark and sligthly curved tunnel and worked for a toy!>>
Yay Lift! Baby girl is doing great!!!
>>Got an alarm set on my phone for tomorrow so hope to see you in MP 2 Live sessions too.>>
Thanks for the reminder! I had it in my mind as March 6 for registration but that is the class start date!! I have an alarm on my phone too LOL!!! I am sure you will get a spot 🙂Tracy
Good morning!
>>Question, at what age do you start introducing the various obstacles to your young dogs?>>
Great question! It varies depending on size, breed, gender of dog, plus the specific developmental needs of each individual. The smaller and female dogs can do things a little sooner, physically, but not necessarily mentally 🙂 The larger, male dogs might take a little longer physically and/or mentally.
People get very locked onto growth plate closure as the time to start doing the high impact things but that is only a small piece of it: soft tissue development is really important and doesn’t start to get where we need to be til the dog is well over a year old. And brain development for coordination and engagement also doesn’t happen until well over a year old, closer to 15-18 months of later depending on the individual/breed.
I generally introduce body awareness stuff before they are a year old, like what we did here with getting on things like planks, using back feet, running over mats, “finding” a jump like we do in MaxPup but without a bar, shaping the tunnel. Somewhere between 10-months and 14 months I might start doing some very basic jump grids with bumps or low bars, show the dog a low tire, etc.
After the pup is a year old, I start contact foundation (closer to 14-15 months for my bigger males). I start weaving when the dog is more like 15-18 months. Jump height slowly start to come up after 15 months old and I start full height stuff after I get clearance from a sports vet – my dogs all see a sports vet when they are about 18 months old.
Nothing is ‘finished’ with my dogs until they are about 2. It is slow progression but it also eliminates frustration questions from the dogs, plus gives plenty to time to really understand how to use their bodies and how to execute the obstacles. This slow approach to developing a youngster has also helped keep them healthy, physically and mentally!
I understand that you will see any many people running dogs at full height and on all the obstacles at 15 months old, or even younger. These dogs might look good early on but what we have found is over the next few years, there are obstacle issues (lack of understanding, training holes) and also a high rate of burnout and injury with these youngsters, as compared to dogs that start closer to 2 or 2.5 years old.
Looking at the videos –
He is doing really well with his stays on the lateral lead out video! Good boy! Nice job mixing in lots of throw back rewards 🙂 (Remember to do this on your right side too, so he can do the stay on both sides – oh wait, the next video has dog on right stays, yay!).To get him to go to the wing – after you release him, use connection and a big arm/leg motion to send him to the other side of the wing. He should go to the other side and then come back toward you. The trick will be the connection to his eyes and a big step/send to where the takeoff spot would be, if he was going over a bar there.
The decel video started with him on your right in a stay: perfect! He did well when you switched to your left side as well. It is great for him to be able to stay on both sides.
He was perfect with the decel element: without any help other than your position next to the wing, he was able to wrap the wing with a really tight collection. Super!!! When the weather clears, take this outside so you can use a jump bump. If you are stuck indoors for a while longer you can add challenge to this by getting him wilder with a tug toy 🙂 That will add challenge to the stay, as well as to coordinating the collection when he is more excited.
Great job here!! Hope to see you in MaxPup 2!!
Tracy
Hi! I feel your pain about adding marker words!!!
I found out that hard way about the power of the word “yes” when in a seminar a few years ago, my dog was lifting off for a really tight wrap at a distance, and I said “YES!” so she came off the jump and ran to me for a reward. Oopsie! I thought maybe she had a commitment problem until the same thing happened with my other dog a few minutes later. Double oopsie – it’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me hahahaha!! So I clarified my markers and now that issue has gone away. It takes some brain practice them it locks in for us humans (the dogs learn it in a heartbeat 🙂 )Tracy
>>WOW!!! That’s incredibly low!! Maybe I don’t want to join UKI if it’s that low!!! Ha ha just kidding.>>
Yes – but the rush of running those big courses makes it worthwhile, even if something goes wrong 🙂
>> I’m not looking to be anything amazing. I just enjoy the sport, enjoy some trials each year, and enjoy the bond with my dogs. I’ll leave the crazy titling and high-ranking stuff to the professionals like you and so many others. ha ha ha>>
The other interesting thing is that a lot of the folks who are not professionals do GREAT in agility – wins, titles, etc because they make it so fun for themselves and the dog!
>>I think Kashia enjoys stretching her legs for 10-15 obstacles every once in a while since we never do that at home.>>
I think she will like the bigger distances in UKI!!! Run run run!!
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Ha ha two dogs is challenging enough since I’ve only ever had one in training at a time until I got Kashia. I don’t know how you can possibly keep all the dogs and their little quirks separate!>>6 dogs training/competing in 2 different sports? It is insanity LOL!!! The hardest part is the conditioning. I admit to keeping spreadsheets to help remember their training needs. And I also admit to calling them the wrong names on course sometimes LOL!
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Hi!
I am sorry to hear about your older girl passing away. 16 is a nice long life, but also it is really never long enough for the dogs to be with us.I hope Ginger had fun in her seminar and it sounds like Grady has a blast, even if he included a bit of dock diving off the teeter – oopsie!! LOL!
Looking at the videos:
Turn aways video 1 – She did well with the tandem turns in both directions! You can start the cues sooner, as soon as she exits the wing wrap before the jump. That way you can send to the jump on a turn away and get even further ahead after it. Plus you can add more distance using less rear cross motion and just doing the hand cues with the shifting connection
Threadle wraps: these are a harder skills for sure! The best reps where when you turned to face the line you want her to take (like you did at 3:12) pretty dramatically and let her see your connection shift from her eyes down to your hands. That will also keep you moving forward better, so you can turn her away and keep moving forward (and not towards the jump). Reward placement was good!
On some of the reps you were turning towards her to get her to come to the correct side of the jump, but that makes it harder to keep moving forward so try it with your feet facing forward the whole time 🙂Video 2: Nice hoodie!!!
She did well here too! Your upper body is really dynamic and clear! You were doing a good job of moving forward with as little step to the out jump as possible for the first part of the video – super nice!!! :15 and :38 were both really good with the upper body doing all the work ad the lower body going as straight as possible.And she had no questions on the balance reps 🙂 Yay!
On the second half of the video (at about 1:14 to the end) you started taking more steps towards the out jump (rather than along the line) – she did go to the jump, but you will be able to get further ahead if you move straight along the line/to the next wing and cue the get out (like at :38) as a distance skill without moving to the jump.
Video 3: combos – these put together a lot of different connections. I think you used motion here more than connection, which made things a little harder. The goal is that your line of motion stays relatively the same (ideally to the outside wing of the ‘go’ jump) so you are getting all of the fancy stuff with connection and arms 🙂 The Go reps looked good!
You can also start the turn aways sooner, so she can start the turn before takeoff. On this distance, you can start the connection shift to your hands when she is halfway between the wing exit and the jump (it is a big distance so doesn’t need to start when she exits the wing there).For the ‘get out’ – try to stay on the parallel line like you were doing in the previous video (rather than move to the get out jump) and use the big eye and arm cues. On the get out reps, you were a little “quieter” with the upper body cues and moved closer to the jump so she got it on motion but it put you in a harder position to get the backside and the front cross after it.
If you can stay further from the get out jump, you can also use more extreme connection on the backside cue – very direct eye contact (will keep her out on the line to the backside of the jump, which will also make the FC after it easier 🙂
Video 4: Deliberate Disconnection
Nice job dropping the rewards in! That really helps her! You can totally disconnect more by looking forward as she is getting to the backside entry wing. Remember to keep moving and disconnect (dropping the reward in by the entry wing) – you can use a ‘get it’ marker with the food rewards so she knows it is coming. The toy was more visible but even with the great engagement you got before each rep, she wasn’t that into it when you dropped it behind you so food might work better (throwing it in front of you will make it harder for you to disconnect). Or you can throw the toy really far but throw it behind you so she doesn’t sprint in front of you 🙂Video 5: deliberate disconnection 2
Go line disconnection looked good! She was not entirely convinced that you were allowed to disconnect LOL! She looked at you a little between jumps 1 and 2 even with the reward out there, so you can put the reward between jumps 1 and 2, or move them closer together so it is easier to drive ahead when you disconnect.
The backside push to the wing later on this video is more of an extreme connection moment, so as she gets between the uprights of the first jump, you can turn on the big connection to push her to the backside (more on that below :))
There was a threadle slice rep at the end – really nice! One suggestion: try to be more upright on the threadle slice cues with your threadle arm extended back as you shift connection to your hand. That will keep it different-looking from the turn aways. Leaning into your hands to shift connection downwards will work better for the threadle wraps & turn aways 🙂
Video 6: extreme connection for backside pushes:
The first part was straight line go and she did well! Really nice!!!
You started the backside cues at about :57 – she got the backside cues at :58, 11:14, 2:24 and 2:32 but you can start them sooner – when she is taking off for the first jump, turn on the big extreme connection and start the backside cue. That way, when she lands, she already sees the backside cue and can head to the backside sooner (rather than waiting to show it to her after landing).Wrap connections – you had good connection here. I don’t think she needs extreme connection on her wraps because she is already a good turner (the extreme connection is best for dogs that are not good at collection LOL!) So keep using the clear connection you had here but I don’t think you need to emphasize it more than this. You can add more exit line connection after the wrap (like at 1:48 and 2:01) because she was not sure which side of you to be on when exiting the wrap on those reps.
Video 7: Week 2 repeat
Starting with the shifting connection on the wraps – she did it was but she not at full speed, which made it harder for you to time the cues. She wan’t really into the thrown toys after the first rep – they lose value quickly when they are ‘dead’ so it was hard to get her to drive away to the jump. Maybe a food-based toy will be more effective and keep value longer? Getting her pumped up with tugging (she likes the ‘live’ toy :)) is great and then you can switch to a food-based toy for the thrown rewards.Great job with the circle wraps, continuing to move forward and shifting connection behind you to support her commitment! You can see it especially at 210 and 2:24 and 2:45 – super nice!!
She likes the tunnel starts – I love her speed!!! – and that gives you the chance to work on tinge the cues and be earlier on your rotations for the wraps on the wing and jump (she loses steam when you were late here).
For example – at 2:37 ideally you would start to decelerate as she was over the jump before the wing wrap, so she can set up the collection (the decel happened as she arrived at the wing).
And as she exits the wing, you can start the shifting connection/sen to the jump for the tight turn. You started it at 2:40 when she was over the bar, so she lost steam when she was landed wide. Doing ti sooner will help her collect before takeoff then chase you on the next line, which will produce a lot more speed 🙂Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>What is the last day to post for this class?>>
Feb 21 🙂
>>This might actually be an improvement over what she used to do, which was run off every time I messed up,>>
OMG that is right! 100% true!!
>>I tend to point my dog-side arm forward and make her curl into me>>
Dog side arm pointing in those situations tends to block connection and also turns our shoulders to the front of the jump, which is why she curls in a bit.
You don’t need to use the opposite arm, but you do need to get the opposite shoulder ahead of your body without turning your feet or stopping your motion – the extreme eye contact helps as does the opposite arm.
Looking a the video: reward placement was very strong! And she gave good honest feedback about how she was reading the cues 🙂
The exit line connection was strong for about the first 2 minutes on the video, then it was not as strong (like at 2:18 and 2:29) where you were looking ahead a bit earlier. You really ramped it up at 2:25 and it helped! But also it might have been too many reps of the same visual so she was checking out a bit, plus she had not gotten any thrown reinforcement for the wings.
Looking at the get out cues, for what was successful and was she had questions about – I organized it by what she saw for the cue and how she responded.
When she didn’t take the jump:
The first rep at :17 didn’t have the outside arm or big eye contact, so she didn’t go to the jump even with the MM there.Other reps she had questions about were at :29 and 1:15 – the dog side arm was forward on that and you were running forward.
On the reps she did go to the jump:
On a lot of the reps where you didn’t really use the outside arm, you were using your line of motion/feet to basically do a forward send to the jump (:32, :40, 1:37, 2:03, 2:09, 2:14 2:32 and 2:54) Some of it was very subtle, meaning you really have to watch your feet turn to the jump 🙂 Now, it worked, so it is not a bad thing at all! But it doesn’t keep you moving ahead of her as much has we want you to be able to, especially as compared to these::52 and 1:03 – these reps and strong connection and clear arm use! Your line was moving towards the jump a little more than needed so look at these:
1:10 and 1:51 were GREAT – connection, arm, and you were moving pretty straight up the line! The ideal handler path here is the same as if you were just doing the 2 wing wraps and these reps were pretty much showing that motion. Nice!!
One last bit of feedback from Nox – look at the rep at 1:24. She wasn’t going to the jump because the connection and outside arm were not in place… then the outside arm came up and the connection intensified… and off she went to the jump. SUPER!
That is why I like the outside arm on these – it helps us get the connection and shoulder in the right place without having to move towards the jump.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
