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This one is the Rear cross on 5 – he was asking a lot of questions because you were walking. The walking cued collection on each jump, so he was basically asking: turn now? Turn now?
So you can definitely run more which will cue him to run more. To get the rear cross and still run, run very closer to the wing of the red and yellow jump, then you can set up the line for the rear cross. He is reading the rears very nicely (those are hard for young dogs!) so now we can add more acceleration 🙂
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
This the blind cross to the tunnel. On the first rep on each side, you were decelerated and helping more than he needs on the middle jump… and then had a big “I better hurry” moment and accelerated to the blind. This cued extension on the jump before the blind, which made him surprised by the blind.
The 2nd rep no each side was much smoother because you left the pinwheel jump to get to the blind sooner, which really helped!
You can send away more to the 4 jump (middle jump) and the run like mad to the blind 🙂 That will get you there in plenty of time, and will also help us see how independent his commitment is 🙂
On all 4 reps here, your connection after the blind was AWESOME so he was able to pick up the new side each time. Well done!!!
T
This is the sequence with the added distance between jumps. His commitment is looking great! Both directions looked super!
You got rotated sooner on the wrap jump so he turned a lot better here.I think you can accelerate more from the tunnel to jumps 3 and 4 – that will get even more speed on those lines. Because you are walking a bit, he is in collection the whole time, waiting for the turn (good boy!) so if you accelerate 2-3-4 then decel, you will have more extension on the big lines and still get the great turn. Nice work!
T
Good morning!
This is the front cross wrap sequence:
The sound might have been a bit off but I swear you said “go tunnel” for the middle jump LOL! I totally relate, it just comes out sometimes LOL!!
On the wrap – start to decelerate sooner so he can collect more for the wrap. Yo can experiment with timing, but the latest would be landing from the yellow middle jump: decelerate but keep moving forward until you see his feet lift for the wrap jump, then you can do the FC and accelerate away.
And while you are doing that, running closer to the line will allow you to show acceleration – by using distance here, you ended up a little past the wrap jump so he jumped a little long, based on your position.
At the end end of the video, you stretched out the distances which should feel a lot better!
Nice work!
TracyHi! Hooray for dry weather!
The lazy game is looking good! I think she was wondering why there was no running but she was still happy to eat your cookies LOL!
The tunnel needed a bit more of a cue but she easily committed when you cued it a little. For this game, try to throw the cookie when you see her look at the jump as she is moving. That way she will jump looking straight. She was looking at you a little bit over the bar when you tossed it as she was jumping.
Adding speed looked fabulous! Excellent commitment and super fast 🙂 You didn’t have to do a lot to get her committed which was great because that opens up bandwidth to add the other cues like turns and verbals, etc.
Adding the wrap:
Doing the wrap on the 5 jump as a spin at 2:25 worked all but I bet you can do a send and go with her like at 2:44 and she will turn beautifully! Less is more when it comes to handling speedy dogs – keeps us ahead of them LOL!
Wrapping 5 to the inside also went well – you can give her more of a transition so she can accelerate into it and then decelerate at the wrap jump. You were in a steady motion and then did the turn as she took off at 3:41 and 3:52 so she made the turn after landing.
What I mean by transition is that after you send to the #2 tunnel, you can accelerate and drive her through the 3 and 4 jumps. Then, as she is landing from 4, you can slow dow as you keep moving forward. When she is collected and just barely lifting her feet for the wrap jump, you can do the FC then accelerate to the next line (all with connection of course :))
Her excellent commitment should be really helpful with the transitions, because she will tay n her line really easily!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>Then switched to the toy and was so glad he was able to switch to the toy and keep him engaged.>>
Yes! That was huge!!!!
Well done building this lazy game up into a true sequence: SO FUN!!! He was fast with great commiemtn in both directions.
My only advice is to put more bags on the tunnel because he is going fast and the tunnel is moving more than we want it to do (we don’t want his toes to get caught!)>>And at the end I tried to put some blinds in.
It went really well! He is now ready for that ‘fluffy blinds’ sequence fro the live class using this setup, as well as the wraps sequence.
>>He seemed fine with the distance, what do you think?>>
Yes, the distance was easy for him 🙂 no problem at all!
One more suggestion: do 2 or 3 reps total, then end the session, especially now that we are getting into sequences. There have been a bunch of sequences where he leaves because he is tired (he did that at the end here) and we want to be sure to end before he tells us he doesn’t want to do it anymore. So do 2 or 3 reps, then give him a break for a while, then do another couple of reps later on. Make it a priority to be finished before he wants to be finished.
Great job here!
TracyI can TOTALLY relate!!!! You can try different things and see what works:
– try the breathing games, but with counting: breathe in for 4 through your nose 1…2…3…4
hold for 7 1…2…3…4….6…7…
Exhale for out of of your mouth
1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…– try the 5 things you can see and 5 things you can touch game
– try singing along to your favorite music, concentrating on the lyrics 🙂
Those can all work to quiet your mind!
TracyHi!
That is a good question! If I feel like I need the grounding exercise, I might have a candy or gum in my car or bag or something. For smell, I might smell my shirt – does it smell like my detergent. Or smell my arm – can I smell my shower soap? If I am outside, I might pick up a leaf and smell it. Weird, I know, but effective 🙂Tracy
Hi! It was great seeing you in person last week!
I am glad he sorted out the perch work! Yes, he might have been really excited and that made it harder 🙂
Looking at the tunnel threadle video:
Yes, you will want to sort out which arm to use in advance 🙂 LOL! That will make for a smoother start! He did well finding the threadle entry – my only suggestion is to keep moving as you do this tunnel threadle, rather than stop and send. For now, keep moving towards the tunnel entry you want.He is definitely ready for the next step, which is the Double Whammy game 🙂 That should be fun fun fun LOL!!!
Great job here!
TracyHi! You’ve been busy! I am glad you got these uploaded. It was really cool watching her sort it out!
Rocking horses:
Great job starting off nice and simple and connected in the first June 1 video. You were very clear with your mechanics and she was really great! She finds a big step with your leg very helpful: compare the last 2 wraps to the right: on the first one, you were softer with the big send with your right leg, so she didn’t fully commit. And on the last one you had a BIG step with the right leg and she was perfect.The second June 1 video was great too, using the toy! I like that she was able to go back to the toy after the treats! Great connection here from you and perfect steps, so she was terrific!
On the June 4 video, it looks like the barrel and the cone were a little further apart but she had no question. Super! The tooth was HILARIOUS!!! She was also really strong about ignoring the toy in your hand til you cued her to take it, even when t he toy was right in front of her nose. YAY! So keep doing this beautiful connected sending with that strong leg send in particular. And you can add in the advanced levels, where there is earlier countermotion and more speed 🙂
Looking at the strike a post videos: The first one (strike a pose 2 on a jump) went really well – she was able to find the serp from all sorts of different angles, from a stay, from a cookie toss, and to a toy reward and a cookie reward. She was TOTALLY getting the in-then-out serp idea. Loved it! And she was happy to play with a toy even after getting the cookie – that is a big win too!
On the 2nd video, also great. Your mechanics were really clear and she did rally well from the various angles. Because she has the concept of in-then-out for the serp, she was not really touching the target anymore: and that is great! We needed to fade that and she did it automatically. Super!
On the 3rd video, adding the threadle: this is a short session but really good. The manners minder was a bit of a distraction, but she worked through it nicely!
You can definitely do more threadles now, adding in the different angles to match the angles you used for the serps.
Down at the bottom of the videos was one more threadle video – when using a wingless jump, make sure that your arm is sticking out past the wing – otherwise it looks like a serp is your whole body is between the uprights. At the beginning, I think she was confused on a couple of the reps because most of you was between the uprights and only you hand was visible past the wing. You can help her out by putting out half of your body past the wing on the threadles so it is more obvious.
All of the balance reps with the zeros were great!!! Clear cues and she nailed it!
Prop game: get out
This is looking strong too. One thing that will help her hit the prop better is if you add more direct eye contact: as you start the out cue and use your arm, connect strongly with your eyes to there eyes – that should get the outs even stronger! Be sure to reward lots of stays – she was releasing on your motion and the arm cue. So if you use a stay, release 50% of them and reward 50% of them.Tight turn leading with the head:
This is the game with the most challenging mechanics for the humans 🙂 And you did a super job!
My only suggestion is that you move your turn-away hand more slowly so she can process the cue clearly. It was a little quick in the beginning. About halfway through you didn’t use the hand and just let her offer – she was not turning her head as much so the clicks were not are clear about the turn aways – so definitely use the hand cue to help her rather than let her offer multi-wraps.Perch work -You can totally help her more with reward placement on this, by feeding her when she is un front of you with her head up, rather than waiting for her to offer. She did get some hind end moment going with the body pressure but I bet it would be easier if you tried the return-to-center approach by tossing the cookies off to the side then having her pivot back to center.
Backside slice foundation: She did well here on both videos! More connection to her eyes and more motion (moving on a parallel line to her) will help her find it more easily. When you’re looking forward or pointing forward, she would migrate towards you or to the front of the jump.
And about the motion, remember it is not a send – it is parallel line motion, so be in motion ahead of her the whole time, moving to where the barrel and wing meet. When you sent her t it by pointing forward, it was harder for her because it was less connected and there was no motion support, so you had to get closer to the barrel. Being in motion will help you be able to get more and more independence too!Nice work here!!!
TracyHi!
>>I was amazed at how well he did with the 3 jumps and the tunnel.
Yes! It was a real look into the future: fast and FUN!!!!
T
Good morning! This is going really well!!!!
I love how she came blasting out of the tunnel looking at the #3 jump and and every time! Super!
>>I seem to have forgotten how to do a throw back.
For the throw back think of it as a half-front-cross, and you stop halfway through and throw back with the ‘new’ hand. So in this case, it would be the left hand (I think you were trying it with the right at one point?) The other thing that helps is shifting your connection from her eyes to the landing spot, like you did at :21 – that was great! When you looked directly at her, there was too much pressure and she didn’t pass you to get to the jump.
The RC on jump 5 at :52 and 1:56 and 2:14 worked really well!! Just be sure to stay connected moving into it- you were looking forward coming off of 3 and she almost didn’t take 4 at 2:10
On the line back to the tunnel, she was great about getting back on the big one and layering! She was so good about it that you can call the tunnel cue sooner, before she even takes off for it.
The wrap on jump 4 was the hardest past for her. On the wrap towards you, you can stay a little more on takeoff side (at a distance) and think of it more as a throwback to be able to rotate sooner. It is a more awkward line than the switch away line, but she did really well!!!
On the switch away, try it as a tandem turn at a distance. As she is over 3, you can b decelerating and showing her your tandem turn hands and begin the turn away cues as she is landing. You can refresh it on the flat and on one jump, then try adding the 2nd jump (jump 3 in this case) and distance away from it – that is probably something that will work at home: tunnel – jump – jump with the tandem turn away on the 2nd jump )
Great job here!!! Let me know what you think! Tracy
Good morning! These are going well – just little details to smooth out on each.
RYG 1: Nice job building up the layering and rewarding her for finding the line to 3, then to 4.
When wrapping 4: stay on the take off side more – you were on the landing side a lot on the first rep and 3rd rep there, so based on your position and motion she thought she was jumping long – and landed on the bar when you rotated when she was in the air. On the 2nd rep, you were a little more on the takeoff side and that turn was much better!
When you did the switch away there at 1:35, you were much more on the takeoff side and she was totally ready for the turn – NICE! That switch will get tighter and smoother if you start the switch cues earlier. She read your position and decel perfectly, so at the same time (when she was landing from 3) you can also be starting the verbal and using the hand cues so she sees it all before takeoff.
As you are working out the timing, she is dropping a lot of bars because the info was happening over the bars. So to help protect her from getting hurt, run these at 12” until you nail the timing, then the bars can go back up.
RYG 2 – nice job with the connection and cues to help her find the jump behind the tunnel! For the timing there, start that cue when she is between 1 and 2, so she sees it before takeoff to 2 and can make the adjustment.
>>she was convinced it was more efficient to jump over the tunnel
She is a very honest dog LOL! At :33 and :54 and 1:09 you went past the tunnel to get the jump behind it, then you had to pull away to get past the tunnel… which set the line over the tunnel LOL!!! She is very honest and literal.
One more little details: When handling big send lines, make sure there is nothing else on the line. Having the weaves on the line at :37 was confusing when you sent her out: voice said jump body said weaves, so she went with the body cues but she was not sure.
The line back to the tunnel after that was looking really good!
Nice work here 🙂
TracyGood morning!
85 degrees?
That sounds almost winter-like LOL!!!He did really well finding the jump behind the tunnel on just the verbal! You needed very little handling to get it, just connection/motion/verbal. Super! He also had no question about finding the jump even when you moved it to the harder positions. SUPER!!!
The real test was when you added the tunnel into the sequence, and he nailed it: got both the tunnel the first time and then went back out to the jump behind it at the end. You can try adding more of your motion and see if it makes a different to his processing when you are running (it might help, or it might make it harder LOL!)
He was definitely feeling the heat by the 2nd half of the video, even though it looked like a different time of day. So if it is a million degrees out, you don’t have to repeat somethng that he did well.
His only question he had was on finding the tunnel entry when layering but he nailed it later on that very first time. It might have been that he had gotten a bunch of reward for that jump so he was thinking he was finished and was surprised by the tunnel cue? But he was great on all of the next reps, so no worries there. And he easily did the layering line for the closing line of the sequence. Yay!
I think he had a tunnel when you said jump later in the session too but you were both hot at that point LOL!
He is definitely ready for the bigger courses and/or pop outs. Great job!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>You may have to include hints for the pop ups too since I don’t even see the handling options that are featured that week- LOL!!!
I used to give pop out hints, but this year I wanted to get people looking for the featured skills without me. You will probably now be looking for layering options a lot more!
On the first pop out:
Hustling closer to the lines to support them better, which will also get you to better spots on course! For example on the opening, you were far from 1 and 2 so you had to push her back to 2, which delays leaving for the next line. If you stick closer to 1 and 2, you can see her head turn to look at 2 then you can actually leave for 4-5 sooner than when you have to push her back to the line at 2.She found the zig zag lines really well!!
The turn on the tunnel exit was late on the first 2 reps – the verbal and convergence and any hand cues need to begin when she is still 6 feet before the entry. On the first 2 reps, you did it as she exited. On the 3rd rep at about 1:07, you showed convergence before she entered and kept showing it as she exited, so she got it. You can treat those types of turns on the tunnel exit as a tandem turn or switch away on the flat, beginning the cues before she goes into the tunnel.
>>On #2, how do we get the back side of 5? I didn’t even bother and figured just getting the turn to the jump behind the tunnel was enough of a challenge. It’s apparent just getting #5 straight on was a struggle until I figured out what words she really needed.>>
BIIIIIIG convergence of your line to the 5 jump before she enters, and the get out cue to get her moving away (before she enters the tunnel) followed by the backside push verbal and physical cues starting while she is in the tunnel so she sees them before she exits (I would use an outside arm with my dogs there). And leaving the 1-2-3 line earlier will make it easier, which is why setting the line to 2 sooner by being closer to that line will make it easier.
2nd pop out:
>>I also need to spend even more time on the jump skills for something like jump #2 when I started course #3. I tried to support it, tried not to support and nothing I tried seemed to help her keep that bar up. They were not at 16″. Help.>>
The line 2-3 was hard but gives us a good discussion of where to put the FC and BCs, and timing. Most to the question from her was about timing and your line (see below). We also did a class about these jumping skills last fall/winter – I can’t remember if you were in it? It was all about teaching the dogs to get organized 🙂
On these FCs and also n the BC on the next rep (she dropped the bar there too) try not to go across the bar (you were going to the center of the bar) because it gives her motion info about a slice and you do not want her to slice there. Think about where her ideal line would be to the next obstacle, if she was the tiniest little mouse: that is the line you will want to run on, which is barely past the wing. Your line on the BC at 1:47 was closest to that!
And, as she lands from 1, be sending and moving to the line so that she sees it, and watch her head. When she looks at 2: that is your cue to do the FC or BC. And she is likely to look at it immediately as she lands so you need to be ready 🙂 so that the rotation is finished before she takes off (and on the correct line, I know, I am a pain in the butt hahaha)
At 1:19 and 1:47, for example, you were doing the rotation as she was jumping (ideally it would be finished by then), which means she took off prepared to slice. She tried to adjust in the air but could not do it (bar down).The RC got it done when you were stationary, but you can use a brake arm to get the collection and keep moving – it is a really hard angle to jump!
Hopefully the weather settles down so you can do more of this to play with the timing and position!!!
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
