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Lots of good runs here!!!! You were trying harder skills and really pushing/being aggressive on the lines. That is great!! It tells us what she needs and what we need to train more of. Overall SUPER nice work. Here are some thoughts:Masters Series 1:
Good for you for trying that big forward focus lead out! Good for her of holding the stay!She didn’t really look at the jump (kind of gave it away side eye) so that is your cue to help her out. I think your position next to the wall with your hips/shoulders turned more to it confused her. If you rotate to face 1 more that might help! That is what you did at :33 and she got it. Yay!
One thing to think about is running on hard angles to your next position. A few times on these courses (not just this one) you ran a curved line and ended up running a parallel line of motion to a line you didn’t want :). That is what happened here at :47 – you had a wide turn on the tunnel exit and you were parallel to the jump after it, so she went around it. You can be peeling away to the next line more,
You got the layering with supporting parallel line motion! Nice!!!
She almost turned to the tunnel at 1:17 – from this camera angle, it did look like a RC cue when you stepped back in towards the jump.
At 1:25 – she didn’t come on in serp. You could have looked at the landing spot to help her but the games posted tomorrow isolate that skill specifically! We are going to train the cahooies out of the skill so she will drive in hard on those.
Gamblers – nice contacts! Nice gamble!
Something happened at :17 but I couldn’t tell what 🙂 Overall, super nice!Agility – yep, you didn’t cue the tunnel at :12, she was being a good girl!
She went off course after the reset to the tunnel at :19 (and was a little wide at :27) because you were moving backwards through the FC. The running backwards sets a parallel line of motion towards the jump she took. Run forward to the teeter (and do a blind :))Nice teeter! She drove to the end but you released immediately, which might be why she self-releases sometimes. Be careful with be super consistent with releases.
Nice job working the turn on the tunnel after the DW!!! It was a great thing to work on and she did end up with a really nice turn. Her RDWs are looking great 🙂
Make sure you handle that last jump it looks like she was running for the exit in a “I am done, where is my toy!” moment LOL!
Masters Series agility – another really nice run!
She had a good question in the opening when you went past the line at 2 setting your line so far from 3 she didn’t see it. So you can plan to be in a more direct line to 3 there.
The rest was great!
Wow the big line around the back to the layering to the weave entry was SUPER!
Great job after that too, and you were super connected and helped her at the end when you were behind and the line didn’t make a lot of sense to her. Yay!Jumping was great except for exiting the poles when the other obstacle car into view and you were getting ready to head to it. Homework! She was doing a bit of that on the class courses too – so you can set up an obstacle appearing at weave 8 or 9 then reward her for weaving past it.
SS – the off course tunnel in the opening was created by parallel line motion as you hustled to get to the blind, no verbals
Instead of rounding the line with her 2-3, you can send and head directly to the blind, calling her urgently to chase your line.
She didn’t get turn cues at :31 so picked up another off course tunnel – you were facing the tunnel as she took off for the jump 🙂 In a tight section like that, a brake arm will help a lot.
You can also add a RC on 2nd to last jump in that run, or keep her on your right sided using a get out cue to get a smooth line to the last jump.
These are looking really good! The more you run these big UKI courses, the easier it gets 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
This went great! I agree, it seemed easy peasy for her but she was definitely paying attention to the cues and not just going on autopilot.>I think the one at 1:15 where she didn’t send was because my arm came up? (It was a “what’s the word?” moment as well I think, since I was switching from the tight cue to jump cue).>
Yes, 1:14 you were a little hidden behind the tunnel – your arm was higher that turned your shoulders away from the line, as if cueing the middle wing. Good reward there!
Compare to 1:25 – connection and cues began before she even exited the tunnel and she nailed it! Nice connection on the exit of the FCs on the middle wing, in particular.
Since this went so well… add more distance! That will also give you a little more time to spit out the words. How far away can you send her to the wings? Feel free to get to 20 feet, then 25 then 30 feet (in gradual increments, depending how she does). Being able to send her with 1 step to something 30 feet away is going to be tremendously useful when she starts running the big hard courses 🙂
And if you want to make it a little extra spicy as you add distance, you can put a random wing in the there so as she exits the tunnel, you are on the other side of it to send her to the wing – layering! The additional wing can be relatively close to the tunnel exit so it is easy to layer. Let me know if that makes sense or if I need more coffee 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
Thanks for the video!
The questions here was about your line of motion. On the reps where he went directly to the jump, you were using your hands but moving directly to the front of the jump or running on a line parallel to the line to the front of the jump.
The key to the threadle wraps is turning to move along a line parallel to the threadle line to the backside of the jump – that is what you did at :42 and 1:31, and he got on the threadle line. But then on both of those reps, you moved in towards the jump and that took him off the threadle wrap line.
At :43 you praised him and turned to the jump, so he was not sure where to be – looking at you for the reward, or figuring out what side of the jump to be on.
At 1:32, you stepped back towards the jump which send him to the front side.I think on those reps you were trying to help him make the turn – you can trust him more and use decel (and maybe small hand cues) to let him turn himself away.
I grabbed screenshots of these moments! Let me know what you think!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d-UM-Kb4W3UrsoXcJk3fxRuGuLecvS7RF79MJP1IZlY/edit?usp=sharing
Tracy
Hi!
Pick did really well here!!! Yay!!!I like the BC on the 1-2-3 line! You had
consistently excellent timing of starting it when he was lifting for 1 on the first rep and again at :32 and :54 and 1:39. Super! Gotta love consistent excellence!!!On the opening, you can lead out more if possible so you are further past 2 for the blind and off his line to 3 – you were blocking his line a little bit so he had to go around you more than needed to find 3.
On the first couple of reps, you started timing the cues to wrap 3 when he was over 2 but your forward motion to 3 made the decel and rotation late at :15 ad :35 so he turned after landing.
You decelerated on time (as he was over 2) at :57 and on the last rep, and the turn was much better! Yay!
>First rep I didn’t have enough connection after 3 to send to the tunnel, next rep I connected but then lost where I was going and fudged up the line to 5>
Yes, the tunnel entry was a little offset from 3 so he needed the extra support on the line. And you accidentally ran a
banana (curved) line at :40 – you ran past it then curved towards it so he took the front.He definitely prefers big connection on the backside cues:
At 1:00 you had great connection exiting the tunnel but were all the way at the jump so you stopped moving. That is fine as long as you maintain connection til he commits to the backside – as he got to you, you turned forward and pointed to the backside which sent him to the front of the jump because it turned your shoulders & feet to the front instead of the line to the back.
Moving into it more at 1:05 helped a lot because the parallel path motion with connection sets the line a lot better! Note how at 1:08 he had a little question when you pointed and started to step away, and he considered the front of the jump. That stepping away parallel to the bar was just a shade too early for him (he was still a stride or so from the backside commitment plane) plus the pointing changes the line of your shoulders
At 1:17 you had even more motion to the backside one and the arm point/step away happened when he was just about arriving at the wing, which was better timing for him and connection for him.
Nice ending line (especially at 1:48 when you serped and didn’t pull away from 5-6 too much). And super nice FCs at the end – he did a great job turning tight there thanks to very timely and connected cues!! He looked a little tired at the end but that might have been related to the extra bunny chasing moments LOL!!
Great job!!
Tracy
Hi!
Nice tunnel exits here! You were early on a couple of the reps with the turn cues (she was landing from the previous jump) so she didn’t go to the tunnel (good girl was paying attention!!)>I could not get the turn 3-4 because I was trying so hard to manage the turn from the tunnel so I was continuously late for 3-4.>
That is a tight, hard line and based on motion (post turn) she was looking straight as she took off for 3. She knew *something* was up and it was not quite right because she was jockeying around to the outside of the off course jump (probably to get a better look at the handling) even though she was on a straight line to it.
I think what she will need on this type of sequence would be a brake arm for 3 (both arms visible to her, similar to what you are doing at the tunnel entry but without rotating towards her). Or, a spin! The spin would also start when she exits the tunnel. Both will change her line really well – the decision on which to use will depend on how quickly you are able to get up the next line afterwards.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
Tunnel turns are going well!
If you are going to rotate into her a lot, might as well finish it as a spin. When you opened back up to a post turn, she saw it at :14 and went past the jump. She also saw it at :28 and almost went past the jump but then changed her line to get the jump (yay!!)
On the other reps (:06, :22) you were still rotated when she exited the tunnel, so we do want her to be able to see you in motion when she exits the tunnel (slow motion for now :))Great job!
TracyGood morning!
Nice job working through this! It seemed like you didn’t really trust her skill at the beginning and you were helping too much 🙂 The ideal handling is to decel as you show the cue, then let her set up the turn away on her own.I think at the beginning you were moving too much (rep 1, where she didn’t know which jump to take) then over-helping with arms and motion to the jump (really wide on rep 2 at :15). She was a little confused at :22 when you were working 1 jump and released and moved forward, she thought it was a front side cue.
But then you showed better info at :33 and she nailed it 🙂 Then at :39 you trusted her more by giving the ideal cues without over-helping and she was perfect!
And the push wrap at the end looked great!!Nice work :)
TracyGood morning!
Flipping the setup worked well here! He seemed to think the closer obstacle (tunnel) was the correct one at the beginning especially after you cued it on the first rep. But then he was sorting it out – just be sure that you are in slow, steady motion the whole time so he is not cueing off of whether you keep moving or not.
You can revisit this in different contexts and setups – it can be something you play with or a minute or two within pretty much any sequence you set up!
>Now, for the pull threadle again>
This was the same video as the discriminations – let me know when you post the threadle video and we can figure out what he is reading.
>Pro Mosquito Tip: Wear long sleeves even if it’s hot. You’re sweating your ass off either way, so might as well get less bites.>
OMG yes! And you might notice in some of the demo videos I am wearing long pants with long socks – that is for mosquito and tick and biting fly protection, even though it is 96 degrees. Sigh.
Nice work here!
Tracy
Good morning! This was another super strong session! She seems to be having a great time finding the lines here, and she has a lovely balance of speed and tight turns.
>I spread the jumps out. I don’t have a ton of room in my odd shaped yard. The tunnel is still slightly offset and she did have some issues with that on some of the reps.>
The distances worked really well! And having the tunnel a little offset created slightly different lines when she was on your left, but that is great – it keeps things exciting because you had to handle the lines and she had to do some extra lead changes. You both did really well!
At :13 she dropped the bar – you got the tiniest bit past the wrap jump and decelerated a little late so she was trying to adjust for the turn in the air.
Compare to your timing and position at :40 & :58 where you stayed on the takeoff side of the jump after having decelerated earlier – she had a good turn and the bar stayed up! The timing of your decel and the position on the takeoff side was particularly nice at 1:25 so her wrap was gorgeous! On that rep, you started your decel shortly after she landed from the middle jump.
The best timing was at 1:45, where your decel began as she was landing from the middle jump – perfect! And her collection was fantastic there.
Also worth noting is that you did a great job staying connected as she exited the wrap jump on every rep, so she knew exactly where to be on the way to the next line. Yay!
On the 3rd run (and last run too), you wrapped her to the inside on jump 1. You can also wrap her to the outside there – it might be a little more distance but it is a straight line. Plus it is great prep for this type of opening (jumping away from the course on jump 1) which is really popular lately.
When she is on your right heading to the tunnel (like at 1:02 and 1:29), the slightly offset tunnel entry creates an opportunity to use more of a ‘get out’ cue than a regular ‘go’ cue. In that case, you can add an opposite arm (left arm here) to point to the tunnel as you connect and keep moving. She will see the exaggerated shoulder position and connection with the outside arm which will help to automatically shift her away to the tunnel entry. You did a bit of that by converging to the tunnel at 1:30 – adding the outside arm makes it even more obvious and that way you won’t have to move towards the tunnel as much. Plus it will really help when you are not as far ahead (like at 1:39) – the outside arm will help her move away even with you a little behind her.
Here is what I mean by the outside arm, in case you are thinking that I am nuts hahaha
Great job here!!! You can add the other handling games to this setup now too!
Tracy
Good morning!
This session went really well, and it is a good topic for him: he was taking a few extra strides and looking at you, asking a couple of questions. The more you got the reward out ahead, the more he was sure he should drive ahead. It is definitely hard to connect, run the line, and get the toy thrown at the right time but you did a great job!
As you keep building up the driving ahead, you can either throw the toy while he is in the tunnel so you can just run (and so he expects it out ahead and looks ahead). Or you can enlist someone else to throw it – your videographer perhaps? Or in class, hand the reward off to the instructor to throw. That way he will look forward even more because you won’t have it in your hand and he won’t see you throw it 🙂 It you enlist someone else to throw, be sure to tell them that the timing is early – when he exit the tunnel – and not when he arrives at the jump.
Super nice job here!
TracyHi! The added distance was good for him, more room to open up! And you had to run more too 🙂
>. I’ve done a bit of AKC with Dellin and usually they have those pinwheels but there’s also a straight ahead jump (after jump 2) that you don’t take, so when I sprinkle, she knows she’s not going straight>
Two things to consider about the sprinkler cue –
Plan the timing, so it starts when he is over the previous jump. On most of the reps you were starting it after he landed, which is a little late for a large dog 🙂 Picture him jumping full height – he will land pretty far from the jump and closer to the next jump, so you will want him to have the info before he lands.
Also, turn your shoulders to the wrap jump sooner rather than round the curve of the pinwheel in parallel to him. Even with the sprinkler cue going, he was reading your line of motion which was facing straight after the pinwheel jump, so he was landing straight then turning after landing (when he saw you turn). So at :04 he was going straight til you changed the frisbee to the other hand 🙂 then he came towards you.
At :11 & :32 you were facing straight as he was jumping the pinwheel jump. so even with the sprinkler cue, he was not sure of the turn and dropped the bar. Same at :25 and :43 (bars up here) – he went pretty wide on the way to 5, based on your line of motion.
So along with the sprinkler cue, you can add in sending and turning to the next line as he is finishing the previous jump. Or you can move closer to it but add brake arms so he collects for the turn.The wraps themselves are looking strong! He was collecting nicely before takeoff and had good turns! The better he turned on the pinwheel jump, the better the wrap was, so it is worthwhile to get a better turn there 🙂 And you can start the decel sooner: when he is over the pinwheel jump, you can start to decel so he can see the cues sooner (also in prep for when the bars get raised).
>We also started the back chain for the BC exercise – the wrap away and going back. I was running out of dog, so we didn’t get to the BC part yet.>
These looked great! He looks ready for the BC when he is fresh and it is not too hot.
Nice work here!
TracyHi!
>Not long after I stopped the last video, Ven had a huge poop blowout. Not sure what upset his GI tract but he was out of commission for a couple of days. I think that contributed to not releasing from the start line.>
Poor guy! That could have contributed for sure!
> I think he got stuck because he was HOT. Even though the sun was just setting, it was still heat index 96>
Yes, it is possible because that is really HOT! Keep an eye on the freezing up on the start line though (and leaving to dive into the jumps set up next to the house) – he also did it a little on the 2nd video. You can build in more reward for resetting at the beginning and rewards for the release too, and see if that helps him drive right into the release.
>. I’m also working to use the new clam toy as a reward so his brain was melting over that too.>
He definitely likes the clam! Is he able to open the clam by himself to get the treat out? We want to make sure he gets the instant reward for the good decision, rather than the reward coming for when he brings it to you (which might reward the discrimination as well as it rewards the retrieve :)) And that can make the clam even more useful for big distance work too!
He did well with the discriminations – both of the sessions were mainly showing him that yes, it is legal to go past the closer obstacle and find the one further away 🙂 So far, most of the dogs here have the same question. Ven was figuring it out really well, so it is definitely a game to revisit. Since he likes the weaves so much, you can use that to your advantage by having the jump closer to you, and the weaves further away (replacing the tunnel, so there are only 2 obstacles out there). Then you can see if he will pass the jump to go to the weaves! And then the tunnel can get added back in at some point, so he gets to practice all 3.
Great job here! Have fun with the ring rental!
Tracy
Hi!
>Ok we tried it again and walla! She can do them when I cue them correctly!>
Yes! She did really well and the 1-2-3-4 opening looked great! It will get easier to cue that #1 jump as she gets more experienced but she definitely needs that clarity of cue for now.
The whole session looked good! From the exit of 4 to the backside of 5, it worked well to go closer to the tunnel and keep your arm back/connection clear to drive her to the backside and be able to keep moving like you did a 1:05 and 2:14! You were a little too far ahead and pointing forward at :18 when she did not go to the backside.
You can start moving your line of motion further across the bar – you will still want to be parallel to her line and connected, but that line can be more towards the center of the bar. That will let you get further up the next line too!
> Sticky would be like those last two jumps where she is looking up at me being super handler focused.>
That was a connection question 🙂
As she backside serp on 5, you turned your shoulders forward which actually sends her past 6 (she needed to continuing turning to her left to find 6) . She looked up for more info in both spots – you ran hard to 6 so she got it at 1:06 but you were a little further behind/not as connected at 2:18 so she missed the jump.Ideally, you would bring your serp arm back as you cued the 5 serp on the backside, and keep it back (while looking at her) as you ran to 6. That will point your shoulders to teh line which helps her shift to her left to get it. Hold the serp arm back (strike a pose!) until you see her look at and turn to the 6 jump.
When you re-sent her at 2:21, you had your serp arm back and big connection, and she got it! Yay! That is what the cue should look like, all the way from approaching the 5 backside to when she turns away to look at 6.
For the jump after it – she just needed a little more connection there too, which turns your shoulders to the line to support the 270. When your arm was high and you were turned a little too much into the gap, she had a question and looked at you – at that point you reached for the ball, which sealed the deal and she came into the gap 🙂
I made some screenshots so you can see what she is seeing.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZVsQG8NhDLwCDkWJ_kHL92VH0lXVEovYmasHIVBVxFs/edit?usp=sharing
Great job! Stay cool!
Tracy
Hi!
Hope you are having a great weekend!>. I was at a seminar recently where she should only do the push, not the wrap and I have to say that the push is easier for us as a team mid-course ie I can be sure she will do it. Sass could not remember the threadle wrap at all!>
That is really interesting – the session went well here and she always went to the correct side of the jump. Your line was really good for the threadle wraps. It is possible that when you were at the seminar with more speed coming into the threadle wraps, that you did not show the line as well as you did here. Maybe you were stepping to the front of the jump by accident, or the cues were late. Do you have video? We can look at see what happened!
On the video:
Your line was good here! She always knew which side of the jump to be on. Super!
>This session she yelled a bit at the beginning so maybe I was slow with my cues or out of position?>
I think she is relying too much on your arm movement to turn her away, which was not perfect so she was mad LOL Since it is nearly impossible to perfect timing the hand cues to turn her away, you can keep your arms in the threadle wrap position and let her turn herself away to the jump (then you can throw the reward to the landing spot).
>Tried to do a sequence but stopped when she started hitting jump#4. She was probably tired but it was only a 4 minute session all up.>
I think that was more of a timing question than fatigue –
With the jumps relatively close, you probably didn’t need the ‘go’ at :36. It made the right cue late at :37 (she was already over the bar) so she tried to turn in the air and dropped the bar. On the last rep, you started your right verbal at the previous jump (:52) but didn’t quite get turned in time (you were facing straight) so she hit the bar trying to turn when you did turn after she was in the air. You can keep the timing of the right verbal here, and add in the brake arm (cueing with 2 hands) and turning sooner. That should help!
Great job!
TracyHi! It is great to see you back to training!
>Well, I am a bit slow with my motion but any motion is going to help, I guess. Interesting that distance work is a focus this summer because
(1) it is almost all that I can do and
(2) both of my dogs are surprisingly bad at it.>All course design in all flavors of agility is moving towards distance skills being super important… so we are cranking it up here!
>I have demonstrated to myself on various occasions that Enzo really needs handling to do these discriminations. I haven’t worked on it too hard since
(1) we do mostly AKC and don’t need it and>I am starting to see it more and more in regular AKC and in Premier – subtle discriminations and especially with distance work. The dog walk in AKC has started to migrate off the edge of the ring and more towards the center of the ring, so we definitely need these skills.
>(2) in order to become truly fluent in verbal discriminations you need to put more work into it than I have wanted to.>
I can totally relate – I do NOT want to put in a zillion reps, so I am taking the ‘work smarter not harder’ approach. This is why we use a bit of motion right from the very beginning because the number 1 complaint about verbals is that motion will override them (and I agree with this). So we expose the dog to the concepts and context, while separately working on the handling skills… and then bring it all together. At that point, the dogs are actually really responsive to verbals without having done a ton of training.
>Well, surprise! This summer is almost half gone with nothing done and I might as well spend the rest working on things I think I can do.>
Perfect! And with the way the weather has been going, I bet we have summer weather for a few more months… not sure if this is good or bad LOL
> Enzo and I have played verbal discrimination games and, without almost content upkeep, it falls out of his head.>
I think with Enzo’s generation, we didn’t add motion early enough in the training. And we didn’t add arousal in early enough either. Oops! Now we know more about processing and state dependent memory, so motion and arousal goes in pretty early. The results are much better, of course, when we use science to train 🙂
> Except weaves, he can find weaves on a verbal with almost no other help.
> He does have amazingly inspiring weave skills!!
>So, since Enzo is still on injured reserve (so am I for the most part), here is Casper giving this a try. Since he had an 8 week “vacation”, my big hope for him was: please don’t revert to the catch-me-if-you-can game. I feel sort-of bad for him, since tug is one of his big rewards for agility and I can’t really play tug at all right now. We did a bit of fetch with me sitting in a chair on the front porch starting a couple of weeks ago. Casper was pretty good at it. Enzo appeared to have the “if you won’t play tug, I won’t fetch it more than once” attitude.>
Bummer about Enzo 🙁 and I am glad Casper thinks fetch is also fun!
>Setting up the course is not a fluent skill for me right now, so I pushed stuff around and called it good enough. My plan is to try to do some of the specific skills and maybe some of the pop-outs.>
Sounds good! Don’t worry about the exact setup – you can make your handling choices based on what it looks like in your yard. And we can do lots of walking agility to get Casper really committed and turning and responding!
>I was ***surprised*** that you didn’t reverse the position of the runnel and jump (so the jump was further away) before you added the weaves. >
I verbally recommended it somewhere in the discussion part of the video. Mixing up the obstacle positions as much as possible is really effective.
>I’m not sure I’ll get to add the weaves any time soon. Also, although I KNOW that most super-trainers have no problem with a short set of weaves, I have never been comfortable with fewer than 12. My personal quirk, I guess.>
Using 4 or 6 weaves is partially about rewarding fast for finding the weaves, and partially for folks who have space limitations. You can totally do 12 – and they can even be slightly open or use aids to help him stay in, nce he is in. And also limit the # of reps because it adds up very quickly when using all 12 poles.
>I am comforting myself with something you said recently (or at least, as I recall it): “I am not an athlete, my dogs are athletes”.>
Ah yes, that sounds like me LOL!! My dogs are amazing athletes. I was in the band in high school and college, providing music for the athletes 🙂 So my goal is to provide useful info so the athletes can feel supported and do their work.
Looking at the video:
I think part of this session was simply introducing Casper to the concept that yes, it is entirely legal to pass the jump to go to the tunnel. He was going towards it, looking at it as if saying “are you sure?!?!?!” The last rep was so funny: he was going to the tunnel but looking at you as if saying ‘really? seriously? This is correct?’ Too funny! But I like that he was thinking and processing rather than just flinging himself at whatever.
The middle section where you were out of frame but looks like you were just working on the verbals was good too – you can sit in a chair to do this as well.
He did lots of looking at you here as is really making sure he was getting it right – that is fine and it will go away as he sees more of the game.
>• I have added a “go” or “out” to a verbal to try to aid the discrimination. So “out-tunnel” when the tunnel is further away. It seems to me that this aligns with the louder, more energetic pronunciation that you are using for tunnel.>
Adding a directional is great, and I definitely recommend using it when you are handling the sequence for real. I would resist using it for now, because we are trying to name the obstacles without any extra cues. Yes, that makes it harder for now, but when you bring in more movement and the directionals, it will be soooooo much easier.
>• I have used “left” and “right” to help when the obstacle has two sides (weaves and tunnels, mostly) and we are at 90 degrees to them.>
Great! That also really helps! I also use directionals on the jump or obstacle before a threadle line, as that helps too. Add these in the real handling moments but not in t he name-the-obstacles game 🙂
>I did pull out all the best treats but food is pretty far down on Casper’s list of reinforcements.>
He looked super happy with the toy throws. It was not a really high rate of reinforcement session, but he was still really motivated to solve the puzzle. This type of processing must tickle his brain in a good way, because he was persistent without getting frustrated. That is a big win!
>If you tell me that I am using subtle (unconscious) cues to tell him which one, I’ll believe you!>
Yes, a little, we all do – the agility-version of the Clever Hans effect 🙂 But you did not do so much that it was super obvious to him and he still had to work out the options. And even with the motion, he was still surprised that he could pass an obstacle on the way to the tunnel!
You can change sides on the next session, with the tunnel being closer to you. See how it goes and let me know (don’t worry if it is still at 50% accuracy or less).
Great job here!
Tracy
