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Hi!
He did really well here – most of your handling info was out of the picture, so he really had to listen to the verbals. What a good boy!!! Since this went so well, and the distance between the tunnel and crate went really well – one last crazy step:You get to sit in a chair 🙂 And line him up betewen your knees, so he is facing forward to the setup. Hold him by the collar, say the verbal a couple of times… then let go and keep saying it. Try not to move a muscle – see if hecan find the correct obstacle without any motion at all 🙂
Great job!
TracyHi!
>>. Should I try these again or the even harder pop outs 3 and 4?
Try 3 and 4! They are not harder, just different 🙂
>>So, one sequence one the layer of jump three is from the landing side. Somehow I thought you wanted us to layer from the take off side sending to 4 and 5.
Yes – you can go closer to 4 then send her away and support it on a parallel path while you layer.
>> Also, I’m not sure about the threadle comment for jump 5. Is it a threadle, brake arm or false turn?
It is a threadle based no how you built it – her obvious line is to the back, so the threadle brings her to the front. A brake arm and a false turn are all related to threadles: brake arm might get the same turn in this context, but not always because it is a turn cue, not a “which side of jump” cue. The false turn generally means there is foot rotation too, which we want to avoid.
>>And, is that if you are layering 3?
Depends on the dog – she might read the line the same way and need the threadle, or she might feel more of a pull from your position and not need the threadle.
>>I still struggle with lines I should run. Sprite thinks so too!>>
that is all of us, in agility 🙂 A constant puzzle to find the lines and use the correct cues 🙂
T
Hi! These are going well!!
>>I don’t know why but I kept using the wrong verbal.
Yes, I was confused, I was like “wait, are these threadles?” LOL!!! Maybe you got into threadle verbal mode because of the arm position?
Speaking of the arm position – you can open the arm and show an upper body rotation (center of the chest to center of the jump) but try not to lean back at all, try to keep moving straight up the line, and while moving, keep your upper body showing the serp position until you see him turn to look at the next jump (I know, I am very demanding hahaha)
The reason I mentioned keeping your upper body in serp position (arm back, your eyes on his eyes, and center of the chest facing center of the bar) is that you were trying to pull him in then send him out by turning your dog side arm forward. That can end up cuing the dog to go past the next jump and that is what happened at :14 – you closed your shoulder forward to try to point to the next jump, which sent him right past the jump (line of shoulders cued that) so he was correct to go to the the toy AND you said get it… so don’t call him off it 🙂 If he ends up going to the toy unexpectedly, don’t call him off. Either change the handling on the next rep, or watch the video if you are not sure about what happened.
So ideally you have the serp position showing as you move up the line nice and early, and maintain it after he lands from the serp jump and until he looks at the next jump (while running up the line, of course :)) Then you can ‘release’ the upper body position and move to the next line.
He definitely seems ready for you to tighten up the angles a bit, so he has to get more of the in-then-out action on his jumping. Is Leslie doing any zig zag jumping drills in her online class? She has great stuff!
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
These all are looking good!On the teeter game – he was happy to interact with it, and he was happy to get on and turn around to come forward into the end position. He had trouble backing up into the position. At first, I think he was trying to follow the food, so you can hold the food perfectly still and let him move away from it. When the food stopped moving, there was probably too much tip for him to back up onto it, so reduce the tip to almost nothing, and he might feel more comfy backing up onto it (will the teeter board touch the ground without the green square under it?)
The handling all went really well!
The first FC video looked good! You can get a little further ahead so he sees you before he exits the tunnel by sending to the tunnel entry more – that will make a smoother line to the wing.
2nd video – good job getting ahead to set a clear line to the wing! On the first rep, yes, he totally read it as a spin 🙂 More connection was needed on the FC exit and go more directly to the tunnel entry you want (good reward there even though it did not go perfectly as planned). That is exactly what you did on the 2nd rep – great connection and line to the tunnel – that made a BIG difference. He nailed it!
On the last video – The first spin looked great! The 2nd spin was a tiny bit late but still good! Yay!
Great job on these, baby boy is growing up!!
TracyGood morning!
>>I have to be more like a wide receiver.
YES! I use this analogy all the time: be a wide receiver! LOL!
>> And yeah, that lead change before takeoff in that one rep was pretty cool. Haha, and kicking up dirt after landing is not so bueno.
Yes, the collection stride was lovely! And I don’t mind kicking up dirt – you have a great running surface for her! Kicking up dirt is better than slipping or falling, which often happens on mats or indoor turf 🙁
>> Say you have a serp line with three jumps, but you only want to take the first and third jump. So out over the first and in over the third, skipping (layering) the second. So to cue that we would run straight across the second jump with no shoulder rotation until the third jump?>
Great question about a layering challenge that is getting more popular lately! I run straight across the 2nd jump with my dog side arm up high and deliberately blocking connection – that helps cue the layering, as does the verbal cue: GO! is helpful 🙂
That makes for a pretty dramatic contrast with the serp cues (physical and verbal) and helps the dog understand the layering. I present both to the dogs starting pretty early in their careers, because they are now seeing those skills in novice!
Looking at the tunnel exits:
The go reps at the beginning looked good!
On the soft turn exits, the motion helps her find the line too, so she had a few questions when the motion and verbal did not match.
You can reward that first rep – she exited the tunnel looking to her left because the verbal said left but you were facing forward as she went in at :13, so she was not sure if it was a tight left or not.So as she is approaching the tunnel and you are saying left or right, you can also peel away laterally to the next wing (rather than go straight) to help get the nice tight turn 🙂 And be careful not to accelerate straight – that will get her looking the correct direction but not necessarily turning tight (like at 1:34).
Great job on the rear crosses! She had lovely commitment to the tunnel, and it looks like she turned the correct direction every single time! YAY!!!
She had a couple of questions about getting into the tunnel when she was starting on your right (like at 1:57 and 2:15) and needed to rear cross to her right. That was mainly because you were facing forward and not turning to face the tunnel, so you can show more motion getting into them by turning to face the center of the tunnel entry hole more like you did at 2:37 where she got it really nicely!!
On the other side, like at 2:04, you turned to the tunnel more so she didn’t have the same question.Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
It might be that your other dog was the distraction – sometimes different dogs are easy, but the “brother” barking might be harder to ignore.Tracy
Good morning!
>. I left the Two Wings video “whole” so that you could see our (read, my) bloopers. We seems to be getting the wrap motion better, but now it seems I’m not making connection correctly.>>
Thanks! Yes, there were human bloopers 🙂 You started out with lots of rewards but then stopped rewarding, which was confusing her and she slowed down. So…. live by the 2 Failure rule! Reward everything and if there are 2 errors in the session, change something to make it easier… one more error? Stop the session and look at the video, because the video will give you full picture 🙂
What was happening when she was going to the tunnel and not the wing (:06, 1:44, 2:31, 3:09, 5:49) was that you were blocking the wing and then took a big step to send to it… which actually cued the tunnel, so she was correct (and she was pretty vehement about it).
At 3:26, you showed more of the wing and stepped to it more, so she went to the wing. Yay! It is hard to see on the angle of the video, but you will want to be sure she can see at least half of the wing (ideally, the whole wing) so you don’t push her off the line.
The other question she had was finding the tunnel entry you wanted after she got the wing – that was a motion and connection question. You were stepping back a little and then when you cued the tunnel, you looked forward. So two things were happening there: the connection shift to the tunnel caused your shoulders to turn and look like a blind (so she went to the new side) and since she was looking that direction when you said tunnel… off she went to the tunnel on her line. Good girl!
When you did make the big connection to her eyes before you said tunnel, and stayed connected… she got it perfectly 🙂
She is a very honest critter so if something goes wrong more than once…watch the video to see what she is seeing (or add more direct connection if she is ending up on the other side of you).
Looking a the serps video:
The first sequence went well! Nice job working to keep your shoulders open to the jump after the tunnel on the first sequence – serps are all about the shoulders staying open to the jump and connection to her eyes when she lands from the serp jump.
On the second sequence:
This one was harder to keep the shoulders open to the jump, because there is more speed and movement 🙂She was not coming in for the serp at :24 because your shoulders were closed forward, which is actually a cue to layer. So, as soon as she is taking off for jump one, rotate your shoulders to face the jump and look back at your hand (which is over the landing spot as you move through). That should cue her to come in over the jump without needing to turn your feet as well – the foot rotation makes the cue look like the beginning of a front cross (like at :43) which gets too much turn over the serp jump.
Same goes for the jump after the tunnel – when she exits the tunnel, your shoulders should already be facing the bar of the serp jump. Calling her before she enters the tunnel will help get a nicer turn too.
At :28, you had your shoulders forward so she jumped straight (correctly). Compare that to :47 where your shoulders were facing the serp jump a lot better, and you had much clearer connection when she was landing, so she read it really well. YAY!So keep fighting for that shoulder turn and connection without turning your feet – that is what makes serps pretty challenging! If she has trouble coming in, you can slow down your motion, but don’t rotate your feet (and check the video during the session to be sure that your shoulders are rotated so the center of your chest is facing the center of the bar the whole time.
Tunnel exits video: the first 2 reps of GO looked great – hard to see where the wing was, but hopefully she got rewarded for those super straight exits!
On the other side (:24) she exited straight but did not take the wing – the wing is not exactly on the line, so she needs a little more connection on the tunnel exit so she can shift out to pick up the line to it.The soft turn exits were a little wide –
The right verbal can come sooner at :39 and 1:03 but more importantly, be sure to show her the physical cue that matches the verbal. On these reps and also on the left turn rep at 1:41, your verbals were good but your physical cue was accelerated and forward, like the Go… so she exited wide. She was turning, but also saw all the acceleration, so she was in extension. To match the cues up, as you say the left or right, you can also peel away to the wing after the turn. When she sees the motion support the verbal cue, she will turn nice and tight on those tunnel exits 🙂She has great commitment to the tunnel on the rear crosses! And she turned really well: On the RC to the right at 1:48 and 2:13, both the verbal and the physical cue were early (about 4 or 5 feet before she was in the tunnel), and clear info where the physical cue supported the verbal, so she nailed it
At 2:36, the verbal left cue was a little late (she was just about entering the tunnel) but physical cue was strong so she turned really well.
The rear crosses were great examples of how the verbal and physical cues can match up to get great turns.
Great job here with these challenging setups! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
She did really well here – her only question was on jump 6, everything else looked great!On the first video: The opening line went really well, especially the switch from 4 into the layering 5. She missed 6 because the placement on the jump (the way it is built here) would require a lead change away from you, which needs to be cued. So she went past it to the next jump on the line, good girl!
Remember that all effort needs to be rewarded either by continuing then finishing strong, or throwing a reward, because errors on course are handler errors! The opening went really well but then she didn’t get rewarded (you stopped and praised, but the GSP Union Contract says that stopping & praising is not actually a reward LOL! The Terrier Union Contract agrees.)
You did send her back aruond and you said out, but your shoulders turned forward so she went with the physical cue and stayed on the line past the jump.
Doing it without the layer (2nd video) allowed you to set the line nicely with motion! Yay! It made it harder to get exit of the backside at 8 – you were not quite connected and were moving laterally so she ended up on the other side of you – but she saved your b*tt and found the jump. GOOD GIRL! I am glad you did not stop her there and let her take the last jump – she was great and definitely deserved the reward!
Breaking down the layering with the target (3rd video) was great – it helped her look forward on “out” line even when your motion was not showing the out. That can help strengthen the verbal a lot! You can add handling help by using an outside arm on the ‘out’ cue, to give a bigger cue while layering. That can help fade out the target and still support the line with the physical cue.
Nice work here!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
The condensed spacing made it a little more AKC-like (some judges will use this spacing) so it is good practice to run these lines at this spacing!
I think the theme on this is: show each obstacle/line, handling aggressively, and watch her head for permission to do the next thing. She will look at the correct obstacle on the more straightforward lines – that is your permission to do the next thing. On harder turns, you will see her collect and turn – that is your cue to do the next thing 🙂
On the first part of this, you were rushing a bit and that was pulling her off the lines – she never looked at the jumps she didn’t take, so you wee too early with cutting in behind her or with decel. When you let her look at the lines and give you the cue to move on, it all looked great! Here are specifics.
On the first run, you were too early at :06 on your switch (good job staying in motion – she looked back at you because she knew something had gone wrong and by continuing, she bounced back and got back into the groove immediately). She had just landed from 5 and never had a look at 6 before you cut into the line. Compare to :33 where you ran a much better line to the center of the bar on 6, and let her see 6 before trying to cut in behind her – worked great!
Weaves looked FABULOUS! That is a super skill and allowed you to get way up the line!
On the first couple of reps, you were being careful, which ended up not cuing the lines. She picked up 9 easily after the poles but you did a big decel and turned so she correctly came off of 10 on the first run. On the 2nd rep, at :41 better connection but the big decel as she exited the weaves set her up to turn to you. And also, be sure you look for lead changes on course. As she is over 9 at :40, she is on a left lead. The way this is set, she needs to shift out to a right lead to find 10 so the decel definitely didn’t shift her back out. The lead changes might not be visible on paper, so be sure you think about them as you walk the course.
Huzzah! How easy and lovely was the blind cross 10-11 at :52 and 1:22!!! So nice! Aggressive! More of this please, she loved it!
The timing of the decel for the turn on 11 was great at 1:23 (your were beginning the cues as she was over 10). On the previous rep at :54, you were late so the bar came down (and you made a terrific adjustment to nail it at 1:23! )
To get up the next line:
Do a spin on the tunnel exit at 12, turning away from her instead of a post turn (turning towards her and following her line through the tunnel) and get outta there to either be closer to the RC at 15, or get a BC 14-15 (if you keep her on your right and do a switch on 11, this is easy to get to). You drove a better line to 15 on the last rep so got the turn to the left there and the 16 jump, but you are definitely watching her too long on the way to the 12 tunnel 🙂 As soon as she turns her head to the 12 tunnel after landing from 11? Keep saying the tunnel verbal but just take off and get up the next line 🙂Josie definitely prefers the early info provided when you send and aggressively leave for the next line. Things don’t go as well when you are decelerated or careful. It is a fine balance: drive aggressively, but watch her head so she can cue you when she has the line you want.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>I ran this challenge a little different than the map. I didn’t think we would be able to get the backside of 6 from a distance and I want to continue the distance training for 4-5-6.>>
That is fine to make the change – it set up a lot of success for the girls!!
The walk through looks good! Nice job getting the pace that the dogs are likely to go, and also well done with planning the layering: both dogs nailed that, every time!! I think the most important things to keep practicing are the connections (such as on the send to the backside of 7 and the exit of tunnels and crosses) and the timing (such as starting the cross 2-3 before they going into the tunnel rather than when you are past it which means they are likely to have exited the tunnel) .
Those 2 elements will make that all-important first run even smoother, because you won’t be doing the connection and timing for the first time while the dog is running.
Looking at Rosie’s video: She did really well! She did not have a lot of questions, only 2 spots:
She slowed down on the tunnel exit at 2 heading to 3, because you were quiet and the cross happened after exit, so she slowed down to see what was next.
The layering and backside send looked good each time!>>We had trouble with 10. Am I showing her the backside with my shoulders?
Yes, this was the other trouble spot. She needs more turn cue before 9 (probably just a strong name call – the ‘here’ verbal did not have a lot of impact) and opening your shoulders back to her will definitely help. At :21, for example, your shoulders were forward, so she stayed on the line parallel to your motion and shoulders (which is the backside). On the repeat, you opened your shoulders towards her for a heartbeat and she started to come in but then your turned your shoulders forward so she went back out.
The bigger shoulder pull and motion away from the line at 1:25 got the line, but maybe it was too much pull – she had to be pushed back out to the jump 🙂
By 2:04 she had it but I think if you rotate your shoulders back to her and show her the outside arm (like a threadle) she will come right in to the correct side.
One other spot to add more connection is on the tunnel exit at 11 at 1:30 and 2:06 – she was behind you with a question in both of those reps because you were up there by 12 but not connected, so she was not sure which side to be on. The connection provides earlier info on the line, so you can be looking back at her while she is in the tunnel so she sees it before she even exits.
Lily also did a great job! She runs differently than Rosie, so some parts were easier an some parts were harder.
She didn’t slow down as much 2-3 as Rosie did with the timing of the cross, but you can definitely be earlier with the physical and verbal cues (before she enters the tunnel) so she exits turned.Nice layering!!!! The 3-4-5-6-7-8 lines looked great on the first rep! YAY LILY!!! And good job patiently cuing her to get out on the line.
>>Not sure why she cut behind me on the second run at 7.
It was a connection break there on the 2nd rep – you went from arm high and towards her at :37, to arm low and forward at :38 and broke connection by looking forward, so it looked like a blind cross and she switched sides. good girl! On the next reps, you stayed connected the whole time and she had no questions. So for backside pushes, add a lot of eye contact and that will keep her out on the line.
She did not have the same question at 11-12 as Rosie did, possibly because Lily reads the pressure of motion differently and also you had your head turned back to her more. So definitely keep giving the connection and the out jump verbal for 12 before she exits, so she can set her line on the exit.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Was the wildlife trying to steal the show on the video? LOL!!
>.a couple of glances from Coal, but super fast reorientation – yes?>>
Yes, he did great! He is allowed to glance away – it was really only an eye flick. He was really engaged!
As you go in to the ring, you can do some tricks for cookies to get him more pumed up – the patterns get the dogs engaged but not necessarily stimulated enough to do agility with complete focus. So I like to get the dogs higher and more ramped up, rather than the relatively calm engagement that the pattern games bring.
The first part of the sequence went well! He did a great job ignoring the instructor at 1:28 when she was righ tthere past the jump after the tunnel!
>>Could have been more timely with my cues and shoulds have rewarded him after I set the wrong line to the 2nd tunnel. Mistakes = frustration = checkout
Yes, he needed one more step to the tunnel from you – it looked like he had turned his head to it, so with a more experienced dog it would have been correct to take off like you did. He is still a youngster, so the hard tunnel entry plus the instructor right there, super close? He needed one more step. And yes, you can reward him for coming back when you called him (he came back immediately!) and then more tricks to get him pumped up. He got a little sniffy partially because the skill was hard and there had been no reward, and partially because you were talking to the instructor and not engaging with him.
You got him back on track and finished really strong!! Well done!!!! And he seems to be doing super nicely with the distractions of the other dogs and people too!
Great job 🙂
TracyWow, she looks great here!!! Her stay looked perfect, you were connected (especially on the 3-4-5 line), strong verbals, and you did a great job showing her the lines. Super!!!
The spin on the jump before the tunnel worked perfectly to get her lined up to the tunnel. I don’t think the off course jump was there, so it would be great to put it back and see if the spin orients her to the tunnel correctly (or not LOL!!)
The lower bars definitely help – she has more room to set her jumping, and also she is faster so you have to handle faster – it is a winning situation 🙂Great job!
TracyGood morning! Thanks for posting the walk through!
>>First video is my entire walk through. Boy that is hard and there’s definitely a “pressure” element that happens when I’m videoing that doesn’t happen when I’m not.>>
Yes indeed, timing and videotaping the walk through adds pressure like you might feel at a trial! This is good 🙂 because rehearsing this under pressure will make it a whole lot easier at trials.
A couple of things about the walk through that stood out –
It took about 1 minute and 15 seconds to finalize the plan of handling. If you can get most of that done by looking at the course map or walking around the outside of the ring (or helping to buld the course :)) then you will be able to spot check areas but will have almost a full minute more in the walk through to concentrate on other things.In the walk through, you can emphasize the connection more, like on the exit of the#4 wrap into the layering, and on the backside slice (looking at landing rather than at him). Exaggerating those connections will make things easier in the run!
I thought the pace of your faster walk throughs was good, and pretty close to what it would be with him. To make it even easier, try to handle the plan with all the connections/verbals/timing etc faster than you think he needs, so when you run him you will feel like you have sooooo much time!
The runs looked good! His layering skills are getting really strong, so that was EASY PEASY 🙂 Good job executing the plan and making the connections!
And the backside to the last jump looked great too.>> First rep had a dropped bar at 7. Before I watched the video I “assumed” that I had probably given my backside verbal for 8 when he was over the bar at 7. But that wasn’t the case. I’m not sure but I in Rep 2 I kept a little stronger connection, planned to give the verbal back when he was committed to 7 and to adjust my direction of motion from 7 to 8. >>>
Yes – your timing was basically the same with the verbal on both reps. Maybe it was a shade early but I don’t think that is why the bar came down. Connection was good in both reps too.
I think two things were in play that contributed to the bar down:
as he was approaching 7 (:18-:20), you decelerated, then moved forward again – that change in motion probably caught his attention and was a little unclear.Compare to the 2nd rep (:50- :53) – no sudden decels or change in motion, so he had no questions.
Plus, on the first rep, he was jumping towards the wall, which I am sure he needed to process.
>> I also saw that I drove a bit straighter to 7 and maybe he wasn’t clear about the turn?
Yes – on the first run, you drove more to the entry wing of the backside then decelerated (watch your feet go into little steps there) so it is possible he read the position and decel as a turn cue and was trying to adjust. On the 2nd run, you moved through that section more like you did in the walk through, so the changes of motion were not as dramatic and you were further across the bar too.
>>Or maybe he just fixed it because he’d done it once?>>
Quite possibly 🙂 Dogs are pretty honest about continuing to read handling cues on the 2nd run, but he probably adjusted to seeing the wall in front of him on that line.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>Well neither of these went as expected.>>
They are tricky little sequences for sure!!
Thanks for posting the walk through as well – it tells us what was going to happen, before it happened. Your walk throughs basically matched your first run, which is great!Looking at sequence 1:
On the walk through, you were doing the BC at 3 on the landing side of 3, like a regular blind – that will set up the dog to turn wide over 3 as if going back to 1. The type of blind that gets 4 here is closer to a German turn, with all the countermotion of you moving forward to get to the takeoff side of the jump as she is arriving at the takeoff side, so the timing of the blind is after you past the exit wing.
That would set you up in a great position to get closer to 4 and send ahead to 5 – the layering of 3 can work that way if you are running a parallel line to her or even getting ahead on the layering so you are past the jump.
On the runs:
You can send her to 2 sooner and move laterally to 3, which will both tighter up the turn at 2 and get you ahead for the countermotion needed at 3.You were moving forward while cuing the right on the first run (:13). On the other runs, you added lateral motion but it was as she was lifting off for 2 – ideally, as soon as she exits the wrap wing of 1, you cue 2 and move away towards 3.
Based on the BC position 3-4, she was wide there (at :48, based on your line, she looked at 1). So on the wrap exits of lines like this, you can totally add in the countermotion even if it is not a traditional german turn 🙂
She had a little trouble finding the 5 jump. When you were way ahead, it looks like she needed more connection all the way back to her (like at :19, :32, :46)/ At :51, you were very clear with the connection and she had a nice line to 5 there.
The angle of the 5- 6 jump requires something to get her to see the takeoff side of 6, so you can do a spin but doing it from so far ahead actually made it late, because you had to wait til she saw the jump before it could start. If you are way ahead, you can do a FC! Or, you can hang back more at 4 and do a spin or a threadle there, on the takeoff side o 5 as you move through the line.Pop out 2 –
>>Sequence two I kept getting unexpected turns with Sprite. Gemma was 2 for 2. It looks like decel might be causing her to turn away. Or, I’m just not clear. I cheated and did more than two as we had lots of issues and bars.>>
Yes, the 2 spots on the video here where she turned the other way both looked like RC cues. As you decelerated, your line of motion was to the center of the bar so when you started the spin, the motion and feet took you onto the RC line (towards her) so it looked like a RC cue. You can see it at :03 on the walk through (you did not do the spin on jump 4 in the walk through, and that was a good choice – a decel/send is probably all she needs there).
On the run – you executed 3 as you walked it, decelerated and rotated in towards the center of the bar, so she took it as a RC at :16. Good girl!
Note the difference at :31 and :51, where your decel into the spin took you to the outside wing of the jump (the wrap exit) and she never considered the RC . So as you practice decelerating into turns, think about the line of motion so you are always moving along the line you want her to see.
The same thing happened on jump 4 in the run at :34 – too much decel/rotation into the center of the bar, so she read it as a rear cross cue. When you kept your line of motion moving to the exit wing of the wrap, she read it perfectly as the slice exit you wanted at :42 and :53.
If you have video with Gemma, compare and see what your running lines were on jumps 3 and 4 with the spins, to see if you ran to the outer wing, or if she doesn’t really read the RC pressure like Sprite does.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! I am glad you had fun doing UKI!
He was very happy to slam the bottom of the board around 🙂 Yay! I think he needs a target at the bottom of the teeter – he knew it was *something* to do there, but was not entirely sure when the MM was in front of him. When you were in front of him, he was able to get into the 2o2o position better (targeting to you). So now the next step is to put some type of target out on front of the bottom of the teeter (like a plastic lid, nothing fancy needed) so he has a focal point to help him find position (and so you can move off to the side and start the bang game).
>>I’m thinking we may need to make a trip to Va for rear crosses because I am not getting it.>>
I don’t think you need a road trip…
The one big thing on the tunnel exits: connection! You were looking ahead at the jumps on all reps except the last one, and that was the source of confusion.When you are way ahead like at 1:16 on the Go rep, it doesn’t matter as much because he could see the line of motion and you passing the jumps/between the uprights.
Connection is key on the rear crosses, through, so without it he was confused. For example, at 1:26 and 1:45- you were looking ahead (no connection) so he came into you looking for connection (he was not looking at the toy, he was trying to look at your faec 🙂 )
At 3:06 you had great connection coming out of the tunnel, so he was looking straight towards jump. YAY! He didn’t get the RC there because you called him hard and cut in behind him too soon (he was only about halfway between the tunnel exit and jump there). You will definitely want to keep that connection! And add in moving forward to the center of the bar until he is past you and until you see him just about taking off… Then you can cut to the new side. If you are running to the center of the bar, he will turn correctly (if you are running to the post turn wing, he will turn the ‘wrong’ way when you try to cut in behind him).
He had a little trouble sending to the start wing on a couple of reps. Be sure to send to the first wing: step to it, don’t let your dog side leg hang back (like at 1:39). 2:14 was better – definitely clearer send cues!
There was something weird in the grass and he didn’t want to sit on it, so it is perfectly fine to just move the wing over or move his position 🙂Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
