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Nice job on the first rep getting up to the #4 jump for the switch by not hanging out or decelerating near the #3 jump – that allowed you to get to a great position AND show decel and set up the turn. Super!!
He had a hard time finding the jump before and after the tunnel – he did well on the first rep when you were converging your motion towards it and later when you sent him to it. To help him find the jump and stay on the line, 2 things to do:
– lower the bar so it is easy and he doesn’t have to use any mental energy to get over the bar when you are behind a visual blocker
– throw the reward (he has MUCH LOVE for the momma an wants to be near you on course, so a throw reward will help you build up the love for staying on his line while layering 🙂 )
Great job!
TracyThis clip was the initial training to show him the jump behind the tunnel – very nice! On the 2nd rep at :44, you said “out” as his feet were landing from the previous jump: love it!! The next rep was a little later, so keep the earlier timing of as his feet are landing, you are cuing the out. You can also toss a treat or toy past the jump, so he doesn’t try to hustle back to you for the cookie by going over the tunnel LOL!! You can also say your verbals several times, not just once (out out out!). That won’t make much of a difference on a small sequence like this, but it will make a massive difference in supporting his line on the bigger courses.
Nice work!
Tracy
Hi!
I consolidated these into your main thread, so we can keep them all in one place.He did super well here!!! You can give him the ‘out’ cue for the jump behind the tunnel sooner: as he is in the air for the jump before it, start saying out and repeat it a few times. He found the tunnel after it really well! And since he is a big dude that has to squish down to get into the tunnel, you can wait for him at the exit of the tunnel for a heartbeat, so you don’t get too far ahead – you ended up going past the layering blocker because there was no place else to go LOL!!
Tracy
Hi!
>>We returned from our vacation in North Carolina last week to what now appears to be Hades, previously New Orleans.>>
YIKES! It is so hot there!! You could have stayed in NC where it is definitely cooler but also a bit like a rain forest right now! It was great to see you there even though we didn’t get to chat a lot!
Great job on these sequences and you both did brilliantly in the intense heat:
Seq 1, no added obstacles – super nice! Very connected! You can do the BC 2-3 sooner: as soon as he is over 2, start the blind. At :08 he was about a stride from takeoff so it was a little late and he had to slow down the tiniest bit to wait for you.
Nice independence sending to 2 and 4!Seq 1, adding the jump: He didn’t even look at it, but I think you were concerned because your blind was late at :39 🙂 You were looking at him for a long time til he almost took off for 3 there – doing the blind on time is even more important when there is a potential off course (because it will draw him away from the off course) so you can totally start it when he is jumping 2. The rest looked fabulous – you handled it as if the added jump was not there and he was great.
Seq 1: adding the tunnel – he is reading his lines perfectly here too, never looking at the off course tunnel. Yay! That BC 2-3 can definitely be earlier (see above 🙂 )
Seq 2, no added obstacles: looked fabulous! At :29 you did a threadle (I think you said ‘close close close’ but he didn’t need it: your handling se tup the perfect line!
Seq 2 with the added jump: looked just as fabulous without it – the handling was clear and he never looked off course 🙂
Seq 2, adding the tunnel – no problem at all! Especially the exit of the FC on 4: the tunnel entry is RIGHT THERE and he never looked at it – beautiful turn! You ran all 3 reps of this sequence as if the off course obstacles were not there and he nailed it. The only suggestion is that he probably doesn’t need the threadle 4-5 because his line was so good!
Seq 3, no tunnel – he was pumped up! The FC 2-3 was a little late without a head start from a stay (he was already taking off for 2 when you started it), but that should not be a problem when the tunnel is added in. The rest looked awesome – great connection and timing!
Full Sequence 3 – nice blind to the tunnel!
Give him the exit verbal before he enters the tunnel – you were a little late at 1:59, saying the ‘right’ verbal after he was in the tunnel, so his exit was a little wide.The FC at 2:04 can be sooner – he was lifting off and you were just starting it. You can get there sooner (into the gap for the FC) by sending to the 4 jump from behind you, and starting the decel into the FC as he lands from 4 and looks at 5. That will tighten it up! I don’t think he was looking at the tunnel there at all, he was just following the timing of the cue.
The backside FC on 7 was GREAT! It was a lovely tight turn, even with the tunnel right there.
Well done on all of these – you were setting the lines beautifully and he was reading them beautifully as well 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>>We returned from our vacation in North Carolina last week to what now appears to be Hades, previously New Orleans.>>
YIKES! It is so hot there!! You could have stayed in NC where it is definitely cooler but also a bit like a rain forest right now! It was great to see you there even though we didn’t get to chat a lot!
Great job on these sequences and you both did brilliantly in the intense heat:
Seq 1, no added obstacles – super nice! Very connected! You can do the BC 2-3 sooner: as soon as he is over 2, start the blind. At :08 he was about a stride from takeoff so it was a little late and he had to slow down the tiniest bit to wait for you.
Nice independence sending to 2 and 4!Seq 1, adding the jump: He didn’t even look at it, but I think you were concerned because your blind was late at :39 🙂 You were looking at him for a long time til he almost took off for 3 there – doing the blind on time is even more important when there is a potential off course (because it will draw him away from the off course) so you can totally start it when he is jumping 2. The rest looked fabulous – you handled it as if the added jump was not there and he was great.
Seq 1: adding the tunnel – he is reading his lines perfectly here too, never looking at the off course tunnel. Yay! That BC 2-3 can definitely be earlier (see above 🙂 )
Seq 2, no added obstacles: looked fabulous! At :29 you did a threadle (I think you said ‘close close close’ but he didn’t need it: your handling se tup the perfect line!
Seq 2 with the added jump: looked just as fabulous without it – the handling was clear and he never looked off course 🙂
Seq 2, adding the tunnel – no problem at all! Especially the exit of the FC on 4: the tunnel entry is RIGHT THERE and he never looked at it – beautiful turn! You ran all 3 reps of this sequence as if the off course obstacles were not there and he nailed it. The only suggestion is that he probably doesn’t need the threadle 4-5 because his line was so good!
Seq 3, no tunnel – he was pumped up! The FC 2-3 was a little late without a head start from a stay (he was already taking off for 2 when you started it), but that should not be a problem when the tunnel is added in. The rest looked awesome – great connection and timing!
Full Sequence 3 – nice blind to the tunnel!
Give him the exit verbal before he enters the tunnel – you were a little late at 1:59, saying the ‘right’ verbal after he was in the tunnel, so his exit was a little wide.The FC at 2:04 can be sooner – he was lifting off and you were just starting it. You can get there sooner (into the gap for the FC) by sending to the 4 jump from behind you, and starting the decel into the FC as he lands from 4 and looks at 5. That will tighten it up! I don’t think he was looking at the tunnel there at all, he was just following the timing of the cue.
The backside FC on 7 was GREAT! It was a lovely tight turn, even with the tunnel right there.
Well done on all of these – you were setting the lines beautifully and he was reading them beautifully as well 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>.she happened to run off with the leash after that. Of course there was some reason I just don’t know why and it wasn’t caught on tape. >>
Tell your videographer to keep taping that! It would be useful to see it 🙂 It might be a reflection on the difficulty of the challenge, both in terms of the jump/tunnel discrim and also in terms of jumping directly towards a crowd of people. You can build in a decompression after each rep, when working with a high level of pressure. That can be a cued moment of running around with a toy, or a snuffle mat.
First video – She did well with the tunnel turned down, probably needs to have it there a few more reps so she doesn’t have a failure when it gets revealed. It is a big difference! And if she is wrong, keep going by getting her on the next line. Stopping then giving a reset cookie 5 seconds later can read like a negative punishment to her.
She started to get it really nicely – you had a ton of motion which helped her a lot. SUPER!!! You can add more and more distance (tunnel entry and exit turned down – both should be unavailable for safety purposes) – that way you can han gback more as you cue her to go to the jump. When you can hang waaaay back, then you can reveal the tunnel entry again 🙂
On the 2nd video –
Look at her doing her line ups! She was starting to sound a little frantic by the last one, so maybe stick to no more than 2 before you switch t a different way to line up like a cookie toss or wing wrap start. She was a good girl and you wee very smart to release very quickly.
I don’t think she needs an out for the jump after the tunnel (she went WAY out LOL!), I am glad you switched to the jump verbal there. As you do the layering, remember to keep moving – it is all about the verbal and the motion on a parallel line to her, so you wont need to decel or send to the 3 jump (rememeber that eventually there will be a dog walk in your way :))Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Nice work on these!!! The girls are both doing well and we can add some things to get ready to do big layering on the full courses 🙂The most helpful cue in layering is motion motion motion 🙂 It is not a send where you can be stationary, layering is more of a parallel line that we run to support the dogs’ lines and so we can get to the next spot on course. You were tending to send to the 3rd jump in the first set of sequences rather than keep moving, and that was making things a little harder.
Wish video 1:
You were stopping a bit by jump 3 here, which is why she was jumping with her head up a bit and also that is why she dropped the bar on the 2nd rep – no enough motion, lots of decel, so she had questions.
When you added more motion, the lines smoothed out a lot! So you can be moving the whole time and using verbals for the 3-4 line before she enters the tunnel, so she works the line in extension.Looking at the switch cues to turn away: most of this is timing and making sure she saw your converging motion and foot work in time to make the turn. If you were late, she didn’t have time to make the adjustment:
The switch cues at :54 started when she was less than a stride from the jump, too late to adjust so she wrapped towards you.
At 1:14 you moved more to the landing side of 4 and started the cues to switch when her front feet were lifting off, so it did indeed look like a weave cue LOL! Good girl 🙂I thought you started the cues with great timing at 1:26 but she didn’t read the turn away – she got it at 1:37 when you stepped all the way across the jump. She definitely finds the footwork helpful, and there was not a lot of footwork at 1:26. By footwork, I mean the converging motion to the turn away line and your feet moving to the turn away line, so it looks like a rear cross even when you are at a big distance. You can also take out the visual of the weaves being right there (too hard for now, when we need her to read subtle cues at a distance :))
Charm video 1:
Like with Wish, keep moving on the layering rather than treat it like a send. I think she will get even more propulsion when you give a go verbal and jump verbal before she gets into the tunnel and be moving parallel to her and not facing her over 3 🙂 More motion, less connection (I was bugging Christine about the same thing :))The wrap at 5 was good! You can also try turning her the other way at 5, either by getting up there for a blind to change sides, or by doing a switch away there too!
Wrapping towards you on 4 worked well, she went back out on the layering line really nicely!
She had the same questions about the switch on 4 that Wish did 🙂 The switch at 1:23 started at liftoff for 4 (and looked just like the wrap towards cues until then). At 1:44 -you did it on landing side, she took the weaves LOL!
At 2:02 you took out the distance and got in closer, and started the cues much earlier (as she was landing from 3) which allowed you to set up the line of motion too – that was really nice!!!!!
2:33 was a little further away – physical cues were earlier but verbal was at liftoff for 4. So keep the physical cues (especially the motion cues) timely like you had them here at 2:02 and 2:33, and add the verbal to it at the same time as you start the motion cues.Wish video 2:
When working the out to the jump past the tunnel – watch her head for the moment she cues you to move to the next spot. Keep doing the out cue and moving forward until she looks at the jump, then you can change your line to move to the next session.At :03 you moved away too soon (she hadn’t yet looked at the jump) so she came with you.
On the next reps you got it by moving closer so to get it with all the distance – you can now add in staying further away and watch her head more – you were looking ahead so you can see her kind of hopping and being a little tentative. The added connection to her eyes while you keep moving will help turn your shoulders to the line, which also supports commitment.Charm video 2:
This was great: You were totally watching her head here because you were great about not leaving your position on the first 2 reps until she looked at the jump! That made a huge difference – she would not have taken it if you had not waited til she turned her head to the jump before moving away from it.At :47 versus 1:01, yes, you will need a turn cue because if you face straight and the weaves are out there on the straight line, then she is correct to go to them 🙂 Good girl! LOL!! The left verbal really helped her!!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
The long grass is a great workout, like running on a beach LOL!!! At least that is what I tell myself when the grass gets long and I am feeling too lazy to mow it.
Definitely add more tunnel bags, though – he is moving really fast and the tunnel is moving a lot under him, and I don’t want him to have a splat in the tunnel.He did really well with all of the challenges here, and so did you! We will ignore the Wager verbals on the first run LOL
Starting with a short burst to test out the distance skill for 3-4-5 was smart, and he did well!
When you added back the opening: I think your lead out position at :23 was too far from the line so he got late info and ticked 2 then dropped 3, trying to adjust. You can trust his commitment and be more on the line you want for the lead out, rather than seeing him between the uprights of the jump which indicated a different line.He had lovely distance on that opening when you started from 1, and the middle section from the DW to frame looked super good! It is huge yardage but your distance use there got you to great position to show him the lines.
>> And his cue for backside slice is push, not around. No wonder he didn’t take the jump after the a-frame the first time>>
Yes, it might have been the verbal but also on the other reps you were giving additional cues like “here” and a cross arm. Because he is really hustling there, you can work the push cue to mean go to the backside AND take the jump without you giving extra cues by cuing the backside then dropping the reward on the landing side as you take off up the next line – the less you need to help him there, the faster you can get up the line to the next spot.
He did really well ignoring that juicy tunnel on the way to 11! Super!!!!
On the FC 12-13 – at 1:09 you got all the way across the bar of 12, which indicated a wider line than you wanted so he didn’t know how to set up the turn or where to go on the FC exit. That is when he barked at you. He didn’t bark at 1:26 but he ticked the bar because you over-helping by being too far across the bar. This is similar to the over-helping by being far across the line on the opening – he has great commitment and line understanding, so for the FC 12-13 you can send to 12 then do the FC on the line you want to 13, without going deep on 12 to support commitment.
Good layering after the 13 tunnel! You called his name there on the first rep but he needed more info and had a question. Great adjustment on the next rep to adding a jump verbal and more connection/shoulders turn to show him 14. That set up a lovely ending line too! Super!!!
Overall, really lovely work on a beast of a course 🙂 You can trust his line understanding more, which will get better turns while also getting you to better positions!
Keep me posted about how the stem cell stuff goes for Wager. I will be thinking of you!
TracyGood morning!
>> I struggled getting the video in order of how I actually ran everything.
No worries! I figured that the one or two obstacle reps were done first, those all looked good 🙂
The main thing on the layering is to keep moving, keep moving, keep moving: we want the dogs to pick up the line on verbal and motion, not massive connection or handler proximity. It is a big parallel line so yes, be connected but don’t stop moving 🙂 You were decelerating near the gating and rotating towards her a bit on the jump after it, and that was creating some questions for her.
That decel is why she dropped the bar at :35 and 1:59 – there was a big decel, slight rotation towards her to make the big connection – but you said go so she looked at you to see what you wanted. It is also why she hit the wing at 1:35 – decelerating but saying ‘go’ and throwing the toy.
So with layering, the motion and verbals are the main cues, and we need only enough connection that she gets a bit of added support and you can see where she is. You had a LOT of connection going which caused you to slow down, so try reversing that to make it more motion and less connection, especially as you add more distance away from her and between the obstacles.
>> Curious to hear your thoughts when we did the sequence for #4 doing a inside turn than an outside turn. Did I look like I was cueing properly for that switch?>>
I think it was mostly a cue timing question.
Looking at the switches:
You were a bit stationary at 1:00 for jump 3 then accelerated to 4 – you were maybe a step late starting the cues (it was after she had already landed from 3, plus there was acceleration) so she did turn away but but it was a bit wide (1:02). Reversing the order of festivities will help: accelerate past 3 then decelerate into 4, starting the cues as she is jumping 3.At 1:20 she turned to the inside because there were no switch cues til after she took off, so her decision had already been (correctly) made. Plus, the cues she saw on the way to takeoff of 4 there looked very similar to 1:30 where you wanted her to wrap towards you.
Skipping ahead to 2:28, you started the switch cues as she was in the air over 3 so she read it perfectly for 4! Yay! That was lovely timing.Now, do all of that from further and further away, rather than stepping into the jump. Everything is basically the same when you add distance but you will need to do more exaggerated motion when you are further away nd when there is a visual blocker.
On the sequence where she turned at 5 to come back down the layering line: at 2:10, stay in motion so you can get to 5 ahead of her – she wrapped towards you at 2:12, but it was wide (she had questions). Accelerating pas 3 and 4 will get you to 5 to decelerate into the turn cues, or do a BC to the other side to turn her to the outside there. I don’t think you wanted her to switch away there on 5, but it is also a good way to handle it!
And she did well finding the jump past the tunnel here too, much better than last time! She has sorted that out really nicely 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Baby Spamilton is doing really well here!!! I think the key to getting more success and answering his questions will be to have you moving more:
Try to be moving both on the sending to the tunnel (take a few steps towards it til he is locked onto it) and on the threadle moments: when he is in the tunnel, go meet him close to the exit and be doing the threadle arm & verbal as you are moving to the entry. That should help support him and answer his questions 🙂
When you were standing still, he was not sure of what to do especially on the harder side. And on the threadles, try not to rotate towards him at all: have your feet turned to the line to the entry and you can be in motion, rather than facing him and stationary. When you were faience him and stationary, he was not sure if he was supposed to come to you and he ended up waiting for the hand cue to send him back out.
So, if you are moving, he will be able to see it and hear the verbal, and send himself which is exactly what we want 🙂 I don’t think he was watching the toy too much – he was watching the momma because you were standing still too much LOL!!!
Great job here! Let me know how he does with motion!!!
Tracy
