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He is showing really strong commitment here on the parallel path concept transfer!! So now it is a matter of adding more distance and getting him to look at you less (these go together :))
Starting with a cookie toss start so he is further from the jump will really help because that way you can toss the treat for committing before he even arrived at the jump. You will want to toss the treat before he looks back at you – it was hard to do here because you were so close to the jump. If he is 12 or 15 feet away, you will have plenty of time to get the reward throw nice and early.
And when you throw it – throw it really far, so you then can turn and go the next direction while getting the next reward thrown before he looks at you. You are looking for him to look t the jump and take one step to it: that is your cue to throw the reward 🙂 You can also do this with a toy, it will be easier to throw it further.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyThe wrap to go is looking good!! Wait one more heartbeat before you do the cross on the barrel – if you were too early leaving, he would not commit to it and follow your line. So you are looking for the moment he arrives at the barrel AND turns his head to make the turn: that os your cue to do the FC and run run run 🙂 It will take a bit of patience and you will feel like you are holding the send a little longer, but that it fine 🙂 He will commit sooner and sooner as he gets more experience here 🙂
Nice job on your verbals and connections too!!!!
Tracy
Good morning to you and Spamilton!!!
Lots of good work on these videos!
Get out with prop – he is figuring this out nicely! We can make it smooth with a start from a cookie toss behind you so you are showing him this skill from ahead. When he was parallel to you or ahead of you, it wasn’t as clear. On the last rep, he was a step behind you and that worked so much better! So start by tossing a cookie a few feet behind you, then start waking forward as he goes to ge the cookie. Then as soon as he turns back to you and begins moving up the line, you can give the get out cue.Rear crosses:
It is a bit of a timing issue: the first one was too late, the 2nd on was too early 🙂 Then you started trying to use arm cues so he was looking at you more and not driving ahead. So, to get these smoother, let’s emphasize driving ahead of you:
Start with a couple of parallel path reps, so he is diving ahead of you to the prop. Then after 3 or 4 of those you can more easily get the rear cross line going. Then do a couple more straight line parallel path cues, then add in a rear cross so he is still driving ahead.He is doing a great job with the tunnels! It looks like he was able to find the tunnel from the send side and the thread side – super!! Since he seems to have no questions, you can no add the tunnel threadle verbal when he is starting on the threadle side (between you and the Tunne).
Great job on these!
TracyGood morning! There is a lot of really good work here!
I am still going to bug you about rewarding a whole lot more…
When something goes wrong, keep going (don’t stop and or turn away from her) or reward if continuing is impossible. Remember that her reinforcement should not be contingent on if you get it right or not 🙂 and a cookie for sitting at the start of the next rep is too delayed in this case – be sure to reward in the moment or, ideally, keep going.I think the angle of the jump #2 was what put her on the backside of it on the first rep perhaps? She got the front side after that nicely! Then there was a bit of disconnection but on the rep starting at :58, you had great connection and she had great lines all the way through to the 6-7 line. I like the aggressive blind there at 1;11! As soon as you threw your arm up, it pushed her off the line and blocked the tunnel entry a bit. You did a FC on the next rep, which can also work but you didn’t get connection on the new side before saying your tunnel cue so she was correct to take the tunnel.
When you went back to the tunnel section at the end of the video, you got it with your arm way back and tucking into the tunnel more. That really showed her the line nicely!!! Also note how she has slowed down here at the end – my guess about that is that she had too much failure/not enough reward so that she was being careful. We don’t want careful 🙂 so be sure to reward more and keep going even if there is an error 🙂
1:46, pop out 4 – more connection needed to make sure she gets 1. Keep going there! Note the difference in the clarity go the cue on the next reps – yes the bar came down but KEEP GOING. After that you were much clearer and patient, and she did great!
The lines here look good! You can add more deceleration into the wraps so she can read them sooner.
On the first full rep, she turned left on 4 nd right on 5 – I think a clearer line would be to turn right on 4 and left on 5. I bet you have time to get a blind in between 3-4, the set all that up nicely 🙂Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!!
Poor Wager! Hope his CCL heals up fast!! I hear great things about the stem cell work the vets are doing lately!
Seq 1: I think he was anticipating the release (when you stopped then moved again slightly) and that caused the question on the very first rep where he released and didn’t take the jump. The second rep looked good!
You can trust him more and do the bind sooner 2-3. You don’t need to wait to see if he is coming to 3, you can create the line with the blind 🙂 So when you see that he has 2, start the blind so he is jumping 3 on the left side of you.
You did another blind 4-5 – to get that tight you need to start it when he lands from 3 (another reason to two the blind 2-3 sooner). Yo started it at takeoff so he didn’t see the turn cues til after landing. It also created extra handing of the blind then the rear on 6 (he gave you an earful there! LOL!) so it might be easier to send to 4 on your left and serp 5-6, on the landing side of 5 (that also keeps you further ahead for 7.Seq 2: The bar came down at 1 – be more connected as you step away from that send (you looked ahead so he was trying to read which side of you to be on) and also being closer will help (no big advantage on this sequence to being further away)
You were much more connected at 1 on the 2nd rep, but you rushed the push cue for 2 and never got connection or commitment so he took the front. In that moment, don’t mark it as wrong and stop (handler error, everything except your voice said front of the jump if you freeze the video at :18). Just keep going as if it was correct! Note the difference in connection and support at :26, and he got it really nicely.
The rest looked really really good! The only thing to add is some deceleration as he exits 3 and looks at 4 – that will get more collection on 4 and make the FC easier for you.
Seq 1 with the added jump – very nice!
The aded jump makes the timing of the BC 2-3-4 even more important. He was looking at the added jump (correctly) because at 2, you kept him on your right for a long time. You can use a left verbal there and as soon as he is in the air for 2, do the blind 🙂You handled from the landing side of 5 on the first run and I think that did a better job of taking the off course jump out of the picture than the BC 4-5 did on the 2nd run. The BC at :44 set him on the line to the off course for a moment before your connection brought him back to the 5 jump.
Seq 2 with the added jump – very nice! I don’t think he ever looked at the off course jump 🙂 As with the first run of this previously, add a little decel as he exits 3 so you can get better collection on the FC at 4. The FC started as he was in the air there, so he made the turn on landing.
He dropped the bar of 6 but my guess was that he saw Wager coming and that was distracting. You both navigated around Wager successfully on the 2nd run, but I think that earns Wager a crate rather than a cot for the future so there are no collisions.Great job here! Definitely add the tunnel!!!!
Tracy
Since I am bugging you to trust more and turn sooner on these 🙂
You can connect and cue the 3 jump sooner, so as soon as you see him lock onto it, you start the blindYou gave the weave cue as he was over the bar of 5 and that is a great example of the early timing I am going for with him. Yay!
At :20 for the 9 tunnel, you waited til he landed before you cued it and he looked at you. You can be cuing the tunnel before he takes off for 8.
He was really wide on the 10 jump – that was because there was not a lot of decel (you are still moving forward and facing forward) and the verbal cue stared as he was lifting off for the jump at :24 – so it was too late for him to collect.
You got him through the gap and to the 11-12 nicely! Then at :34 you did the RC and called him as he was jumping, looking straight… so he was wide there too. I am sensing a pattern LOL!! Ideally, as he lands form 13, you would be decelerating and starting the left verbal or a name call, so that he can set p the turn before takeoff.
That was n impressive tunnel leap he had thereLOL!
And on the last around on 16 – more decel has to start at the tunnel exit with the around verbal – it started at takeoff for the jump here, so he was wide.So a big theme on these course and overall – move up the timing of the turn cue to no later than the exit of the previous obstacle. This includes the verbal but definitely also requires deceleration. The change in your motion from fast to slower will make a huge difference in his turns.
Great job!
Tracyhttps://youtu.be/bWIPZo721mM Jumpers course 1
Overall pretty happy. We had areas to work thruThis went well! You looked like you trusted him more! The next step now is to plan you turn cues to be sooner 🙂 Bearing in mind his enormous stride, you need to cue the tight turns sooner. In general, you can start those cues while he is in the air over the previous jump, especially on tighter distances.
For example, if you do the blind sooner on the 2-3 line (you can start it when you see him in the air for 2) then when he lands from 3, you will be finished and giving a decel and turn cue for 4.
You got nicely ahead on the 4-5-6 line, so when he is landing from 5, you can be decelerating there too and giving he wrap cues for 6. The dig dig dig started as he was in the air and since you were moving forward the whole time, he turned after landing. By using deceleration and then stepping to 7 sooner, he will be able to put in collection before takeoff.
Nice work!
TracyHi!
This is marked part 4 but I don’t see a part 3 – let me know if I missed something 🙂He is reading the lines well so now you need to trust him more 🙂 He had jump 2 (the backside beautifully, so you can keep moving and stay connected like you were, so you are further ahead for 3-4. That way, when he lands from 3, you can decelerate and give the verbal to get the wrap turn. You actually accelerated from 3 to 4 and said the verbal as he was taking off for 4… he read you 100% correctly and then you gave him a verbal correction for jumping wide. If he jumps wide, just carry on like he was correct, because he probably was (there was no way he could fix the turn in the air there). And take out any verbal corrections with him – they are arty stressful and confusing especially when he was reading your cues correctly 🙂
Tracy
https://youtu.be/VSRP_p-YRkQ Part 4
https://youtu.be/vgl-xenDUT0 part 2
This was sequence 3 of the raise your game challenges. Nice job!!! You can try a blind cross between 2 and 3 which will get you up the line to 4 sooner.
REALLY nice timing of the verbal and handling before the tunnel to get the turn to 4!Then turn your shoulders sooner at 4 – you helped more than he needed there 🙂 so he jumped long. That will get you to the FC between 5-6 sooner too! A lot of this is really trusting him, so he can turn better and so you can get to the next spot sooner 🙂
Nice work!
Tracy
