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He is doing really well! You can definitely add more motion here, starting walking faster then see if you can build to a slow jog – that way it is more about the action and not about the staying in the sit. And if you are going fast and he sits right away? You can release pretty quickly, so that low latency gets isolated.Two smaller detail things to add:
– equal balance on the left and right sides (this was mostly dog-on-left)
– say the release or toy marker before you move the toy. This doesn’t really have to do with the sit, but it is more about keeping the markers clean 🙂Great job here!
TracyHi!
yes, on this video you can see how you fully turned to the wrap-left wing then surprised him with the right verbal. The decel was good, so try to only turn to the center of the bar. That will help him find the line smoothly like he did in the other videos!
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Good morning! I thought both dogs did super well on these!!!
One general idea to add for the layering skills (especially as they get more elaborate :)) is to throw or place the rewards more, rather than have them near you or placed elsewhere. The thrown or placed rewards will speed the learning!
Kip – He pretty much nailed all of this – and you did a great job staying in motion. YAY!!!!
>.We struggled with Sequence 4a pushing back out to the jump after wrapping. I had a few failures on this (didn’t put all in video).>>
Yes, that was really the only question he had.
On the first rep in the video, after the FC on 4, you needed to wait (by holding your position) til he gives you the cue to move to the next line. His cue to you would be him looking at the jump. At :35 he hadn’t looked at the 5 jump yet (he was still finishing the turn away from 4) and you moved away, so he came with you.
:51 you pulled him too far past the 4 jump which made it harder to send him back out. It is counterintuitive, but more connection there (and less arm) will help with the big sending!
The placed reward at 1;02 really helped! So to solidify it, you can do a combo of the placed reward and waiting for him to look at the jump before you start moving away. (Side note: that is the only spot to stand still, you should be in motion on all the other lines and sequences :))>>Honestly – I don’t really have a rear cross with him. I have to be absolutely perfect to execute if it’s not on the flat. He does have a very good switch on the flat though – so the turn was late after he landed but he went out and got the jump afterwards.>>
He did really well with that turn away!! It can be a little sooner, so you can gradually start asking for it a tiny bit sooner each time. He read it really well and then the line back to the tunnel was soooo obvious to him – looked awesome!
>.He grabbed his toy before taking the tunnel but he got the hard parts.>>
Ha! This was at 1:18 – in his defense, I am not really sure he heard the ‘tunnel’ verbal with Emmie barking, your back to him, and the toy right there on the line (he is used to the placed toy being the target to drive to in that context). He was being a good boy LOL!
Emmie did really well too! On the 1-2-3 layering line, you can keep moving on the parallel line so it is not a send – think of the application where the dog walk is there, and you will be hustling to get to the next spot on course.
Very nice turn at 5 and nice line back to the tunnel! And also very nice wrap towards you on 4 and line to the tunnel!!!
The turn away on 4 was harder for her as you mentioned – you did a really good job breaking it down and sorting out the cues she needed. On the last rep, you had super good timing of starting the cue! Because the turn away is relatively new to her, you can then do the eturn away cues more slowly, so she can process them. You were moving fast so she kind of had a “wait, what?” moment there. Slow, deliberate hand movements will get the turn away, then you can go back to big hustle up the next line.
Great job here!!! They are ready for the next sequences!
TracyGood morning!
>> didn’t even think about the handler danger of running into the up end of the teeter. Luckily I didn’t see anyone do that. Plenty of eeek moments as dogs scrambled onto the teeter at 90deg angles though.>>
yes, those things stand out to me a lot more now that I got certified to be a UKI judge (but I really don’t want to judge hahaha). And I did see someone run into the teeter once and so now I am traumatized by it!
>> (and yes, the mowing didn’t happen before we left so there are weird tree like things trying to sprout everywhere)>>
TOTALLY relatable LOL! It is that time of year LOL!!
Looking at the video, and speaking of tree-like things…
>>but he ran around jump #4 until I did a FC.>>
He really doesn’t make mistakes like that, and if he makes a mistake, he almost never repeats it. I think maybe the tree was blocking line to the jump so he was processing going around the tree and ended up going around the jump, on a parallel path backside line? When you showed him the jump with the FC and then called his name with the blind on the next sequence, you could see him almost say “oh yeah, thre is a jump there.” Normally his tunnel exits are great so I plan to blame the tree here 🙂
it would be interesting to see if he would find the jump if you move the tnunel and jump a 5 feet towards the house, to take the tree out of the picture.
Overall, the runs looked great! The threadle versus backside on 1A and 1B looked great.
There was only one spot that can be tighter: the backside of 6. You were accelerating into it and ended up stepping back towards the center of the bar – and that is the line he picked up (correctly), which was a stride or two wider to jump 7. And since Kaladin has officially entered the “fewer strides win big events” stage of trainng 🙂 you can tighten it up without losing speed by sending/deceleraring into the backside, and not letting yourself go past where the wing and bar meet. That should set up a tight and very fast line.
Excellent job staying on the line for the big go go go ending!! He seemed to have no questions. I LOVE IT because I get the sense that being able to stay on lines like this is going to be super duper useful at big events!!
>>Just for kicks I decided to spice things up by threadling #4 and then going back to threadle Slicing #5
That was really nice! FANCY threadle on 4 at 2:01 and he had no questions 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! Lovely session here with the Minny Pinny! You nailed the adding the verbal by holding her collar, saying it a few times, then letting her go.
Also great job fading out the shoulder turns to help her go around, she did it really independently!
Not surprisingly, she was faster when the toy came out 🙂 Doing the first part with food was smart to help her get the idea, and going to the toy added a lot more excitement to the game. I am happy with how she was using her body when the toy was involved: very bendy, nice low head bouncing between the bars. YAY!
At the very end, you did a faster moving ‘turn and burn’ front cross, where you were running the other way while she was doing her ‘swing swing swing’ right turns – perfect! Do more of that now, because it will help her understand that she can stay on her line and turn away, even with all that countermotion (plus, she seemed to think it was really fun fun fun :))
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
I agree – she did great here and I think she had a good time too (which is the most important part of course :))>. I don’t know if she really knows the difference in the two different cues (still learning how she learns) or if she just takes the tunnel again because it’s there 😅>>
Ha! It doesn’t really matter LOL! The goal is to get the behavior easily and name it (mission accomplished). So even if she didn’t wake up today fully knowing the difference between the two verbals, you made tremendous strides towards that!
The next step now is to meet her more at the end of the tunnel and keep slowly moving forward parallel to the tunnel, as you say the look look cues (and have your threadle arm up). The goal of that is to teach her to go find the threadle tunnel entry, and to take out any of the physical cue help like stepping to the threadle entry or using your arm to turn her away: you will just keep moving forward til she turns away to the tunnel threadle entry: then you can turn and have a big party.
Great job!!!
TracyGood morning!
Wow, Kim is an excellent handler!!! And has excellent aim with the reward (most of the time- it was pretty hilarious when she was hitting the wings LOL!) Hope your foot is feeling better!Looking at Rosie’s warm up – excellent job getting the reward thrown before Rosie started asking questions! You can be giving the verbals more repeatedly: go go go or out out out out instead of just once (but saying it once might have been a product of the brain trying to multi-task saying it, moving, and throwing the toy)
Interesting that she went past the tunnel on the first rep – maybe because there were rewards there previously. Kim’s shoulder turn on the second rep and the 3rd rep was VERY clear so Rosie had no questions and found the tunnel immediately.
I think the outside arm to get the jump behind the tunnel really helped – Rosie needed one more step to get the jump on the last rep, so giving her that step and continuing to throw the reward will help build up the commitment there too. This is probably something you can do while walking, as your foot heals up!
Rosie also did a nice job finding the other lines for Kim. I think she was a little stickier than she would be with you, because she is not used to running with Kim, but Kim did a GREAT job of staying near the line and throwing the reward to help Rosie stay out on the line.
>>Lily ran really well for Kim. Maybe I will have her run from now on!
OMG yes! Lily was on fire!!! She was being very sassy too LOL! She was driving her distance lines really well (I am sure plenty of it was that you had already don a training session with her). Kim also did a marvelous job staying in motion on the layering lines – she was hustling and using the verbals so Lily stayed on her lines. WOW!
The only questions Lily had were about connection. On the send to the jump behind the tunnel at :10, Kim was looking ahead and not at Lily so she came in to the tunnel. Compare that to the other reps (like at 1:17) when Kim was really connected so Lily found that jump brilliantly.
The other question was at :49, when she ran past the tunnel entry on the FC (after the layering) – that was when Kim looked away as well. Compare to the other reps there, such as 1:20, when there was very clear connection until Lily got the turn. Beautiful!
Full sequence video:
Looking great! Lily is really driving her lines especially on the layering!!>.Then on the 4th. I really like how she went out for that last jump even though Kim stopped.>>
Yes – that was at :23. Kim did it more as a forward send, so she stopped and Lily continued to the jump AND did a nice wrap, because she saw the big deceleration. Yay!
The rest was looking very smooth and fast. You can both try running with the lotus ball in a pocket, because switching it from hand to hand was delaying the cues a bit, especially on the cue to go to the jump behind the tunnel (you can see Lily look up at Kim a couple of times there, waiting for the cue).
There was one little blooper, a little disconnection at :44 (so she didn’t take the jump). But Lily might have been tired at that point, because she took it all the other times.
Great job here to Team Pug!!! Big thank you to Kim for stepping in, and you did a great job coaching her!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>Our routine starts with putting my other dogs in the car in the garage. Then Mochi and I go back in the house and she ‘Runs’ to where I keep the toys etc., waits for me to change her collar and put on my bait bag, get all the stuff, set up props. Then watches me set up the camera and off we go.>>
>>That day she barked at me from the garage to starting filming. Never before had she done that.>>One thing is for certain, dogs are brilliant at recognizing our patterns and routines, and sorting us out.
For example, dogs with separation anxiety recognize the signs that the owner is leaving, and the anxiety starts exploding from the moment the owner’s routine to leave starts: alarm goes off in the morning, or they put on their work clothes…
Mochi seems to have sorted out all of your patterns/routines for getting ready to train – and she is exploding with excitement. And her excitement is the noisy variety, which also happens to drive you crazy.
So the best thing to do is to stop using such a predictable routine. Do things in a different order. Or have Mochi wait in her crate while you do this, using a lickimat. Training in different rooms helps, and also leaving the training stuff out so there is no routine of taking it out. My 2 barrels are currently sitting in the living room for my 6 month old puppy to ignore 99% of the time.
Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Lots of good work here!Pop out 1:
You handled this one 2 ways – on the 3-4 side of the poles and then layering the poles. Layering worked a lot better to get the turn to the weave entry!She took an extra jump on the first rep before the poles at :16 – you were facing forward, moving forward… and your Go cue and your Poles cue sounded pretty much alike so she stayed on the jump line til she saw you turn.
The right verbal on the second rep helped! But if Poles is your weave verbal (it is my weave verbal too) then you need to make it sound entirely different than “go”. You can make the poles cue quieter in volume,, emphasize the “P”, and repeat it more often – if the pitch, volume, rhythm is the same as Go, she will not be able to consistently differentiate especially if you are moving forward, or there is a discrimination.
The layering was so easy to show the weave entry – the right verbal helped as did you position. Really nice!
Pop Out 2:
>>Some of it went well, her inability to get the push from a distance surprised me,>>The opening went well! The backside needed a stronger/clearer physical push cue: verbal said push but the rest of the cues (motion/position/ shoulders/feet) said front of the jump.
Keep going when that happens – assume it is handler error (because it is, even if it doesn’t feel like that in the moment). Don’t mark her as wrong or get mad, because that will build frustration which makes it harder to process the cue (she was barking at you when you broke it down).
And live by the same 2 failure rule we have with the puppies: by the time you got to the 1:40, 1:47. 1:55 mark, you were well past 2 failures and everyone was frustrated! If you don’t know what is going wrong, stop and watch the video in slow motion to see what cues she sees. So if you have 2 failures, change something to get success and no more failures – handling or setup of the sequence.
You can use your outside arm there to indicate the backside and strengthen connection and get shoulders turned to the backside, as well as converge more towards the line until you see her definitely going around the entry wing.
Also, you can change the angle of the backside jump so it is easier to get to the backside there.
>> unsurprisingly, had trouble flipping her out of weaves to jump line staying on inside of weaves.>>
That is a hard line! Isolating the switch from the weave exit worked really nicely – you can move the jumps in closer to the weaves to get her to look at the line after the weaves too.
The 7-8-9-10-11-12 pop out section looked great! At 2:10 the right verbal was late (she was already in the tunnel when you said it) so she was a little wide – try to say it when she is still 6 feet from the entry so she can see and hear the cue. The rest looked great!
Nice work here!
TracyOnly 47 things to remember? That is not too bad LOL!!! You can work on saying your whoa differently even when running hard so she can differentiate it from the GO.
Tracy
Hi!
This is definitely a hard skill, and definitely a trained skill 🙂 Backchaining is a good way to go with this skill and your idea of having the MM out at the entry can help too!
This other thing you can do is move the weaves closer to the tunnel exit so they are much easier to see without you being there (and also maybe only 6 poles). So when she exits the tunnel, then are *right there* and hard to miss 🙂You can even have them a little more on the line for when she curls in, or make the angle easier so they are easier to see on the line. Then over time, you can start to move the weaves further away, and onto harder angles. But starting the weaves even closer will help!
One more thing – you can take the DW out of the picture entirely and just do a send from the tunnel to the weaves, without you moving. Sit in a chair, have an ice cream 🙂 and let her do all the work! That way, on the verbal, she can find them – then the DW will can come back in and it will be more easy for her to find the weaves 100 miles away 🙂
Let me know how she does!
TracyHi!
He was keen to get on it, but yes – there was a lot of movement and bounce to the board when he got to the top. The top wobbled and moved, and the other end was bouncing up and down. You can see him reacting to it when he got past the pivot point.
So definitely get it completely stable for him for now before he tries it again. You can lower it if it is hard to stabilize it as full height.
And, to help him look to the top, put a target at the edge of the board (duct tape will work well!) and smear some cream cheese or peanut butter on it – that will give him a focal point to go to, to get a massive reward 🙂
Keep me posted!!
TracyHi!
The countermotion game is looking really good! She did well with all of the challenges you showed her 🙂
Next step: You can exaggerate the rotation and countermotion even more on this by doing it sooner (because wing commitment is easy at this point):
After the first send back to the wing as you are running forward, start your decel sooner so you can rotate fully before she gets to you 🙂 You will basically be facing her and sending her back behind you to the wing (and even moving towards her before she passes you.
That way your dog side arm is not committing her to the wing – it is your ‘new’ arm on the exit of the FC. That will be harder of course 🙂 but it will translate to extreme commitment skills and wicked tight turns 🙂 You might need to do it at a walk first to get it rolling, then add more and more speed 🙂2nd video – having the tunnel out there made it a bit of a wing-tunnel discrimination game too! It took her a heartbeat but then she nailed it 🙂 The soft turns and the wraps looked good! To make it more fun, you can sometimes send her to the tunnel and then get her back on the soft turn line – feel free to set up your own sequences so you can set it up so the tunnel is in the middle of it, not just at the end 🙂
The plank confidence looked good when it was not moving. The tip was actually significant enough that she was concerned (slowing down and crouching a bit, even with the treat at the end). Can you take out maybe half of the tip, or put a thick towel or something under it to diminish the tip? That way we can keep that speed up so she doesn’t think about the tip at all.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
