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Hi!
>>I’m really struggling with training motivation now that it’s surface of the sun hot here. I’m hoping camp will get me out of rut.>>
Welcome back! Let’s make it a goal this summer to get you out of the rut!!!
I really liked a lot of what he did here, and I have an idea for you to get more peed and get you out of the rut.
I don’t think he was super slow here and there were some real bursts of speed. But I know we can get those bursts to turn into consistent speed!
I want to try something a little different with him this year – if there is a little error, rather than stop and reward: keep going like he nailed it. So on the miss of the tunnel on the first run, just keep going as if he had gotten into the tunnel and run the sequence.
The dude likes motion, so let’s build n more motion to the game even if he is not quite perfect. The more motion you had, the better he ran. For example, he had nice pieces in the first minute of the video, but also slowed down when you stopped to reward or when you were not moving. But then compare to the rep that started at 1:02: you chad more motion in the opening and to jump 4, then you took off for the blind at 1:10. He freakin’ loved that and found a new gear of speed!!
He took a frizz break (in the pool?) after that – but then came back strong. He needs more motion from you (and more connection on the tunnel exit to the jump (when you took a step or two, he got it. But without the step, he didn’t get it). But if you take a couple of steps then drive to the net line, I bet he lights up!!
So try this for a plan:
Run a sequence like these – keep moving, no stopping to reward, if something goes wrong keep going as if it was correct (or if there is no way to keep going on the correct line, just make up a random line and run run run). Then run like he just won the event – then into the pool and he watches Roulez run 🙂 Then back out for his turn – stay in motion (no stopping to reward, just do a fast blast then reward).So by taking out the fixing and by taking out the stopping to reward – we add more chasing of da momma, which he LOVES and that can be super motivating! And then when he fast , you will be super motivated because fast is FUN!) And then he gets a break really quickly, because he is going to get hot really quickly. The breaks should help keep him cool so you get the same number or reps.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I am so proud of her focus with the garbage truck!!! The resilience games and treat scatters are long range games – they are not an instant fix but you can see how the underlying emotions change over time, and she is much more relaxed about what used to make her uneasy. And that allowed her to stay engaged. Happy dance!!!!Yes, this lazy game is PERFECT for this weather!! You are also allowed to have cold drink or ice cream in your hand )(or you LOL!) as you work it in the heat 🙂 Wow, that garbage truck is LOUD and she just carried on being her fabulous self. YAY!!!
I also like that she was perfectly engaged here without you having to do much to get her excited and you didn’t have to run. She got really good at snagging the cookie from the ground and getting back to work. Perfect! You can add more distance to this too – and don’t move faster, continue to be lazy 🙂
She also did well with the mountain climber game! Do you mean Cesar as in the dog food? I guess you do, based on the close up LOL!!! That is high value stuff!! She did best hen you stayed at her side for now – so keep supporting her that way for now until you see her confidently leave you behind to run to the magical Ceasr 🙂
Great job here! When the weather is not as gross, onwards to the one step sends!!
TracyHi!
>>I played with iMovie and cut out the play/play sessions between the reps. Total session was 2:49 and I cut it down to 1:25. Do you want to see all the in between stuff?>>
A total session of 2:49 is a great length! You can save yourself time and not edit it – just put the whole thing up. Seeing the in-between stuff is always great!
>>He’s still not a fan of setting up, although we’re working on it outside of agility practice more and more and he seems to be getting better.>>
You can try developing a set up “trick” such as coming between your feet. Train it as a trick and the new can add it to a jump. I teach it by standing with my feet apart and luring him between my feet using treats. I will see if I can find a video of it 🙂
The one step sends look great! He is SO FAST 🙂 I think he was surprising you with how fast he was getting out of the tunnel LOL! But you were connected and got the send each time.
When you do the 2 wings in a row, you don’t have to send to the first one, you can keep moving through it so it will feel smoother (rather than send to the red wing then send to the green wing).Exit line connection also looked super here!!!! You can keep playing with these skills, adding more distance 🙂 And feel free to make up your own little sequences too!
The pink game was a great refresher – I love how he was zipping back and forth, he is just so fun 🙂 When you added a bit of motion, he had a moment of question and slowed down but then went back to running pretty quickly. If you have 2 Cato boards, you can put one under each end let him zip across an elevated plank 🙂
And yes, definitely go to the advanced level with the angles.
Great job here!
TracyHi!
>>Would it be OK to practice going partially up and turning to get him used to turning on a narrow surface? I also have an old teeter plank that I could elevate with bricks and practice turning .>>
Yes, that would be great! You can also re-visit turning around on an elevated plank. His body is bigger now, so he might need to refresh how to turn all that booty on a narrow plank 🙂
TracyHi!
Great seeing you today!!! And these videos are all looking really good – she has really grown up and matured and is working beautifully!!!
She had a little trouble turning to her left on the wraps at the beginning of the one step send video – I think it came down to connection on the send. You were looking a little forward so she was nor really sure where to go. She got it nicely at :28 and the next rep!
Freeze the video at :45 as she exits the tunnel when you changed sides: you had GREAT connection there and she had no questions about going to the wing. YAY! You didn’t have quite as much connection at :58 and 1:03on the send but it was enough and she sent beautifully 🙂
And lots of gorgeous exit line connection too – such as at 1:00 when you can really see the line and connection as you exited the front cross. So nice!
Plank confidence looked really food – easy peasy! You can elevate the plank now, with low blocks or cot boards under it. I think you can also add more speed by jogging back and forth – she was already adding more speed so you might as well add more too 🙂
Very nice job with the mountain climbers! She looked very confident going up it and also was quite nimble turning around on it 🙂 Yay! You can add a target to the end (duct tape works well LOL!) and place a treat on the target (like a dab of cream cheese or something that will stick to it) so she drives up ahead of you (then go to her to help her get off the teeter so she doesn’t jump off :))
Great job on these!!
TracyHe 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!
Tracy
