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Hi!
It sounds like it went well for both dogs! Yay! And yes, Georgie’s stay looked great on the previous video – just a little bit of baby vulture, dropping her head LOL!!!
And also yes – BCs bring with them a lot of “momma beats me” drama LOL!!! But that is just the way they show their intensity to work 🙂
Tracy
Good morning!
So great to see him back in action! He seems really happy too! Great sessions here on the video!
He definitely liked the smiley face game and his commitment looked GREAT! I think you were trying to get yourself to the wing then do the FC – but that made you late on the rotation so he was a little wide. You can totally connect on the tunnel exit and as he is passing you, you can send him the rest of the way to the wing and rotate away so that he can collect at the wing.
He did a great job finding the jump on the Wind In Your Hair game! You can throw the toy even sooner: as soon as he looks at the jump, throw it 🙂 You were waiting til he was between the uprights, which was fine when you were close but then when he had t drive ahead of you if you were not ahead of him, he was not as sure. So you can totally throw early or have Jamie throw it LOL!
My only other suggestion is that as soon as he exits the wrap, you can stop saying your wrap cue 🙂 You kept it going as he was on the way to the jump LOL! You can now add more motion and the big loud GO verbal too! This setup builds into multiple games, so you can start putting those in too. When the GO is feeling good, you can add in the rear crosses.
Great job here! See you in class tonight!
TracyGood morning!
This went really well – she seemed to have no trouble shifting her leads to zig and zag through the wings. Easy peasy!
Your timing was really good on two wings. Then she turned on even more speed when you went to 3 wings – so you can definitely start the cue for the 2nd gap between wing 2 and 3 sooner but also – you can make it more obvious to her that you want that gap by stepping to it even more (almost stepping towards her). That will help push her into that gap. That was what you started to do on the last rep and it worked nicely!
>Maybe we’ll try 4….
You can totally try for 4! And last night I posted the part 2 of this game, where you can add bars to this to add more challenge for her (4 wings will challenge your timing, adding bars will challenge her lead changes 🙂 ) Great job!
TracyIt is hard to tell because he was either scrunched up with his feet too far under him or his back feet stretched too far out behind him LOL! But he does seem to have a nice long neck (speaks to shoulder angulation) and nice length, which means power and turning! Yay!
Hi!
This session went really well too!
Looking at the rear crosses – at the beginning, you were a little too early 🙂 by turning your feet to the next line before he was really past you (like at :07). He had to run across your feet to get the front of the bar, which he did – but that would make it hard to cue a backside.
You adjusted that though, and kept your feet running forward to the center of the bar for longer til he was passing you ad looking at the front, like at :37 and then all of the reps in the 2nd part of the session. Nice!!He was really strong with the GO reps too, with just one question when he went past the jump at :23.
I think 2 things happened there:
He was just looking for the placed reward from the previous reps, and at :19 when he exited the tunnel, you were tucked into to where the wing and bar meet, so the pressure was part of what pushed him off the line (I don’t think you were too far ahead).Compare to next rep where you were further away laterally and he was not looking for the placed toy 🙂 And same with the Go reps after that. Really nice! And the post turns also looked good – he had no trouble with that at all.
Great job!
TracyHi! This is going super well!!
Really nice verbal difference between the GO and the ‘right’ – it totally got his attention and made the turn much easier. Yo can cue the tunnel as soon as he takes off for the jump – you were cuing it after landing so he as waiting a bit.
And when you go back to the “go”, throw the reward sooner – he was starting to look at you because he realized that there was a potential tunnel option now LOL!!The next step is to move the start wing “around the clock”. It is was a 1 o’clock here, you can more it to 12 o’clock, 11 o’clock, etc… so that he is eventually starting on the other side of the tunnel with you and has to go all the way past the tunnel to find the jump for layering.
Great job!
TracyHi!
>>Thank you for taking the time to help with some ideas on what might be going on with Caper. I really appreciate it and it makes me feel a little less freaked out when you mention some of the changing behaviors you have in your own pups.>>
It is good to brain storm and share ideas when striving adolescence with the dogs 🙂
>>On her running around with the toy, I really think it will help me be more chill too if I just let her run and get it worked out. Thanks for that reminder.>>
it gives her a moment of decompression while you sort out your next rep 🙂 If she doesn’t need the moment, she will bring the toy back immediately.
>>Should I start to add my word for that? I haven’t done that yet and I am going to have a different word for it than the backside slice.
A different word is perfect! If she is doing well with them then yes, add the verbal.
>> Would you suggest that when I start working on this, that I don’t mix backside wrap training with backside slice training until my handling and her understanding are clear? >>
The wind in your hair games are not really set up for good backside slices (the handler won’t be in a clear position) so just stick to the Go, rear cross, and backside circles on those. We will hit more backside slices later on in the class 🙂
>>I am planning on being outside here at home. The weather is going to be chilly but should be fine otherwise. I am very excited to be back outside.>>
YAY! Outside! the games will keep you warm, there is a lot of running if you have the space 🙂
Tracy
Hi! I don’t see a downside. The priority is that both of you are relaxed and connected, like you mentioned with your Terv. And the down can get that for Georgie. We definitely don’t want the two of you fighting with each other! And she might never looked relaxed but at least you will have a chuckle at her intensity LOL!!
Hi!
He did well with the ladder grid! It was definitely harder for him – he was a little more front-end-thinking than powering from the rear. What does that mean? That the angled jumps were making him think about how to move through the line – this is a GOOD thing because so many high drive dudes like SB would just plaster through the bars. He did not – he thought through the puzzle. YAY!! So what to do next? In a day or two, show it to him again, exactly like this, and see how his brain has worked through the puzzle (latent learning for the win, plus the practice will develop new neural pathways aka “cool sh*t” :))
The jumping drills are puzzles so seeing him work through the puzzle is great!
The rear crosses are definitely coming along nicely! You were starting this from being laterally away from him – The first RC rep had you starting too late so he didn’t turn, but you were much earlier on all the others so he was able to get it. My favorite RC rep was the last RC rep (2nd to last rep on the video) where you got on the RC line immediately and produced the best turn. SUPER! And there was a very very clear difference between the RCs and the Go lines, so he had no trouble knowing the difference. Super!!!
You can switch up the challenge on this setup too – you can start much closer to the tunnel and so you set the RC line from very close to him starting closer to the tunnel exit.
Great job on these!
TracyHi! This went really well!
One suggestion to get even more commitment as you move past the backside wrap: shift your connection from her cute face to the landing spot. You can be connected to her lime you were all the way through until she is rounding the backside and turning her head to takeoff… At that point, you can be looking at and pointing at the landing spot (as you move past the jump). And if you are getting past the jump wing before she gets there, you can look at the landing spot a little sooner.
This will be especially useful when she is working on her more challenging side. At :16, she did’t take the jump (you were looking at her) but compare to :48 where you looked at the landing and she took it beautifully. Yay! That exaggerated shift in connection won’t always be needed but it is really helpful in the learning process.Great job! You can put this into the game that shows her the difference between the rear crosses and the backside wraps and the Go lines 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
He has really good line commitment, which both helped you and hindered you here LOL! The line you were setting as he came around the wing was directly to the backside, so he was correct to run to the backside line unless otherwise turned.To help set up the line you want, a small tweak to the opening:
Do a Front cross on the wing to start this, so he exits the wing looking straight at the bar and to get a good line to the jump: in this setup – start with him on your rift send to the inside of the wing (the edge between the jump and the wing) then FC to your left sos set up the straight line to the wing. (And the mirror image on the opposite side).Doing a post turn made it harder for him to find the jump in the straight line and on the rear crosses – the parallel line took him to the backside (correctly) so he needed to be pulled in then turned, which made the turn cues late.
He was reading the lines and the RCs, and the reward placement definitely helped! So I think the change in the starting line will really help.
The middle video is marked as unavailable, so it is probably listed as private.
On the second Wind In Your Hair Video, the wing was closer and moved over to a clearer line to the bar, but you can see how he still has to come in to find it on most reps rather than just go straight to it. So the FC start on the wing will work nicely here too!
He did well with the thrown reward here! Ve sure to have it already in your hand – he gets distracted when you reach for the pocket as he is looking for the jump (he looks at you because his loves his cookies LOL!)
Nice work here!!!
Tracy
Hi!
The first five of these are probably listed as private – I am getting a 404 error on those. The last one looked good! On the serp, remember to open u your upper body to “face” the jump and keep moving, so he learns to come in over the bar even as you are still in motion.let me know when the others are reset to unlisted.
Nice work!
TracyGood morning! This went well!!
Connection and verbals all looked really good and yes, going in to the tunnel more so you can accelerate more helped her really drive around that racetrack. She is starting to really get some good distance, too!
She was definitely faster on the first couple of reps of the tight turning at the beginning and the first rep on the other side when you changed sides. Yay! I think she only likes one or two reps of the tight turning stuff in a row, so to keep the speed up you will want to mix in a race track or two before doing more of the tight stuff.One more suggestion: more tunnel bags needed 🙂 She is moving fast through the tunnel and the tunnel is moving a lot under her, so you will want to use more bags to stabilize it so she doesn’t slip.
Great job!
Tracy
