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Good morning!
This was great! I think this game in general is more stimulating, so you saw him having bigger victory laps with the toy. It is a form of regulation and he stayed in a really good arousal zone here, so it is all good! And he was able to give the toy back really well, especially considering the excitement of the running 🙂 Using the food seems to be helpful in terms of those transitions for sure.
Nice job with your connection as he exited the wing! You can throw the toy sooner: as soon as he looks at the jump, toss it so he never looks back at you 🙂
Since he did so well here, you can add your motion: definitely jogging and work it up to running. In the past, how has he done with you running hard? That is very stimulating but he did really well here so I think he is ready 🙂 You can add a GO verbal and also a bar on the jump!
Super job!
Tracy
Hi!
Look at how happy he is to leap on the teeter!! Good boy! I am not surprised because he has always been confident but it is great to see it transfer.After the first rep where he was looking up at you a lot, I was going to suggest putting his reward out ahead to keep his head low and straight… but you already did it 🙂 It was hard at first but then he sorted it out really well. SUPER!!! When using the toy or a food bowl of MM out ahead, release to the reward more than feeing him from your hand (he will start to ignore the placed reward and look at you).
Have you started adding motion yet, walking past the end of the board while he is getting into position? I bet he is ready for that!
Great job :)
TracyGood morning!
Excellent job emphasizing that it is the foot target you want here, and not looking up at you for the turn info. He got better and better on each rep with specifically targeting the pad and looking at it (and not at you). YAY!!! It is also hilarious seeing him sitting in the tunnel looking behind him at the manners minder LOL!!
>Round two at right turn out of tunnel. >
I think the video here was all left turns (or YouTube inverted it or I am taking too much cold medicine :)) But yes, get the lefts and rights both going 🙂
>I think l will add a normal tunnel for the next session.>
You can take a two-pronged approach to this:
– normal tunnel setting him up at the end and eventually back chaining (and balance with other exits so he is not producing great turns only because he figured out it is the only behavior in the session 🙂 Throw in a couple of straight exits.– using the baby tunnel you can back chain to the entry more quickly and even add a wing or jump before it. And when you are ready to fade the foot target (eventually), you can use the baby tunnel because you’ll get faster reps and a more efficient session.
Great job!
TracyHi!
Nice work with the rear crosses!!
On the first couple of reps, you can get onto the RC line sooner. For example, if you watch the section from :10 – :13, you took a few steps towards the straight line (left turn) side so he was preparing to turn to his left at :12 as he approached the jump then ended up turning the other way and fixing it when he landed.You made an excellent adjustment and after that, showed the RC info almost immediately as he exited the start wing:
Check out the section from :16 – :19 where you got on the RC line a LOT sooner and he turned correctly. Same with the next rep – very nice RC! He was checking in a tiny bit to sort out the cue, but that will go away with more experience.Great job here and nice job adding the balance rep of the GO at the end 🙂
Tracy
Good morning! He did great here!!!! Terrific stay so you could do a long lead out, and he responded beautifully to your cues Super!!!
Yes, you can give earlier/quicker cues. But I think the next step for this is to move the wings closer together (6 feet apart, approx) so he has change his movements quicker and that will also let you be quicker too!
> I need to be quicker, but I’m used to running slow terriers so it is a learning curve for me.>
Because he is so speedy and we cannot out run him, we are going to focus on sending him and a lot of obstacle independence (so you can get where you want to be on course and stay ahead). And also rear crosses for when you need them too.
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Last night in class we moved the trainer from the end of the sequence to where a judge would stand. The toy is now my responsibility. I have to hide it and I can’t reach for it until after the last obstacle or she’ll look for the toy. At the end she gets verbal praise first, then I pull out the toy for tugging after the praise. This made a HUGE difference for Ellie!>
This is awesome! She is doing really well!! As you add in more complex skills in terms of handling and obstacle execution, you can have a 2 toy approach: you keep one like you did here, but the instructor can have another one to throw or place on lines when you want to isolate and reward a specific skill. That will also add a bit of a ‘surprise’ factor which is great for building behavior and motivation!
Looking at the video:
>had to stop to refresh Ellie’s memory about blind crosses. >
On those reps, it is entirely possible you were late or not connected enough (or both 😂🤣). Leave those in the video, so we can analyze what happened!
On the video – she is doing great in terms of reading the lines and trying to sort out the side changes! Plus she wants to go really fast – so fun!!
2 suggestions to make the handling cues sooner and more visible:
– the exit line connection is going to make the big difference on the BCs. Reach that toy across to your opposite hip exiting the blind, and she will totally read it even if you are a little late.
The timing of starting the first blind on the first rep was good, but the connection on the new side was a little late so she was a little wide. She turned immediately when she saw the new connection. The 2nd blind was a bit late too – when doing 2 in a row, you can have a toy in each hand to help develop the mechanics of the exit line connection (the toy is more for us humans than it is for the dogs :))
At :13, you are re-connecting on the dog side arm as she exits the wing: she was wide because she could not see the connection. When you increased the connection, she made the side change immediately.
So as you move through the blinds, keep your arms in tight and use the exit line connection across the body to get the very tight turns.
– >although I noticed that I have helicopter arms.> Yes, as you noticed, your arms got a bit high 🙂 You can run without using your arms up high and pointing to the wings. The high arms will slow you down, plus they block her video of the connection. So low arms (hand pointing to her nose) will work, or you can bend your elbows and run with your arms pumping like a sprinter 🙂
>We also had a big zig zag before the last tunnel and I couldn’t tell why that happened.>
This was at :45 where you wanted her to go straight to the tunnel, but your arm was up high which turned your shoulders/feet to the other end of the tunnel. So she had to check in with you before figuring out where to go, creating a zig zag line.
One more suggestion: Try to stretch your tunnel and add more bags – she stumbled and got caught in the curve where the tunnel was a big scrunched up at :18, and we don’t want her to hurt herself.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>A bit from our session yesterday,some remote reward sequencing. He was starting to get a bit flat here, so I used treat tosses for some volume dial work. Did have some objects scattered about on the floor.>
He was a little flat at the beginning, hard to know why exactly but it was good to get him ramped up (and a good reminder from him to do it even if the environment seems easy). Another approach to the volume dial is to ask him to do hand touches or jumping up or tricks that engage him directly with you. The tossed treats get him moving which helps, but the tricks direct his engagement to you even more (plus those are things you can use even when food is not around).
For the remote reinforcement – make sure there is truly nothing in your pocket 🙂 If you have treats in you pocket, he knows the difference (the nose knows 🤣) because he can smell them pretty easily.
And the random objects were good! I don’t know if the weird thing contributed to him being a little flat at the beginning, but I was certainly distracted by it (I spent a long time wondering what it was LOL!!)
On the first video and also on the 2nd video, remember that you can lead out with a lot of connection and do a bit of the ‘cartoon’ release to help with volume dial too: something as simple as eye contact, breathing in, and saying ‘ready….’ before the release can really help build up engagement and focus in the run!
He released from the start line like a rocket in class (yay!) on the first run, but more connection will help on the 2nd run where he got up and sniffed when your back was too him. The connection when you re-set him at 1:16 was great! Think about the run starting when you cue his sit, and the connection should start then (instead of when you release the stay).
He dropped the bar on the jump near the ring crew person – coincidence, or distraction? Hard to know, but interesting to note. He rarely hits bars but he did a great job ignoring that person otherwise. But hitting the bar seemed to rattle him a little and he had a distraction moment. Dogs that never hit bars can definitely be rattled when they do hit it! Two of my young dogs act like the bar has attacked them in the rare moments where they touch a bar.
2nd time through the section with the ring crew person – he didn’t hit the bar and had no loss of focus, even with the instructor (and his lotus ball :)) standing right there 🙂 and a very loud teeter bang from the other ring! He even did a hard threadle in that spot 3rd time through – really nice!!!!
>I’m now starting to think I need to simplify things for him here. Nos ense in trying to execute courses with 5 backsides while I’m trying to teach him to ignore what’s going on around him. I can pick out a simple course and run him thru that for success – yes?>
Yes! You can kind of do the best of both worlds: you can start a run with a very simple sequence and bigger distractions, and work on rewarding that. Then you can work on rewarding crazy backsides/threadles, with the reward right there. There were some bloopers (at 1:28 and towards the end) but it looks like he as getting rewarded for this so he seemed happy! And also, you can ask the instructor to throw the reward for a certain hard skill in those moments. And in other moments, or maybe one of the full turns in class, you can ask to just do a simple course (make something up, you are good at that!) but with much harder distractions. He doesn’t need to work the big distractions with the really crazy handling, so you can keep them separate and still have success 🙂
I just thought of a fun game you can do with him (must be the cold meds helping me remember things :)) Does he like being held by other people, like for a restrained recall? One of the things we can do to help him ignore people/dogs/weird things is a series of fast and fun recalls! Some ideas for this:
– basic recall where someone holds him, you call him (can be over a jump) and reward him.
– same recall except this time the person holding him has a handful of food (can even be feeding him!!)
– same basic recall… but along with the holder having food, you put people walking around or sitting in chairs that he runs past to get to you
– same basic recall… but along with everything else you add the people walking around holding food, talking, wiggling toys :). You can even eventually add other dogs walking around!
– when he is really good with this… you can add remote reinforcement and you can even do it from a stay (the person who would have held him is now the leash runner distraction)This won’t all happen in one session of course 🙂 But it is one of the things I do with dogs to help them ignore the chaos of the people/etc in the ring environment. And it is pretty fun, with no ‘bang’ on their body from obstacles or running courses, so you can do LOTS of fun reps to build success. Let me know if that makes sense!
>I also need to work on my own thinking. I’m finding that I’m starting to anticipate when the wheels will come off the bus which is leading to me managing him instead of running him, going to work on changing that.>
Yes, this is totally relatable! We want so much to help and to avoid any struggles… that we over-help or manage and that can create struggles. I try to use my ‘intellectual’ inside voice to remind myself that I can’t control what the dog does and as long as it is safe, it is good information and learning. That helps override the moments when I get nervous about what the dog will do, and it suppresses the inner voice that tell me to over-manage 🙂
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Her tugging looked really good here 🙂 When the environment is harder in the ring, you can use a really long toy and swoosh it around, almost like a flirt pole 🙂 That is kind of impossible to do outside the ring with dogs and people nearby, but you can use food outside the ring.
>At that point I was planning to go in and train, then she stopping tugging.>
Many youngsters find it hard to tug in close quarters around other dogs, so you can switch to food when you are outside the ring.
Then as you enter the ring, you can start getting her to chase the toy you are dragging around – I think she might like that a lot and it can also help her be able to line up and stay, etc.
>I do need to really work again with having a chair set up with her lead a treats. >
I think that will help her handle the trial challenges for sure! And it sounds like you are already doing this at home with your treats on the porch, so a portable reward station for class & trials will help!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Because we crated in the building, she was pretty desensitized by the noise by the time we went to the ring. >
I think it was more of a ‘bandwidth’ issue than the noises being very prominent to her. The young dogs have limited mental bandwidth to process all of the things in the environment, and it adds up: being in the ring, no food/toys/ new people, batting practice, etc… it added up and didn’t leave room to process or execute stay behavior. Pretty normal, but being able to train in that environment will help open up space with the bandwidth so the trained behaviors like stays can be easy to get 🙂
>She was very happy to eat and do tricks and games outside the ring. >
Perfect! The food and toys in that environment help a lot, and being outside the ring is definitely easier in terms of processing.
>She did some tugging over by our set up, but then lost interest in the most valuable of tugs, a rabbit skin on a bungee tug. I tried every tug in my bag, which are many! Even the inflation got no response. So many people and dogs. She just wants to see everyone. >
Yes, bandwidth… her brain was processing a LOT so she couldn’t really tug. But even just the visibility of the tug, or putting it on a long toy so you can whip it around, or doing simpler behaviors in the ring will really help her learn about the new environments at trials.
>This weekend I will bring her tug and we will just sort things out in the ring. She has quite a few Qs in speedway, but I’ve kept to just training in the ring with the trials last fall. >
Perfect! And how challenging the environment is can also help dictate how much you ask in terms of hard behaviors.
>In class I do tend to keep treats on me still, especially since I want to constantly reward her contacts, which are great. >
She sounds ready for you to add in training runs in class without treats or toys with you in the ring. Now, you can totally keep rewarding the contacts by giving your treats (and clear instructions about what to reward :)) to the instructor or ‘ring crew’ and have them reward the contact behavior. Teaching her that the food might be outside the ring (especially as she moves to the start line) is a really important trial skill.
> Otoh, at home, I keep treats on the porch instead of instant reward. Biscuit learned this years ago, so as soon as his done, I tell him, perfect!, and he runs to the porch. Kishka still stays with me until I say let’s go inside. At home she is pretty amazing though, and just loves the game.>
This is great! The skills are building up really well at home, so now we take those remote reinforcement skills on the road to class and trials 🙂
Have fun! Keep me posted!
Tracy
Hi!
>Yes, we are still here. We had a few glitches with a season, weather, and Covid 🙁>
Bummer about Covid! Hope you are feeling back to 100%!
>Training has been going really well. Really, really well. So, to say I was a bit disheartened about her first trial, is an understatement.>
Watching the video – no need to be disheartened! I think she tried really hard but the environment was soooooo different than what she has ever experienced that you saw some behavior change.
> The noise you hear on the video is the batting practice in an area above the ring. Yep, a couple times the judge needed to retrieve balls that landed in the ring. >
OMG! I was distracted by it when watching the video… I imagine a baby dog would be like WHAT THE HECK IS THAT COMING FROM ABOVE?!?!?! So that definitely contributed to her questions.
> So, despite the chaos, she was happy, did lots of tricks and games before our ring time, including just outside the ring. >
Was this for food? Checking to see if she was happy to eat.
>She did a bit of tugging, but then lost interest, so I opted not to do training in the ring.>
Even if she was not wildly interested in the tug, it might be useful to train in the ring anyway. You can bring out the best/furriest/craziest toy, and also the visual of you carrying the toy can bridge the gap from home/class training and the trial environment. The toy can signify that reinforcement is still available, even in the much harder environment.
> Her start line stay at home and in class is almost 100%.
Yes – that is great! And that is because of reinforcement history in both places.
> Yeah, yeah, I get the ring is different. >
This particular ring was so different, it was almost like the sit was an entirely different behavior. She lined up nicely but I don’t think she recognized the sit cues at all. For now… you can do training runs and send her to jump 1 with a wrap rather than a stay, until she is more experienced in the trial environment.
In class, how does she do with being able to do runs without food or toys in the ring with you? Making sure she understands the reward station and remote reinforcement will really help her get comfy in trials. And in trials, having a bunch training runs to gradually introduce her to the environment will really help too (especially when the environment is nutty like this one was).
>We have speedway runs (hoops, barrels, tunnels) this weekend. I plan on only training her start line, with a couple obstacles for the first couple runs.>
I think the first question as you formulate a plan will be what to use as a reinforcement – you can bring in an awesome toy, or two crazy toys tied together so that she can chase it as you swing it around 🙂 That way you can reinforce the start lines – without reinforcement, we risk adding stress to the start line which we definitely don’t want.
And for the first run – don’t ask for the stay 🙂 Just get engagement and play and a few happy obstacles on a line. When she is more comfy in the environment and will play with the reward: then you can add in the stays. Stays are HARD in trial environments, as hard as weave poles! So we want to gently introduce them with a good reinforcement plan. And eventually the reinforcement will move outside the wing, as long as she can do that at home and at class too.
>Otoh, she was very happy, and came to me to take obstacles in a tough environment, with plenty of ring crew, and dozens of people outside the ring. >
Yes, she totally checked in with you which is great! I think she was a little concerned about the weirdness of the noises in the environment (that is valid LOL!) so we definitely want to keep ramping up the happy factor and find ways to clarify the reinforcement 🙂
Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
Really nice work in the fun trial and the seminar! He is looking great with this commitment, and your connection & handling was lovely! Yay!
>I didn’t get a video of his jww, which was a great run, he had the fastest time of the 20” dogs with no faults. His weaves are coming along!>
NICE! And very exciting!!!!
>He slipped on the ascent on the dogwalk and it slowed him down and affected his contact, he became very sticky. He didn’t seem to hurt himself and that was our last run.>
Yes, he might have been in ‘careful’ mode to avoid more slipping, wise choice!
>He seems to be running fast on the turf but I think he is more comfortable on the dirt. Turf is probably a bit slippery>
Yes, I totally agree! When I watch him – on the dirt, he had really natural movement with extension through his front and rear, and an easier time setting up turns. On the turf, he was running with shorter strides, keeping his legs more under his torso and adding more strides. Subtle for sure but definitely a difference.
One of the things I am curious about is if we wrap the dogs’ feet (like flyball :)) or use some of the sticky spray that people swear by, will the dogs feel more comfortable extending on turf without slipping? We can experiment with it!
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
Frankie loves Perry and was feeling SPICY!
Looking at the standard run:
>she was on fire! I was LATE with my cue.>
Yes, and that is a hard challenge off a running dog walk! You can use a bigger physical cue, like an opposite arm and maybe even rotating towards her to get her eyes off the straight-ahead end of the tunnel.
I liked the blind before the frame! You can reconnect quicker to make it even tighter. The rest looked fabulous!
JWW went great – love how she barked at the start line!!! It was a nice course but not a lot of good places for blinds. The RCs worked well!
> there were a few creative challenges that I felt were outside our skillset and she got all the hard stuff! HA! That will teach me not to trust Frankie! 😉>
Ha! Frankie says I GOT THIS!
>I’m excited to see how she does this coming weekend. The last time we were at this trial location, she was shutting down a lot and I felt like she really did not care for this location. I’m starting to think it may have been less location specific and more about overall stress and the fact that we were trialing so hard that year. I think she was burned out and stressed. There were a few other locations that I had flagged in my head as places she didn’t like and had skipped going there for a while that we returned to recently and she did well with them.>
That is really interested! Burn out is a real thing! Also, you’ve taught her a lot about remote reinforcement recently, which can make a big difference in how she feels in different environments. I am excited to hear about how she does!
Nice work here! Keep me posted!
Tracy
Hi!
> I love the idea of ramping her up & letting her tug & have fun ahead of time and then doing the pattern games and volume dial tricks when we wait to go in the ring. It may bring out her “all business self” in the trial enviroment.>
For some dogs, especially younger dogs, the last moment before the ring is kind of a balancing moment and pattern games are perfect for that. I do that with a couple of my dogs (Contraband!) before we go in the ring, especially at bigger events to help him be in the right head space.
>. She wanted to tug on the way into the ring, so I let her (and watched my fingers!)>
That is also a self-regulation. I am glad she is doing it!
>We had a 1 day trial this weekend and Bazinga did great! I was not on top of my game for some reason. I just couldn’t get my head in the game but fortunately, I don’t think the dogs noticed!
She had one run. It is a 2 ring, indoor arena on dirt. Pretty distracting environment and I think she had a lot of focus!>She did GREAT! Perry is a much bigger environment than I remember her being in, but she had no problems. SUPER!!!
The run was super nice, I LOVE how she drove ahead in the opening and especially on the big line at the end!
I am looking forward to being able to put the weaves in so you can just smoke the entire course 🙂 It sounds like you are making excellent progress in getting them finished and taking them on the road!
>. I think I slowed down to do rear crosses in the beginning sequence and I think Bazinga responded by slowing down too. I think if I had moved a little faster, I could have gotten BCs in instead and encouraged Bazinga to stay fast.>
Yes, you can power through the RCs a little more, but she still read them really well. And if you experiment with sending with more distance, you can try to get the BCs. In these training runs, you can totally try for the distance and blinds, because you aren’t trying to Q 🙂 You can reward her and even re-send her to a line if needed.
The class sequences are going well too!
>I do think the times she curved in to my line, I was turning forward instead of keeping my shoulder and arm back and that broke the connection.>
Yes, you were cueing a straight line and a couple of the jumps were slightly offset. In the walk through, try to look for jumps that are offset and use a bit of a ‘get out’ so she shifts away to it (like 3rd jump on the first video and 3rd jump on the 2nd video too). You can get that shift away be being ahead (with a longer lead out, like you did at the end of the 2nd class video) or by using a ‘get out’ and maybe even an outside arm if you are not ahead
>Now that we are taking some small sequence classes, and people are seeing her in action, I am getting the feedback “you need to be faster!” because she is so speedy. >
Well, be as fast as you can of course, but running faster is not really the answer 🙂 Using distance and getting longer lead outs will help! I don’t think any of us can out run her LOL!! But you can send her on a big line and get where you need to be.
On the huge distance straight lines like the big distanceto the jump after the double tunnels at the end of the first sequence, where she smoked you: enlist the instructor or classmates to help her find that line by throwing a reward for her so she drives ahead. It looks like you had someone throwing the reward in the 2nd video and that was great!
> I’m a little anxious about these sessions because I feel like I’m less in control of the environment and I’m trying to be conscious of rewarding her and not talking to the instructor & being distracted with her. I want to be sure that if something is too hard for her that I can break it down and make it easier for her. On the flipside it is good that it is pushing me to assess and react and see what we can do.>
It looks like you were doing a great job keeping things fast and fun for her! YAY!! As long as she gets lots of reinforcement, I think it is a good experience for her to be in a group class.
>I’m trying to decide on the next class that is best for us CAMP 2025, the Connection Masterclass or the Timing Masterclass. What do you think is the best place to go after MP4?
I think you have gotten the Connection info in the MaxPup and previous CAMP class, so we can eliminate that one. The Timing Masterclass has a lot more content (all the way up to full courses and a year to do it all). The CAMP class is more of a specific focus (independence!) so I guess it depends on what you want to work on. Either way, you can share one spot between the 2 dogs if you want!
We have a 2 day trial this weekend and I’m excited for it! I’ll send video & updates 🙂>
Keep me posted!!
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi!
>In Synch was going great we just had a few off courses because I either didnt see something when I walked it or I couldnt get the commands out early enougn to prevent. The courses were all at the hard end for the level.Will post videos when get round to editing them. Nice that I knew each time what went wrong although after a mistake is made it is hard to get a smooth run back.>
It sounds like things went really well! Off courses are normal at this stage, she is very fast 🙂
>Waits need a lot of work – she has totally worked out the game so lots of work happening here.>
I think it is time to make waits the top priority. The more she runs at trials without a wait, the harder it is to get a wait at trials. What is allowed for training runs – a mat? If she breaks the wait, can you bring her back and reset, then reward her? We definitely want to focus on waits a lot now.
>Interesting getting alot more drive over the last jump but no longer wanting a pick up she is growling with excitment as she goes around. Was very pleased so much value for the bag as when she didnt want to be picked up we just headed to the bag and moved away. Got the treats out and she was putting her head in lead for treat. This was our original plan before she started coming to me to be caught. So no panics no pressure just a practised finish.>
This is great – you had already put value on the bag, so when her arousal got really high (BCs and BC mixes often don’t want to be touched when they are in super high arousal) you still had a behavior to do for the end of the run. PERFECT!
>Interesting she was highly focused on food especially at the end of a run this is new usually toys are all she is interested in.>
This is also pretty normal – perhaps it is her nervous system trying to calm/regulate arousal? My high arousal dogs are like this too – food after the run at trials.
>Weaves I opened up and got more range in terms of direction. When closed again didnt see any change in that still going fast and from different angles. so the opening was a good move. Have added a jump before the weaves and she loves that.>
Great! When she has seen them in a sequence and has a history of success, you can bring them into training runs at a trial.
>Contacts have been using a target at the end of the dog walk – she is much more confident on my dog walk and getting a run down to the target.>
Also good! Are you allowed to put a target on the ground in a training run at a trial?
>Overall pleased with progress – just need to work hard on generating value for the waits.>
Yes – sounds like everything is going really well! We definitely want to ask for waits and maintain criteria at trials.
Nice work!
Tracy
Good morning!
She did a great job with her moving target (and stay) here! Super!! And I like how it is helping her power through the jumping. By the end of the session, she was stepping in PERFECTLY over jump 1! Excellent hind end push off. She has a little extra height over bar 2, but that will go away with more experience (and as we raise the bar).
I am tempted to see how she feels about a 7.5’ distance, and a 10” bar on jump 2! Everything with jump training is so individualized for the size and structure of the dogs. Try that and let’s see what she does – no need to do it more than once a week or so, though, so no rush.
Smiley face game went well! Her commitment looks really strong! She did best when you kept moving: -she stopped on the first rep at the wing because you were standing still looking at her LOL!!
You have more motion on the other reps and she did great!
One thing about her is that you will have more time while she is in the tunnel than you do with Sly: she has to crunch down to get through it (she might even need heavier tunnel bags!), and he can stay in full extension. So you probably don’t need to start your wrap cues as early, you can begin them just as she is exiting. And we might consider giving her extension cues more on the tunnel exit, so she powers out the collection needed to get through the tunnel.>worked on my verbals here….. And boy do they need work!>
Ha! I think she caught you by surprise with her speed and commitment, so you can plan the verbals before you run her. Give yourself a walk through 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
