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Hi!
Sorry to hear about the footing and his paw 🙁 Poor guy!!!! And it stinks to have to replace it.
The timing sequences from the last live can easily be done with the smaller tunnel! And yes, feel free to post trial runs!
Tracy
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>>I’m looking at the pop outs and I’m not sure what to do 2-3. Would you lead out and call to the threadle, then spin to get the turn and instantly threadle then FC?>>
Part of the challenge of the 2-3-4 line is choosing which way to turn her over 2 and over 3! I would want to turn her to her right over 3, so she has an almost straight line 3-4-5. So which way at 2? It depends…. LOL!
You can turn her to her left: lead out to a threadle then do a FC to 3. Or, lead out and do a throw back.Or turn her to her left on 2 (it will be like a reverse wrap, you can lead out to the landing side and handle 2 like a backside wrap) – the wrap is more collected but sets up a better line 3-4-5.
Try it both ways and we can see which is faster 🙂
Tracy
Hi! This went really well!

Seq 1:
Very nice! Great connection and verbals!
You can leave the threadle wrap at 5 (:12 and :32) on a blind cross not a post turn, to get you further up the line and to get an even tighter turn. What I mean by that is: as he turned to the jump, you turned with him (to your right) and faced the jump. That sent him one extra stride wide (less so on the 2nd rep where you were more decelerated). Instead, as he turns to the jump, you can turn to your left (towards the frame).Yes, turn your back on him and get outta there LOL! It will tighten his turn more and you get further ahead by a step or two – that is not critical here but will be on those ginormous UKI courses 🙂
Seq 2: Oh wow the judgement at :44 was impressive LOL! Your timing of the verbal was really good but he couldn’t see you at all, so he got BIG MAD when he didn’t know where to be LOL! He definitely had his hands on his hips and was giving you ‘the look’ LOL!
You were more visible at :51 and 1:03 for sure! You can give him more visible hand cues too – your arms were up high so he was relying on your feet. If you get your hands lower than the top of the tunnel, he will have verbal, feet, and hands to cue off of which will make it even smoother.
The rest looks great! Nice backside send and commitment, and great commitment to the wrap after that too.
Seq 3: the jump/switch cues were late at 1:28/1:29 – better at 1:48, nice adjustment! You can probably use a GO before he enters the tunnel in this context so he rockets straight out of it, then add the switch as he is exiting.
Layering looked GREAT! Yay! Since he is so confident, you can start the FC sooner at 1:33 and 1:51 (a stride before he takes off for the layer jump).
Strategically, try not to go past the landing of the jump after the tunnel so you can send him away to the next jump and get way ahead again. You can start the send as soon as he lands. To make that happen, you can pick him up closer to the tunnel exit, so yo urn accelerate then send: that will get you miles ahead again so you can get the front of the jump and not the back (which is on the natural line).
At 2:08 you were at the spin jump with him so you got some questions from him at the exit of the tunnel – that send to the spin jump can be from miles away, to get you ahead of the tunnel exit to smooth out the questions. He definitely liked the switch-and-run… there was a whole new gear of speed as he chased you up the line! Yay!
Great job 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Tracy
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She did great here!!!!
I like that these premier courses had nice open lines too, not just hard stuff! She was definitely following the handling nicely, then got to get on a big line. That way she could do the hard stuff then get to run run run 🙂 The hard stuff will get even easier sash gets more experienced.Her stays looked great and her focus was perfect 🙂 her stay n the CPE run was impressive – most Masters dogs can’t do that! LOL!!!
Great job :) Tracy
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He is definitely getting his feet into the box nicely on each rep. And it looks like he had some angles as well – no problem! Nice!So the next step is to give him reward targets so he is not looking at you as he is going through the box 🙂 A manner minder is the easiest one , and you can use a food bowl on the other side. Or, you can use the manners minder only and don’t go back and forth – you can line him up to send and you switch sides so he practices on both sides.
Great job!
Tracy
Hi! This went really well!
Warming up with the wing to tunnel looked good (that is easy for him) so it was really cool that he was able to NOT take the tunnel when you asked that first time on each side! Yay! Great connection from you is what got it to happen.Sending to the tunnel from the backside approach was easier to his right than to his left, so you can definitely hold still longer when he is turning to his left to get into the tunnel (like you did when you did the full sequence).
You almost lost him at 1:57 into the tunnel – there was not quite enough connection but you fixed it with more connection before he ended ip in the tunnel. Then you can bigger eye contact on the next reps and he was perfect!
Great job putting it together into the longer sequence! You were connected and clear so he was really very smooth.
>>think I need to go back and work on commitment to wing>>
What was happening was that you were not accelerating enough, so he was going into handler focus in those spots. So when you tried to decelerate and do the turn, he was not fully committed and if you stopped short, he would come off the wing. So remember to accelerate, then decelerate, then as he is passing you and looking at the wing, you can do the FC. To get more acceleration, you can more the wings further away 🙂
Having the toy in the pocket totally helped him too – you didn’t have to switch it from hand-to-hand, so he didn’t watch your hands.
Great job!!
TracyHi!
>>I need to work on that feet running with body facing the other direction thing, not my strong point.
You can try using both hands for now, because that will help the upper body turn back to her while the lower body stays forward.
>>I just ordered a teeter teach-it, and am going to borrow a teeter. Is that the method you use on the terrific teeter course? I have an idea of how it works, of course, from your videos, just want to make sure I don’t mess this up.>>
Yes! I use it pretty extensively in the class – it is a big piece of how I trained my dogs 🙂
Tracy
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Nice work here!The serps are going well! The Tunnel to jumps looked good – you can send to the tunnel from further away so you can get further ahead!
On the 3 jump serp – very nice hustle!!! Keep your serp shoulders open to her (rather than point forward to 3) until after she lands from the middle jump and looks at 3, so she gets the info to turn to jump 3. She was ticking the bar a little when she was on your right, but you were pretty connected and comfortable on that side.
The shoulders ‘closing’ forward was more obvious when she was on your left:
As she was taking off for 2 at :48, you were facing forward ahead of her and you said go… which cues a straight line past the 3 jump (and she barked at you).While she is in the air, ideally you would have your feet running to 3 but upper body facing her over 2. That is more like what you ddi at 1:09 and 1:50 and she got 3 really nicely! YAY!
>>I looked at the video, and if I wanted her to bypass it, I couldn’t have done a better job. >>
Ha! That is why we video things 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
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Good news – she was not flanking at all! She was doing what I call “mirroring” which is when the dog reflects the handling back to us (whether we like it or not LOL!!). She was feeling good and going FAST 🙂 Wheeee! But paying attention and she did everything the handling asked her to do, which is why she always had the “nailed it!”expression on her face 🙂
For whatever reason, there is no sound on the video, so I couldn’t tell if you were calling her before the tunnel or not (definitely call or give your right verbal when she is 6 feet in front of the tunnel entry).
So she was missing the #3 jump after the tunnel – part of it was her turning wide on the exit (needs the verbal before entry) but it was more so that you were way ahead at :04 and even more so at :13 and all she could see was your back – there was no real indication for 3, but a lot of indication for 4! Then when you tried it from a stay, you were too far ahead to set the line and ended up moving past it, so she did too. Good girl.
To get that line, you would need to not go past the wing of 3 and make sure you are hugely connected – and don’t move up the line until you see her turn her head to see the 3 jump. When you did the last 2 reps at :58 and the last rep, you helped position there til she picked up the line and it looked great!
The other jump she was running past was 5 – that was a parallel path issue. At :30 and 1:00, she was on the parallel path backside line and you were running forward, not turned to show the front so she correctly stayed on the backside line. At :37 and :42 you turned so she got the front. The timing of the turn would start as she lands from 3, so she faces the front of 5 when she lands from 4.
The rear cross went well! At :45 exiting the RC, you got stuck behind the yellow jump after the RC so as you moved out from behind it, you turned so she turned and took the jump. Good girl! It is like driving a Ferrari, isn’t it! When you did the FC wrap on the last sequence, you nailed showing all the lines, so she nailed it too.
So, nothing to worry about, she is reading everything. We need to just plan earlier timing for you and to consider raising the bars, so you have a little more time. How much jump height has she seen recently?
Great job here!
TracyI agree, it was not stop turn turn turn and cue cue cue. But it will make regular courses seem easier for sure!
I think she was pulling off because she was paying attention 🙂 The pull offs that I saw were all her following the handling 🙂
She might have burned or torn a pad on the dry grass, or in the tunnel as you mentioned. Poor girl! She worked really hard!T
Hi!
Yes, these are a lot more challenging than they look! But things went well – we are not looking for perfection, we are looking for feedback from the dog (reward all the things!) and making adjustments.
And yes, watching the video during the session will really help!
Video 1, without the tunnel:
1-2-3 looked good! As you decelerate, try to face 4 rather than turn away from it (:08), then staying connected coming back down the line. You were definitely facing 4 a lot better at :27 on the 2nd rep!
On the threadle, you pushed back into the jump and she ended up (correctly) pushing to the backside. You stayed on a parallel line to the jump at :31 and she read the threadle really well!Seq 2: Yes, 3-4 was hard here but I think it was a connection issue at :41 – be sure you are looking at her all the time, not ahead of her to the jump.
Video 2 – I think the off course tunnel was a little close to her line here which made it harder, but the key was getting off her line after the blind, being further ahead. On the first couple of reps, your blind cross position actually cued the tunnel. Then you did a great job getting past 3 to the next line,
like at :21 and :46, and she didn’t take the tunnel anymore. Super!! So she read the lines really well, you just needed clarity on he lines 🙂Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I am so glad you enjoyed CAMP! You and Sly looked amazing!!And I am also glad the layering and other skills are coming in handy… I think we will be seeing more and more of these skills so we will be prepared for them 🙂
And good for you for NOT getting sucked into negative conversations! And I agree – we agility folks go negative really quickly, what is up with us? LOL!! I have been trying to redirect people when they start that, or when they are negative about themselves or their dogs. And I try to redirect myself too! It takes work but is totally worth it.
And good for you for stepping out of a negative conversation, especially when it was clear that it was not going to be resolved positively at the time.
>>Felt a little brusk,>>
You were probably direct – which is uncomfortable for our generation 🙂 Ah, to be a millennial or Get Z with their directness (which shocks me sometimes LOL!!!)
And it sounds like you turned around her mindset too – I am thrilled to hear that she was receptive and you ended on a good note.
And the 3 wins, plus one dance class with the judge? And amazing RDWs? Icing on the cake! SO FUN!!!!!
I am thinking of a 2-level Transition To Trials in late Sept/Oct… one level for the current MaxPup 3 grads getting ready to trial, and one level with the CAMP folks to bring the mental game and handling stuff into the ring even more 🙂 I will keep you posted!
Have a fabulous vacation! I used to live in the Fingers Lakes area – this is great time of year to be there!
Tracy
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This is definitely NOT a goat rodeo!! There was a lot of good work here and even being tired, you still got some great lines!
The opening looked really good, and nice parallel line handling to the backside at :25 and at :30! When you are not rushing to get to the next line, you find great parallel lines and your arms are low with great connection. Super!
He has a little trouble with the dog walk with the 2 big tunnels under it, adding lots of strides on the up ramp, looking a little off balance. I saw it a little in yesterday’s video and definitely in this one – and I don’t remember him having that question on the dog walk in other contexts. He is probably just a little inexperienced with that huge visual distraction, so it just goes on the list of things to let him see more frequently.
The one spot you did not get on a parallel line was at :35. Yes, the jump cues were a little late but also he saw you pulling away – he needed to see the parallel line motion into the tunnel to stay on the line to the jump. And even when you were not running hard to the ending line, he was still finding the line because – great connection and parallel lines 🙂 This is good to know!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>The tunnel wasn’t behaving. Mine is 20ft and the course called for 15. It kept getting bunched up and Sprite got caught in it once. >>
Poor Sprite! Yes you can totally stretch it out and adjust the sequence accordingly, then run it based on the lines set there (might not be exact to the map and that is fine :))
>>We struggled with these. Plus, it was about 85 degrees and Sprite was getting tired. >>
I could tell it was hot! But I thought you both did well! Yes, a couple of spots to add more decel or earlier timing, but overall really really strong! And you had the same bloopers I had in sequence 3, so I feel affirmed hahaha
Looking at the specifics of what she is seeing in the different timing zones:
Warm up –
Go tunnel – perfect timing and handling!
You can be sooner on the left – it is a commitment cue, so you can start it at the same timing as the “go tunnel”, as she exits the wrap wing. The Left was a little late at :13 (she was almost at the 2nd jump, almost in the green zone without turn info)
You were still a little late starting it at :22 but the spin is effective there! More effective than the brake arm!Full sequence – very nice first rep, the go tunnel was very timely and looked great!
2nd rep – nice decel into 3 before the threadle!! Nice collection! WOWZA!!! I know we are looking at other parts of the sequence for timing but definitely give yourself a high five for that!
The Go tunnel can be earlier at :51, it was later than previous reps.Seq 1B
The 3-4 line a little too zig zaggy on the first run, too much pulling away from 4 but you adjusted that in the next run and it looked great.Nice timely left cues at 1:06! The verbal was very timely at 1:25 but the physical cues came a stride later – try to start them at the same time (and play with the spin here, it might be more effective!)
Seq 2:
Nice threadle at 3!!! That is a hard angle and you nailed it with the tunnel exit turn cues before she went in, and the threadle cue. Yay!For the RC at 5, you can decel more t set it up (because it is a wrap) and get more on the line to the center of the bar (:19 and :50) so give her the RC info. So you would be accelerating to the center of the bar at the beginning of the yellow zone, then decel as you get about halfway to the jump.
The threadle at 7 needed a tight turn on 6 to set it up, which means the exit of 5 needs a turn cue for 6 so she is prepped for the 7 threadle. LOL! The threadle cues actually begin at the exit of 5 so you can ask her to jump wit mild collection (a jump cue and name call should be fine) then the threadle cues before takeoff for 6.
The Right is a little late at :33 but she didn’t go in the tunnel! And it was also late at :55, it started as she was taking off for 8. So these cues come pretty rapidly there, it is good practice to spit them out as early as possible.
Seq 3 – Very nice opening!!
The 4-5 line has a lot of things that happen really fast 🙂
For the wrap on 4, you can run at the exit wing (while pulling her into the front side) so you can decel into the FC at 1:20, 1:40, 2:12, 2:30. At 1:54 you were more decelerated and got a better turn. Then as she is entering the green one (approaching the jump) you can be rotating, accelerating then as soon as she exits the wing of 4, you decelerate to start the turn at 5.At 1:43, you had the same blooper I had (off course tunnel) for the same reason (no decel)! Yay! Merle dogs for the win! LOL! You turned sooner at 1:55 there but you can decelerate sooner as son as she exits the wing of the previous jump) and that will guarantee the turn.
You got my other blooper at 2:14 LOL!!! Great decel… but in the way so you got the backside. I am glad I am not the only one. 🙂
Gorgeous collection on the last wrap to the tunnel (no worries about 1:26 the rest looked good!)
So overall, great job here and great info from Sprite about what she finds helpful, and when she needs to see it.
Tracy
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>> I did more RC than I’d like
RCs are great handling tools! Be sure to drive the RC lines aggressively and then will be very helpful. But also, drive the lines aggressively to get the blinds so you don’t end up too far behind her because you are waiting to set up RCs.
On the first one:
You can do a BC 2-3 but the RC works well too – you need to drive the RC diagonal more (towards the center of the bar on 3). At :17 and 1:09 you were on. The right turn wing so she took off jumping right then saw the RC after landing (which is why the bar of 4 came down on the first rep, she was in catch-up mode). The threadle to the tunnel went well! Ending line looked great!2nd pop out – nice layer 1-2! I think you had plenty of time to get the BC 2-3, though – you went to a walk to wait to set up the RC there 🙂 The BC will get more speed on the 3-4-5-6-7 line too!
Last pop out (this is #4 on the sheet)
The 1-2-3 opening was great, super fast! Nice layering to 4. And you got a great collection at 5 but then you exited with a post turn and that sent her wide to the backside of 6, then sending to 7 to keep going put you too far behind for 8-9. But yay for staying in motion! You almost got it back on track and got a little in her way trying to set up a rear cross at 2:02. But yay for carrying on!2nd run: another nice opening! The rotation to the post turn is confusing so she dropped the bar
Good job getting the front of 6 which set up the BC line 7-8- really nicelyI think you had 11 on the wrong side, you were pushing her to the backside which does make it super hard to get the blind there at 2:28. As a front side, it would be a matter of which wing to wrap.
Super job getting the 15 backside!!!!
So the only spot that needs more smoothing out is the 5-6 line, where you rotated towards her and then turned away again for a post turn. The rotation can (and should) always be followed by stepping forward out of it, either with a blind like a spin, or as a front cross. A spin would be perfect here to get 6 and keep you ahead. Opening up to a post turn after the rotation (facing the tunnel) counteracts the collection cue, so she had big questions 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
