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Hello and welcome!!!
Yes, Miss Momo wants to be responsible for her own organization 🙂 have fun! I’m looking forward to seeing how she does!
TracySorry I missed this!! I agree that he moves well into the sit on the platform! It was hard to see from the angle on the platform, but it looks like he is tighter than on the flat – on the flat, his rear feet are a little outside his body. And if his legs sometimes slide out, then the platform work will help with maintaining the tight sit by providing a clear framework.
I think you should add the around the clock angles in the next session, then you can move this to the longer plank now, adding motion in and out of it.
Looking at the moving target- this is exactly one of the reasons we work this on the flat first… to sort out what he needs in terms of recognizing it as a reinforcement LOL! “Get it” as the release seemed like a dirty rotten trick to him LOL! You can add in dragging it then saying Get it while it is moving?
But for our purposes, you can totally use your break release because he will generally be in front of a jump. So if Get it doesn’t make sense in this context, that’s fine – the break release seemed to make sense. 🙂
Great job!
TracyYou don’t need to, one less thing to worry about 🙂 you can just step to it and use an arm cue, to focus in on getting the head turn.
TForgot to add: Yes, you can totally use a sit verbal and you should use it as we get deeper into the games.
Good morning! Great start here!
Looking at the head turns: she definitely is turning her head, yay! She had some questions about when she should go to the wing and when to offer wrapping again. We can help her out, because it is not an offered behavior, it is a cued behavior.
To do that, you can be more proactive by helping her with hand cues:
Line her up at your side, send her, then use your hand to cue the 2nd wrap (then click and toss the treat in the direction she is going). Then use a reset cookie to line her up again, to repeat the process 🙂It should look more like the 2nd rep (:10-:13, but with a slightly lower hand so she doesn’t look up as much)
When she was offering multiwraps on her own on the last few reps, she was starting sideways and not really leading with the head (especially on the left turns). Resetting at your side and cueing it will smooth it out – and then it will be easier to see the click moment because you’ve just cued it 🙂For the sits: she is definitely organizing well! I like that she is moving into a fast tight sit, with no adjusting or sloppy feet lol!
She doesn’t always want to hold the sit, note how she pops her hind end out a bit after a heartbeat. It might be that the platform is a tiny bit too short or too close to you, or that she’s anticipating the cookie toss, or both. It is also a physically demanding position, so she might be trying to make it easier (smart dog LOL!)
You can try moving the platform a little further from you and reward her in position to help her hold the sit. If she still pops up, go to a longer platform (which we need to go to anyway for the next games :))Great job!! I’m looking forward to the next steps!
TracyAlso for this game: you can back up a bit, send her to the upright, and try to click the head turn on the approach to it (starting on the right turn). And you can also transfer this to a full wing 🙂
TracyHi! She looks great! Super nice session here.
>>It’s obvious to me the clickable moment on her left turns but not so much on her right turns. It looks smooth like she’s keeps turning
I think what you are seeing on the left turn in terms of the clickable moment is that she is processing more on the left turns, so there is that extra heartbeat where we really see her make the choice to turn her head.
On the right turns? I think those are easier so she does them faster – Harder to capture with a specific click but you did a great job.In other words: she appears to be a righty 🙂 is that something you’ve seen elsewhere in training? I can also see it a bit in how her hind end tracks through the turn: to the left, her hind is a bit wider (further from the feet of the jump) and on the right turns, her rear tracks quite close to the jump, she is bendier in that direction.
It is subtle, though, which is good – she has no glaring weakness on one side or the other. Yay!
For this game, a bit more practice to the left will get her left turns to be as fluid and tight as the right turns. And when you start the other games, introduce each concept to her right first, then when she has a few reps of that, go to the left turns.
Great job! I’m looking forward to more!
TracyHi!
The flatwork looked easy for him, even at the 4 foot distance. He still thinks it is kinda dull because there is not a lot of action, but he is using his body well without needing a lot of help from you. I think his only error was more that he anticipated the release and not a movement question 🙂Looking at the 2 jump zig zags: excellent adjustments from you both. The first 2 reps were hard, especially that first rep for him – so your adjustments to make it a better distance was perfect, and he added more power too. Perfect! The next few reps all looked good. I like that he also made adjustments and sorted his striding and approach to the first jump.
On your next session, start with the angle where you left off here, and a rep or two of the stationary food bowl. If that looks good like it did here, go to the moving target – I want to see if he adds even more power 🙂 and then with the moving target, you can close the angle a little more. The food dish definitely worked as a stationary target, so you might need to get crafty and rig up a moving food bowl LOL!!
Great start here! Let me know how he does with the next steps!
Tracy
Hi! Really strong sessions here – watching him organize his hind end was great! He was definitely sorting it out, there is no room for manspread on the foam pad or the step LOL!!!
I think the aerobic step is good for just a super tight sit with no real motion (conditioning stuff) but the foam pads are better for this class. The step is just a tiny bit too narrow.
It looks like there are 2 of the pads? If so, you can work the sit in step 1 on one pad. That will be more challenging than giving him the extra length of 2 pads. Then go to 2 pads when you add movement in steps 2 through 8. If they move, duct tape will be your friend LOL! If it is one longer foam pad, that’s fine too, you can ask him to sit closer to you so he is at the end of it.Great start here! I’m excited for more!
TracyHello and welcome!!!!
How big is Tiki? I’m guessing similar to my Elektra, so her demos should give you an idea of what Tiki should do in terms of form. Have fun!!
TracyBummer about the weather but also hopefully Rayven is ok!! I’ve seen dogs make those jumping choices – usually it is all front end decision work based and the hind end never gets organized for proper liftoff. These games will be good to help her get herself better organized for the jump!
TracyHello and welcome!! I can’t believe Sly and his cohorts are 3!!!! Fun times ahead – I agree that he us a really good jumper, so now we can add more skills to his toolbox. Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome, it is great to see you here! I totally remember him, it has been so fun getting to see him at our summer adventures at Argus!!!! You and Street are a fabulous team – I am confident he is going to sort out these games really quickly 🙂
>>First question, is there a way to copy and paste pictures into this forum? I wanted to have you check to see if the platform I have would work for sit exercises.>>
Sadly, no – the software is annoying in that it won’t allow anything with any decent size to it. So you can email it to me (agilityuniversity@gmail.com), or message on facebook!
On the video:
Good clicks here!!! He looks great! He clearly has experience doing more than one wrap in a row which is great, and he is definitely beginning to lead with his head into the turns. YAY!!!!One thing to do to progress to the next steps is to have him start each rep (the very first rep, then also after each click) at your side: you can line him up at your side, send him to go around the upright – then cue the head turn so he can get the good click/treat. Then reset at your side to start the next rep (a reset cookie helps, so he doesn’t hang out by the upright LOL!)
That reset will accomplish a couple of things:
– he will get tighter on the wraps because you can cue the super tight head turn before he looks at you (when he is offering multiwrapping and not resetting, he tends to look at you and ends up being wider, or sometimes guesses about which way to go)
– after each reset, you can then click/treat the great head turn on that very first approach before he arrives at the upright (which is really what we want :)) But if he is out by the upright looking at you, then he is not making that first approach to click – the resets set him up for the all-important first approach, where he can be sent and add speed to the head turn, and you an click and treat it then reset him for the next rep 🙂Also, by resetting him at your side, you can add more distance to the send to the upright… which he is totally ready for because he can learn to lead with his head with more speed (and he is SPEEDY so we need to isolate the head turn *before* he arrives at the upright, when he is going fast :))
You can totally do the next session of this game on a a jump wing – he will have to turn his head more with an actual wing, and he is ready for it! Plus it helps us transfer the skill to a jump.
Great job here! Let me know how he is doing with the other games 🙂
TracyHi!
>> Left to my own devices I tend to just start running around doing little sequences without a ton of specific skill focus.
I totally feel this! The classes give me a good framework for my dogs too 🙂 And with the MaxPup 1 starting, I will have a program for the new puppy too LOL!!
Great start here with the games:
Head turn refresh looked great, I like how you quickly moved to clicking the first approach. Just as I was typing that you would probably get a more obvious head turn on one of the big wings on that first approach (as opposed to the upright pole), you switched to the big wing and got the more bovious head turn on the first approach 🙂 Yay! When you were cuing the 2nd wrap from more of a distance, he did a better head turn when you were a little later with that little hand flick. When you were too early (doing it as he was on the backside of the wing), he wasn’t sure if he was supposed to go around again. So, you can let him basically finish that first wrap, show him your hand, then flick him to the 2nd wrap for the head turn.
Moving target refresh is also looking strong – he wants to grab up high on the toy like my Voodoo does LOL! He is focusing down to the bottom of the toy the way we want him to, the comes up a bit on the toy. To kep him wanting to keep his head don while jumping: when you add this to the more complex zig zags, move the toy very slowly so he locks on the toy at the end (like you did on the 2ndrep at :32ish) rather than the middle of the toy. The other thing you can do is throw the toy forward past you after he lands from the jump so he moves past you to get it.
Great job here! I am looking forward to seeing how he does with the other games!
Tracy
