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Hi! I like how you worked through this process! Yes, keep working on the low arms, I think they looked good here!
One thing is for sure: She hates these wrap starts LOL! Sorry, Keiko! LOL!
Looking at the handling decisions:
I like handling on the 4-5-6 line on the side you chose. The BC 4-5 might send her a bit wide towards the DW here, because the motion of blind turns your shoulders and feet towards the dog walk.Handling the ending line with her on your left puts her on a right lead over 6 so you would need to be away ahead to push her out to 7.
One other option is the FC instead of the BC – it puts you on the better side for this sequence and takes out the possibility of the DW.
At 1:20 on the first run, she looked at the DW a little – she didn’t seem to look at it at all on the 2nd run and looked at it the most at 1:54 on run 3. It was a little hard to see it all because she was out of camera view for a moment, but my guess is the timing of the BC was causing her to look (or not look) so the BC there would need to be nice and early, like it was on rep 2.
She read the line perfectly and didn’t look at the yellow tunnel on the first rep, but was looking at it on the 3rd rep after going through it on rep 2 LOL! The out to the tunnel looked great on the 2nd rep, no questions from Keiko and lots of speed. To keep her focused on the jumps on rep 3, you can give her the ‘here over’ after she lands from 4 and before takeoff of 5.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>I ran this before I posted the last couple of videos and got feedback (just didn’t have to edit them before), so I already know that I didn’t do the walk through fast enough, lol.Ha! Yes! I have decided that if the walk through feels comfortable, then we are probably not moving fast enough LOL!
Nice opening line in the walk through! A couple of things that stood out in the walk through:
At :11. it looks like you pulled away from tunnel 5 too soon with 15 right there, so be sure to drive her into those lines to be sure she commits, especially with layering options available.
Yes, at :24, you were looking a an invisible dog that landed from the jump when you were starting the FC, which rehearses the late FC. Good catch to notice it was happening!At :25 – Your feet were facing the slice line there and also at 13 at :37, so it is possible she won’t turn tight or even turns the wrong way on the jump. She would need to see rotated feet facing the next line at 12, so she knows it is a wrap
On the first run – the opening looked good and then at 1:00 you pulled away from tunnel too soon. That is a hard commitment with the off course jump right there!
On the 2nd run:
Handling from the other side of 2 totally get you up the line sooner. Nice!!! You were decelerating as you were trying to get 5 at 2:46, so be sure to separately work on tunnel sends while you decelerate to go the new direction (without an off course jump there, no layering at first, then add it back eventually). Decelerating is not a bad thing, as longas she knows to keep going to the tunnel (lots of thrown rewards to the tunnel exits will help)Nice job working through the timing of the jump after the weaves! On the first run, the blind at the weaves was late: it needed to happen when she is in the weaves so you were not able to get the FC after jump at 1:18. That blind was earlier and looked but much better at 2:59 and you got the FC in! Super!! That FC is hard to time, because it has to happen basically as soon as she exits the weaves – so you would have to do the BC even earlier to be ready for the FC. A 2nd BC there might be quicker, because you don’t have to rotate your feet, you can just switch connections.
In moments when you try to re-send from your side, the info isn’t clear and she spins and barks a lot, like at 1:19 when you were trying to re-send her to the tunnel. Try to settle her into a stay or do a bit of ‘shadow handling’ where you have her stay at your side and you do a full circle on the flat (a small circle) then get running again
Yes, you were late with the DW cues and got quiet so she came off the line in the 2nd run, nice adjustment when you resent her through there!
On the first run, she sliced long on 12 but did come back to the left turn, but that set up the off course. When you worked that section again at 2:30 (11-16) – much better rotation at 12 so the turn was really nice, plus you were connected and that set up the next line really nicely! And in the 2nd run a 3:39, 12 looked great! It looks like you turned your feet a bit too soon on the 13 jump at 3:42 so she pulled off it, it is like she was reading rear cross pressure and pinged away because you moved into the line too early. Let her get past your feet before you move forward to 14.
15-16 looked really good each time, with 16 as the tunnel and 16 as the jump! LOL! Nice!!
One other idea for you:
For the contacts, when they are in the full course, put a target out to help her so you can run instead of walk in those sections, and she can be more successful.Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
You’ve been busy!!!He looks great here on the run! The start jump placement makes the line a little harder here but the other option is a threadle which would be weird LOL!
Lovely backside commitment on 3, allowing you to move ahead nicely! The send to 4 then the line across the back with the frame-jump-RDW was lovely! He let you peel away to get the next line after the RDW – you might want to see if you can go closer to the a-frame so you can send to the next jump and the DW… and layer the line of jump so you can get to the next spot even sooner 🙂 Th ending line looked great! And nice rewards for the wrap at the beginning; he is showing a lovely balance of being able to go REAL FAST and also turn really tight when asked 🙂
Thanks for the trial video! Both runs were gorgeous!
He is looking more comfy on he start line with both of these!! He is almost as explosive as he is in practice off the line now – yay!!1>>. I knew the choice to run the whole line with dog on the left in T2B could turn out to be a really bad idea but knew we had a good send and I didn’t like any of the other options at all so WTH..go for it!
I loved the choice! You went for it and nailed it. The other options were all sorts of crosses which could easily go poopy. And since you had to hustle to get to the line on the left side, he was in high speed extension and still read the turn. YAY!!!
The standard course looked good too. I agree that the bar was just a late cue. The decel can begin while he is in the air over the previous jump – on the run, the decel started at 1:01 when he was already preparing for takeoff. So he took off in extension going straight then dropped his back feet trying to make the turn. The rest of the run was great and the blind before the frame was GORGEOUS!!! And I also looked the brake hand on the panel jump before the weaves – lovely!! That brake hand can be QUITE useful in AKC where it seems the dogs are getting off course options everywhere 🙂
Great job!!! I am looking forward to the connection sequences!
TracyHi! Nice work on these!
Some thoughts for you:Video 1
– yes, you were sending her nicely but ideally you would stay on the other side of the tunnel. The trick is to start very close to the first jump so that it is easier to send her past the tunnel and not end up past the tunnel on your running line2nd and 3rd videos –
these were better! Now… keep moving 🙂 bearing in mind that it is layering and not a gamble or send, try to be in motion the whole time rather than stopping and throwing the toy. To make the toy throws easier, you can have the toy either already in the throwing arm, or placed out on the line before you send her to itvideo 4- Yes, focus on the momentum of getting her to drive away from you so you don’t end up past the tunnel. She was happy with the toy throw there LOL!
video 5 – the right/left verbals and tunnel verbal worked beautifully on all 3 reps! Keep moving on these too – we want her to see you running on all of these.
video 6 – you noted that she needs motion in the video title and I agree – running will support the layering a whole lot! She did a great job of going to the other side of the tunnel. She can still see your motion as you were moving: at :16, you turned and took a step to your left so she (correctly) came off the line. At :37 and when you switched sides, you remained on a parallel line to her and she stayed on her line. Yay!
Video 7 – you were a bit too far from the first jump so at :17, there was no momentum into the layering line and she didn’t go. Start very close to the wrap jump and then run forward into the send, so she is already in extension, making it much easier to layer. You are using a ‘hup’ verbal (here and in the other videos) which is a soft verbal… The GO works better as it helps propel the dogs out on the lines. Keep saying it though. At :27 you said it once and got quiet and turned away, so she was not sure where to be.
Also, either run with the toy or plant it at the end of the line. Leaving it near the tunnel doesn’t allow for you to specifically reinforce the layering skill. She layered really nicely at the end, but there was no cue to NOT take the front of the last jump. So rather than worry about the layering and the threadle, just work the layering on this setup and train the threadle separately (see above).
So overall for the layering:
– don’t get to far ahead at the start; start close to the jump so you have momentum into it
– run! no more walking or standing still 🙂
– throw or place the toy out on the line
– use big loud verbals and repeat them lots and lots 🙂
– skip the threadle element of this for now as you train it separately.Last video: Discriminations
She did really well with these! I think you can be doing these with more speed now too – rather than walking, you can send her into these and run run run with the verbals and handling.Great job! let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I think this is a good place to start, to build threadle understanding:
You will be able to get her to come to the correct side of the jump, which is the biggest piece of the puzzle 🙂
Tracy
Good morning!
I think the walkthrough videos really help sharpen up our handling with the dogs!
>>It’s hard to simulate in your walk through running as fast as you will with the dog!
So true! The key is to always go faster than you think you have to go 🙂 This is definitely the case hree – your speed on the walk through was about 2/3rds of the speed you need when actually running him. So if your speed in a walk through feels comfortable, you are probably not running fast enough 🙂
Connection is looking good on many sections of these courses! The main thing here is to think about where he will be and when he needs to see/hear the cues, so you know where to be looking when connecting. We can see where the invisible dog would be, based on where you look when you are cuing the lines or turns.
Sequence1: On the walk through, you were cuing the wrap as the invisible dog was taking off for it ( you were looking ahead at the wrap jump as you started cuing it). So your position near the wrap jump is not that important -the more important timing is to start to give him the info as he is in the air over the 2nd jump so he can choose a takeoff spot for the wrap jump. The video under of the run is actually sequence 2 not sequence 1, can you re-post seq 1?
Seq 2 was definitely harder with the connections and timing! Your line to 3 was really good on the walk through – remember that he is behind you at this point as you arrive at 3, so be looking back behind you to cue the backside then decelerate and be patient to let him get past you to 3 before you move again. You had really strong connection on the exit of the FC 3-! And yes, I think more connection on the 4-5-6 line will help, so that is where doing it faster will help: running faster but looking behind you and turning your shoulders sooner.
On the run, you can see on the first run that you were not expecting to have to wait for him to get past you and almost pushed into his line to soon – and on the 2nd run you did push in to 4 too early so he pushed off the line. So looking behind you as you practice the line will be good to help remember to decel to send him past you there.
Be patient for him to past you to the backside wrap, you almost pushed him off the line
On the 4-5-6 line connection is important, but also shoulder turn and verbals will help too: you can turn your shoulders to 6 sooner and also call him (you were really quiet there). So as soon as he lands from 4 and looks at 5, you can be turning and calling him to show the line to 6.
On seq 3 – On this push to 3, remember that he is behind you so you will want to ‘see’ the invisible dog land from the first jump so you can be cuing it before takeoff for 2. On the video at :04 the invisible dog was already ahead of you so you were late with the out cue. Very nice connection on the exit of the FC 4-5!
On the run – the timing of the out cue was the same as you walked it, which was late (he was in the air over 2) o the bar came down. Also, the verbals were different than the ones you used in the walk through. I think that rattled you and you lost the connection after the 4-5 FC and that bar came down too The next run was really nice!
So I have an idea for you to get the speed and connection needed for the walk through that a couple of others are doing here too: do this exercise in reverse. Run Hoke on it once. Then walk it a couple of times, then run him again. Try to reproduce the speed and connections you used in the run, during that walk through – then that 2nd run should be really good and you will also have a better handle on the speed, timing and connection of the walk through. Then we will be able to do it as the walk-then-run 🙂
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! She is doing a great job with all of life’s distractions 🙂 And the tugging looked great too!
>> Right blinds to wraps- my body does not like this
Gives us insight into how hard it is for the dogs to turn to their more difficult side LOL!
On the blind-to-wrap: you can put a leash down on the ground for your running line: you were working all of the other details but losing your line a bit as you connected with her.
Some other ideas for you:On small thing: send to the tunnel more so you are further ahead and closer to the BC wing.
An a connection idea for you –
TL;DR – run with a delicious beverage in your hand and don’t spill it, that will fix to the arm being too far back and also remind you to decel.Here are the specifics:
The line to the wing on the BC is not a send, it is a commitment while you are moving forward. I think you were sending a bit and that made it harder. For example at :30 – keep your connection a bit more forward the whole time. You had your arm way back, almost threadling, as she exited the tunnel but then moved it forward and rolled your shoulders so she didn’t take the wing. You got it on the next rep but facing the wing longer but she barked at you and then the BC was late.The rep at 1:08 was more like what I am describing above, and I think it will be a little easier if you relax the connection arm a bit. I know I tell everyone to have the dog-side arm back, but if you pull it too far back it pulls the dog off the line 🙂 so have it back as if you are casually carrying a beverage. If it is too far back, you’ll spill your drink and you will feel a pull in your lats and rib area. I posted the drink-in-hand game for kicks in the Course Syllabus section 🙂
That more causal arm position will also help make the blind quicker (because you won’t need to unravel the rotation then change sides and then you will be quicker to connect – that will also give you time to step forward into the wrap. If you try to rotate fast and hit the brakes like at 1:50, she will ask questions. A transition of fast, slow, rotate will smooth it all out 🙂
The rep at 2:27 showed a good example of the casual dog side arm and connection, and how it quickens the blind and gives you time to make the transition into the next wing. NICE!!!! Compare it to the next rep from the same starting point at 3:00 with the arm all the way back – the BC was late and so was the cue for the wing, so she ended up between your feet LOL!
On the countermotion moment at 3:29, you did a slam on the brakes and rotated into her before she was past you so she had an Uber moment of checking out. Remember to decel into the rotation, and with pups don’t do the big rotation til she is passing you. You can keep her from Uber-ing by continuing to move to the tunnel and rewarding, as if it was exactly what you wanted 🙂
Great job! I think this is a perfect time of year for running with a cold drink in your hand – you will feel the moment your arm swings too far back then forward, and you will also feel the moment you skip the decel and slam on the brakes (because you will be wearing the drink LOL!!!)
Have fun! 🙂
TracyGood morning! Sorry to hear about the crazy temperature!!
>> We’ve just started in a live class about two months ago. She’s taking off and running the field. All of the dogs out are a lot for her and she’s not staying focused on me or work.
That definitely sounds difficult, and a lot of pressure. For my home-schooled dogs, I always put them in classes or seminars that are several levels below what they can do, so I can work on play, focus, pattern games, etc rather than agility skills. That has really helped!
On the decel video:
>> You can’t see from this angle, but no motion is NOT a slow down cue for her. I wasn’t getting a check stride at all with me standing still. She did better with the sends.
I think this was a really good first session! She was changing her striding and setting up the turns – the Aussie version of it will look more like my Hot Sauce’s version of it (due to the powerful shoulders and structure) and less like my BorderWhippet who is built like a spaghetti noodle (so you can see that little chip step differently than we would on an Aussie). And because my youngsters are older so I have more quantifiable comparisons: although Hot Sauce’s turns look wider, she knows where to go and regularly puts down times that are faster than Contraband’s times. They move differently but respond really well! Sprite is younger than they are but she is on the same path as Hot Sauce, so I am not worried about her turns at all 🙂
She was surprised on the very first rep (most young dogs do exactly the same thing on the first rep of this game) but then did really well on the rest! She is where she needs to be on the bar (close to the wrap wing), turning her head, and sorting out how to get collection and make the turn without bleeding off speed. She is a little better turning to her left at the moment, the right turns were not quite as good but they came along really nicely!
She had a question at 1:13, but that was a connection question because you were not looking at her or looking over you right side. You had more connection at 1:24 and she did great.
>> Then, maybe slightly better with me still afterwards. What else can I do to help her understand this concept?>>
Totally better with standing still after the sends! It is a training game, so needs to be repeated as part of the cycle of games. And you will be able to leave sooner for her to chase you for the toy, as soon as you see her front feet leave the ground, you can turn and run and have her chase you for the toy 🙂
She did well on the tunnel game! Fun! You nailed it. Getting past the tunnel o the wing behind it is a pure connection cue from the handler… and she had no questions! YESS!! Because if she had a question, she would be in that tunnel behind you LOL!!!! You had two things happening that really helped (ok, 3 things, because your verbals were really good too):
– you had excellent arm back, eye contact connection so she knew where to be
– you were patient in you holding that connection while moving past the tunnel to show the wing after it, rather than closing your shoulder forward.
And you nailed it multiple times. YAY!!!!
OK, watching it again, there is a 4th thing you did really well: running great lines. The line from the wing to the tunnel was great, and it looked very different from the line you ran when you didn’t want the tunnel after the wing wrap. Super!Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Good morning!
The serps looked good here! She is really getting the idea, so this session was more about you sorting out the spin on the tunnel 🙂 The post turn was just putting you too far away, and she was not able to see the line because you were behind. The spin looked great!
>> Sorta did and sorta didn’t forget to use our ‘right’ entering the tunnel. A comment was made recently that she is turning somewhat wide on those commands out of tunnels so is it useful to use them if not getting the expected result. She has almost exclusively only done straight tunnels when using those commands so far. the last couple are the first time using a curved tunnel that I can think of. Thoughts?>>
I think she is what, 13 months old? We are not looking for perfection in the turns. If you are cuing it nice and early, and getting a decent approximation of the turn? Use the verbal so she can learn it, and learn what it predicts in terms placement of reinforcement and where to go for the next line. If she is shooting straight out of the tunnel, either the verbal cues are really late, or the physical cues are not supporting the verbals, or both 🙂 Or the environment is too challenging. Or all of the above. Based on what she did here, those turns can all have been cued with the right verbal. More on that below.
>> Question as I couldn’t tell from the video for this one. What is your verbal for the RC wrap away from you?
I use my regular directionals (wrap left or wrap right).
>>Beka isn’t really getting the concept yet of dig means wrap right regardless of where I am and of course it will take some time to get her to understand that and wondering if it is really the right approach to use the same verbal.>>
Young dogs take a while to learn that the verbal is the verbal, regardless of position. We haven’t even started cracking into that yet LOL! I find the directionals to be far better than ‘towards’ or ‘away’ because the first thing the dogs need to do on ‘towards’ or ‘away’ is process where I am. And if I am not in the picture, or the physical cues don’t support the verbals, or I am using countermotion… it gets confusing to the dogs and frustrating for them.
On this exercise, yes, theoretically use the verbals – but if you were having trouble cuing the correct lines initially, I would take the verbals off til I know I can get the correct behavior, then put them back on. So you can do one rep of each without the verbal, just physical cues. And if you get it? Add the verbals back on. This session went well, overall!
On the Go cues, keep moving as you throw (or leave the toy placed out ahead). Try not to decelerate to throw as you say go, as that can override decel.For the check wrap towards you: it will be easier on the full sequence, so you can face the wrap wing forward. She bowed out a bit because because you were trying to rotate on time, and that was causing a bit of pressure into her line.
For the backside versus the rear – yes, she was correct on the first rep where she went to the backside. The motion and toy placement both said backside and that overrode the verbal. If something happens and she ends up with t he toy, praise her, thank her, and then try again – the ‘leave it’ was too harsh especially since she was not exactly wrong (she would have had to run across your feet to get to the rear cross if the verbal was overriding it). Putting the leash down as the line for the RC will help!
>> I really don’t know how I am going to get up for the RC and the backside once we get to including the jump before the tunnel.
Don’t go anywhere near the tunnel 🙂 Go directly to the jump after the tunnel so you can set the lines 🙂 Being laterally away from 1 on the lead out will totally help!
Nice work here!
TracyHi! Nice work on the serps here!
She did a super job with the serps on sequence 1! Totally flat is a bit too hard for her (in terms of serping the line) so keep the jumps slightly angled for a few more sessions (and any session away from home, to help her generalize the skill). Then you can inch them flatter so she barely notices the change 🙂 The change was a bit too noticeable here.
2nd video was also really strong! Finding the serp in front of a tunnel is hard, so breaking it down and back chaining a bit was great and really helped her. Keep those jump angled wide for now so she gets comfy with that and then we can flatten them out too.
When you start on the other side of the tunnel (jump tunnel then the serp on your left side) in the 2nd half: Rather than post turn to face the tunnel, cue it and let her see a spin as you get to your left side. The post turn cues a straighter exit on the tunnel, so the repeated bek bek bek did bring her back to the jump – but a spin will cue a tighter turn so she will exit facing the jump (plus it gets you up the line sooner and more easily :)) You can also use your ‘right’ verbal for the tunnel exit there, so she hears it before she enters the tunnel.
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Looking at both videos, I have a couple of ideas for you:He is at his best in getting the skills right when there are visual aids (like a toy placed on the line, or 2 wings on the weaves) and you are moving at a medium speed. When the aids aren’t there, and you are moving faster, the behavior breaks. So I think the main thing is to get the skills in smaller sequences where you can run, and then fade the aids.
So for the dog walk – I think he is losing his balance a little on the up ramp (especially the first rep on the first video) and you can leave the toy out ahead as you add a lot of your running and also the various handling options… then fade the toy. Is the toy reward on a verbal cue to get it? That can help keep it as a focal point but also you can add in turns and sometimes reward the turns. You had lots of good teeter rewards, now we need to be able to build up to you running past with the skill remaining strong like it was here.
For the weaves – how were they originally trained? I think using a training set with them slightly open will really help the entries and exits here (open as much as needed but as little as possible). Even with the wings to help, he needed you to come cue collection on the entry so an open set will help make the weave skill very independent without you needing to help the entries, and you can also trust the exits more.
For the turns – this might be a timing question for some of them, and for others it is a discrimination question. Part of what helps the dogs turn is seeing the transition from handler acceleration to deceleration then rotation… the decel comes before the dog makes a takeoff decision so it is pretty early. At :50 you were walking the whole time, and then at 1:02 you were jogging then accelerated into the turn cue: fast swoosh forward and fast rotation, so he jumped long there. Ideally, the order of festivities would be reversed there: run hard til he is in the air over the previous jump, then decel so he sees that as he is landing: cue the jump as you decelerate then rotate and go the next direction. And for the training element if there is another jump on the line, you can turn and run the other way, and reward him for chasing you (handler focus) out of the turn 🙂
That way he can see acceleration the whole time, rather than just on the big lines without turns.
For the backside versus the tunnel, that is more of a verbal discrimination moment because even when you were not moving much, he was drivin to the tunnel. So definitely revisit the jump-tunnel discrimination games. Did he ever get to play the puppy came of wing wraps versus the tunnel, where the handler is running? Let me know – if he has , definitely revisit it with running now that the tunnels and lines have come up in value 🙂 If not, let me know and I will find the video 🙂 It will make a massive difference!
When those pieces come together, course running is going to be SO EASY!!!! You will be able to run run run and he will still easily respond to turn cues.
And sounds like the threadle wraps are going well!!! Great job!
Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
For the lives, we have had lots of variations but in general we have found it works best when the ipad joins without sound (so there is no feedback) and the handler has the EarPods hooked to the iPhone, which is then in her pocket when she runs. That has been working really well!
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Exercise 3: Looking good! Because you’re using the tunnel, you can connect to her sooner (before she exits the tunnel) for the push to 3 (because she can’t see the convergence while she is in the tunnel). You did the connection really well in the actual run, so I will keep bugging you to do it in the walk through too LOL! Also in the run, she was a little wide at 3: maybe she needs the right verbal sooner: You can do the push at exit of tunnel then as soon as you see the lead change, the right verbal/physical cue to get the collection and lead change to turn to 4. The rest looked great!!
Nice work on all of these!
Tracy
Exercise 2: On the walk through, a couple of ideas to remember as you try to go at the same speed you will need when running her – mainly, remember the finesse spots (and be more chill LOL!!) Chill might equal a bit more decel on turns.
For example, be careful not to block the line to the 3 backside so she can get past you. And remember to add deceleration into the rotated turns like the backside wrap on 3 and the spin turn on 6, partially to cue the collection nice and early, and partially so you can get your feet turned really easily. You had a little too much acceleration in the walk through, and it showed up in the first run where she was a little wide on 3 And had the bar down on 6.
On the 2nd run, you pushed in too soon on 3 so she almost pushed off. Those backside wraps when we are ahead of the dog require a decent amount of chill 🙂 because we have to decel and rotate feet while still showing the wing… til the dog is past us then we can hurry up and go go go.
On that 2nd run, you had really good decel into 6 so she read it really well! You can decel, do the FC element of the spin and move away, you don’t need to wait there as long 🙂 It is a balancing act of decelerating to cue the turn, then trusting her commitment to leave as soon as she is past you.Onwards to 3!
TracyExercise 1: Good for you for watching the videos on all of these! That provides a lot of insight!
Looking at the walk through first, I think as you were moving up the line you were showing a bit of pressure to the center of the 3, so be careful of that (you were trying not to run into the pole, which is admirable :))
I think her question about the start of the run was just that she simply didn’t see the wing up against the fence when she was starting behind or next to the tunnel entry, especially with you looking forward (not sure if the connection made a difference or if it was the position relative to the tunnel). She found the wing easily when you started her past the tunnel and looked at her.
On the other parts of the run, she was a little wide on the tunnel exit, partially because you were quiet and partially because you were trying not to hit the pole 🙂 You can call her before entering the tunnel to help solidify the line especially in places where there is an obstruction in the handler path which is actually pretty common nowadays 🙂
Onwards to exercise 2!
Tracy
