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Hi!
You can see the visuals in the advanced level starting here:
As the dog passes me to go to the backside, I keep moving forward to then get past the jump ti the takeoff side.
T
Good morning!
The ladder warm ups looked really strong!
Angled jumps: he did really well on these! It is a really different picture for the dogs and he seemed to have figured it out perfectly.
Good stay rewards too – a nice element of surprise on the thrown toy!>>He may have ticked a few of them.
I watch these in slow motion and didn’t hear or see any ticking, so if he did, it was really minor and absolutely not an issue at all. He was great here!
His only question had nothing to do with jumping form:
He had some line up avoidance when you look the toy at 2:02 – doesn’t want to be moved by the collar, might not eat a treat in the moment (but worth a try). The set up cue is great (you can reward it with a toy!) and he did eat the treat, so you can use it as a lure to help him like the line up process more 🙂It might also be fun to teach him a between-the feet-line up so you can stand where you want him to be, and he can line up in the perfect spot (between your feet :)) It is easy to teach, if you are interested 🙂 And I promise we don’t step on the small dogs (only my small dogs know this, my bigs don’t).
Serp proofing 1 – he can to line up for the cookie, so definitely have it out before even asking for the line up 🙂 He lied up after tugging into position too, that was great!
The first session went really well especially when you made the serp arm more obvious by dipping your shoulder and looking towards your hand/landing spot. When you did not open your shoulders enough (:48) he thought it was the tunnel cue.
The 2nd session (other side)is also going well! The one suggestion here is to try to keep your line of motion the same on the serp and the tunnel cues. The difference is in the upper body and verbals. The shoulders should ‘face’ the bar as completely as possible without foot rotation, and your line should be parallel to the bar and not away from it. I think on this side, you were pulling away to the other side of the tunnel to get the serp, and when you didn’t pul away, the cue looked the same as the tunnel cue:
For example, at 1:20 on this video, you said OK and you were looking behind you, but your shoulders were closed forward like the tunnel cue and your motion was forward, so he took the tunnel. I’d give the point there to the Havanese LOL!I looked back at the previous video and you were moving on a good line on that one (parallel to the bar). So maybe it is your side preference 🙂 Keep reminding yourself to stay parallel to the bar and really open up your shoulders, and it will look really different to him.
>>I will reattempt the blind cross and backside push work on another day.
Most or all of his recent sessions have been jumping sessions, so take a few days off from jumping and do maybe the Diamond which is just running and partying LOL!! Then you can come back to the jumping maybe later this weekend or Monday. We don’t want to have him be tired or sore. Everything is going really well, so there is no rush ti revisit the games with jumps.
Great job!
TracyThe first rep had the crosses – you did spins not blinds, so keep walking through the blinds slowly so your muscle memory can get them fully locked in.
The racetracks looked great! I don’t think you need an arm up to support his line on those – stay connected like you were, and just pump your arms like a sprinter to run. His commitment looked great (couldn’t see the middle wing but it looked like he got it) on both the wings and the longer line to the tunnel.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyLooks like he was whacking your knee with the toy or his head – ouch! You can let him run through the toy by letting go when he grabs it rather than stopping him (and risking your knee safety :))
The first couple of reps on just the wing were spins (FC-BC combos) which were good but they were not true blinds 🙂 But as soon as you added the tunnel – blinds! Nice! So keeping using the tunnel as it makes more sense to your muscle memory. And you can challenge his commitment: as soon as he has fully exited the tunnel, you can start the blind (keep moving towards the wing to help support commitment). He looks ready for that!
The pushes went well!! Nice! I think you were a little clearer showing him the full wing when he was on your right than on your left, so be sure to run to where the wing and the bar meet and not block the wing.
He was great with you doing the landing side FC, so now you can add the next step which is the backside circle wrap where you get him to the backside, then keep moving forward so you are on the takeoff side as he is jumping.Nice job!
Great toy throws and connection here! He is definitely getting the idea of the rear crosses.
2 suggestions:
On the Go reps, you can stay outside the line of the wing so it doesn’t look like a RC at all. You were running a bit towards the bar, which can look similar to RC pressure.And on the RCs, you can get on the RC diagonal really early like you did at 1:34, that was the best timed one in this session. The others were a step or two late, so he was turning after he arrived at the jump. He seemed perfectly fine letting you be that close to his line, so you can keep trying to be sooner. And keep your feet towards the center of the bar as you did that like you did on this video, that was great!!
This started with the threadle proofing . Good boy to come in to the threadle side, easy peasy – be sure he takes the jump after the threadle. The serp and the tunnel looked strong here too. For now, you don’t need to do much threadle work, because the serp stuff was a lot harder for him based on the previous video.
On the ladder here: he did well here, so you can move to the next step: the moving target (I think it was stationary here – or if it was moving, it was a little too close). With the target close and/or not moving, he is looking really good over jumps 1 and 2. But the gap between 2 and 3 and over 3 is all about slowing down to be able to stop, so you can see his butt going higher than his shoulders 🙂 The moving target will get him powering over all 3 jumps and he is definitely ready for that.
Good morning!
The serp proofing here is going well. He had a blooper on the first rep, but that might have been him saying “wow, this is visually challenging” or “there is a lot of pressure here” and not your line up or release (those both looked good). He did well after that but then at the end, was avoiding jumping into the pressure of the serp (came around the jump, went to the tunnel). So this is good one to keep refreshing in this format but also you can revisit the ‘strike a pose’ game at home, having him do the serp behavior without the jump. Serping is a really hard for the dogs :). He went to the tunnel beautifully on cue, no questions there 🙂 Nice work!Tracy
Oh, it was his breeder! That made it even harder. Good boy, he did so well trying to ignore her!! Three minutes is a good length for sessions with minimal distractions, but this was a high distraction session with First Momma there and making noise LOL!
Hi!
I hope Winn had an easy time with the procedure and is on the mend! Where did they do the PRP for Winn?
Huck did well outside!! Good boy! And he is doing well with his rear cross game too! You can warm up with a couple of GO reps to get him driving ahead even more.
On the rear crosses – a little more room between the wing and the jump will help., and starting yourself closer to the wing (rather than sending to it) will get you running more too (and setting the RC line sooner as well).
2 suggestions for the next session –
You can use a left or right on the jump when you rear cross, because it is a turn. You were saying Go, which is a straight cue, so we want to save that for when you want the legit straight lines.Also, placing the reward helped a lot! He was focusing ahead really nicely. You can move the reward over to the rear cross turn line – it was on a straight line here, but since you were rear crossing we would want him to turn. So the reward can be a foot or two further over in the direction you want him to turn rather than straight.
He did well with the Minny Pinny left and right! He seems to be a righty, the left seemed a little harder at first and the rights seems easier overall. But he definitely was understanding the left/right framework of this – and holding him was a good way to start so he didn’t keep offering before you were ready LOL!!! As you keep building this up and putting him between your feet, hold him a little longer: let him hear you say left or right and then let him go to move. Without holding him, he sees your movement first so he is cuing off movement. But by holding him, you can emphasize the verbal and not move at all!
Great job here :) Tracy
Hi!
>>I need to do more climate controlled (or temperate) trials and they are just not available in the NW. I can’t spend all day in horse arenas starting at 20 degrees and warming up to 40.>>
You want climate control, we got climate control! We have multiple indoor dog sport arenas that are turfed, heated, air conditioned, and a couple more being built. We do have some outdoor trials, or under-cover trials, but those are increasingly rarer now.
T
Good morning!
On the first video,
She is doing really well with the serp here – the more your rotate your upper body to ‘face’ the jump, the better she does, so keep on exaggerating that upper body rotation. It is kind of like the one of your shoulders are parallel to the line of the bar, with the center of your chest pointing to the center of the bar.On the 2nd video, I think left turns are just harder for her in general, so try having the start wing a little further away so that you are ahead (between the uprights) and upper body rotated towards the bar as she exits the wing. You ended up moving the start wing closer which made it harder for you to show the line without adding speed. If she has trouble sending to the start wing, no worries – you can throw a reward to it to kind of refresh the value of sending to a wing. The jump, you and the MM are all big visual targets so getting reward near the wing can really help.
>>I think I let the play be herself go too long. She was starting to deflate. I will video next one.>>
It looks like the structure of the sessions was good here: tug play, then the training with the MM, then back to toy play. She looked really engaged and happy to play! Super!!!
Nice work!
TracyGood morning! She is doing well here!
>She was pouncey over the last jump at first but got better, and that last rep I think was pretty good.>
Yes, probably because she was preparing to stop and pounce on the stationary toy 🙂 On the last rep, it looks liked the toy was a little further away which helped.
Since she had no trouble with the framework, you can go to the next step: the moving target 🙂 That is the toy dragging to replace the stationary toy. The pouncing will go away and also, it will tell us if the spacing here is correct or not because the moving target gets more power from the pups 🙂
So start at this spacing with the moving target and if she looks crunched up, you can open it up by a foot. It might take a session or two to find the sweet spot, but my guess is that she will end up at a 6 foot distance 🙂
Nice job! Let me know how she does with the moving target!
Tracy
