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I consolidated these into your main thread, so we can keep them all in one place.He did super well here!!! You can give him the ‘out’ cue for the jump behind the tunnel sooner: as he is in the air for the jump before it, start saying out and repeat it a few times. He found the tunnel after it really well! And since he is a big dude that has to squish down to get into the tunnel, you can wait for him at the exit of the tunnel for a heartbeat, so you don’t get too far ahead – you ended up going past the layering blocker because there was no place else to go LOL!!
Tracy
Hi!
>>We returned from our vacation in North Carolina last week to what now appears to be Hades, previously New Orleans.>>
YIKES! It is so hot there!! You could have stayed in NC where it is definitely cooler but also a bit like a rain forest right now! It was great to see you there even though we didn’t get to chat a lot!
Great job on these sequences and you both did brilliantly in the intense heat:
Seq 1, no added obstacles – super nice! Very connected! You can do the BC 2-3 sooner: as soon as he is over 2, start the blind. At :08 he was about a stride from takeoff so it was a little late and he had to slow down the tiniest bit to wait for you.
Nice independence sending to 2 and 4!Seq 1, adding the jump: He didn’t even look at it, but I think you were concerned because your blind was late at :39 🙂 You were looking at him for a long time til he almost took off for 3 there – doing the blind on time is even more important when there is a potential off course (because it will draw him away from the off course) so you can totally start it when he is jumping 2. The rest looked fabulous – you handled it as if the added jump was not there and he was great.
Seq 1: adding the tunnel – he is reading his lines perfectly here too, never looking at the off course tunnel. Yay! That BC 2-3 can definitely be earlier (see above 🙂 )
Seq 2, no added obstacles: looked fabulous! At :29 you did a threadle (I think you said ‘close close close’ but he didn’t need it: your handling se tup the perfect line!
Seq 2 with the added jump: looked just as fabulous without it – the handling was clear and he never looked off course 🙂
Seq 2, adding the tunnel – no problem at all! Especially the exit of the FC on 4: the tunnel entry is RIGHT THERE and he never looked at it – beautiful turn! You ran all 3 reps of this sequence as if the off course obstacles were not there and he nailed it. The only suggestion is that he probably doesn’t need the threadle 4-5 because his line was so good!
Seq 3, no tunnel – he was pumped up! The FC 2-3 was a little late without a head start from a stay (he was already taking off for 2 when you started it), but that should not be a problem when the tunnel is added in. The rest looked awesome – great connection and timing!
Full Sequence 3 – nice blind to the tunnel!
Give him the exit verbal before he enters the tunnel – you were a little late at 1:59, saying the ‘right’ verbal after he was in the tunnel, so his exit was a little wide.The FC at 2:04 can be sooner – he was lifting off and you were just starting it. You can get there sooner (into the gap for the FC) by sending to the 4 jump from behind you, and starting the decel into the FC as he lands from 4 and looks at 5. That will tighten it up! I don’t think he was looking at the tunnel there at all, he was just following the timing of the cue.
The backside FC on 7 was GREAT! It was a lovely tight turn, even with the tunnel right there.
Well done on all of these – you were setting the lines beautifully and he was reading them beautifully as well 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>>We returned from our vacation in North Carolina last week to what now appears to be Hades, previously New Orleans.>>
YIKES! It is so hot there!! You could have stayed in NC where it is definitely cooler but also a bit like a rain forest right now! It was great to see you there even though we didn’t get to chat a lot!
Great job on these sequences and you both did brilliantly in the intense heat:
Seq 1, no added obstacles – super nice! Very connected! You can do the BC 2-3 sooner: as soon as he is over 2, start the blind. At :08 he was about a stride from takeoff so it was a little late and he had to slow down the tiniest bit to wait for you.
Nice independence sending to 2 and 4!Seq 1, adding the jump: He didn’t even look at it, but I think you were concerned because your blind was late at :39 🙂 You were looking at him for a long time til he almost took off for 3 there – doing the blind on time is even more important when there is a potential off course (because it will draw him away from the off course) so you can totally start it when he is jumping 2. The rest looked fabulous – you handled it as if the added jump was not there and he was great.
Seq 1: adding the tunnel – he is reading his lines perfectly here too, never looking at the off course tunnel. Yay! That BC 2-3 can definitely be earlier (see above 🙂 )
Seq 2, no added obstacles: looked fabulous! At :29 you did a threadle (I think you said ‘close close close’ but he didn’t need it: your handling se tup the perfect line!
Seq 2 with the added jump: looked just as fabulous without it – the handling was clear and he never looked off course 🙂
Seq 2, adding the tunnel – no problem at all! Especially the exit of the FC on 4: the tunnel entry is RIGHT THERE and he never looked at it – beautiful turn! You ran all 3 reps of this sequence as if the off course obstacles were not there and he nailed it. The only suggestion is that he probably doesn’t need the threadle 4-5 because his line was so good!
Seq 3, no tunnel – he was pumped up! The FC 2-3 was a little late without a head start from a stay (he was already taking off for 2 when you started it), but that should not be a problem when the tunnel is added in. The rest looked awesome – great connection and timing!
Full Sequence 3 – nice blind to the tunnel!
Give him the exit verbal before he enters the tunnel – you were a little late at 1:59, saying the ‘right’ verbal after he was in the tunnel, so his exit was a little wide.The FC at 2:04 can be sooner – he was lifting off and you were just starting it. You can get there sooner (into the gap for the FC) by sending to the 4 jump from behind you, and starting the decel into the FC as he lands from 4 and looks at 5. That will tighten it up! I don’t think he was looking at the tunnel there at all, he was just following the timing of the cue.
The backside FC on 7 was GREAT! It was a lovely tight turn, even with the tunnel right there.
Well done on all of these – you were setting the lines beautifully and he was reading them beautifully as well 🙂
Tracy
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>.she happened to run off with the leash after that. Of course there was some reason I just don’t know why and it wasn’t caught on tape. >>
Tell your videographer to keep taping that! It would be useful to see it 🙂 It might be a reflection on the difficulty of the challenge, both in terms of the jump/tunnel discrim and also in terms of jumping directly towards a crowd of people. You can build in a decompression after each rep, when working with a high level of pressure. That can be a cued moment of running around with a toy, or a snuffle mat.
First video – She did well with the tunnel turned down, probably needs to have it there a few more reps so she doesn’t have a failure when it gets revealed. It is a big difference! And if she is wrong, keep going by getting her on the next line. Stopping then giving a reset cookie 5 seconds later can read like a negative punishment to her.
She started to get it really nicely – you had a ton of motion which helped her a lot. SUPER!!! You can add more and more distance (tunnel entry and exit turned down – both should be unavailable for safety purposes) – that way you can han gback more as you cue her to go to the jump. When you can hang waaaay back, then you can reveal the tunnel entry again 🙂
On the 2nd video –
Look at her doing her line ups! She was starting to sound a little frantic by the last one, so maybe stick to no more than 2 before you switch t a different way to line up like a cookie toss or wing wrap start. She was a good girl and you wee very smart to release very quickly.
I don’t think she needs an out for the jump after the tunnel (she went WAY out LOL!), I am glad you switched to the jump verbal there. As you do the layering, remember to keep moving – it is all about the verbal and the motion on a parallel line to her, so you wont need to decel or send to the 3 jump (rememeber that eventually there will be a dog walk in your way :))Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Nice work on these!!! The girls are both doing well and we can add some things to get ready to do big layering on the full courses 🙂The most helpful cue in layering is motion motion motion 🙂 It is not a send where you can be stationary, layering is more of a parallel line that we run to support the dogs’ lines and so we can get to the next spot on course. You were tending to send to the 3rd jump in the first set of sequences rather than keep moving, and that was making things a little harder.
Wish video 1:
You were stopping a bit by jump 3 here, which is why she was jumping with her head up a bit and also that is why she dropped the bar on the 2nd rep – no enough motion, lots of decel, so she had questions.
When you added more motion, the lines smoothed out a lot! So you can be moving the whole time and using verbals for the 3-4 line before she enters the tunnel, so she works the line in extension.Looking at the switch cues to turn away: most of this is timing and making sure she saw your converging motion and foot work in time to make the turn. If you were late, she didn’t have time to make the adjustment:
The switch cues at :54 started when she was less than a stride from the jump, too late to adjust so she wrapped towards you.
At 1:14 you moved more to the landing side of 4 and started the cues to switch when her front feet were lifting off, so it did indeed look like a weave cue LOL! Good girl 🙂I thought you started the cues with great timing at 1:26 but she didn’t read the turn away – she got it at 1:37 when you stepped all the way across the jump. She definitely finds the footwork helpful, and there was not a lot of footwork at 1:26. By footwork, I mean the converging motion to the turn away line and your feet moving to the turn away line, so it looks like a rear cross even when you are at a big distance. You can also take out the visual of the weaves being right there (too hard for now, when we need her to read subtle cues at a distance :))
Charm video 1:
Like with Wish, keep moving on the layering rather than treat it like a send. I think she will get even more propulsion when you give a go verbal and jump verbal before she gets into the tunnel and be moving parallel to her and not facing her over 3 🙂 More motion, less connection (I was bugging Christine about the same thing :))The wrap at 5 was good! You can also try turning her the other way at 5, either by getting up there for a blind to change sides, or by doing a switch away there too!
Wrapping towards you on 4 worked well, she went back out on the layering line really nicely!
She had the same questions about the switch on 4 that Wish did 🙂 The switch at 1:23 started at liftoff for 4 (and looked just like the wrap towards cues until then). At 1:44 -you did it on landing side, she took the weaves LOL!
At 2:02 you took out the distance and got in closer, and started the cues much earlier (as she was landing from 3) which allowed you to set up the line of motion too – that was really nice!!!!!
2:33 was a little further away – physical cues were earlier but verbal was at liftoff for 4. So keep the physical cues (especially the motion cues) timely like you had them here at 2:02 and 2:33, and add the verbal to it at the same time as you start the motion cues.Wish video 2:
When working the out to the jump past the tunnel – watch her head for the moment she cues you to move to the next spot. Keep doing the out cue and moving forward until she looks at the jump, then you can change your line to move to the next session.At :03 you moved away too soon (she hadn’t yet looked at the jump) so she came with you.
On the next reps you got it by moving closer so to get it with all the distance – you can now add in staying further away and watch her head more – you were looking ahead so you can see her kind of hopping and being a little tentative. The added connection to her eyes while you keep moving will help turn your shoulders to the line, which also supports commitment.Charm video 2:
This was great: You were totally watching her head here because you were great about not leaving your position on the first 2 reps until she looked at the jump! That made a huge difference – she would not have taken it if you had not waited til she turned her head to the jump before moving away from it.At :47 versus 1:01, yes, you will need a turn cue because if you face straight and the weaves are out there on the straight line, then she is correct to go to them 🙂 Good girl! LOL!! The left verbal really helped her!!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
The long grass is a great workout, like running on a beach LOL!!! At least that is what I tell myself when the grass gets long and I am feeling too lazy to mow it.
Definitely add more tunnel bags, though – he is moving really fast and the tunnel is moving a lot under him, and I don’t want him to have a splat in the tunnel.He did really well with all of the challenges here, and so did you! We will ignore the Wager verbals on the first run LOL
Starting with a short burst to test out the distance skill for 3-4-5 was smart, and he did well!
When you added back the opening: I think your lead out position at :23 was too far from the line so he got late info and ticked 2 then dropped 3, trying to adjust. You can trust his commitment and be more on the line you want for the lead out, rather than seeing him between the uprights of the jump which indicated a different line.He had lovely distance on that opening when you started from 1, and the middle section from the DW to frame looked super good! It is huge yardage but your distance use there got you to great position to show him the lines.
>> And his cue for backside slice is push, not around. No wonder he didn’t take the jump after the a-frame the first time>>
Yes, it might have been the verbal but also on the other reps you were giving additional cues like “here” and a cross arm. Because he is really hustling there, you can work the push cue to mean go to the backside AND take the jump without you giving extra cues by cuing the backside then dropping the reward on the landing side as you take off up the next line – the less you need to help him there, the faster you can get up the line to the next spot.
He did really well ignoring that juicy tunnel on the way to 11! Super!!!!
On the FC 12-13 – at 1:09 you got all the way across the bar of 12, which indicated a wider line than you wanted so he didn’t know how to set up the turn or where to go on the FC exit. That is when he barked at you. He didn’t bark at 1:26 but he ticked the bar because you over-helping by being too far across the bar. This is similar to the over-helping by being far across the line on the opening – he has great commitment and line understanding, so for the FC 12-13 you can send to 12 then do the FC on the line you want to 13, without going deep on 12 to support commitment.
Good layering after the 13 tunnel! You called his name there on the first rep but he needed more info and had a question. Great adjustment on the next rep to adding a jump verbal and more connection/shoulders turn to show him 14. That set up a lovely ending line too! Super!!!
Overall, really lovely work on a beast of a course 🙂 You can trust his line understanding more, which will get better turns while also getting you to better positions!
Keep me posted about how the stem cell stuff goes for Wager. I will be thinking of you!
TracyGood morning!
>> I struggled getting the video in order of how I actually ran everything.
No worries! I figured that the one or two obstacle reps were done first, those all looked good 🙂
The main thing on the layering is to keep moving, keep moving, keep moving: we want the dogs to pick up the line on verbal and motion, not massive connection or handler proximity. It is a big parallel line so yes, be connected but don’t stop moving 🙂 You were decelerating near the gating and rotating towards her a bit on the jump after it, and that was creating some questions for her.
That decel is why she dropped the bar at :35 and 1:59 – there was a big decel, slight rotation towards her to make the big connection – but you said go so she looked at you to see what you wanted. It is also why she hit the wing at 1:35 – decelerating but saying ‘go’ and throwing the toy.
So with layering, the motion and verbals are the main cues, and we need only enough connection that she gets a bit of added support and you can see where she is. You had a LOT of connection going which caused you to slow down, so try reversing that to make it more motion and less connection, especially as you add more distance away from her and between the obstacles.
>> Curious to hear your thoughts when we did the sequence for #4 doing a inside turn than an outside turn. Did I look like I was cueing properly for that switch?>>
I think it was mostly a cue timing question.
Looking at the switches:
You were a bit stationary at 1:00 for jump 3 then accelerated to 4 – you were maybe a step late starting the cues (it was after she had already landed from 3, plus there was acceleration) so she did turn away but but it was a bit wide (1:02). Reversing the order of festivities will help: accelerate past 3 then decelerate into 4, starting the cues as she is jumping 3.At 1:20 she turned to the inside because there were no switch cues til after she took off, so her decision had already been (correctly) made. Plus, the cues she saw on the way to takeoff of 4 there looked very similar to 1:30 where you wanted her to wrap towards you.
Skipping ahead to 2:28, you started the switch cues as she was in the air over 3 so she read it perfectly for 4! Yay! That was lovely timing.Now, do all of that from further and further away, rather than stepping into the jump. Everything is basically the same when you add distance but you will need to do more exaggerated motion when you are further away nd when there is a visual blocker.
On the sequence where she turned at 5 to come back down the layering line: at 2:10, stay in motion so you can get to 5 ahead of her – she wrapped towards you at 2:12, but it was wide (she had questions). Accelerating pas 3 and 4 will get you to 5 to decelerate into the turn cues, or do a BC to the other side to turn her to the outside there. I don’t think you wanted her to switch away there on 5, but it is also a good way to handle it!
And she did well finding the jump past the tunnel here too, much better than last time! She has sorted that out really nicely 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Baby Spamilton is doing really well here!!! I think the key to getting more success and answering his questions will be to have you moving more:
Try to be moving both on the sending to the tunnel (take a few steps towards it til he is locked onto it) and on the threadle moments: when he is in the tunnel, go meet him close to the exit and be doing the threadle arm & verbal as you are moving to the entry. That should help support him and answer his questions 🙂
When you were standing still, he was not sure of what to do especially on the harder side. And on the threadles, try not to rotate towards him at all: have your feet turned to the line to the entry and you can be in motion, rather than facing him and stationary. When you were faience him and stationary, he was not sure if he was supposed to come to you and he ended up waiting for the hand cue to send him back out.
So, if you are moving, he will be able to see it and hear the verbal, and send himself which is exactly what we want 🙂 I don’t think he was watching the toy too much – he was watching the momma because you were standing still too much LOL!!!
Great job here! Let me know how he does with motion!!!
Tracy
You can keep the actual target for now (even if she doesn’t fully touch it, we can fade out the actual touching) – it is a great visual for her and you will feel it in your hand, which will help you look at it too 🙂
Good morning!
>>It was a feat of mindset this time around; he was doing horribly on the first day!>>
That makes it even more exciting! Bouncing back shows a lot of resilience in your mental game!!! And I am so relieved the shoulder injury is healed. When/where is nationals this year?
I need to give you a big click/treat for doing all of these games very progressively with her and not rushing or skipping steps. Because she is so fast, super fun, and very driven for the sport, it would be sooooo easy to do too much or skip steps! But no one wants to have to retrain and we definitely don’t want any frustration, so keep going with this ‘small steps’ approach – the future is VERY bright!
The lazy game is pretty easy for her 🙂 Yay! The distance was easy too! When she is moving at that speed (which might be happening all the time haha) try to throw a reward rather than drop it, so she can fly through it and scoop it up, rather than twist on her shoulders to get it. I highly recommend a really big hollee roller for that 🙂
The only trouble she had was on the left turns, she went around the 3rd jump a few times. No worries, she got it by the end, but it might come up again when we start you running 🙂 So when we add your motion, go from walking to a jog before running for real on the left turns, to help her find the lines without the distraction of motion. You can probably add in running sooner on the right turns, but she will let us know 🙂
You can put up the distance now to 18 feet, then 21. She seems ready for that!
And, speaking of adding motion – she is ready for you to add more motion (the Lazy Games Part 2 and 3 from the live class should be the perfect next step for her).
The one step sends looked great! She is definitely self-propelled with is really going to work out SUPER nicely on full courses!!!! You can definitely add more handling on this and the next steps of the game (which involve you running and the FC back to the tunnel after the 2nd wing). This is a good game to add as much of your motion as you possibly can: can she process her lines and turns while you are hauling *ss? It is a good challenge!! Can you stay connected, run the right direction, say the correct verbals, while you are hauling *ss? Also a god challenge LOL! And there are no bars to keep up, so it is a great way to get the processing going at super high speed.
One more thought:
More tunnel bags are needed now, and stretch the tunnel fully out so there are no curves in the middle. She is going really fast, so we need the tunnel to support that so she doesn’t fall.Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>I am seeing a lot of you lately! Lucky me.>>
Lucky ME!! It is going to be a busy and fun summer!!!
Her games are going really well!
The first lazy game looked good! She did well finding her jumps and got faster and faster! Adding distance seemed to be pretty easy for her, maybe easier than when it was close together! She is very quick to find the tossed cookie, so you can keep moving the whole time. That will help her look for the jumps and not at you when you have stopped. You can keep adding distance to this so she goes out and finds lines without you needing to run much 🙂
The plank game is also looking strong, she seems very happy to go back and forth on it even when you added movement. She jumps off the side a little after you toss the treat – that is fine, so you can help her stay on the board longer by throwing the treat later 🙂
Time to elevate the plank! A few low, stable things to lift it a couple of inches off the ground should work perfectly.
The fast moving lazy game looked great at the start of the 3rd video! Great commitment!
She had a couple of questions on the jump after the tunnel. For now, she needs you to be closer and super connected to get commitment. So stay connected and closer to the line until you see her turn her head and look at it, then you can move away to the blind. That added support might make you a little later on the blind, but that is fine for now 🙂
At :14 she didn’t take the jump (looking at you) – I think it was mainly that you were too far from it. Compare your distance from it here (4 or 5 feet away, perhaps) to the distance away at :06 and :19 (2 feet away?). So being closer will help when you are going fast, and you can add more distance away from it laterally with the lazy game.
The 5-6-7-8 section of the fluffy blinds sequence started off well! Try to reward that before trying for more, so you can get rewards in for finding lines early and often 🙂
At :29 she ran past the jump because you were too far ahead and disconnected. Compare to the great position closer to the line and great connection at :39, where she found the jump easily. The same thing happened at 1:13 (too far away and not enough connection) so she came to you. Adding the extra connection will help, and you can totally throw the toy to the landing spot there to help pump up the value.
>>The BC are late & now I see she was looking at the toy in my hand>>
Yes, the BCs were a little late because we are generally a little late with baby dogs and that is fine 🙂 We have to support the previous line so getting the BC is harder. It will get easier as you work the line skills. And she actually was not looking at the toy – she was reading the handling well and when you were not connected & the toy was right in front of her, she probably thought she was supposed to look at it. So you can keep the toy in your hand and add more connection, and it will definitely get smoother and smoother 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>It’s raining buckets here today!
I am back in Virginia and it is like living in a rain forest LOL!!!! I think we have maybe 2 more days of this then things will calm down again.
Great job with the confidence boosting here, I love how he was getting on the teeter at the very first hint of the cue to start. Yay!
I think it will really help him if you have the treat loaded on the target at the end before he gets on the board, so he looks at the target at the end and doesn’t look at you. I think on some of the reps you were putting the treats in after he ran up the board. But on the last rep, you put a bunch of treats on the target before you released him to drive up the board – and he was fabulous! So definitely keep putting the treats on the target first. On all of the demos, my treats are already on the target before the dogs got on the board (which is a little hard to see, but they were there :))
>>Let me know what I should be doing next. Does the height matter? Should I gradually raise it and continue with sessions at a slightly higher tilt?>>
I think that the next step is to raise it as little as possible, so it is almost imperceptible to him (he will know it is higher, but won’t need to think much about it). We want him to get super happy being all the way up in the air, so you can raise it bit by bit over time, doing what you did here with lots of good cookies :) Great job!
TracyGood morning!
>>And it’s always interesting how different dogs learn and mature at different rates.>>
Yes! And it is fine to wait longer, because he will learn it faster when he is ready.
>>When I have to pick him up for anything else, I don’t… I kneel down and encourage him to jump on my shoulder.>>
This is a great way to do it! And I like your idea of turning into a ‘jump in my arms’ cue for the end of agility runs.
>>I definitely need to get something to put the treat on on the end of the teeter. So that he knows that is where the cookie is.>>
I have used a large spoon attached to the teeter with duct tape, with the spoon bent up a little so it is easy for the dog to get to at the end. Very fancy LOL! But it works!
He did well with the teeter here – he is adding more speed, so be ready for him to blast up the teeter LOL! There is even a little bit of teeter noise happening too.
When he was jumping off, it was on your other side (right side) which might seem like a small detail but totally makes a big difference in how he was moving and balancing. So each time you change sides, slow things down and help him (probably with a cookie in his face :)) to get up the board. And yes, having the cookie at the top will give him a great focal point to drive to.
>>(And when I looked out the window later, he was definitely up there on his own checking it out again! Oops!)>>
Alrighty then, the teeter goes into lockdown now LOL!!!!!
He did so well with the lazy game!!! YAY!! He looked like he was having fun, too!
I think finding the treats in the grass right have been the hardest part. You can use a small ball for this (if he likes balls and will bring it back for a cookie trade) .>>I did push him over a jump at one point then thought maybe I should not have, and let him just go around like I did on the first rep of each side.>>
It was fine to do, but you can also let his offer:
With the cookie tosses, while he is eating, you can keep moving so he doesn’t come to you when he is done chewing – he will look for a jump. I think he is ready for you to string together 2 or 3 in a row. And if that goes well, take a look at the games from the live class and start playing those :)
Great job!
TracyGood morning!
The lazy games part 2 and 3 are going well. She is figuring out the line really nicely without requiring a lot of motion from you.
I think having her mom barking in the background is really hard, in terms of processing – the brain has to devote a LOT of bandwidth to deal with being barked at and still process cues. Basically the barking activates the alar m in her brain, so then her brain has to actively try to de-prioritize that while also trying to follow you cues.
She was looking around bit and had some jump form questions (like a bit of rotation over the bars on the harder parts). It is a lot of pressure on a young dog learning new things, so you will probably see more engagement when she has a quiet environment 🙂She found the lines well here, so you can add in motion of your motion as you move around the sequence and also start the other sequences from the live class. For these, let’s emphasize going fast fast fast and see how fast we can get her going 🙂 I think she is ready to add in more speed!
The timing game is also going well – very nice connection from you! You can keep working on the feet-down window for timing: as soon as her feet land, give the next cue. You can also start to anticipate it: when she is over the bar, you can anticipate that landing moment and try to time the next cue with the instant her feet touch the ground 🙂 This is harder but also probably closer to the reality of what her timing needs will be on taller jump heights.
The plank work from the angles went well – it was REALLY cool to see her work her body by getting on and balancing, while adding speed as you added speed. I love this! She seemed to have no questions here, so you can leave this until we build on it later in the class 🙂
>>She’s not fast but she jumps 20″ well. Nancy says she’s a nice jumper. Yeah, part of it is probably my dragging my feet to 24″ since it is a hard jump height. I put her to 12″ for the lazy game. It was at 10″. >>
At this stage, because she is really maturing nicely – let’s focus on getting more speed 🙂 Part of that is leaving the jumps low so she can feel the joy of running fast (low jumps make it easy to do that, it is much harder to run fast on 20 and 24 inch jumps). Also you can do the handling work here at 12 or 16, with lots of thrown rewards or chase-da-momma rewards so she gets to run run run (and in a quiet space, so her brain doesn’t have to process the barking). When she starts to really extend, then we can inch the bar up.
>>I’ll do some grids to work her up to 24″ in the mean time.>>
Hold off on that for now – grids ask the dogs to move more methodically, and we want her to move with a little more wind-in-her-hair movement for now 🙂
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
