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Hi!
All of this is going really well. Looking at the double wraps:
When you did the low-and-slow hand cue (like a lap turn, where your magic cookie hand stays on his nose til he almost reached your hand, then do a slow hand movement to turn him) – those were all great. That included the 2rd rep, 3rd rep, 6th rep, and all of the left turn reps. Yay! Super! You were really in the groove on those left turns 🙂When you had your hand too far away, or moving too fast/easy… he didn’t get it. So keep going with the low-and-slow approach but now you can move from a wingless upright to a barrel 🙂
I a happy with the rear cross progress!
Good job with the stay/rear crosses – he is anticipating that you will cross behind him (note how early he turns his head LOL!) so mix in some NOT rear crossing and just walking forward and releasing him.The left turn rear crosses to the prop are looking good!
>>the right still not so much.>>
On the right turn rear crosses, you were too close to the prop so you didn’t even have a heartbeat to show the rear cross lol Note the difference between 1:41 for example and 2:10 – he was less than a stride form the prop ar 2:10 and there was no way you would be able to be on time 🙂 So on all rear crosses to the prop, start 12 to 15 feet away from it 🙂
And also it is fine if he only can do it one direction on the prop – we can solidify the other direction when we move it to a jump. My Contraband was not able to get right turn rear crosses til I put it on a baby jump with a lure 🙂 But no rush for that yet, we will get there soon enough.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyThanks! This went well! I think the hardest part was that he was on fire 🔥 for the cookies and training, so things were happening fast LOL!!!
Your turn hand mechanics were good, his head turns all looked good,and your clicks were good! My only suggestion is to throw the reward from the clicker hand, not the turn hand. The turn hand tosses were pulling him to the wrong side of the upright. Tossing from the clicker hand will allow you to get the treats to the correct side more quickly.
You can have one cookie in each hand, then reload the clicker hand between reps, so it doesn’t feel strange to have the clicker and cookie in the same hand.
You can also do this one sitting, to save your back from bending over too much 🙂
Great job!
TracyGood morning!
She did well with both games here!
The parallel path looked terrific – my only suggestion is to use a “get it” marker when you toss the reward. I don’t think you were using one unless you were really quiet. You can add more speed now, and also use the toy throw as the reward!The get out also looked really good, she learned it really fast!! The mechanics are awkward feeling, mainly because they are a bit awkward when you aren’t running (they definitely feel weird when we stand still!!) But you looked good and she read them really well.
You can add the get out verbal now. And when you don’t want her to go to the prop, you can call her (that will help her differentiate as well)
>>We struggled with the coming in & turning away for the rear cross & did not do better with the new rear cross game since she is just spinning towards me. so we made up our own based food toss game only with balls.>>
Yay! I love that you made up a game!!! The key to teaching rear crosses is to figure out a way to get visible on the new side of the pup as early as possible so it sounds like the game with the balls helped. Yay!
Great job here!!
TracyGood morning!
Super nice session here! He is doing a great job of using his back feet thoughtfully – YAY!!! It took him a moment to organize stepping over the bump at the very beginning, but then he nailed it every other time. Very cool to see, especially with such a young dog!
For the next session, do a turn to each side with one bump and if that is pretty smooth… add the 2nd bump 🙂Great job!
TracyHi! Welcome back, hope you had a great trip! You’re not behind – the new stuff builds up from what he was already doing.
He definitely figured out the pivot to center concept for the perch work! He wanted to skip the part where he put his front feet on the perch after each treat 😀 so you made a great adjustment to feed him on the perch at the end.
For the next session, we can do everything the same except add in a cookie reward in position when he returns to center on the perch, then another cookie tossed to the side to start the next rep. That can help remind him to get his front feet on the perch after his back feet pivot 🙂
The 2nd video here is also perch work, can you repost the head turn video?
TracyHi!
This looks great too! She’s going back and forth between food and toys so nicely!My only suggestion here is to decelerate sooner: after you do the blind, start to slow down immediately so she can also decelerate before getting to you. That will allow her to turn even better!
The driving ahead to the toy looks strong here too 🙂
I think she is ready for the next game here too, where we add the barrel wraps to this 🙂
Great job!
TracyGood morning!!
She’s doing super well with her prop games here!The parallel path games at the beginning look great. You can do the concept transfer to put the parallel path on the puppy jump.
She was also really strong with the sideways and backwards sending! She was hitting the prop strongly and even the not-as-perfect hits were really good. Your mechanics of sending were good, and you also did a great job of keeping her with you until you sent her (she would be happy to start without you lol!!). You can give her treats for staying with you before the send.
She is looking pretty balanced, turning both ways really well. There was only one rep where she turned the “wrong” way (to her right when she should have turned left) but that was caused by your position being a little too centered on the prop, so the pressure turned her away.You can add the countermotion to this too, moving away before she reaches the prop. And I bet you can do the concept transfer to the barrel as well.
The rear crosses were harder for her, because she’s going fast (that is a good thing!) and that makes it harder to be on time. You had a couple that were on time on the right turns (like at 2:05) where you were visible on her new side before she arrived at the prop. On the left turns, you were late getting to the new side so she saw you on her right as she was arriving at the prop, so she turned right.
With her speed, she might be making turn decisions early (this is a good thing!) So try the rear crosses with the alternate game using treats, where she won’t be moving quite a fast and you can get to the new side sooner.
Great job here!
TracyGood morning! Looks like the snow went away (at least for now!)
There was no sound on these videos for some reason – not sure if YouTube is misbehaving – so I am just going to assume all verbals were perfect 🙂
First video:
Serps looked great! She generally nailed them, based on your position and her value for the jump bump. Nice!! And she was turning really well from the different angles – super nice impulse control on the toy, especially on the serp and threadle reps where she was starting really close to it 🙂Threadles were harder for sure, but she did well too. Good job keeping your shoulders pretty frozen and hot closing them to the bump as she came in for the threadle! Two suggestions to help keep developing the threadles:
The threadle toy placement can be on the more obvious line over the bar and not quite as much on the angle past the wing. She didn’t always see the one to the toy, so having it more obvious (a little more centered on the bar) will help that and help create the default looking for the bar.
When getting into threadle position, move around the wing and then give her a moment to look at the threadle cue before you release her. You were sometimes too quick coming across the bump and releasing as soon as you arrived, causing errors. For example: At 1:53 you stepped across the bump which drew her eyes to it, then released almost immediately at 1:54 – so she was still looking at the one you moved across the bump and she didn’t get the threadle. To set up more success, get into position not by stepping over the bump, but instead go around the wing, get into your position with your hand visible, look at your hand, shake it perhaps… then release her. That should help her differentiate between the serps and threadles.
She is doing well on the wraps too!!! This first session did not have a lot of motion, which was great to help set up success and get understanding. For the next session, start closer (probably less than a meter away) to the upright so that you can be on the “takeoff” side of the wrap (if there was a jump bar) to show her the countermotion (you were on the “landing” side on these). I think you can also use a barrel so she has something bigger to go around now, which will also help you get to the takeoff side.
Her left wraps are looking strong so you can add a little more motion 🙂 The right wraps are not as strong yet so stay slower on those for now especially as you add more countermotion.
Backside slices – she had legit questions on this one 🙂 A few ideas for you to help develop the really independent backsides:
Rather than use a full visual of a jump (2 real wings and the bump), go back to one barrel and the bump – that makes bit looks less like a potential front side, so you are more likely to get her going around the barrel to the backside.
And, one tweak to the mechanics to help set the line:
After you put her in her position on the line to the backside, you should start moving forward on your parallel path line for 2 or 3 steps and when you are moving and ahead… *then* release her. If you release when you are next to her and you both start moving at the same time… she doesn’t see the cue (the motion on the line) so she may or may not understand to go to the other side. You were compensating by moving to the wing, but we don’t want to rely on running to the wing to get the backside – so set a line on the ground in position 1 for you to move up to help prevent that – then start moving on the line, release, connect – and she should zip directly to the backside because she sees the motion cue.
The left turns are a little stronger than the right turns here too, so you will be able to move faster in this progress =ion when she is turning to her left. So you can be moving the line on the ground to position 2 and position 3, as long as you are moving before you release her for 2 or 3 steps and staying parallel to her line.
Great job here! Let the know what you think!
TracyHi!
Yes, the clicker helps the pups understand the stay stuff more clearly. And crate games can help too – here are the first 2 steps:
getting the pup to NOT bolt out of the door by feeding in the back of the crate:
Getting the sit in order to open the door:
have fun!
TracyGood morning! He did really well on these!
The plank was easy for him! He seemed to have no trouble with getting on, turning around, getting off, etc. He looked really confident! The next step here would be too get him on different planks in different places.
He remembered the wrapping with you in the chair after you jump started it with a hand cue. You can also help by using th two bowls so he looks at your hands less. For the next session, start in the chair like you did here, then when he gets in the groove, move to standing up 🙂
He figured out the tunnel nicely! I think the tunnel might be a shade too long for now, is there a way to scrunch it up more? That way you can start adding in your motion and sending. Your placement of the magic box 🙂 ready treat was great, definitely keep doing that!
Stays are definitely the hardest for him right now. I think this is a good game for using the clicker, because it is super clear and can help mark exactly what you want… without accidentally building motion into the release. So start with clicking when he sits, then toss the treat behind him.
You can then start to gradually delay the click after the sit, by just a heartbeat, to begin getting more duration.You can also play some crate games with him to help him learn to sit still 🙂 I can post some videos if you want to see the crate games!
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Parallel path work is going really well! She definitely has the concept of “stay on your line and go to the thing”. You can mark the behavior and toss the reward sooner, to help get her eyes ahead and not looking at you (she would look at you after hitting the prop because there was nothing else to look at :)) So you can mark her intent to go to it and her focus forward to it (probably a stride or two before she arrives) and mark with a ‘get it’ rather than a clicker… then toss the reward so it is landing before she looks at you. This will keep her looking ahead nicely! And no worries about hitting the prop at this point – she is just about reward to do the concept transfer where we move this to a baby jump (with the same early timing of mark & reward so she doesn’t look back at you :))
Rear crosses are definitely harder for all of the pups! She was turning back towards the original direction because you were late getting to her new side – you need to be visible on the new side when she is till a stride away from the prop, so she can turn the new direction.
One thing that should help is starting further away from it, so you have time to get to the new side without having to run fast 🙂 You might try a coupe of reps of the parallel path game where you start 15 feet or more away from the prop, so she drives ahead of you. Then when she is happy with that, you can start 15 feet away and cut in behind her as early as when she is halfway to the prop! That should give you more time to get visible on the new side. And no worries if she doesn’t hit the prop perfectly, we will be happy if she turns the new direction 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyRear crosses:
Yay! He did well here too! You can get to his shoulder sooner after the reward cross, so that it is easier for him to find you immediately without looking the other direction first.The only other suggestion is to use the wall to your advantage: hold his collar (don’t let go until the cookie lands) then toss the cookie to the wall or into a corner. When the cookie stops moving, you can let him go to get it and go the rear cross even sooner. The wall will help him turn the new direction because it is less likely that he will turn towards the wall.
And if he has an easy time with that, you can get the prop involved with this – put the prop in a corner or next to a wall to help create the turn for the first few reps, and keep getting to his shoulder on the new side as early as possible.
Great job on all of these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Very cool to see him happy to back up onto the disc with no worries about the movement! Super!!!! So now, like with the perch work… see if you can fade out your body language a bit 🙂 Start him really close so he only has to back up one step… and try not to move forward to help him. Let him offer that step back onto the disc and reward when he does 🙂 The goal is that he can eventually back all the way up to it without you moving at all 🙂 But for now, start with him very close so he only has to think about one or two steps.
Great job!!
Hi!
>>no movement on Release world!
I think you were fine here in terms of movement – your movement was not having any impact on the sit offering or the clicking here! And we do build handler movement into stays so you can move or be running the whole time and he will stay til released. The goal is that you don’t stand still and release & move at the same time.
The click timing was good here! You don’t need to say “ok”, you can use a reward marker like “catch” if you are throwing the reward back to him like you stated doing at 1:30.
So for the next session – delay the timing of the click a little more, just a heartbeat or two… then click and toss the treat back to him. Then you can sometimes delay the click a little more… and sometimes click right away to make it variable (and reward each time of course :)) As you are doing this, try to move a little – taking a step away (a slow step :)) and turning to face forward more rather than facing him.
Nice work!
Tracy
