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Hi! Hope you had a great weekend!
>I did start working on backing up on a low platform. Tribute is doing really well with it.>
Awesome!!! You can add in backing up to a low board that moves a little now too.
Looking at the video:
He caught onto this really quickly! He was adding more and more speed – I was about to suggest that you can jog or run too, and then you started running. Super! I think he is about 10 months old now? So he is a good age for expanding his understanding.When you add more of your movement, be sure to emphasize connection and not your arms. In other words – you can look at him but you don’t need to point at the jumps or line. You can just run 🙂 And you can add ‘jump’ verbals here too!
Only one suggestion: remember to use your ‘get it’ marker when you throw the reward, so he continues to look forward and not at you.Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
The weirdness gauntlet was great! She did care about it, and investigated the room. You can see her circle a couple of times, a little sniffing… then she was fine and went up on the couch to see what was next 🙂 She was not worried or startled, which is great! We basically want to challenge her brain and body to assess and discard new things in the environment without getting nervous in any way. She was perfect!
Looking at the play session: getting the food bowl away and getting the toy really active was great! She was really engaged with the toy!
She did a bit of face bopping at the beginning as her arousal state changed – so to protect your face as she learns to regulate her arousal: don’t bend over at first 🙂 Swoosh the toy away from her on the ground or throw it, so she can engage without face bops
She also didn’t quite want her collar grabbed – this is normal when pups are stimulated. The cookie line up then back to the toy went well! You can also cue a line up or reach for her collar without touching it, the throw the toy.
>I did feel her energy/interest change a bit toward the end of my video so I stopped before she completely tapped out.>
When she sees you reaching to your cookie pocket, she stops tugging. Poor starving girlie hahaha So be sure to ask for the toy back before involving any cookies. That was probably where you felt the energy change – she was still engaged but saw the potential for cookies so let go of the toy.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hi!
>And I can use less arms or stop pointing at the jumps. >
Yes, I think that is the most important thing: pointing at the jump blocks connection while turning your shoulders and feet away from the line, so he would look at you or come off the line. You can see it at :07, :25, :30, :46 for example
When you are not pointing at the jump and just running, looking at him, and saying verbals: the sequences look great! Examples of this are from the very beginning to :06, :49 – :56 (he was so fast there that the wrap cues were late because he found a near gear of speed), 1:07-1:23 (only a little bit of arm after the FC), 1:37 – 1:41, 1:46-2:00. So many lovely flowing moments here!
>I should also cue something or throw the toy when the unexpected happens – instead of stalling out, making weird noises, or throwing up my hands (all punishers to Skizzle).>
Yes, ideally we humans either keep going or reward like it was 100% what we intended. But also, if you do stop and make the weird noises 😂 – do what you did at :37 which is pair it with a toy. When I was prepping for the first international event I was taking a dog too, I taught the dog that when I stopped and dropped the F bomb, it meant I was going to throw a frisbee (which was his favorite toy). I would screw up, drop the F bomb, throw the frisbee. The F bomb became like a click LOL! So if you do have a human moment like at :36, throw the toy and he will be fine as long as you don’t do it a lot.
>When I’m decelerating to cue the wrap, should I also use my verbal for the wrap? >
Yes – say the verbals directly to him. That will add verbals to connection to help support commitment.
>Was the Mission Transition lesson without the verbal – to try to help the dog learn that the cue IS the decel?>
Yes – it emphasizes that decel is a commitment cue too. We want the dogs to be comfy to commit in collection, so we can slow down and don’t need to be right at the jump.
You can use your verbals because you can tell yourself to say it to him (and don’t say it to the jump 🙂 ) and that will help connection a lot.
Nice job here!
Tracy
Hi!
Looking at the sends:
>Still working on the timing though.>
The timing was good! It was more about getting your feet and shoulders to face the line to the jump rather than peel away.
When he is over the jump after the tunnel, intensify the connection as you send him. The arm send with soft connection turns your shoulders away which is why he had questions at the beginning and at :47. At :18, you had very strong connection to his eyes and he sent beautifully!
And being even further lateral will get he blind more easily 🙂 For example, at :52 you were pretty close to the jump after the tunnel so as he was landing you were disconnecting to turn away to get to he blind. He did take the middle jump but you will have both the commitment and the blind timing if you support the jump after the tunnel from a line that heads direction to the middle jump (about 6 feet from the jump after the tunnel)
>I tried some of his sequences during the fun match and he didn’t seem bothered about the extra activity.>
I could hear activity in the background while you were doing the speed circles: he was aware of the activity and responded by going faster (but maintained his accuracy). Yay!
How is your weather lately? It would be good to do some jump grids on the grass – I think the dirt in the barn is hard so as he gets tired, he changes his form to levitating over the bar 🙂 rather than pushing from the rear (2:07 is a good example of the levitation). Grass might be easier to grip and push off of.
The timing of the blind at 2:08 was the best of the session! Note how the earlier blind allowed you to show the new connection earlier, which set up a nice turn!
He back jumped the wrap at 2:12 – might have been that he didn’t want to jump towards the wall there, or a bit of inexperience showing: he was not sure which side to be on when he landed, so the fastest route back to what he though was correct based on motion was the back jump. No worries, that is not something he usually does.
One other thing I noticed here: he looks at you over the jump, when you are driving the straight line to the tunnel. You seemed pretty accelerated and connected, so he was probably checking in because the distances are growing. You can set up some fun jump-tunnel stuff with the jump closer, and the reward at the exit of the tunnel. It can be placed in advance at first to get him looking forward.
If you are in the mood to run 🙂 you can even make it a jump-tunnel toy race! If you get there first, you win! He won’t have time to look at you AND beat you to the toy 🙂
Looking at the teeter video: bread and butter for the win! He will even allow other people to interact with him because bread and butter is the BEST! Ha! We will definitely need lots of it for the new game added this week 🙂
Nice work here!
Tracy
Hi!
> I had an agility trial yesterday and we used this backside push and get out for one of the obstacle sequences in Master Standard and Fast and it worked beautifully!! >
YES! This is great and exactly what we want: something that is immediately useful and doesn’t need months of training 🙂
>My girls responded super well to it!>
Which means you executed it well too. Well done to you all!
> I didn’t see many people using that outside arm to push the dog like you taught but it worked so smoothly for us and not as smoothly for many of them. >
A lot of folks are being told that using the outside arm is ‘bad’ which is why we jokingly call it the evil arm 😈
>For your next blind camp session or whatever it is called, can we do two dogs under one working spot like this course where I just split the videos into 1 min segments for each dog?>
Yes, you can split it between the dogs like you did here.
Looking at the videos:
The warm up on the layering went great! You were very clear with your cues and they both got the layering even with starting from a standstill.
Building it into the sequence went great too: the jump was a little hidden, sandwiched between the tunnel and other stuff but they still got it.
The only bloopers were on the same jump: at :53 where you were moving away from the jump before Kastella took off. In that scenario, you were correct to want to move away before she took off. To support commitment, you can shift your gaze to the landing spot behind you rather than look at her face 🙂 Kashia read that info as a rear cross cue at 1:21 – you were a bit in her way on the takeoff spot and then when you stepped forward, it looked like a rear cross line.
Threadle wraps:
The reps were you were facing her (lap turns) and visible were really good! When she was on your left to start, you were visible and the cues were very clear. On the other side, you were not visible but when she went to front side of the jump – I bet you moved too early 🙂 The reps where she was correct were lovely!
Backside one jump video: Your connection was great! And I think both dogs like the energy of the verbal.
One small tweak: use your outside arm to point to the backside entry wing, not to the bar. When you were pointing to the bar, they took the front of the of jump. When you were pointing to the backside entry wing, she went to the backside every time. The big connection and arm pointing to the backside wing make a big difference on the line!On the sequence video: These went really well!
Rep 1 looked good until the end, when the cue was late so she didn’t see the backside line til after she had committed to the front side line (:24). The balance rep with all the front sides looked good!
Nice job pointing to the backside entry wing at :52
Nice arm and timing at 1:07! On all of the sequences with Kastella at the end, you used your opposite arm to point to the entry wing every time – and she got the backside every time, no questions. SUPER!!!Great job on these!
Tracy
Good morning!
These are definitely challenging courses – they look deceptively simple!>I am finding this course to be small for Copper – he is kinda trotting between jumps because they are close>
To get more momentum, you can run in closer to the tunnel which will also get you running up the next line more. Some of the trotting was when you were walking, so he was not sure if he should decelerate to turn.
Looking at the wrap video:
Good timing at :41! That had both the decel and the connection. That was my favorite rep!
The biggest challenge in the other reps was disconnection. You were looking at the jump and not at him, so that threw off the timing. You might have been able to see him peripherally (as a blur :)) but the direct connection of looking right at him is a huge help.
When you were looking forward, he was looking at you (like at :51 an 1:26), not sure if he should commit, which is part of what pulled him off.
He did take the jump at 1:48 and 2:10 because you had more motion – but without the direct connection, the decel was a little late so he was wide and had a bar down at 2:10.
So to get it smoothly, be connected directly otherwise his eyes, saying the verbals to him 🙂 Then you will see where he is exactly, which will automatically help the timing. You will probably find it easier to not use your hands to point much at all – just motion, connection, and verbals.
Speaking of bars down – there were a couple of reasons why he was dropping them. Mostly it was when he didn’t see connection so he was trying to look at you to see the cues and the timing. More connection will help that too. And the other instances were when he was asked to jump when he was too close to the jump (like on jump 1 of the fluffy BCs and FCs, or when fixing a refusal). Giving him more room too approach a jump by starting further back (10 feet or so) will really help too.
He was reading the lines on the fluffy BCs and FCs, but the bars were coming down as he was watching you. This is a good setup to run to the tunnel more to accelerate up the next line and into the blinds and fronts. The hardest part is to run forward but watch him the whole time (except for when you have to disconnect then reconnect on a blind cross).
A fun challenge is to run without pointing to the obstacles: point to his nose the whole time 🙂 That keeps your arm low and is great for connection & timing, because it turns your eyes to him!
The trotting you mentioned was happening on the front cross session – he might have needed more breaks (it is hot to run in a fur coat :)) or he was being a bit careful to get it right. That is where adding more connection to his eyes and running into the tunnel more will help too. And that will also make the timing of the crosses easier because he will be accelerating more. But I think you will find timing falls into place nicely when we add more connection.
A good example of where connection can help more is the cue to go into the tunnel: you were saying tunnel and pointing at it, but he had a question on those. That was because you were looking at the tunnel and pointing at it, which actually turned your feet and shoulders away from it. The connection turns your feet and shoulders to the line you want, which is why he reads the lines really well with connection.
Great job here!
TracyGood morning!
Nice job with the connection on the exit of the blinds! That really helped her see the next line: you were pushing your dog-side shoulder back to make eye contact. Super!
And good timing when you added the blind to the full sequence (:58) – you started it when she had landed from the jump after the tunnel, so it was finished and you were connected before she took off for the middle jump.
The FCs went well too! The connection and timing of starting them were both strong. The blind is quicker to finish, so that is a more optimal move here 🙂
One thing I noticed is that there is a little hesitation as if you don’t really trust she will take the jump after the tunnel, so you are waiting a bit at that jump. You can use more verbals (like Go because it is straight after the tunnel, or jump) and to stay in motion, you can go closer to the tunnel then move up the line laterally. Both of those will support commitment so you can keep moving to the cross.
On the send and go video: the warm up blind looked good and so did the first blind to the tunnel!
This is also a sequence where it is good to fun in closer to the tunnel at the beginning – by being stationary, you it was too much of a decel cue at 1:05, which created a domino effect: she collected, didn’t have a lot of speed into the send, then you turn your back on her at 1:07 so when she landed from the middle jump she only saw your back with both arms out. She was already cued to be in collection, so she stayed collected and came to you. When you finished the blind, she changed sides. That is entirely rewardable (handler blooper) so you can give her the toy there.
The next rep had more motion from you so she stays on her line better, but in these smaller spaces, you can add more extension cues by running to the tunnel at the beginning, running along the curve of the tunnel and the running forward into the jumps. That will get a lot more momentum for the send which makes the send and the blind easier.
The blinds all had great connection which is a hugely important piece!!!! Well done!
Tracy
Hello!
Looking at the blinds (and the front as well):
You can start them sooner! Ideally, the blind is starting no later than landing of the jump after the tunnel. So you can be further away from it laterally as she exits the tunnel. You can be moving toward the middle jump and when she takes off for the jump after the tunnel – start the BC so it is finished before she takes off for the middle jump.
Most of the blinds started as she was taking off for the middle jump so the turns were a bit wide. On a couple of them, you started it when she was halfway between the 2 jump and that already set better turns. Yay!
The side change in a blind is basically cued by clear connection on the new side, so be sure to exit the blinds with exit line connection where you look back at her and the opposite arm comes across your body.
When you finish the BC and try to indicate the new side with the new dog-side arm, she doesn’t see it for a few steps (:05, :18, :34 for example).
We don’t want her to think it is the toy that is cueing it, so use connection and empty hands 🙂On the send and go video:
>My Send N Go needs some work!>
At the beginning you were sending but not going 🙂 But you added moving away better after the send when you were doing the full sequence. She was finding the line nicely!
When you added the blind at :27 – that was the best timing so far of any of the blinds! Yay! You started it when she landed from the middle jump so the blind was finished and fully reconnected before she took off for the blind cross jump. SUPER!! That is the ideal timing.
At :58 and 1:12, you started the blind when she took off for the blind cross jump so the turns were wide (she couldn’t adjust the line until after she landed). So lock into the timing you did at :27, the was great 🙂
Nice work here!
Tracy
Good morning!
Strike a pose went well – she had a lot to sort through in the environment! Wind, birds, leaves blowing, and it sounds like there were some sad Lab songs in the background too LOL! But she did great on these reps. I agree that adding the wings did not throw her off at all. Super!
First video:
The first rep looked like a broken stay when she was sorting out the environment (saw you in position and perhaps she thought she missed the release?) but she did well after that!She did great at the beginning of the 2nd video then didn’t have a lot of impulse control left at about :40 – she could no longer ignore the cookie in the bowl on the ground LOL! That was probably just a bit of ‘brain tired’ depletion. Self-control can be like a bank account in young dogs: it gets overdrawn pretty quickly. But she ended strong!
>I edited out the transport back, it just added too much time to the video, beleive it or not! >
No worries, you can leave it in to save editing time. I can let it run as I type notes/thoughts 🙂
Looking at the toy play:
Bearing in mind that this is the first springtime she has experienced and she is brand new to working outside – she is doing well! I think the key is going to be really crazy fun short sessions – with no food in the picture yet because it is hard to ignore the food when there are also so many other things outside she has to ignore.Since her beginning puppy stuff was done indoors (due to winter), you can take those games and play them outside to jump start the tugging. I am thinking specifically of toy races 🙂 Bring a big favorite toy, and no treats, and revisit toy races for just one minute. See how it goes! Then we can add that concept into other games like turn and burn which is also a good game for toys only.
That can get toy play outside, and then we add back the food. When bringing food into the picture, you can have it all set up outside before she comes out. Then bring her out with no food in the picture, and just a quick blast of toy races or chasing the toy around like you did here. Then grab a treat or two, so a quick reward for something: then without any more treats in your pocket, back to the toy races. Then be finished before her brain gets tired. Fast and wild is tiring LOL!!
You will find it gets easier and easier to use both in the same session.
>Maybe I should just load up the bag with the toy toys & try different ones and see which ones spark her at that moment! >
Yes, that is so fun! She might really enjoy that! And you can have a couple of toys that are outdoor only toys because they are very exciting. For my dogs, this includes discs and anything with fur or giant floof. They love those and only get them when we are in the harder places like the great outdoors.
Keep me posted! Nice work here!
Tracy
Good morning!
Yay for the 3-legged stands! You can ask him for a back foot now, and a back foot targeting something to step on (which turns into lifting nice and high to step back onto something).
Separately from agility training, you can also add 2-legged stands: front & rear on opposite sides, and front & rear on same side. So hard! But so good for conditioning.Looking at the wrap video: this is going well!! Just a few relatively subtle things to consider:
Leading out a little more to set the line to the tunnel really helped at :48. Running into the line at the beginning or when you sent him away on jump 1 caused a bit of a zig zag (I think the tunnel entry is a little offset so he needed to be sure he was allowed to shift away to take it). For those, you can set your path to be more lateral and to as close to him so he doesn’t curve into you at all on the way to the tunnel.
His commitment is looking good!! Because he is finding lines really well, I don’t think you need to go to the middle jump as much – it is making you late for the decel into the wrap. He is very responsive to the turn cues, so the good timing of starting the decel after he exited the middle jump pat :22 and 1:36 made for really nice turns! And he was committing in collection too: HAPPY DANCE!
You were a little late with the decel starting at :39 and :56, so he was a little wider when landing from the wrap. At 1:14, you got the wrap by rotating without decel, but the decel before it will tighten it up even more.
For the blinds:
This is where we definitely need to use his commitment skills so you can be more laterally away from the jump after the tunnel and the middle jump. You got too close to the jump after the tunnel at :12 and :29, which made the blind start late (after he landed from the middle jump) plus you were still moving to position. He was able to find the new side at :15 but not at :30. You were earlier at :45 which set a much nicer line! But if you are 3 or 4 arm lengths away from the jump after the tunnel, I bet you will be able to start the blind after he land from that jump and locks onto the middle jump as you move to position. He is showing great commitment so it will be fun to see how early we can do crosses! Yay!Great job!
Tracy
Good morning!
I think the brake arms helped her on the middle jump!! Your timing of starting them were good too – as she was still engaged with the previous jump (in the air or landing from it).
She had a question at :16 – the brake arms should be more towards her and not towards the jump. I might have neglected to mention that, sorry! By pointing them to the jump there, it turned your feet and shoulders away from the jump so she looked at you for more info. And keeping the arms towards her will also keep the arms a bit lower.
On the releases from the stay: look at her for a few seconds before you release & run. At :21 she moved when you looked at her (before the release verbal). If you play the video in slow motion (half speed) you can see the movement comes before you say the release. It is probably happening because you are looking at her and releasing at about the same time, so she is thinking that looking at her is the release. You had the looking at her and release separate at :07 and it was much clearer. The release and movement were simultaneous at :35, and we don’t want her to think that movement is part of the release cue.
She is doing well with the wraps! You can start the timing sooner: add decel (but keep facing forward) as she is landing from the previous jump. Then as she approaches the takeoff for the wrap jump, you can do the FC rotation. You might not get all the way to the wrap wing, but you don’t need to be there 🙂 The timing is more important than position.
Looking at the blind crosses:
You don’t need a brake arm for the middle jump on those because the blind cross will deliver the info. You can be more laterally away from the jump after the tunnel. When she is taking off for that jump, tell her to take the middle jump (with connection and motion and a jump cue) but start the blind with the goal of being finished with the blind before she takes off for the middle jump.You were a little late at :58 (starting when she was halfway between the jumps) but I bet you can be earlier 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
The timing and connection went really well! Timing was really good! Connection was 99% good 🙂 On the last rep, you used a high arm which blocked connection when you sent to the middle jump and she ended up hitting the bar there.
Setting up for the middle jump was hard for her on all the reps here and on the wrap video too (she ticks the bar a lot in both directions) – soft turns are hard! It might be that it is hard to get the hind end push in the dirt? We can give her a slightly taller bar to jump (2 inches higher) and you can add your opposite arm as a brake arm to help cue the collection to make the turn there. When you cue the middle jump, you will basically cue it with 2 hands up as a bit of a ‘whoa!’ That is a pretty natural cue to help with soft turns.
Wraps: Lovely connection throughout here!! The best reps in terms of timing were at :07 and :49 – the decel started when she was about halfway to the jump so she had really nice turns!!
The other reps (:23, :37, 1:00) and on the full runs at the end (1:18 and 1:40), the wrap cues can come sooner! She did most of the turning on the landing side of the jump, which meant the wrap info came after her takeoff decision was made.
So to get the earlier timing: When she lands from the middle jump, you can begin the decel and then when she is closer to takeoff of the wrap, do the FC. That might mean you don’t get all the way to the wrap wing but that is perfectly fine because she can do it independently 🙂 And that will help when she gets to full height, because the info being earlier gives her move time to adjust.
Yum, yogurt!!! And good for the gut too 🙂 It helped her want to do the wobble board for sure! She was not too comfy yet keeping her hind end on the board – she would go over it then hop her bum off on most of the reps. To help her get more comfy, you can stuff things under it to minimize the tip – a bunch of towels or dogs beds can help! Then we gradually fade them out to get lots more slam.
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
>Yes! Mountain, speedskater and cactus. I think artwork on wings should be a thing!>
Yes! It is so cool!!! And extra fun that it is personalized!
> I’m in a handling bubble, but good to be reminded that the dog’s form is important going forward.>
That is one of the reasons why video is so crucial – we can’t really see everything when we are handling but video reveals it all!
>He was telling me about watching agility on TV and how the announcer was pointing out the handler’s connection or loss of connection with their dogs. I told him Skizzle was teaching me all about it!>
That is so fun! And yes, connection is the make-or-break thing at all levels from novice up to world championships. It is a powerful cue!
Great job with the teeter session! He looked happy to be slamming the teeter to get you to trigger the MM 🙂 And he definitely knew it was you triggering it, based on the judgey looks when he felt you should have triggered it but did not hahaha
VERY nice job shaping him to back up onto the teeter with you needing to be in the picture! Yes, he is definitely ready for a tiny bit of the board moving the next time you do this.
Looking at the find the line session: it was a little bit more challenging with you going fast and moving ahead, but that is exactly the challenge we wanted him to see! And he sorted it out really well! There is also an anti-perfect element to this game: we humans cannot be relied upon to be perfect and we really love it when the dogs take the jump anyway 🙂 So keep trying to be connected and cue perfectly and reward – but if you are close to the jump and not totally perfect, you don’t need to reward for not taking the jump. But we also don’t want to stop or tell him that he was wrong because that is a punisher… so if you are not quite perfect and it pulls him off the jump, you can keep going right back to the wing and tunnel, then cue the jump with more connection, then reward. It helps build the ‘keep going’ drive in both human and dog, and it helps him realize that big parties happen when he finds the jump even when we are not totally clear about it.
For example, at :46, he could see/hear you pulling away to a lateral position which pulled him off the line to the jump. That would be a good spot to wrap him around the wing and back to the tunnel, then to the jump again. It helps you think on your feet and keep going, and gets reward to him for the jump.
What was happening in the part of the video was before the tunnel and at the exit, he could see the changes in your line and motion (and can probably hear the footfalls too) which changed his line.
Compare that to 1:17 and 1:24 and 1:35 where you were ready to help him but you hadn’t changed the line or pulled away, so he found the line to the jump with no questions.
Great job here!!!
Tracy
Good morning! Lots of good work here! The connection is the most important cue for her: when you were connected, she had no questions at all 🙂
Wingin’ It 1 (to the left): She is doing well! For the verbals, you can give yourself a little walk through before you try it with her, to help with spitting the right words out 🙂
One suggestion:
Make more eye contact on the exit of the tunnels as that is one of the stronger elements of the sends. For example at :19 and :38, you were looking ahead so she looked at you. If you look at her, she will actually look ahead more which adds more commitment to the sending.Wingin’ It 2 (to the right):
This is where more eye contact will help too! You were looking ahead & pointing ahead, and that actually turned your shoulders & feet to the line towards the tunnel, which is why she didn’t go to the wing. But then after the tunnel, you had the best connection of the reps so far (eye contact visible and not that much hand pointing) and she zipped directly to the wing, no questions at all.If she does have a question like she did at the beginning of the video, you should reset her with a treat. The question means she is confused about the cue, so the treat reset before the next rep keeps her from getting frustrated.
Wingin’ It 3: This one also shows the connection being more important than the arm pointing 🙂 You can work on just one wing – use a LOT of eye contact to go with your leg step, and less arm pointing and I bet you can get more and more distance on the send to the wing! The exits of the tunnel had more connection than the send at the start so her commitment was much stronger.
Hooray for being outside!!
Wraps 1:
One thing to add is more clarity on when she is getting the reward. Is “yes” a marker? You said yes and stopped, changing the toy from one hand to the other, so she came to you for the reward. I thought you were rewarding there too! She did eventually get the toy but I don’t think it was your original intent. So for the toy, leave it in one hand so it is not moving back and forth, or have it in your pocket to whip out at the end when you tell her to ‘get it’.The run f rom :17 to the end had a lot of lovely connection! So she had a lot of lovely commitment, including to the middle jump of the pinwheel where she had a question on the first rep. The difference was that on the first rep you were trying to point at it (which turns you away from the line) and on the 2nd rep you were connected and moving, so she read it immediately.
The wrap cue can start with decel when she lands from the middle jump. It happened when she was taking off, so she was wide on the turn (too late to adjust).
The only break in connection was at the end: you were saying tunnel, but turning away from it (not looking at her) and switching the toy to the other hand. You can see your feet moving towards the house rather than the tunnel, so she had a question.
The 2nd wrap video went a lot better – you maintained connection throughout, especially to the last tunnel! And the wrap cues started earlier so she had a better turn there. Yay!
Wraps to the other side: now you are really locking in the connection! You sometimes put up an arm but you really don’t need to: just run, look at her, yell the cues 🙂 She did great! The wrap cues were late here so she was wide: remember to start to decelerate when you see her land from the middle jump.
For the blind crosses: On both of these videos, the trick to getting the timing I to not go anywhere near the jump after the tunnel 🙂 That puts you too far away from the blind cross line. So as she exits the tunnel, you can be moving up the line to the middle jump while cueing the jump after the tunnel.
Then the timing comes into play: when she lands from the jump after the tunnel, the blind begins. Motion supports the middle jump with the goal that you are finished with the blind before she takes off for the middle jump. You were starting the blind when she took off for the middle jump, so she landed long then had to come back to find the correct side.
The best position and timing were at :18-:21 of the 2nd blind video! But she didn’t pick up the side change because when you finished the blind at :21, you didn’t make connection until after she had passed you. Make connection the top priority as you are finishing the blind because that is what seals the deal 🙂 to get her to the new side. Ideally, the blind is finished and you are looking at her eyes before she takes off for the middle jump.
Nice work here! Fingers crossed for more good weather 🙂
Tracy
