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  • in reply to: Lori And Beka (BC, 11Months) #39993
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi!

    Lots of good stuff on these videos!

    Video 1, rear crosses: be sure to set the RCs with the decel to the line, rather than try to keep running and turning only your upper body (like at :06).

    You were clearer at :15 and :22, then GREAT at :33 with setting it with decel. And the next step it to try to take the forward-pointing shoulder turn out of it (just leave your dog side arm back) – I think the shoulder pull was creating questions here and in the FC wraps (see below).

    >> first working the RC to get the wrap โ€“ which she did do but is REALLY WIDE. Not sure how much of it is:>>

    The turn was fine ๐Ÿ™‚ My guess as to why she was missing the jump after the RC is that it was set so the natural line was to the backside, so the 2/4 jump needed to be about 2 meters further away so it was a natural front side. Yes, she can be tighter on these RC wraps and the wraps in the other videos, but right now she is powering like a BEAST (this is a good thing!) and I don’t want to slow her down. We will shape our way to the very tight turns, especially as the bars start to come up.

    Video 2:

    This is also going well! The cross before #2 worked great here on the first rep.

    >>โ€“ rep 1 โ€“ one pretty sure she slipped in the tunnel at the entry.

    Time to put about 10,000 more bags on that tunnel – it is moving a lot and she is going to slip too much. Also, you can give her the turn directional on the tunnel exit here instead of her name – she is turning beautifully!

    >>rep 2 โ€“ she took bars at #3 and #4 but but looking at the video i think she same out of the tunnel and stumbled (or was just off balance) just a bit so was off balance for those?>>

    On that rep at :43, you were in the way of her line so she was trying to read the line AND jump all in one moment, and didn’t quite make it happen. At 1:02 you cleared the line sooner, and she had no questions ๐Ÿ™‚

    Video 3: Yes, definite questions about the RC versus FC here! I think 3 factors were in play:
    – when you are cuing the FC, you were stepping to the middle of the bar (for example at :04) so she reads RC pressure
    – you were ‘pulling’ your shoulders here, which looked a lot like the shoulder pull you did for the RCs
    – she did a bunch of RCs to the right already (and I think she is a righty, too, yes?)

    So, she was convinced you wanted more RCs.

    When you were more on the correct line, it was not an issue except when you moved into it at :34 because it looked a bit the same.
    You got it all worked out for her by the end, but be super careful not to use the pull & flick upper body for the RCs because I think that is where the confusion is coming from. The shoulder turn and decel (no need to step to the center of the bar, just move to the wrap wing) can be for the FCs, and you can set then drive the RCs without pulling your shoulders to face the bar.

    Video 4:

    The sequences looked good! The FC on 3 looked good on the first few sequences. Be sure to decelerate into it when she is landed from 2, so she can organize to collect more. That will also help the various ending lines, especially the blind, because she will have a better angle to the next jump. On the blind, keep your arms in and start it as soon as she rounds the FC wing – you put your arm way up high at :34 then did the BC as she was taking off, so she had to catch it on landing.

    The BC in the opening to get up the line looked good at :46! Remember to decel as soon as she is over the jump before the wrap so she can organize for the wrap sooner (she dropped the bar at :48)

    You were a little late getting the blind at 1:04, no need to go as close to the tunnel entry there =- you can send her and barely g past the first jump. You were a little sooner on the decel, but I think you’ll see the collection more and more as she has taller bars and more experience.

    >>Have a right/left question for you on this.

    >>Would you use left/right on either:
    โ€“ the turn from #3 to #4 (#8 to #9)

    No, just a name or jump. I would use a right verbal on the tunnel exit.

    >>โ€“ the balance wrap where we take the jump rather than the tunnel.>>

    Maybe, depends on the dog, and how much collection they need.

    >>I chose not to because isnโ€™t not an immediate 90% turn after the jump. Would that be correct?>>

    The L has different variations, so this is a possibility. I can be that 90 degree turn or softer versions of it, so it is possible to use here if the dog needs it.

    >>To me it felt like the natural line for a basic turn so not necessary.

    it will become more apparent when the bars go up – you will be able to see how much collection she needs. Over low bars? Probably not needed. Over a 20 inch bar? Might be very helpful!

    Great job! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Promise and Amy #39992
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi! Nice shirt!!!

    I feel like the crazy big courses this summer in CAMP had you well-prepared for the big UKI courses here! You were GREAT! Hustling, connected, so fun to see! No worries about any little blooper, you both looked amazeballs.

    >>I did get a huge tooth hug after the second run as I was cheering๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซฃ! Iโ€™m going to have to work on going to leash and chomping on it. I toned down my excitement (as in I said easy easy letโ€™s gets the leash lol)for the last one and she only looked like she might tooth hug me๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚! The crazed eyes slowly disappeared>>

    Hahahaha!!! The babies need to know what to do at the END of the run too… because there are no leash rules, I generally grab my leash and run for the reward LOL!!!

    The double tunnel was fun, the spacing was fun, the flow was lovely – who was the judge? I just did a UKI trial this morning and the courses were poopy and the spacing was TINY (15-18 foot distances with bad angles, bad tunnel curves, etc – I made up my own stuff NFC for a few runs then left LOL!!!) Oh well, I guess I need to come trial with you ๐Ÿ™‚
    Great job!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Mike and Ronan #39968
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Good morning! I heard about your heat wave, fingers crossed that the temperatures are back to normal now!!

    This session went really well overall – you did a great job of NOT blocking the wing ๐Ÿ™‚ am also of moving forward and not rocking back. He was able to commit really well on both exercises! Super!!!

    >>What you said made sense. For this session I tried very hard to not block the wing! I had a new โ€œthingโ€ crop up in this session where he turned right instead of wrapping left around the wing. Maybe he thought I was doing a โ€œrear crossโ€ at the wing. The second side was better and I tried to be fluid and not step forward and then backward (to get him to be successful).
    Interestingly Mike said Ronan also turned right for him at the same wing / wrap. Unfortunately he didnโ€™t video his session).>>

    I see what you mean, at :09 and :14. I can see what was causing it for you (probably the same for Mike too) – I think he was having a bit of trouble in the sand with not being able to dig in for these turns, so he had to slow down, which means you hd to slow down too. And on those 2 spots, you ended up side-stepping into his space, which flicked him away to his right. He was reading the line of pressure coming towards him (yes, probably reading the pressure as a RC on the flat cue). At :23 and :35, you did not do the side-stepping (you continued to face forward) and he foud the left turns. Later on,
    1:45 and 2:08 were good examples of being patient to show the wing and let him get past you, without side stepping, and he did really well there too! Let me know if you can see what I mean by side-stepping into him on those earlier reps versus facing forward and moving forward on these last few reps.

    Great job! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Chata and Tina #39967
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Good morning!

    Looking at the Serps:

    >>Sheโ€™s been good on all the parts except this set up. I ended up putting everything closer together to see if the space helped and it seemed to. Is that acceptable to do that? >>

    Putting them closer is fine, but I think the set up was harder from the tunnel exits and your angled jumps were reversed. The angling should make them easier to see but they were actually harder here: the jump after the tunnel became a backside and the line to the 2nd jump got really harder pretty fast ๐Ÿ™‚ So try switching the angles: set both jumps up as a completely straight line from the tunnel exit to start with, then gradually angle them closed while maintained a straight-line view from the tunnel exit until the jumps are almost flat. That reverse angling might be why she was having trouble? She didn’t really have trouble here but you can see her having to make more adjustments than needed because of the angles.

    Lead outs:

    >>once we get to the take off side of 1 she couldnโ€™t do it. Some really bad tosses to try to help her commit.>>

    I think the commitment question is more about stress on the start line and lack of connection. Here is more:

    There is too much correction on the start line and that is stressing her. Here is what I see:
    At the beginning – what’s with lifting her chest up while she is sitting, and then I think you said no or something in a firm voice in response to a little twitch?
    Then look at 1:15 -1:45:
    You said you ‘I need you to sit’ at 1:24 but actually, you don’t need her to sit ๐Ÿ™‚ Stay, yes. Sit? Nope. She can hold a stay in any position. You are getting some stress behavior on the start line (looking away, twitching, position changes). Then you said ‘I’m not going to fight with you’ but yet, you were fighting with her. LOL! So… stop fighting with her and make the stay a stress-free space! If she has trouble sitting, let her do the stay in a position that works for her so there is no issue and you can both concentrate on the task at hand (the sequence). If she wants to do a down? Cool! She can do a down. Or a stand. Or you can just use a ‘stay’ or ‘wait’ and she can pick the position (I do this with 2 of my dogs and there is zero fighting with them, and great stays). Agility has the freedom to do this and it is so much better for the dogs to sort it out as a team rather than try to enforce something that might not be the best for one member of the team.

    After the 30 seconds of fighting with her about the sit… BOTH of your were thinking about the sit stay – and on your release you were very disconnected so when she landed from 1 at 1:46, all she saw was you back and the BC starting, so she didn’t take 2 (correctly, from this view)

    At the end, you were still a bit disconnected but the earlier throws helped her see the line to 2. So try to be MUCH more connected (more direct eye contact, arms in closer so they don’t block your eyes, etc) so when she lands from 1, she can see the cues for 2. The BC doesn’t need to start til after she lands from 1 for now, so being clear on the cues for 2 will help that (and no fighting on the start line will help it more than you realize too :))

    Tunnel entries & exits:

    The ball is fine to use: she likes it a lot and basically brings it back ๐Ÿ™‚
    The Go lines look great!
    The soft turns can happen sooner in terms of the physical cues. The verbals are timely but you are running forward while saying them, so she is not sure if she should go straight or turn tight (she is splitting the difference, good girlie ๐Ÿ™‚ . So let her see the left/right physical cues of you moving away to the wing you will want, all while she is still a solid 6 feet from the tunnel entry (along with the verbal) and the turns will be even tighter.

    The RC info can be sooner when you are turning her to her left. At 3:09 and 4:16 for example – late pressure caused her to continue straight. You were showing the RC info after her head was in the tunnel, so she didn’t make the turn Compare it to much earlier info at 3:57 where you were right on her tail and she nailed it ๐Ÿ™‚ Yay! So start close to the wing and after she wraps the wing, get directly onto the RC diagonal (so she sees and hears the cues 4-6 feet before she enters) and she should be reading it really well in both directions.

    Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Susan and Grady #39966
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi!

    >> As you can see in the video, he went around the far wing (perhaps distracted or my position was showing a backside). I didnโ€™t fix anything, just continued on as if nothing happened.

    This was a great run!! Looking at the blooper – I don’t think it was a handling error. Watching his head, it looked like he was distracted by something on the wall. The electrical boxes? He was definitely looking up at *something*. You were brilliant about continuing and then doing the independent weaves to DW – that looked AMAZING!

    All of the pop outs looked great!

    Pop out 1
    Threadle opening looked GREAT! The a-frame is a big distraction but you were able to get his eyes off of it – you can add a verbal wrap directional as he is approaching 2, which might be stronger than his name in this scenario. And cookies on the chair went well too! He did well with the person sitting on the ground ๐Ÿ™‚

    Pop out 2: These also looked really good! He was not quite as fast or sure of the threadle at 2: You can lead out a little more on these before releasing, so he sees you nearer to 2 and with your threadle arm out sooner to smooth out the threadle to 2.. and it will also help you get past the tunnel sooner too! As soon as he got 2, he was very fast so you had to really hustle to get there.

    Pop Out 3: you did a great job navigating through all of the obstacles in your way LOL! It was very aggressive handling and he LOVES LOVES LOVES when you handle like that. He is at his best when you send him and run to your next spot, like you did here. YAY!!!

    Pop Out 4:
    Also really strong! For the ‘turn” cues, add more rear cross physical cues – pressure on the RC lines, and also because these are tighter rears that needed to be set, you can use your hands to set them up by grabbing his attention with your hands, then flipping him away.

    Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Promise and Amy #39965
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Holy bananas! Great run! You were hustling but also maintained connection!!!! She was a VERY good girl with her stay, her bars, her lines, etc. Yes, the FC was late and I will try to talk you into doing a BC on those types of lines anyway LOL! I loved your right verbal at the end but the RC cue was a little late (:20) which is why she read it after landing. But overall – a GORGEOUS run and a great example of teamwork!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! How is UKI going today?

    T

    in reply to: Brandy & Nox (Sheltie) #39964
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi!
    Nice work figuring out how to set these different types of RCs!
    One thing to be careful of is ‘pulling’ with your dog side shoulder when she is behind you: that is when you point your dog-side arm forward to the jump and turn your shoulder towards the jump. She spins and barks when you do that (for example at :03 seq A, :51 on Seq B, 4:10 on the bigger sequence), probably because it breaks connection and your upper body and lower body are saying different things. She did much better with less arm pointing forward to cue the line (this is true for her in all cases, not just RCs :)) and with smoother motion.

    Seq 1:
    You drove forward through the RC at :12 nicely, and nailed it at :28, then the rest of the sequence runs went really well.
    Nice connection! And nice BC at 5-6 to get to the tunnel ๐Ÿ™‚

    Seq B – When you didn’t point forward to 3… she got the RCs really well here too ๐Ÿ™‚ Her only question was at 3-4> The turn on 3 is not really a right verbal, so she was turning right and you had to push her back out. It went much better when you didn’t use the right verbal and told her to jump or go, then it was really easy here and on the later sequences.

    To help set her on the big lines, you can use bigger louder GO verbals and also tunnel verbals. You are conversational with the vebrals, meaning a normal tone – and the louder verbals (shouted!) can really propel her away to those lines, which can help you get waaaay ahead for the jump after the tunnel.

    Seq C – the wrap RCs looked great at the beginning! In sequence, you needed to keep moving forward to them as you decel like at 3:27, but with connection (not enough at 3:55 and 4:10). If you pointed forward or hit the brakes, she had commitment questions.

    Great job putting things together into the bigger sequences! The first big sequence was a little harder – remember to keep moving through al l the cues with your arms low and kind of out of the picture, paired with the big loud go & tunnel cues to get her on the big lines. The 2nd big sequence at the looked great! You were in motion and connected the whole time, so she read it all really well. Yay!

    Great job! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Brandy & Nox (Sheltie) #39963
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Jumping 2: this went pretty smoothly!!! As with the first course – the bones of the walk through are really good, good plans and good pace! Now, add tons more connection ๐Ÿ™‚ try to look for the invisible dog on the exits of all tunnels, when sending, exits of crosses, etc – visualizing the dog will really help prepare the connection for the actual run.

    Also – plan more big distance layering to be able to get to the hard spots where handling is required. Layering will allow you to set her on a line and get to those spots pretty easily ๐Ÿ™‚ For example, layering the 11-4 tunnel to get to 10 sooner and maybe even a big layer of both th e11-4 tunnel and the 7-23 jump to get ot the 15-16 line (or definitely just the 7-23 jump). and layering the 11-4 tunnel will help you get to 23-24 sooner too!

    First run was really good, and so were the other runs! Most of the lines went well, you were a little too far from the threadle wrap at 10 (keep working that skill so you can get closer to the wing and she will still come in for the threadle side rather than take the front)

    Then I think the only other hard parts were because you tried to run the lines with her rather than layer, so it was harder to get to the handling spots. For example – any line that you could clearly get to? Went really well! The lines where you got behind (like the BC 15-16, and the ending line 22-23-24) – were because you tried to run the lines with her rather than add the big layers ๐Ÿ˜‰

    So this is a good course to isolate the big layering lines, like after the 11 tunnel, send to 12-13 and keep the verbals going and parallel line motion, while you layer the 7-23 jump and do he BC 15-16. When that is going well, you can meet her at the end of the 11 tunnel so you can send to 12-13 etc and layer both the 4-11 tunnel and the 7-23 jump to get to the BC 15-16 ๐Ÿ™‚ Fun! But also a really hard skill so you will want to work it independently with a ton of thrown rewards.
    You can also play with connecting more on the exit of 19, sending to 20/21/etc while you layer the 4-11 tunnel to easily get ahead at 23 ๐Ÿ™‚ If you can layer that tunnel, you will be waitnig for her at 23 LOL!!

    Great job here! Let me know what you think about the layering ideas.

    Tracy

    in reply to: Brandy & Nox (Sheltie) #39962
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Good morning!

    >>When I was editing, I saw A LOT of connection issues and my arms were often pointing at obstacles and not the dog or her path when a lot of the problems occurred.

    Yes, that was the cause of most of her questions, so when you walk the courses: doubly emphasize arms down, BIG connection. Walk (and run) with a water bottle in your hand so you can make biiiiig connection – and know when you break connection because you will feel the water spill LOL!

    >>I know some other things were due to holes in our training (like sending ahead and not turning in to bark at me!).>>

    Yes, you can train more of this… but it was a connection issue as well (see below).

    Walk through looked good – your plan was clear, the walk through had “good bones” meaning the structure was strong! Definitely add more connection and also, look for places you can use layering. These courses are really big, so layering becomes a “must”. Trying to run all the lines with her will willresult in being out of position at some point – but big layering will make it all much easier. If you can’t get the layering while running the whole thing, try to work just pieces of the courses to get the layering skills going and reward the skill.

    One other idea, to help keep her frustration level low and minimize spinning/barking: If something comes off the rails – don’t stop and fix in that moment, as that gives her barking fits and it is hard to unstick her, plus we don’t want that barking rehearsal. So if you know how to fix the error on the fly, you can run her back to the previous line without stopping, and connect more or get clsoer to the line, for example. If you aren’t sure what happened, ignore the mistake and you can either keep going as if it didn’t happen and get her on the next line, or throw a reward off of you if you have to stop (to reward the effort but also unstick her and stop the barking :)) And try to go exclusively to thrown rewards rather than any reward directly from you hands. All of this will help her get on and stay on lines as you work up the handling skills.

    Lots of smooth lines here, so I will pinpoint a few of the harder spots:

    On the opening: Your plan for 1-2-3 was good, but at :53 and 1:23, you needed to drive to 3 more. You were really good at 1:38, that is a great spot to throw a reward.

    Blind crossing the openng worked better to show her the line to 3 like at 4:09 and 5:50.

    Yes, as you mentioned in the video: to get 5-6-7 you need to leave her in the weaves and also ideally layer the #2 jump. More connection directly to her (less arm pointing) will help her see that 5 jump that she had a lot of trouble seeing. You can add a lot more connection so you don’t rely on the MM as a lure – the physical cue needs to support the verbal, which it did at 3:40 and 4:18 for example and again a 6:03. That was when you had your arm back and more eye contact and more motion to the jump, rather than pointing forward (which turns your shoulders away from the line, especially when your feet are turned away too)

    The baackside at 15 is hard for sure! You can definnitely use more connection an dlower arms, but it is a great spot to try layering to get there so it is easier for you to cue her to take it.

    Also 4:57 and 5:09 – on the video you asked if her offcourse tunnels were a connection issue? Yes ๐Ÿ™‚ you ran through the backside really well rather than staying to help her, but she needed to clearly see your eyes – so she got it nicely when youmade a very direct eye contact so she knew which side to be on.

    Nice work! Onwards to course 2!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Kristie & Keiko #39961
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Good morning!

    >>Interestingly, Yukiโ€™s default was to wrap to the left, just as Keiko did. Since Iโ€™m using my โ€œTurnโ€ cue, it occurred to me that I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve actually trained their turns on a slanted jump โ€“ itโ€™s always been straight on.

    I think a couple of things were happening here – the verbals were similar (the go over cue hppening before the trn cue makes the turn away info later), plus at :05 for Yuki the physical cue for the RC on the angled jump happened after commitment to the wrap to the left)

    As soon as you started thephysical cues sooner (RC pressure),the turn at 1:12 was MUCH easier for her, and so was the turn at 1:39. I don’t think the position of the jump was what helped her, I htink it was the physical cues coming sooner that helped ๐Ÿ™‚

    >>. Iโ€™m sure my body motion/pressure helped make this clearer to both of them.>>

    Yes – when you were putting the RC motion & pressure on the line sooner (right as they were exiting the tunnel), they both got it immediately.

    >> I need to work on so itโ€™s smoother all the way around, and so I donโ€™t have to put as much pressure and motion into the turn.

    Try using more hand cues and fewer motion cues: I use both hands low and onbvious to the dogs, to get the dogs to focus on my hands and then flip them away. That way I don’t have to use as much motion and can add more distance. It is a little like a tandem turn but with more upper body/hands and less motion.

    >>She did barrel past the tunnel for some reason โ€“ she keeps me guessingโ€ฆ.and on my toes!

    She does like to keep you on your toes LOL!!! It is possible that she doesn’t have as much experience with these types of challenges as Keiko does, so at :20 when she couldn’t find the tunnel, perhaps she needs a physial cue to the tunnel – more like what you did at :50.

    The rest looked god with both girls! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Cabo, Fizz and Teresa #39960
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Good morning!

    Cabo looked great here! Your connection was fabulous: Low arms, looking at him, staying in motion, trusting his commitment… all while spitting out the correct verbals. YAY!!!

    Same with Fizz! Such great connection and that really helps her commitment ๐Ÿ™‚ I think there was only one spot where you didn’t trust her commitment (on the ‘tick tick’ at :07) and you said go go go – but she was committing just fine LOL!

    The push commitment at the end for both dogs was fantastic: you got to the backside, gave the verbal… and kept running through the wrap. Note how they both committed perfectly, turning beautifully, while you got miles ahead again. Super!!!

    The only thing I might consider adding is a blind cross exit on the jump after the a-frame – as the yare on the frame, you can be moving to the middle of the bar on the backside jump after it to cue the backside. Then, as they are doing the backside, do a blind so they exit on your left. That keeps you a little further ahead. The downside to this, though, (and the upside to what you did which was a rear cross on the tunnel entry) is that after the blind, you would then have to cue the turn on the tunnel with an earlier verbal. The rear cross on the tunnel entry that you did helped get it really nicely, and on this course, you did not end up behind them at all.

    Great job here!!! Let me know what you think!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Wendy and Sassy the Chinese Crested #39946
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    OMG! Naked dog! LOL!!!

    She did really well here – she was thinking SO HARD but set herself up really well for the turns!

    >> I have a lefty!

    There were more right turn reps than left turn reps, so it is hard to tell here but that left turn rep did look easier than the right turn reps, where she was shaping her own line (on the left turn, she drove right into it).

    You can add more contrast between the decel and the acceleration by using a bigger acceleration on the Go lines. At :59, for example, you were decelerated so she was not sure if she should collect or not. That caused her question at 1:06 -you were decelerated then turned, so she was not sure if she should commit or not. So feel free to accelerate more if you want a her to take both jumps in extension, or accelerate then transition into deceleration for the wrap.

    Great job here!!!
    Tracy

    in reply to: Kristie & Keiko #39945
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi!

    >>My walk through could have had more umph โ€“ better energy and more specificity โ€“ I think. >>

    I think your walk through looked really good! You had more verbal excitement in the runs (see below) but the walk through here was strong. I can tell that you are working to visualize an actual dog, because I think I heard you praising her during the walk through when she exited the tunnel ๐Ÿ™‚ My only suggestion is a handling choice: turn her to her right over 4 so she lands facing 5 (and that is a better line to 6 as well). Wrapping her to the left at 4 makes the send to 5 harder for you both.

    >>Keiko was really into playing for a bit first, then the mail person came up the driveway (youโ€™ll notice in the second run Keiko was checking out the driveway to see what was going on.) Though slightly distracted, she stuck with me, which was great.>>

    I noticed that she was not totally ‘into’ running the sequemce, so yo uwere using more verbal energy duing the 2 runs to pump her up. Heat? Mail person? Not enough room to run? Not sure, but she was a little subdued so the extra verbal energy helped. You can plan that im the walk through, because you often do use praise and high energy ‘woohoo!’s during the run ๐Ÿ™‚

    Both runs were good! Because she was not as fast as usual, you were using more of that verbal energy but you generally stayed really connected and executed your plan really well ๐Ÿ™‚

    >>The first run here was going fine until I disconnected as she went over #8. Eek! Never lose sight of your dog! She saved me โ€“ they do that for us sometimes, donโ€™t they

    Yes, when they learn more about the game, they begin to save us ๐Ÿ™‚ That is why we reward them so often! You had a that little disconnection at :48 after 8 – you reconnected and she fixed her line, good girl! You were much clearer with the connection at 1:27, and she nailed it: no problem getting past the tunnel to 9 on either run. YAY!!

    >> summer camp is drawing to a close. What do you have coming up on the horizon? Hope thereโ€™s something Keiko and I can join.>>

    Yes! Now that my insane August is finished, I can plan some stuff ๐Ÿ™‚ I am thinking of a series of short hndling classes for the younger dogs like Keiko: we begin with a live Zoom seminar, then everyone has 2 weeks to do the skills and sequences from the seminar and also some bonus sequences. People can take as many or as few as they like ๐Ÿ™‚ Let me know if that sounds like fun!

    Great job here ๐Ÿ™‚
    Tracy

    in reply to: Chata and Tina #39940
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Yep, 1 year old, complete adolescent brain.

    >>She isnโ€™t a fan of chasing long toys- I know sounds weird but sheโ€™s more an upright girl-

    Not weird at all, she is bred to point not chase, so it makes sense that she doesn’t find the prey drive of chasing a toy as stimulating as the ‘birdiness’ of balls and frizzers.

    So just play some frizzer in the training building, play some ball, etc. You will be able to add in silly tricks for the friz, etc. Her brain will un-blip soon then it will be back to training. The more I learn about adolescent dog brains, the less I train during adolescence LOL!!!

    T

    in reply to: Julie, Kaladin & Min (Camp 2022) #39939
    Tracy Sklenar
    Keymaster

    Hi! Both dogs looked great here!

    >>She got up from her sit

    A little pushy on the start line is a good thing LOL!
    Nice opening on these!

    The GO after the RC on jump 4 was a little too much at :12, she is literal and she was GOING for sure LOL! The jump verbal at :29 was just right, perfect amount of turn to the line.

    >>She came inside the jump to the tunnel really well and then came right with me past it when I thought she had it and started moving on.

    She was probably not as familiar with the backside tunnel in that context, so went past it with the softer connection at :17. You gave her stronger connection at :34 and she was great!

    It would be interesting to see the difference in time on the 7-8-9 with the backside slice line that you did here, versus wrapping the inside wing (the one closer to the tunnel). The wrap has more turning, but far less distance. She is a great turning dog so it might end up being faster! You executed the backside slice really well here, so if you are in the mood to set it up again, do the slice versus the wrap on jump 8 and we will compare ๐Ÿ™‚

    Nice job with the balance of jump to tunnel and jump to go go go at the end, it was very cool to see her do both, and great to know which cues she needs!

    Kaladin’s video:
    That was pretty hilarious when Kaladin took off for the weaves, then a couple of seconds later re-appeared and continued the sequence LOL! At least you know he remembered the weave training you had been doing LOL!

    At 1:03 when he took the jump not the tunnel, he probably needed a name call or a right verbal as he was approaching 5.You did call him after the initial off course, but it was after he landed from 5 so he applied it to the off course jump.

    At 1:47 you said your first go as he was approaching 5 (in the balance rep) so that is the timing to try with the turn verbals. At 2:00, you called him as he was over the bar and that totally helped – he landed then turned his head. So either a little earlier with the name (right before he lifts off) or try it with a right verbal as he is approaching 5, so he can adjust and turn right enough to find the backside tunnel entry and not the off course jump.

    The rest looked great! He was especially tight and fast on the exit of the backside, wowza!!!!!!

    Great job!!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
    Tracy

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