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Good morning!
I am happy with how this looks!!! He was consistently organized and producing really good form!!! The toy was a little close to jump 2 on the release on the first rep, but that was probably just a warm up – the position on the other reps was really good. He was a little higher over the 2nd bar on the first few reps but then got more efficient when you changed sides, and maintained good form throughout. Yay!
I am especially happy that even though he is young and tall and leggy, we didn’t see any crazy-legs action or flinging himself. He was really good!!!!!
Remind me how old he is? We can start to plan 🙂 I think the next session can be same setup as this one except now you can move faster on the toy dragging (adding more handler motion :)) and if that goes well, the session after than can be reducing the handler motion back to what is was here, and raising bar 2 a little bit. This can be once a week, no rush, there are lots of other things to do 🙂
Great job!
TracyKeep me posted!
I think in May we will be running the mental management course, in a new fun format 🙂 I have had some requests for it and it is long overdue! Then stay tuned for CAMP in June!!!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
I think the set point is looking really good! She is really powering nicely and being organized too! As you build up this game, you can throw more rewards back to her rather than walk back to her with a cookie. Throwing the reward back to her will help keep her a little more upright and help prevent anticipation on the release when you are leading out.
I think the only thing I would add here is that the oy can be slowly moving before you release her now.
And next session (maybe Monday or Tuesday): put the 2nd bar at 10″ 🙂
WIYH looks great too – I love how she is driving WAY ahead on these, with a lot of confidence. Super!!! We build on this game more later this week. One small detail: remember to start with a FC on the wing – some were post turns which were a little wider and delayed both of you from getting up the line super fast 🙂
Great job! Enjoy nosework today 🙂
Hi –
He is doing a great job of finding his line here! Remember to start with a front cross wrap on the wing so he is on the line to the front of the jump. (like a the beginning of the session, at :12 for example). When you started with a post turn on the wing, like at :56 – he was no longer on the line to the front of the jump (especially because it was a wingless – he was on the parallel path to he backside). He figured it out after a couple of reps and brought himself in, but we don’t want to lose the parallel path for when you need to teach the backside of the jump. The front cross on the wing will help set him up for the front of the jump.
Nice work here! We will build on it even more later this week.
TracyAlso, be careful about total training time, even split into shorter sessions. The tunnel exit games totalled to be about 10 minutes of training which is a lot or reps for a young dog. So try to keep the session totals to be 5 minutes or less: you will get sharper, crisper behavior (from both of you :)) because there are fewer repetitions and you will both be faster and fresher.
This was the right turn exits –
Try to get the right verbal and physical cue started while he is still 4 or 4 feet away from the tunnel entry, so he sees and hears it before he enters.
The right verbal on the first and second rep was a little late so he didn’t quite know where to go (you can see him looking around at the exit) By the 3rd rep, he knew the sequence 🙂The Go lines looked really strong!!
At the end, you were really late (said the right verbal after he exited, and it was a left turn) – so he was wide. You marked it as an oops. He did eventually get the reward, but this was a good example of when you can be assuming it is handler error and just reward him.
This was the soft turn tunnel exits, just the left and some go exits (maybe one of the earlier sessions?) Nice job moving away from the tunnel exit as you said left, those turns looked good! You can start the Go cue sooner (verbal and acceleration) and also throw the toy sooner, to keep building up the straight line drive out of the tunnel.
Tunnel exits:
This was a good camera angle to see the connection on the go lines heading to the camera – you can make more connection and eye contact at the tunnel exits to get him to go to the correct side of the wing. For example at :48 and 1:51, you were looking forward so he didn’t really know which line to be on. Moving the wings in closer to the tunnel will really help get you a little further away to connection and show the line and point forward less (pointing ahead of him blocks connection).You can see your line of motion moving away to the wing on the left and right turns from the tunnel, and that really helped him get the nice left & right tunnel exits! Yay!
More shadow handling here: I really liked the timing on the 2nd rep (:17), you were not too far ahead and so he got on the line nicely. Tat was lovely!
You were too far ahead on the last rep (:46), though, so he was correct to come to the other side because that is where he saw you and you were calling him. You marked it as being wrong and didn’t reward, but in fact he was correct. So remember that in handling, all errors are human errors so you should reward him even if you think he was wrong. then watch the video back before the next rep and you will be able to see what caused the error.Nice start here for this game – This is the baby level shadow handling. He was very good about finding the line and not jumping up! After the cookie toss, you can wait one more heartbeat before taking off so he can see you more and so you don’t have to slow down for him to catch up – you were on the other side of the tunnel on most of these so he was slowing down to figure out where to be.
Hi! He is doing really well here! Commitment is looking good and he is doing well with the tunnel exits too! I think the main thing is for you to not try to run as fast, but instead to connect to his eyes a lot more to show the lines. The bloopers/questions were mostly disconnections like at :18 or when he would end up on the wrong side of you at the wing. More eye contact will help as he learns to run these sequences.
2 other suggestions:
– to help the verbals sound different, you can stretch out the left and right verbals so they are softer and longer, to create more contrast between the long loud GO! and the short, quiet wraps.– as you cue the soft turn left/right exits of the tunnel, you can let him see you move away to the new line. That was when he got great turns (physical cue supporting the verbal). When you were running straight, like towards the end when you ‘left’ verbal timing was great but yo uwere running straight (like it was a go exit), he was not sure of where to go so ended up wide on the exit.
And definitely reward all the things, even if something has gone wrong 🙂 These are handling games, so errors are handler errors and not dog errors (so he can still have his toy and treat :))
Nice work!
Hi!
The around-the-back trick is awesome! She is a little better to her left than to her right, but that just might be the side you are more comfy with too. It is a great trick for physical and mental warm ups!!The tunnel exits looked great – she has excellent tunnel commitment here, and you had fabulous timing of your verbals and she had great turns on the exit! NICE!!! She is very happy to turn, so be sure to mix in plenty of loud GO GO GO and toy throws for the exit.
She had one commitment question on the wing after the right turn tunnel exit: it was just a little more connection needed there at :55. She could only see your back so she didn’t know where to be (it might have had something to do with the jacket, hood and hat – it looks like it was snowing!!) You had better position there on the next rep but you won’t need to be as far ahead if you have eye contact as she exits the tunnel.
>>PS I finally got a “get it!” out on the last clip!>>
Yay! Definitely keep using it, especially on the go go go tunnel exits 🙂
Great job! Stay warm!
TracyGood morning!
>>The Shadow Handling is definitely hard!!!
It is a lot harder than the good ol’ days when we just walked in circles, but the dogs like it a lot more LOL!
>.You did a great job maintaining conncection and running!
I guess you didn’t see the parts where I crashed into the tunnels LOL!!! I tried to leave in some good bloopers.
>>Next time, I am going to run without so many hats and jackets on!
Yes, that will help! But at least all this running will keep you warm til the snow finishes melting!
I think what made this hard was that you were starting with the hardest stuff – inside turns where she is between you and the tunnel, and doing 2 tunnels. The outside turns (were you are between her and the tunnel) will help her understand the framework more, and then it will get easier to add the inside turns and blinds. She was not always sure of where to be relative to you and the tunnel, so let her see a session or two of the baby level outside turns on one tunnel – then you will see her recognize this more and the inside turns and blinds will feel a lot easier 🙂
Nice work!!!
TracyHi!
She did great here!! She definitely was driving ahead beautifully and you can throw the reward even sooner: as soon as she looks at the jump, throw it to solidify the driving ahead. She is a speedy little spicy thing!!!She definitely liked it more when you moved more, and that is fine 🙂 So you can add in more of a toy-race flavor to it: move the wing a little further from the jump, place the toy out 15 feet past the jump, an the two of you start super close to the wrap wing, close enough to touch it. Cue the wrap, then start your go go go and race her to the toy 🙂 Whoever gets there first can have it… my guess is she is going to leave you in the dust but that is exactly what we want.
>>But, it has a long handle which is necessary. She also doesn’t seem to take off with this one. She likes to pluck at it while she waits for me to get to her. There were several times that she picked it up and brought it to me, which is super encouraging!>>
I think you will have more success with the retrieve if you don’t try to get the toy back as quickly 🙂 After you threw it, you were on the way to get it, which is not as conducive for retrieving or not running off 🙂 As soon as she got the toy on each rep here at the beginning, you were on your way in to get it to start the next rep…. making it more about work and less about play : )
Instead, you can cheer for her, let her pluck at it for about 5 seconds (a decompression thing that a lot of dogs do) or run off with it…. then whip out a 2nd toy, play, grab the first toy, play, etc. It will seem counterintuitive because it is non-operant 🙂 The running off or plucking is just the young dogs trying to manage their internal arousal which is MUCH APPRECIATED LOL!!! So, this is a great exercise for that and you can take more time in the transitions between reps to build in that arousal management. And then magically… the retrieve appears (I have actually trained a retrieve with my last 4 dogs by not trying to train a retrieve LOL!!)
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
