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Sorry about that, I accidentally pasted the seq 3 into the seq 4 box!For sequence 4: this went really well, and finding the sweet spot of the turn 4-5-6 is fun to play with! She is really fast, so our main goal is to use as little decel as possible to create the turns, in situations where you have to continue up the line. This will be different than using decel on tighter turns were you have a cross or you turn and go the other direction (see below).
So for 4-5-6:
The tunnel exit of 2 is a little offset so she is coming in over 3 on a left turn – connection to her eyes more directly, with your arm back will help push her back out to 4 at :21 and 1:17. The rep at 2:02 was the clearest connection there and her line was the nicest!
Her turn at 4 is looking good with the shoulder turn and left verbal! And your connection 4-5 looks lovely – so I think all you need to get a great turn at 5 and stay ahead of her is to just turn sooner (no decel) and maybe a brake arm, (an outside arm used low to help get collection as we stay in motion).
At :24, she took off and you were just starting to turn, so she was wide. If you tmie that shoulder turn earlier – see here land from 4, cue 5, stay connected by start to turn after she lands from 4 – I think that will be perfect.You added decel to 5 at 1:19 and 2:06, but that held you up a bit too long – you were facing 5 when you could be charging up the line to 6 🙂
The wraps do have a big decel component, partially to cue the very tight turn and partially to help us handlers change directions. Looking at the reps here – she is very responsive to decel, so starting it sooner will help her turn better (keeping the bar up too) and also get you turned and up the next line faster, which is always a good thing with a speedy dog.
Watching her timing here, I believe her WOO for starting the decel begins at liftoff to jump 8 (the jump after the tunnel) so as she is in the air, she sees you starting the turn cues for 9 (decel while moving forward). That will give her more time to process, and also allow you to rotate sooner (as she approaches the wrap jump but before she takes off for it). The decels were starting at or after landing here, which was a little too late for her. I am betting she will be perfect when you start it at liftoff for 8 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! She is off to a great start!
The lazy game looked good here! No worries about the one jump she went around, she hadn’t fully figured out the game yet. She was quite prefect after that! You can now got to the games form the live session, where we add more speed and crosses!
>>We were working thru being outside for only the 2nd time. I could not remember to use or not use the verbal.>>
YAY for great focus working outside!!!! Good girl, Allie!!!
The one step sends also look good – make sure you don’t take that tunnel for granted and stay connected,because puppies do crazy things like look at the top of the tunnel. Ha!
She also picked this game up really quickly… so now you have to move faster LOL! Be sure you rnu to the tunnel exit so you can make connection and send. And you can job/run on the race track around the outside too – when she goes faster, you have to go faster 🙂 And yes – use your verbals on this one, you did at the beginning at that was great!
She looked very confident on her plank work too on both videos! Do you have something to elevate the plank with, like bricks or yoga blocks? Anything stable will work. She is ready for the added challenge of a higher board.
As you mentioned, she was looking at you a little bit, which is not a big concern at all – you can throw the treat sooner, or put an empty bowl at each end for her to target to (and toss the treat to it). You can also have her slow down and turn around, so she sorts out using each foot individually on the board for balance purposes 🙂
>>On the mountain climber – I am trying to come up with something to hold the teeter. Is there a plan for what you have holding it up? I was a little concerned to try it without that or what else have people used?>>
I use a “Teach It” from here:
https://nosetouch.com/teeter_teach_it.htmI also use it for other stuff, like dog walk training, etc – and I have a discount code for it if you want one (or maybe the code is for the target attachment). It is light, easy to use, I love it!
Great job!!
TracyHi!
I don’t have much feedback on this other than it looked GREAT! Not hysterical at all – it was energetic and fun! Wow, she looked great here on her wraps! You didn’t get the wrap verbal on the first one (or it was very quiet) but timing was great and you were great on all of the others. her commitment is lovely and you were able to commit her to the wrap and leave nice and early, before she took off for the wrap on most of them. YAY!!!! Adding more speed from you got more speed from her too – and your decel was VERY clear! And note how well she committed to the middle jump perfectly. YAY!!!Great job here! I think Maisy and Sassy should swap for a few of these exercises – Sassy is ready for some bigger lines, and Maisy can work her commitment skills!
Tracy
Hi!
Mali was a good girl on her sequences! Wow, she is so fast! FUN!!!
She is still learning about lines when she is going fast, so connection is the top priority. I think connection on the tunnel exits, really making eye contact as you keep running up the line, is the VERY top priority 🙂 That will help her find the lines after the tunnels here.
And, to help her drive ahead, you can place a reward out ahead of her on the lines past the last jump (like a Manners Minder or a tug toy, whatever she likes :)) Those were her two hardest things here! She found the line to the tunnel on the 1-2-3 opening really well on seq 2 when you took the slightly longer lead out at :44 and 1:07 – so nice!!!On sequence 1, that placed toy will help her drive straight because she is so fast that she will have to drive ahead of you and not look at you 🙂 And on sequence 2 – she turned really well on the tunnel exit (yay!) and needed a bit more eye contact from you at :52 (wih you arm back) to find the 4 jump. Then, the placed toy at the end will help get her on the line o the last jump, kind of like the toy races game when she was a wee pup 🙂
Lit’l Bit was her usual perfect self 🙂 Bummer that the other videos didn’t record but this one looked great! It is lovely to see how well she finds her lines and makes her turns now – all grown up!!!
Great connection and verbals! When she gets into the 7 tunnel, you hesitated for a moment, praising her – you can try to get out of there sooner, giving her a go cue, so you can get closer to the wrap jump and decel sooner – she was the tiniest bit wider than I know she can be there (it was a really great turn, I am nit picking :)) Her commitment was outstanding, very impressive for any size of dog and especially impressive for such a small dog! You can also play with layering that middle jump on the 4-5-6 line, I bet she has the skills to do that!Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Nice work on this session, she looked really good – fast and happy! Great job rewarding all the things as you sorted out the cues she needed to see.The go lines looked great!!! Yay! No worries about the backside, you can try it next time!
When doing the wraps, you can start the transition into the decel and the wrap verbal sooner – run hard until you see that she has landed from the jump after the tunnel, then start the decel. You were close to that on the last rep, and she wrapped really nicely!
Be careful of using your Go verbal too much, not that she knows it and likes it 🙂 You said go go go at :39 and 1:09 then tried the wrap, but she had already committed to the go line. The same thing happened with the RC at :59 – you did a Go verbal so she thought you wanted her to go straight.
For the rear crosses, we can show it to her sooner by showing the rear cross diagonal sooner (running from the wing of the previous jump to the center of the bar of the RC jump). to do that, you can run in closer to the tunnel so you are not that far ahead. Then move forward to the next jump: she will be catching up to you as you both pass the jump after the tunnel, then you can run to the center of the bar of the last jump – that will cue the rear cross sooner and she will turn nicely 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>> so she does the remote training like you have in the 1st max pup. Would that be something good to mix in? She puts his treats in a cooler they run to
yes, sometimes! But only on stuff she is relalt confident about doing. If she is not confident about doing something, and there are no rewards present in the moment because they are all outside the training area… we will not be able to build quickly. Young dogs should learn the concept and we use it when they are working on comfortable skills, not learning new skill.
>>I did get the lotus tug..Definitely very small and the treat hugger. The treat hugger is hard to get the treats out of BTW but my new lotus ball has a flap to attach something to so that’s nice. I’ve also got a zipper bumper that is bigger than I thought but I’m thinking I can use it as a self rewarding toy like we do with bunny bags after they run. She didn’t like the bunny bag since it’s deeper.>>
You an do some arts and crafts to make them into long toys for tugging and chasing, and they are also good for throwing!
>>My friend gave me the suggestion for getting toy play (Susan Garrett) was getting her to play with a toy before she can do something she really likes. Start with just a little engagement. The one thing she loves and gives me hope for a fast agility dog, is getting to go outside.>>
Well, yes and no… it can work if she actually engages and doesn’t feel it is pressure. If it is pressure, you might accidentally reduce the the value of the toy (which I have seen happen with this method). So try it, and it it stresses her out? Don’t do it because pressure won’t help. Something that can help with using the joy of going outside, is going outside to play with you! All of that excitement channeled into going out and chasing a ball or bumper or ayting she likes, with you (on leash at first if she needs to, if she might leave to go run around). So it is not so much a “play with the thing, then you can go outside” and it is more of a “OMG let’s go outside together and have a BLAST!”
On the wobble board – rather than click and feed her for staying on, you can click and toss the treat so she can get of (which reduces the pressure of having to be on something she doesn’t love yet). So then she can run and get her treat, then run back. The running also adds a LOT of excitement to the game, so she will lsoe herself in the excitement of it too, whcih is a good hting!
As she is learning about moving boards, make it move less by putting towels and stuff under it so it only moves a tiny bit. She does not like the big sounds yet either, so the towels stuffed under it will help too! Build it all very gradually with great rewards, and she will love her teeter 🙂
Nice job here!
TracyHi! Hope you had a good vacation!
>>Here’s the start of the Fluffy BC (I will do the FC separately):
No need to do the FC on this one, it won’t make sense with her speed 🙂 It would only be a good exercise in why the BC is a much better choice LOL!!!
On the BCs:
Looking good! The wraps to the outside were great to get her happy turning away from the course – no problem at all! Your timing here on the blinds was good at :21 and GREAT at :34. The most important part of the blinds will be the “wings in” element, meaning draw your arms in close to your sides, like a figure skater spinning fast, so you can be quick with your connection changes. With your arms fully extended, even when you start on time, she might not see it on time because there is so much arm movement and not enough connection (more on that below).After the blinds, my only other suggestion is to decel into the sends to the wraps, so she can be a tiny bit tighter. Otherwise, they were all really strong!
On the BCs to the tunnel – we can tweak your running line and timing to get the turns tighter. Try to send more to the pinwheel jump – go closer to the #2 tunnel so you can accelerate more to 3 and that makes the send to 4 easier too without you being too far ahead. Then, after the send, drive immediately back down the line, towards the center of the tunnel. You were rounding the line with her through the pinwheel, which resulted in the blinds being late because you were tending to start them as she was lifting off for the BC jump (plus by rounding the line, you were heading to the wrong end of the tunnel).
If you can send and leave, supporting the BC jump laterally is motion and verbals and connection, you can start the blind sooner: when she ands from the pinwheel jump and takes one step to the next jump, that is the latest to start it for now (it will be even earlier when she is more mature :)) And the send and leave will help her see the positional cue for the correct end of the tunnel, which will help the turn too!
And, for this one too – wings in! The long flowing arms delay the connection change 🙂
Your connection AFTER the blind was fabulous each time, which is why she ended up in the correct side of the tunnel 🙂
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! This also looks good! A theme developed: Don’t rush, take the one more step 🙂 You were moving away from some of the lines too quickly an dtoo soon, so she pulled off the line. It frustrates her to stop, so if that happens, try to keep going so she doesn’t get into frustration mode on course.
1-7 looked really great here!! Fast and smooth!!! She always tells us if she thinks that perhaps the info is unclear, and I heard no Sheltie complaints in the opening 🙂
She did get mad during the tunnel discimination moment: I think you said “Go” on the ay to the 7 jump then did the threadle cue (so she was mad about the go, but came in on the threadle cue. But then at :10 you rotated and tried to fling her to it behind you as you ran away and she complained LOL! You were pretty far from the tunnel so it was a don’t rush moment: be sure to keep moving towards the tunnel til yo usee she locks onto it.
On the 2nd rep, you still said go for the jump (a name call for attention would work better there) but you ran forward for longer on the tunnel threadle, so she got the correct end of #8. Yay!
On the 9-10-11-12 section with the threadle, another don’t rush moment 🙂 It sounds like you cued a left of 9 (jump after the tunnel) so she was actually turning a little too much at :48 and 1:11, so she pulled off of 10. She might not need the left for 9, but definitely needs it for 10. When you moved in a little more, she got it nicely and also she read the threadle really well at 1:40 when you did not rotate your feet.
Looking a the wrap after the tunnel – it is another don’t rush moment 🙂 Remember to aceclerate, then make the transition to decel, rotate anddrive her to the tunnel lie at 2:38
The backside at 20 will probably need you to be ahead to get it really smooth, so you can also isolate this part of the course and send to the tunnel so you can get waaaaaay ahead to show it to her 🙂
Great job here! And great running in the heat!!!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi again!
Breaking down the opening went well, with the send to 1 and threadle at 2, she totally remembered the Strike A Pose game. Next session, try it with the lead out, starting on landing of 1 and continuing to back chain from there.The middle section looked good again! She didn’t jump the bar on the 12 backside at :26, and I think it is because you closed your shoulders forward – it is a serp, so keep your shoulders open to the bar and serp arm back, with eye contact so she doesn’t rush past it.
This is a slightly different angle than the other video, so now I can see the 17 tunnel is a definite turn away from the line and not straight from 15-16. That would explain why it was so hard to get her to go! A get out cue would work well there too! And start it really early, no later than landing of the 16 jump. You got the tunnel by stepping to it, but that caused you to have to decelerate and made you late getting the BC on 18 (and she came to the backside of it).
Nice work! Onwards to course 2!
Tracy
Hi! A lot of good timing and connection happening here!
Opening line – more upper body rotation to push the to the backside to face her will help he rpush to it – your feet were good but your shoulders were pointing to the front of the bar (she took the front on the 2nd time too but you got better connection for 3-4-5
>> I want to be able to do all the ways for the opening. In my mind the threadle opening will be the best for her once she learns threadles>>
Yes, I think you are correct – the threadle opening will work really well. You can totally isolate it and work just 1-2-3 to get the threadle. Do it like the Strike A Pose game from MaxPup 🙂
Holy wow 3-13 looked AMAZING! 14 is supposed to be a backside but no worries for now 🙂 She needed more serp shoulers/ conenction at 1:07 for 13 – you turned forward after hte 12 backside serp and said go, soshe had to send herself out to get 13 and couldn’t quite keep the bar up
>>I struggled here to get all the words out and fell a little silent. It all happens so fast!>>
Totally agree! The more youpractice at this speed, the easier it will be to get all the words out.
>>Other issue was send to second tunnel. I feel like my I was too far ahead and then showed too much decel which caused her to pull off and hesitate.>>
That was a hard line for sure! At 1:12 – connect back to her on the go tunnel at 17, you were pulling away and looking forward and it is a hard line for a small dog. You can also go in closer to the 15 tunnel to be able to acclerate her aahead of you. At 2:07 you sent her to 15 and got way ahead but that is not realistic to where you would be realtive to her speed 🙂 It looks like the 17 tunnel was a bit of a lead change away and not exaclty a staight line, so you might need an ‘out’ cue there too! And remember to keep your arm low and back on the sends – at 2:44 you had a big high arm on the send to the 17 tunnel and it was confusing to her because it turned your shoulders away from the line.
First time through the ending line was hard but you were good to keep going, shewas trying to figure it out so it is always good to keep going. The BC on the ending line was much clearer on the 2nd rep!
>>I know I caused most if not all the bars down.
This was a lot of big distance and high speed – so you can approahc the jumping 2 ways: the whole course at 8″, and pieces of it at 12″. Then over the summer, we can merge it all together so she gets used to jumping these big fast lines at full height.
Great job here! Onwards to the next one, if the internet cooperates!
Tracy
Hi! I haven’t forgotten you! Trying to load the videos here in a cycle of storms so I keep losing them. Darned country internet! I’ll keep trying…
Nice work on these lines!! The camera placement was fine 🙂
Remember to call her before she enters the tunnel right at the start, so she turns on the exit.
For the threadle of the 14 jump at :10 – she is responding well but you were really far from the jump, so she did not know which bar to go to. You can run closer to the curve of the course there, so you are closer to the wing of 14 (without slowing down) to cue the threadle
:29 – too far and stepped away too soon
She got it after that, you are stepping back to the jump and we want to keep you running forward. You were a little closer at 1:02 where she got it in flow. Being closer to the jump will allow that and ultimately get you better field position (always running forward rather than rotating and stepping back to 14). And the threadle does set up a very fast line to the 15 tunnel!Great “left” verbal at 1:05 and she had a great turn on the last tunnel! The ending line looked good with you staying in motion (and on fresh legs :)) You can be even further ahead for that last line by being more lateral on the 15-16-17 tunnel-jump-tunnel line (she would probably be perfectly fine to do it with you further up the course, running towards 19.
Nice job adding the collection cues to 7 at the end – I timed it versus the previous video. Now, it is hard to compare 2 different days but I was consistently getting the collection to be .07 -ish slower. That is not a lot but again in the 20″ BC division… it is a lot LOL!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I think StrykR is now the happiest Sheltie in the world, because of the magic of squeeze cheese LOL! Super super confident!!! You can add more motion challenge to this game: keep moving past him while he is driving to the end, and even add in a blind cross! And, the other option is to do a wrap on the cone with you near the cone, then send him up the board while you do a rear cross.
And if that continues to go as well as this did? Move the chair out the tiniest bit, so he has the tiniest bit of motion as he goes up the board – less than half an inch. We want to be very gradual in adding a moving board to maintain this awesome confidence.>>Everyone around here has Mark’s Clip &go teeter. Lol
Ha! Good point – you might have to come south where we see a lot of Max200, Galican, and MADAgility teeters.
Rear crosses:
good job rewarding on the correct line, even when he didn’t turn correctly. That helps the dogs sort out the rear cross cues.I think the hardest part here was the timing, because he is already fast and keep getting faster. Doing it as a one-jump drill worked when you started at the landing spot of the jump before the RC jump. And he was stronger to his right, of course – but the magic of the RC will be in running to the center of the bar sooner, to show him the RC cue (which is pressure on the line).
The 2 bloopers that happen when we don’t move towards the center of the bar early enough are turns the wrong direction or accidental backsides.
So for example, at 1:03, you were moving to the inside wing (which cues a right turn) for a bit too long – at 1:04, he is about a stride from takeoff and has made the decision to turn right. Then you pushed into him really fast, so he went to the backside. Good boy!
At 1:19, you are moving up the line to the inside wing so at 1:20 he commits to turning right. Then right as he takes off, you pressure in and say “left” but it is too late and he turns on landing – you can toss the reward to the left turn spot for that, to help him predict where you want him to go on that cue.
So to get the RC – from the wing of the jump before the RC jump (the jump after the tunnel), you would start moving straight towards the center of the bar of the RC jump and when he passes you and is near the jump, you can cut in behind him.
You might be asking: but what if I am ahead of him? In that situation, you would decel at the jump after the tunnel to set the RC (decel and face the center of the bar of the RC jump) to set the line, the as he catches up to you – you would accelerate up the line to the center of the RC bar til he catches the turn. A good by product of this is that you don’t get left too far behind on the RCs 🙂
On the right turn RCs, he is stronger to his right so he was able to make the adjustment in the air – if you play it in slow motion, you will see him take off to his left at 1:41, for example, then turn right over the bar. That is harder to pull off when he is turning left on the RCs! That right turn RC has a hard line of entry to it, so you will probably have to decel and set it on the jump after the tunnel for a bit longer, til he catches up to you, so you don’t get too far ahead.
Let me know if that makes sense! Great job here! How are you feeling?
TracyNice work on these lines!! The camera placement was fine 🙂
Remember to call her before she enters the tunnel right at the start, so she turns on the exit, otherwise you get some extra yardage.
For the threadle of the 14 jump at :10 – she is responding well but you were really far from the jump, so she did not know which bar to go to. You can run closer to the curve of the course there, so you are clsoer to the wing of 14 (without slowing down) to cue the threadle
At :29 – you were a little too far and stepped back to it too soon.
She got it after that, you are stepping back to the jump and we want to keep you running forward. You were a little closer at 1:02 where she got it in flow. Being closer to the jump will allow that and ultimately get you better field position (always running forward rather than rotating and stepping back to 14). And the threadle does set up a very fast line to the 15 tunnel!
Great “left” verbal at 1:05 and she had a great turn on the last tunnel! The ending line looked good with you staying in motion (and on fresh legs :)) You can be even further ahead for that last line by being more lateral on the 15-16-17 tunnel-jump-tunnel line (she would probably be perfectly fine to do it with you further up the course, running towards 19.
Nice job adding the collection cues to 7 at the end – I timed it versus the previous video. Now, it is hard to compare 2 different days but I was consistently getting the collection to be .07 -ish slower. That is not a lot but again in the 20″ BC division… it is a lot LOL!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
