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The first rep had the crosses – you did spins not blinds, so keep walking through the blinds slowly so your muscle memory can get them fully locked in.
The racetracks looked great! I don’t think you need an arm up to support his line on those – stay connected like you were, and just pump your arms like a sprinter to run. His commitment looked great (couldn’t see the middle wing but it looked like he got it) on both the wings and the longer line to the tunnel.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyLooks like he was whacking your knee with the toy or his head – ouch! You can let him run through the toy by letting go when he grabs it rather than stopping him (and risking your knee safety :))
The first couple of reps on just the wing were spins (FC-BC combos) which were good but they were not true blinds 🙂 But as soon as you added the tunnel – blinds! Nice! So keeping using the tunnel as it makes more sense to your muscle memory. And you can challenge his commitment: as soon as he has fully exited the tunnel, you can start the blind (keep moving towards the wing to help support commitment). He looks ready for that!
The pushes went well!! Nice! I think you were a little clearer showing him the full wing when he was on your right than on your left, so be sure to run to where the wing and the bar meet and not block the wing.
He was great with you doing the landing side FC, so now you can add the next step which is the backside circle wrap where you get him to the backside, then keep moving forward so you are on the takeoff side as he is jumping.Nice job!
Great toy throws and connection here! He is definitely getting the idea of the rear crosses.
2 suggestions:
On the Go reps, you can stay outside the line of the wing so it doesn’t look like a RC at all. You were running a bit towards the bar, which can look similar to RC pressure.And on the RCs, you can get on the RC diagonal really early like you did at 1:34, that was the best timed one in this session. The others were a step or two late, so he was turning after he arrived at the jump. He seemed perfectly fine letting you be that close to his line, so you can keep trying to be sooner. And keep your feet towards the center of the bar as you did that like you did on this video, that was great!!
This started with the threadle proofing . Good boy to come in to the threadle side, easy peasy – be sure he takes the jump after the threadle. The serp and the tunnel looked strong here too. For now, you don’t need to do much threadle work, because the serp stuff was a lot harder for him based on the previous video.
On the ladder here: he did well here, so you can move to the next step: the moving target (I think it was stationary here – or if it was moving, it was a little too close). With the target close and/or not moving, he is looking really good over jumps 1 and 2. But the gap between 2 and 3 and over 3 is all about slowing down to be able to stop, so you can see his butt going higher than his shoulders 🙂 The moving target will get him powering over all 3 jumps and he is definitely ready for that.
Good morning!
The serp proofing here is going well. He had a blooper on the first rep, but that might have been him saying “wow, this is visually challenging” or “there is a lot of pressure here” and not your line up or release (those both looked good). He did well after that but then at the end, was avoiding jumping into the pressure of the serp (came around the jump, went to the tunnel). So this is good one to keep refreshing in this format but also you can revisit the ‘strike a pose’ game at home, having him do the serp behavior without the jump. Serping is a really hard for the dogs :). He went to the tunnel beautifully on cue, no questions there 🙂 Nice work!Tracy
Oh, it was his breeder! That made it even harder. Good boy, he did so well trying to ignore her!! Three minutes is a good length for sessions with minimal distractions, but this was a high distraction session with First Momma there and making noise LOL!
Hi!
I hope Winn had an easy time with the procedure and is on the mend! Where did they do the PRP for Winn?
Huck did well outside!! Good boy! And he is doing well with his rear cross game too! You can warm up with a couple of GO reps to get him driving ahead even more.
On the rear crosses – a little more room between the wing and the jump will help., and starting yourself closer to the wing (rather than sending to it) will get you running more too (and setting the RC line sooner as well).
2 suggestions for the next session –
You can use a left or right on the jump when you rear cross, because it is a turn. You were saying Go, which is a straight cue, so we want to save that for when you want the legit straight lines.Also, placing the reward helped a lot! He was focusing ahead really nicely. You can move the reward over to the rear cross turn line – it was on a straight line here, but since you were rear crossing we would want him to turn. So the reward can be a foot or two further over in the direction you want him to turn rather than straight.
He did well with the Minny Pinny left and right! He seems to be a righty, the left seemed a little harder at first and the rights seems easier overall. But he definitely was understanding the left/right framework of this – and holding him was a good way to start so he didn’t keep offering before you were ready LOL!!! As you keep building this up and putting him between your feet, hold him a little longer: let him hear you say left or right and then let him go to move. Without holding him, he sees your movement first so he is cuing off movement. But by holding him, you can emphasize the verbal and not move at all!
Great job here :) Tracy
Hi!
>>I need to do more climate controlled (or temperate) trials and they are just not available in the NW. I can’t spend all day in horse arenas starting at 20 degrees and warming up to 40.>>
You want climate control, we got climate control! We have multiple indoor dog sport arenas that are turfed, heated, air conditioned, and a couple more being built. We do have some outdoor trials, or under-cover trials, but those are increasingly rarer now.
T
Good morning!
On the first video,
She is doing really well with the serp here – the more your rotate your upper body to ‘face’ the jump, the better she does, so keep on exaggerating that upper body rotation. It is kind of like the one of your shoulders are parallel to the line of the bar, with the center of your chest pointing to the center of the bar.On the 2nd video, I think left turns are just harder for her in general, so try having the start wing a little further away so that you are ahead (between the uprights) and upper body rotated towards the bar as she exits the wing. You ended up moving the start wing closer which made it harder for you to show the line without adding speed. If she has trouble sending to the start wing, no worries – you can throw a reward to it to kind of refresh the value of sending to a wing. The jump, you and the MM are all big visual targets so getting reward near the wing can really help.
>>I think I let the play be herself go too long. She was starting to deflate. I will video next one.>>
It looks like the structure of the sessions was good here: tug play, then the training with the MM, then back to toy play. She looked really engaged and happy to play! Super!!!
Nice work!
TracyGood morning! She is doing well here!
>She was pouncey over the last jump at first but got better, and that last rep I think was pretty good.>
Yes, probably because she was preparing to stop and pounce on the stationary toy 🙂 On the last rep, it looks liked the toy was a little further away which helped.
Since she had no trouble with the framework, you can go to the next step: the moving target 🙂 That is the toy dragging to replace the stationary toy. The pouncing will go away and also, it will tell us if the spacing here is correct or not because the moving target gets more power from the pups 🙂
So start at this spacing with the moving target and if she looks crunched up, you can open it up by a foot. It might take a session or two to find the sweet spot, but my guess is that she will end up at a 6 foot distance 🙂
Nice job! Let me know how she does with the moving target!
TracyHi!
It looks like you went directly from winter to summer! At least the snow is gone!
>>but her landing spot seemed awfully close to the jump bar!>>
Yes, I agree. I think 2 things were happening here, maybe 3 things:
– she was hot and tired, so not powering as much
– she ws going to the stationary target, so she was not powering through but rather preparing to stopSo, try this with the moving target and see how she does.
The third thing might be the distance is too big to start this grid – or might not 🙂 Try it again with the moving target and cooler weather. What is the distance? 6 feet? It should be fine but you can also try at 5 feet and see how she does. Adding the 3rd jump definitely changes things for the dogs 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I think what is happening on the RC is that you are pretty stationary to let her go past you, then cutting in behind her but still really close to the start wing. So she is driving forward to the jump really well, but tracking the throw of the ball to tell her which way to go. And, it leaves you way back behind behind her.
So, on the next RC session…. Don’t use a ball 🙂 reward with a cookie from your hand, on the landing side of the jump. What that means is that you will have. To move forward sooner – as soon as she is coming around the wing, you can start running to the center of the bar. And when she passes you, you can cut in behind her. That way you will get the RC and you won’t be left too far behind 🙂You only need to reward from your hand for a couple of reps to get you moving up the RC diagonal, then you can go back to a thrown reward. But din’t throw it til after she lands AND you know that she also made a turn decision.
Nice work!
Tracy
