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Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
The blind crosses are looking good! Try to send him to the jump after the tunnel more laterally, so you can get to the BC even sooner and he can chase you more to pick up more speed.When you do the blind before the tunnel, your timing at :49 was good to start it! As you finish the blind, make a much stronger eye contact so he knows which side to be on. Do this by leaving your dog-side arm back towards his nose and make eye contact. At :50, you moved your right arm forward so connection broke and he was not sure where to be for a few stride, then didn’t commit when you praised too soon. The same happened at 1:35 with your arm moving forward, but you maintained your tunnel cues more so he got the tunnel entry. Yay!
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
Yes, I think you can increase your speed, he will like that 🙂 As you increase your speed, you can also throw the lotus ball more so he accelerates to it rather than stops for it.
On these pinwheels, you don’t need to say left or right for all jumps, only the middle one. You can use a jump cue instead, if you like 🙂
Your connection looked good everywhere, except for :29 where you looked ahead to drop the lotus ball and he didn’t take the tunnel.He didn’t take it at the end as well, possibly anticipating what he had just gotten rewarded for? Or possibly because it is harder for him to take it in that direction (that’s pretty common for herding dogs :)) so you can do some value building for tunnels at speed, with thrown toys as rewards. 🙂
TTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
I think the challenge he was seeing her was that you were behind him, and that moght be too hard for now. On the one step sends position yourself past jump 1 so he sees the send with you ahead, not behind him. That will really set the line.
And keep your arm low , it was shoulder height and he is short 🙂 motion will support the line, not a high arm.
One other thing that will help is reward placement- the reward placement is on landing of middle jump not after 3rd jump – At :30 he got it but you didn’t reward for 2 – more reward specifically for thT on the landing side will help him find that middle jump.
And lotus balls CAN be fun: throw it further and the run over and engage with him when he gets to it, praising him!T
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>>Why do I not play with him more when I’m training?>
This is a really good question! How about you pick a fun skill to train and do a short session with NO FOOD. Only toys!! Don’t bring any food with you, don’t wear the cookie pouches.
I think you think about the skill, so tend to toss food and then mentally disengage to think about the next rep. I’ve been bugging you about that 🙂 so try only-toy sessions, and also no more food tossing. The lazy game here looks good, so now we can move into the games that don’t involve tossing food.
You can tie a lotus ball to a toy and swing it around, or have hin chase it as you drag it, or have him come to a toy in your hand.
Onwards to the next video!
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHello from Toronto!
I am glad she did well on her tie out! The course work went great!
She did well on the big sends here.You can place the toy in advance in case it is hard to throw in the heat of the momentDoing the individual blinds before the tunnel worked well, no worries that she was thoughtful and not blazing fast on those. She saved the speed for the bigger sequences lol!
The full sequences were great! I think you can start that blind even sooner: when you see her landing from the middle jump, you can start the upper body turning (allowing your motion ans verbals to support the line to the jump. I promise it will be easier when she is actually jumping LOL!
For the bonus RCs, start from the tunnel. These are hard RCs, so you don’t need to do them til after we have done simpler ones.
Great job! See ya soon!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
This is also looking good! Her opening line looks really good and she is understanding that little “pinwheel” of 4-5-6 really well too. On the 1st rep, you had a dar down at 4 because of you were helping her too much by facing forward over 4, so she took off straight… then you turned so she dropped the bar, trying to adjust. Your timing there was
MUCH better on the 2nd and 3rd reps, you turned sooner so she could adjust sooner too. I think you can turn even sooner here – as soon as she takes a stride towards 4 after the tunnel, you can be turning to show the line from 4-5. Then you can also leave 5 sooner: as soon as you send to 5, use your verbals and connection to indicate jump 6 and the 7 tunnel, as you run towards 8 🙂 The goal is to keep your moving and keep you ahead 🙂Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>> Tunnel verbsl is relatively well trained although when wide and running fast will run past. Thru is much newer and have added it recently so still learning. Here she was finding the wrong end of the tunnel tge closest end and does in ring too if call tunnel early so thru means take the less obvious end.>>
I might be confused, then – if ‘thru’ is the less obvious end, is it the end closer to you? As in – don’t take the one on your line, come in and take the one closer to me? If so, then she was correct to look at you on those – the tunnel you were calling thru for was on her obvious line 🙂 Maybe I need more coffee though, I will watch it again LOL!
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! Glad that the cream cheese turned out delicious 🙂 Tasty food powers us in agility, so it is very important 🥯
He is looking great on these! And your shirt looks pretty fab too 🙂 And thanks for the in-between stuff. Planning is GOOD!!!!! And I don’t want the video unless something has gone haywire twice AND I don’t know why… that is when the video is very useful 🙂
One little detail – you might want to bag the middle of your tunnel more, I think he is sliding around in there which is changing the timing on the exit cues.
Seq 1 looks great! You can experiment with trying it with less lead out so you are behind, or so you can try layering 🙂
Seq 2: The right verbal on the tunnel entry was good, try to turn your shoulders at that exact same time. His turn was good but I bet it can be even gooder with an earlier shoulder turn 🙂 He looked like he was a stride wide and had to look for you.
Seq 3 – he was tighter on the right turn tunnel exit here, partially because you did turn a little sooner, partially because he knew what was about to happen thanks to sequence 2 🙂
At :23 you were saying right but facing forward and moving forward, so he jumped long on 4 (turning right, but in extension). He fought to get 5 (yay!) but you can start turning your shoulders as soon as you see that he is out of the tunnel, so he turns to 4 sooner in collection and lands looking at 5.
Seq 4: He was SO CLOSE to getting 5 with the layering!!! SO CLOSE! We will be working on layering soon, it is really helpful.
2nd rep – On this lead out, if you are going to be lateral (which is a good strategy in order to get up the line 4-5), don’t be stationary. You were stationary on the release, so he read that and turned left over jump 1… then adjusted in the air when you said go tunnel to turn back to the tunnel which caused him to pull the bar. Lateral and moving as you release will present the line to the tunnel more smoothly.
Your position at 1:06 was good, remember to keep your arm back so he still reads connection to the line – this will also be helped when we look at layering 🙂
3rd rep – this was hard for him, in that you had to hustle up the line and had a softer connection, which he found challenging in terms of keeping the bars up at 3 and 5 and he looked at you over 6 on the way to the tunnel. The rest great: lovely timing on the start of the wrap verbal, and you can even start the deceleration sooner (the bar down there might have thrown off the timing of the decel a little. He turned really well and the ending line was great too.So I think the questions about the bars & lines on the middle part (3-4-5-6) was more about how uncomfortable the line was because of that dang middle jump in the way 🙂 It was harder for you to clearly show the line because the jump was kind of blocking your more preferred path, and harder for him to make those lines with you trying to get around the thing in your way. This ‘thing in the way’ has become a hot trend in course design (I am giving it the sarcastic slow clap of ‘this is an annoying trend’ haha) but yet, here it is so we will train for it 🙂 We will be adding layering tools in coming weeks which will totally help. For now, for timing tools – lower the bars for him once or two so he can see more of this context and think about the lines… then after a couple of smooth reps, the bars can go back up and I am sure he will get it.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
I will get a film of the Russian handler’s (no longer Russian though, she was a journalist so hard to flee) idea, basically it uses a wing to help guide the soft side entries to have more handler independence – she didn’t talk about fading it but I am pretty sure we can figure that out on our own. I am on the road til Tuesday but I can probably borrow a dog here to get it filmed – surely they have dogs needing more work on soft side entries in Canada?>> I guess I shouldn’t admit this but remembering some of these courses is getting in the way of more subtle handling cues. Just saying that 21 obstacle without any weaves? No time to think.>>
That is a good admission- 21 obstacles without weaves deprives the handler of a way of breaking the course into section that might push us out of our comfort zone. I learned that when I was feeling lazy and doing the UKI At Home speedstakes courses in the smaller 30×30 spaces: 21 obstacles on a tunnel and 4 jumps? Dear god! Do.Not.Recommend. But it helped me change how I can put together longer jump/tunnel sequences, and then jumping courses WITH weaves are so much easier. I have bigger distances on these courses because that might buy us some time to process and deliver cues, as compared to the shorter distances we might see sometimes at trials.
On the video of Jumping 1:
On the opening section 1-2-3-4-5, I thought your lead out position was both advantageous for getting the line AND the next position, and patient in that you cued 1-2-3 but didn’t rush away. You set the line 3-4-5 and as you saw him committing to the line, you left using the big layer to deal with 6-7-8. Nailed it every single time! Yay! And he found the 6 jump on the straight exit from the tunnel really well (you and he made it looked easier than it actually is 🙂 )
The 5-6-7-8 line was probably the most challenging part of the course, and it is all about timing windows (more below on timing windows for exits of extension obstacles for him):
At :18, he had a question about the line, he was convinced it was the other side of the tunnel. Your come cue started as he was taking off in extension for 6 and your motion, while decelerating, was facing the line to the other side of the tunnel. That is pretty much what the other-side-of-tunnel cue would look like and sound like, so he had a good argument there.
Compare it to :29 where you rotated towards him for a heartbeat as he was approaching 6, that made a world of difference for him. When you did it from the full run at :58, he was able to read it, but definitely start it in the timing window between the tunnel exit and takeoff – you started to call him when he was taking off and did the rotation when he landed, so he had to make a major adjustment on the flat.At 1:27, you started that call/rotation as he was halfway between the tunnel exit and the jump, and it was the best turn so far! Yay! Same at 2:12, rotation starting when he was approx halfway between.
The rotation totally works for him – but to get the line there consistently, start it sooner. The timing window for the turn on 6 begins no later than the exit of the 5 tunnel (and, considering his speed and length of stride, it will start while he is in the tunnel on shorter distances). As soon as you see him exit the tunnel, you should be starting the verbal and decelerating into the rotation – that will get the turn really nicely. You use come as a general turn verbal for non-wraps, so you can use it there or you can use a soft turn verbal such as left – but definitely starting earlier. If it starts at the halfway point, he will have to adjust in the air or on landing. When it starts at exit of tunnel, he can adjust before takeoff.
The other option (so you don’t have to decel and rotate after having just flown across the field) is to, as he is exiting the tunnel, begin a soft turn cue (left if you have it, or a quieter come or his name) along with a ‘brake’ arm (opposite arm used low as a “whoa” to get come collection and turning your shoulders sooner… all in that window between exit of tunnel and liftoff to 6.
MIdcourse: you can move the timing forward on this line too to get it smoother:
From tunnel 8 to jump 9, there is a lot of forward motion. You supported 9 with a jump cue but he didn’t see a turn turn cue on 9 til he landed and you started the FC, then there was a bit of a domino effect that resulted in the wrong side of 15: he went long at 9, the FC brought him back, but then you didn’t cue the turn on 11 til he landed so he was wide going to the backside at 12 so you had to hang out 0 that put you behind on the motion line to the backside at 14. The backside verbal was timely but motion was behind him at 1:11 for the push to 14. In that situation, use your upper body to push to the backside more (more extreme connection, even an outside arm) and converging motion to get it.2nd time through there you were in better position (1:32) so he had a better turn on 9, but you can call him and just do a blind there (10-11) which allows you maintain better position on the 11-12-13-14 line (the FC allows him to catch you) and also help keep the bar up as you can turn and run to the blind sooner, without slowing down or rotating. The come cue for the turn on 11 to the 12 backside happened while he was in the air at 11, so earlier than the previous rep but still nothing he could do about it til he landed.
The timing window for the turn cue on 11 to get the line to the backside (and take out the off course jump he sees) is that your come verbal can physical cue starts no later than landing of 10 (and I think to practice for smaller distances, you can start it while he is over the bar of 10). So as he is jumping 10, you would be decelerating a bit to change directions and using the turn verbal/shoulder turn so he sees it all before he has to make a takeoff decision.
MUCH better pressure to the backside at 14 at 1:40!!! (Side note – it might be faster & easier to threadle the other way on 14 because he already wants to turn left on 14 and the exit on 14 to 15 is straighter when the slice is towards the outside not the inside. And, strategically, because he has good threadles… you can leave 14/15 sooner that way to get across the field to the ending line. On the backside slice to the left, you have to step him back to the tunnel. O the threadle slice to the right, you can keep moving forward without the extra step).
SUPER nice independence on the bar at 14 at 1:41 and 2:33 – you were connected but he totally understood his job there.
3rd time – a little verbal blooper on the cue for 12 at 2:21, but a question here:
At 2:28 you said push for 12 and around for 14 at 2:21, but that are basically the same behavior (backside push to the left slice). Do you have 2 separate verbals for that?So overall to smooth out this middle section, the info should all come sooner: the jump cue for 9 should actually start before he goes into the 8 tunnel, then as he exits 8 and is looking at 9, you can be cueing the turn 9-10 . When he is taking off for 9, you can be starting the blind because you will be between 10-11 (almost all the way there, you don’t need to be in perfect position). Then, you will be able to complete the blind before takeoff for 10 so you can then start delivering the turn cues for 11 before he lands from 10… which then allows you to be cueing the backside 12 while he is approaching/jumping 11.
Ending line – this is a spot where we can play with timing of turn cues for tunnel exits. The come verbal and physical cue for the exit of 17 happened after he exited on these reps, so he went pretty wide: That sets up a zig zag line with the RC on the flat on the first rep and more of a serp on the 2nd rep (I like that serp better :)) But he had some wideness on the 17-18-19 section that was can get rid of with earlier cues. The window of the turn cues opens when he is no more than 6 feet from the entry of the 17 tunnel – you can start calling him or using a left or come verbal, along with the visual of your physical cue moving towards the 18-19 line. That will get him turning a lot better on the tunnel exit, setting up a nicer ending line.
>> The place where I put “think, think, think” in the video was where I was looking at the ending line. It should be just a call and push, I was making it more complicated. Not sure if it shows but it felt very different.>>
I thought it looked totally different! The call element just needs to happen before he enters the tunnel, so he exits turned. By calling after exit, he has to make a decision about how to turn and that was making it harder.
That is definitely a good area to work with the timing and his responses: the exit of extension obstacles like the tunnels or the RDW in terms of exits of those obstacles specifically, and also exits of the jump after those obstacles when he is in full extension like that. The magic will be in moving your timing window up: to get the turn on the tunnel exit, for example, he needs to see and hear it when he is still a solid 6 feet from the tunnel (maybe even more, since he has great tunnel commitment) and for a turn on the jump after the tunnel or RDW, he needs to see/hear the cues no later than exit of the obstacle and possibly before he exits 🙂 Your connection is strongly in place, so that critical element is not something you need to think about. So to get the earlier timing to be something you don’t have to think about, work the courses in 3 sections, so you can rehearse the earlier timing, then put it all back together into one non-stop rollercoaster of a course 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! I totally remember Venus in CAMP! And Falco is definitely ready to do this 🙂
Good decision to just jump in and try things, rather than repeat a lot – it gets us closer to the first run, best run goal to do it like this. These sequences looked great! You don’t need to leave the play or setup in for the sequences, those are most useful for the skills sets or if you are having a ton of trouble with something (no real trouble here :))
On the first go on line on seq 1…when he leaves you in the dust, you can drop your shoulders forward as you move to the last jump (and keep yelling the verbals, that was great!) The shoulders leaning forward a bit will help keep your stride big and will affirm that you want him to keep going straight (he had a tiny question when he exited the tunnel).
Seq 2 – excellent timing with the physical and verbal cues for the tunnel exit, nailed it! And he was great – you were both so good that I think he was actually waiting for more info when he exited – so you can trust his turns more and start calling his name or giving a jump cue while he is in the tunnel, so he accelerates directly to the line.
Seq 3 – he dropped the first bar on this one, probably just not enough connection for a baby dog on the release coupled with it being a million degrees out – you were looking forward, released and ran, so he dropped the bar as he was trying to look for connection and organize for takeoff. Looking at him more before the release should smooth that out, even while you are moving.
You had another good right cue for a nice turn on the tunnel exit on both reps, and you set up the turn 4-5 nicely well! As soon as he has 4, though – send to 5 and get outta there so you don’t remain decelerated for too long. On both reps, you were decelerating til he was approaching 6 – ideally you would be long gone, up the next line 🙂 It will help him go straight on the tunnel exit (he had a little question at :41) Also, you can pretend you have a crazy blind to do on the tunnel exit, which will make sending to 5 and moving away (with upper body connection and verbals cueing the 6 jump and the tunnel)Sequence 4 – nice opening 1-2-3! He was long over jump 4 at :48 – you did decel, but turning shoulders will help (hard to hear if you used a verbal too) – but I think for him, with his big stride length and power, the opposite arm coming up as a ‘brake’ arm will help a LOT 🙂 As he is in the air over 3, decel like you did but also show your left arm to help him collect.
Excellent job sending away to the 7 tunnel so you could handle the wrap from ahead of him! Yay! Looking at the WOO for the wrap cues… as he is in the air over 8 (jump before the wrap), you can already be decelerating and giving the verbals, so when he lands, the info has started. And as soon as he lands, you can bring up the outside arm as the brake arm – so he sees all of that as he passes you. And as soon as he passes you and is collected for the wrap? Turn and leave 🙂Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi again!
I think it is hilarious she runs for the Nemo remnants.
first sequence here looked great, You can also try some send and go in the pinwheel so you don’t have to round that curve with her either – send and go, as if you need to get to a BC on the tunnel exit before the last jump 🙂The tree provides a valuable opportunity to practice a common course trend, scientifically known as “running around sh*t on course” haha! As you drive past, keep your arm back so she can see your upper body more – your arm closed forward so she saw a disconnect and asked a question about which side to be on at 5. You were much clearer at the end, very distinct eye contact!
She also is a great turning dog – but same challenge for her as I suggested for Kaladin: can she maintain commitment without you having to run up as close? That way you get the same great turn, less yardage & better position for you on course too! You can replace the jump with a wing for both of them to work the bigger independence.
And yes, she is turning beautifully on the tunnel exits – she had a zillion reps of straight exits on that tunnel in the last couple of days, and yet when you cued the left? Perfect. Yes, it might be a timing issue – the left cues looked very timely here and she was great.
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
1st rep – this is looking good! You can send and go in the pinwheel to work that independent skills – you went a little deeper into the 4-5-6 pinwheel than needed, he stumbled a tiny bit . So as he is approaching 4, you can be decelerating into the send to commit to 5 then handle 6 and 7 very laterally 🙂
Seq 4 –
He saw and responded to your decel before tunnel 2 so questioned coming out straight even with the go verbal and questioned again on 3-4. I think that contributed to him looking at you at 3, plus the silence 🙂 You can lead out less and run in closer to the tunnel so he sees acceleration the whole way through.The tree did make things adventurous but you got it without questions from him or collisions! Yay!
He is very responsive to decel and the wrap cue so I liked his turned at :51… but I would also like to see just how far away he will let you commit him and leave. You mentioned that sometimes he comes off these jumps, so you can maintain the decel cue longer and rotate later (and throw a reward to landing of the wrap jump). For example – on this rep, your decel and verbal started when he was maybe halfway between the 8 and 9 jump, so you were still rotating as he was jumping 9. You can try starting your decel and verbal when he lands from 8 , and keep moving forward as you decel til he is about 6 feet from 9 – will he still propel away to 9, allowing you to rotate sooner and be even further ahead? That will be useful in the future on some of the big crazy courses!
And yes, he was super confident at the end when you send to the tunnel and took off for the last jump. That looked great!
Great job! Onwards to Min!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! These are looking really good, I am happy with her commitment and responsiveness!! I think you did a great job driving her around these, they are harder than they look 🙂
A couple of ideas for you:
Seq 1: she found the line to tunnel very independently, which is good… but also you can cue it with a tunnel verbal too – that way she won’t think she needs to take every line to all tunnels 🙂 and only take it when asked 🙂
Tell her to Go and hup before she enters the tunnel. You did say right before she entered but then you got quiet so she exited looking at you, then found the jump as soon as you said the verbal. So say the verbal and keep repeating it to keep her looking for the line. On the 2nd rep, you said the right (I think that is what you said) while she was in the tunnel, and she ha a little less of a question… but the last 2 reps had definitely better verbals, and the turn verbal was VERY clear before she entered the tunnel – and she responded beautifully. Super!The 2nd video you linked is the same as the first video – let me know if it is supposed to be a different one.
3rd video: The opening is looking good! Yes, the verbals can come sooner – what verbal did you use when she exited the #2 to go to 3? It sounded like right but that is a straight line (or a left turn)
She did well with the left turn! And the Go tunnel was a little late for her: she was over the bar before the tunnel looking back at you – so you can start saying go tunnel go tunnel as soon as she lands from the 5 jump after the left turn. And, when you got behind at :15, you used a high arm which pulled your shoulders and feet off the line to the correct tunnel entry and towards the other side, so she turned there. Good girl! And the correct command2nd rep – totally cheating to step over the middle jump LOL!!!!
:32 was a big loud cue with a high arm on the way to the 2nd tunnel and she looked at you
The wrap is looking good! You can play with decelerating sooner as she is landing from the jump after the tunnel and rotating before she gets to the wrap jump, to be able to get ahead on the next line. You started the verbal on time and decelerated right after it, but you can definitely rotate sooner (you were facing forward til she landed from the wrap jump).
For the go after the last tunnel… keep repeating it. She looks at you when you get quiet (which is good for when you want a tight turn, you can be quiet 🙂3rd rep – I liked the layering here! Good job showing her the line!
>> when called tunnel when should have been thru. >>
A question for you: what is the difference between tunnel (which you use here too) and thru? She seems to understand tunnel but doesn’t really understand thru. The thru cue requires really clear handling, but the tunnel cue seems very independent.
Something about the throughthroughthrough cue said fast, loud, and in a high pitch causes her to look at you (:56) and not go to the tunnel. Saying it once (1:20) helps more than the higher pitch or louder cue. The wrap also looked good here, she is a lovely turning dog! So definitely try to turn sooner, trusting her more on those.
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! I think this went really well, and you moved along at the right pace. He was really response to all of your cues and he committed beautifully to his lines!! Good for you, to re-walk it here and there to make sure you could cue it all properly, I think that effort really translate to lovely runs. And also translated to Buccleigh having a great time 🙂
>> . I am a little uncomfortable giving the verbal cue to turn before he enters the tunnel. I am worried it will make him turn before he enters, so I think I could be a little late. What do you think?>
I think you got more and more comfy as you went along, and by the end you were really on time with the verbals before the tunnel… and he never considered NOT taking it. Those verbals mean “take the obstacle *then* turn” so I think he was fine with the early timing.
One other thing I noticed that will help: When starting without a stay on the opening, especially a straight line – place yourself outside the wing of the first jump so you don’t get caught behind the wing, and so you can run straight and not get too far behind. He will take jump 1 at a slight angle, which is fine, and you will be able to show the line to 2 better (he had some questions and dropped the bar at 2 because you being behind, and the bar of 1 in one of the other reps). I also teach a behind-the-back slingshot start (you can see it in the demos with my medium sized black dog) which really helps too!
Seq 1: this is looking good! You were a little tentative with the tunnel exit cues as you mentioned, but then when you told him sooner, he looked straight. Super!!
Seq 2 – this also looked good! On the first run – you said turn before he went in to the tunnel and he committed AND turned, yay!
He dropped the bar at 4 at :23 when you pulled away to layer with your arm up and broke connection, looking forward – but that might be where you were surprised and distracted by his brilliance and forgot where you were going LOL!Run 2 – you said turn nice and early for the tunnel too and he was great. You kept saying it though as he was jumping 4 at :31, a go or jump cue would be better. Nice connection and motion there! Good adjustment to not layer and stay connected, moving up the line 🙂
Seq 3: Also looking really strong!!
At :41 as he exits the tunnel, even though I think you could see him, your arm was up and your head a was a bit forward, so I don’t think he could see connection there. That might be what you meant when you said it felt disconnected? You don’t need an arm out parallel to your body to support the line – you can have your arm low, pointing to his nose, and making a soft eye contact.
On that first rep, you moved forward then right before he took off, you pulled away laterally so he dropped the bar trying to adjust. And, to keep you even further ahead of him, you can send from 4 to 5 and then move away up the line to 6 and 7.
You were a little sooner there (jump 4 cue) on the 2nd run at :56 which totally helped him jump and 3rd rep at 1:08 and on the last rep too, so keep playing with more arm back/eye contact connection, and showing him the turning starting as soon as you see he has exited the tunnel.
On this 2nd, 3rd, and 4th reps here, you started saying ‘go jump’ before the last tunnel – and he was great, both in terms of committing to the tunnel AND going to the last jump! Yay!Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! Yes, that is right, there were NO tooth hugs! HOORAY!!!!! That is a big win for sure 🙂
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