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Game 4, starting with the 2nd part of the course:
as she is learning, throw the toy past the jump a lot to help solidify her commitment. For example, at :23, she was not sure about taking the jump and when she did, that is a great moment to toss the toy to her on the landing spot. That will get her looking at the lines even more. It might open the can of worms about bringing the toy back if she doesn’t already retrieve, but this is a good time to look at that too 🙂The blind cross at :54 went REALLY well! YAY!!! You can reward that by throwing the toy past the next jump, to keep her driving on the line. Continuing caused her to miss a jump, so be sure to break it down and reward while things are going well!
She also showed that she needs you to drive directly to the tunnel like you did at 1:45. When you used the verbal but turned and did not drive towards the tunnel, she came with the motion of your body (like at 1:30 and a few times before it). Since she is so young, exaggerate your running lines for now by moving towards the jump or tunnel you want til she is most definitely committed (which means you will end up being pretty close for now).
Game 5: loved the toy throw at :14! Great reward! There was not a lot of retrieve happening LOL! So you can throw it, move away, and call her back to reward her for bringing it back with another toy or treat (and keep training the retrieve, separately, of course). The throw at :30 was a little early but that is still fine.
On the send at :39, when she did not send ot the middle jump: that was a handler mechanics erro that we can fix pretty easily. As she landed from the pink jump, you said jump and you pointed forward to the wing of the middle jump. That breaks connection and turns your physical cue (shoulders, feet, motion) to the blue jump, which is where she went. Reward her in that moment… she was correct 🙂
A clearer physical cue involves less arm and more connectoin, plus stepping more to the takeoff of the middle jump. As she lands from the pink jump. your eyes are on her eyes, your arm is back – and then as you say jump. maintain the connection to her eyes as you step to the take off of the middle jump. The dog side arm can also point to the takeoff as long as you don’t point ahead of her and break connection. And because she is young, you can also go closer to the middle jump to help show the send. Same thing happened at :58 (pointing forward and turning your shoulders and feet away) even though you did move in more. 1:22 and 1:32 were definitely better in terms of the cue and your position relative to the jump – I would have rewarded it with a thrown toy, because she struggled to see it earlier.You got some frustration behavior at 1:01 (jumping up and mouthing) when she was not sure what to do – so working on the one-step sends in isolation more, and throwing the reward more consistently, will really help! And, adding in reward markers will help too: I use a “get it” cue for thrown toys, and a ‘bite’ cue for toy in my hand 🙂 I believe you have markers with Nutpse, so we can also use them for Changste!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! I am glad you could join us for the Zoom class 🙂
looking at the videos:
Game 1, lazy circle: She is doing well here! As you work this skill, try not to point at each jump or give a distinct step to each jump. Just stay connected and stay in motion, and let her find the line. You can give a jump verbal for each one, but you don’t need a handling cue other than motion (and some connection). No big deal if she does not find it a first, she is really young. Keep moving nice and close to the wings, without pointing, til she starts to find them all on her own.
Timing: Nice connection here!!! It looks like you could totally see her throughout. Timing with young dogs is very difficult because as you mentioned, we are thinking of a lot of different things in the moment (and so is the dog :))
Bearing in mind that her timing needs will change as she learns more and matures:
Tunnel verbal was perfect each time!! Jump verbals started a little late (you saw her land and then started the verbal, so it ended up coinciding with her taking another stride or two) but then you got earlier. Try to anticipate her ‘landing’ more: as she is approaching the jump, start to get ready so the next cue comes when she is landing.Great job! On the the next videos…
Good morning! I am excited to see Maisy!
You might notice that with some of the demos (the medium sized black dog, Hot Sauce), I don’t always use a start line stay. Not everyone has a great stay and we don’t want to fight with the dog about it… so we have other options to still be successful in the ring.
And of course we can look at helping her with the stays and bars 🙂
Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
2 ideas that might help:
One is to make the videos as small as possible on your device, in terms of resolution (let me know what device you are using and I will help figure out how to make them smaller). The smaller resolution videos are easier & faster to load and require less data.
The other is to put the videos into either a Google document, or iCloud, then send me the link to the document. That way you don’t have to deal with YouTube at all! I can give you ways to put the videos into the ‘cloud’ with Google or Apple – several folks do that. It is a little bit of a longer load time on my end, but much much easier on their end!
T
Good morning! Congrats on her debut, it looked fabulous! I saw it on Facebook 🙂 I am excited to see more of you and Miss Mae 🙂
Have fun!
TracyGood morning and welcome to you and Zane!
Do I remember correctly that I met Zane in SLC? I am excited to see him in action (and there might be some stuff you can do with Dice too, we will see some guest appearances from your MaxPup classmates, I think :))
Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
I am so happy to see you here with the grown up boys; I look forward to my updates 🙂
And for Alonso – the 2nd MaxPup is called MaxPup Agility Foundations (proofing, handling, jumping foundations).Have fun!
Tracy
Good morning and welcome to you and Enzo! Your first CAMP was with PATT! Then Lollipop. And now Enzo!
You and Enzo have become a really amazing team! Only a year of trialing, WOWZA! It is so fun to watch your adventures on Facebook 🙂 And he is only 4, the best is yet to come! And I am looking forward to adding to his toolbox for the challenges ahead 🙂Have fun!
TracyGood morning and welcome! I love the hearts in your thread title 🙂
You make a really good point about not being sure about Ripley’s timing needs and specific handling needs… because it is too soon to know, fully 🙂 So if you feel a bit unsure? Totally normal 🙂 and the timing/handling needs will change as he gets more experienced and the bars go up and he gets even faster. We begin with looking at the dog’s current needs and beginning to catalogue it all, as a jumping off (pun intended) point for building up the sequences and courses 🙂
Have fun! I am looking forward to seeing more of you and Ripley!
TracyGood morning and welcome to a working spot!! Hooray!
(No hooray about the van, but I am excited you are home this week to get started :))
I am excited to see Mazi again, it has been too long 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome!
You raise really good points here, and one of our first goals is to get the humans to plan differently to process things earlier (not faster, necessarily, just earlier :)) which helps the dogs process and respond better! Young dogs, in particular, need this help so I am going to try to do all the demos with the ‘baby’ dogs (eek!!)
Have fun!
Tracy
