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Hi!
Great job with the Blind here, it worked really nicely for both of you! I think the first rep was a little better because the timing was a little later – the timing on these backside blinds is later-than-expected: he should be landed from the previous jump and committing to the backside, the you start the blind. That was what you did with the first rep. O the 2nd rep, you start it as he was over 1 so he was surprised, tried to adjust over the bar and then slipped.>>But proof I am still not watching my dog. I didn’t know he had that slip until I saw the video.
Well, it is a blind cross so you had to stop watching to do the blind 🙂 It was just a little early so that is why he slipped. Otherwise it looked great!
Tracy
Good morning!
The walk through looked good! Your pace was good and the handling looked clear. My only question is which way did you want to turn him over 1? It looked like you wanted to turn him to the left but on the run he turned ti the right.On the run looked great, one of the best runs I have seen him do! Yay! On jump 1, he did turn right and the handling cued it (looked like a RC) so if that was what you intended: perfect! If yo unwanted he left turn/FC wrap, turn more to the left turn wing rather than send to the center of the bar.
On the a-frame: was he supposed to stop or run? It was hard to tell what the criteria was – on these bigger courses, you can put out a target or an aid to help him get it right at top speed.
The rest looked really strong! Great jo with the line after the dog walk. He was very happy to layer (more tunnel bags needed LOL!) and the ending line with all that handling looked super: you were in perfect position for all of it.
So keep working the pace and connection in the walk throughs, it is making the runs look so smooth and connected!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
I love the opening photos LOL!!!
The zig zags looked good! He had one moment of question (added a stride) when the jumps got into more of a flat line, but then he sorted it out and went back to bouncing. Super!!! So one tweak for the next suggestion of this:
Change his start position slightly so he is sitting parallel to the wing (the outer wing of the first jump) rather than facing the bar. That adds in the initial lead change to the first jump, which is useful for serps and backside slices.Great job here!! Let me know how it goes with the different start position :) Tracy
Wow, she looked great here! So fast and also reading all the cues! And also very impressive with all the distractions!
The first sequence looked great – really nice speed and handling!!!! Yay!
>>She did the spin wrap good but didn’t like the wrap to me.
Part of that is the spin wrap is a beret line (more slicing) and the FC was to her right in that spot was a harder line with more collection. On both of these, you can be sooner: decel as soon as he lands, so you can be doing the FC or first part of the spin before she takes off. You were generally doing them as she was in the air, so they were a little late. I think :36 was the best rep there.
>>I definitely need to work on the landing side blind so I did that mostly. >>
It is a useful tool and she did well! You can do it even sooner – start her BC as soon as you are running past the jump, before she even gets there rather than keep her on your right then blind as she is lifting off. The will keep her line fast & tight while getting you further ahead.
All of the RCs looked good! Now that she is very comfortable with them, you can add in a little deceleration as you move up the line, to tighten the turn a bit.
Looking at the lead outs at the end:
The first rep (dog on left) looked great!On the lead out blind, she is reading it really well and you can keep moving your position more and more over to jump 3, rather than to the landing of jump 2.
On the throwback readout – the faster line to the tunnel should be turning to her right on the wing closer to the tunnel, so you can lead out to that wing and do the throw back with your right hand instead if you left. That will be smooth and fast!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! The sardines have worked their magic LOL!! She looked really good here! Super confident (and hungry haha)
No need to do severe angles anymore, as you begin to add more tip. For now, keep the entries very straight. And before adding more tip, add two handling things:
– getting ahead of her so she is behind you driving up the board (and with you moving past the end) just walking at first, then build up to running eventually.
– starting super close to the wing, and letting her drive ahead so you can rear cross the entry of the board.When she can do those? Add a tiny bit more tip. I like your idea of adding the yoga mat back for the fist few reps when you add more tip, just to be sure she is comfortable.
Great job here!
TracyHi! Hope you are having a good weekend!
>>I was totally shocked that I had so much trouble with the rear crosses because usually I can be really far behind and he does them beautifully especially at the end of a course when I’m really behind.
They are hard rear crosses! They each had a technical element to them which makes them a little harder than normal RCs.
Looking at the A sequence: try to drive from the wing of jump 3 to the center of the bar of 4 for a strong RC diagonal, rather than pulling towards the lap wing then trying to show the RC. That made you a late on the first video o he didn’t know it was a RC, and also a little late on the 3rd video and at :28 on the last video.
It is a balancing act, if you push in too soon rather than run to the center of the bar for the RC, you will end up pushing him off like at :08 on video 2. :35 on that video was strong in terms of the diagonal and he read it nicely 🙂The RC 2-3 on the B sequence looked good on the first video of that! You blocked his line to it at :06 on video 6, but then got back onto the correct line nicely for the next rep at :18! And remember to add some decel to the 7-8 RC where you are flipping him away for the wrap, and it will be perfect!
Nice job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Yes, this summer was hot and busy!! I am glad you are enjoying the Zoom 🙂 And it sounds like the rear cross work was easy a d fun for your boys! Super! It is a surprisingly easy way to get way ahead 🙂 Keep using them to get as far ahead as possible by rear crossing and sending 🙂>>Do I do the Max Pup 032 Putting it together or wait for the Max pup 3 047 putting it together to become a self study ? Please Advise.
MaxPup PIT 032 and 047 are very similar so you can grab either! He is only 8 months old, so you have plenty of time to stretch out the learning so his brain and body can grow up 🙂
Thanks for the update! Keep me posted!
TracyHi!
This is a challenging sequence for us handlers 🙂 One thing to add here is to reward all of her efforts… anything that went wrong was a handling error, and her decisions were really good reflections of what she was seeing in terms of cues. So if she is off course or wide? Reward her, because she was correct here each time 🙂
Looking at the sections of the sequence:
The RC 2-3 looked great on most reps! Only one oopsie, at 1:08 – you turned too soon of the line and said tunnel, so that is where she went.
>>. The first issue was she kept taking the backside of 6.
When she was taking the backside, it was because you were on the line to cue those backside (and you were blocking the line to the front side). Compare those backside reps to your position at :38 & :55, where she had a clear line to the front and took it perfectly.
>>Then she just wasn’t reading my dig/RC cue at 8 and kept taking the off-course jump. I think she finally got it because I really pretty much stood still after 7?>>>
That was an acceleration/deceleration oopsie: since it is a tight wrap, it needed a big decel like a regular wrap would need. On the reps where she drove forward to the off course jump, you were accelerating through the RC so she was correct to continue to the jump after it. You had deceleration at 1:42 and 2:22 and she did much better there! So yes, it might have felt like you were tanning still, but it was basically because you were correctly decelerating into the tight wrap.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! So much good work here; he is really reading lines and turns nicely with you running!
A couple of ideas from the videos:
Course 1 – He is doing really well transitioning into the really tight turns like at 2!
You can show motion changes (decel) on those too – you were tending to be pushing into his line like at :05 (bar down) and :15. You can see this also at :36 and :41 on the jump before the weaves, where he is feeling the pressure of your motion pushing into the line and rounding his line to the jump on those wraps. So ideally you can run to the wing (let him see the wing) and decel – which should help him drive right back to the jump rather than round the ine.Nice line all the way through the opening to the weaves! And the weaves looked good!!! So fun to see him running full blast and reading the line so well.
On the threadle line after the weaves – try to give a turn cue on the jump after the weaves, to help set up the threadle. A name call or a ‘right’ directional can get him facing the threadle jump. Then, on the first rep you ran away from the threadle before he looked at it – at 1:14 and the next reps you waited til he turned his head to commit to the threadle jump and it looked great.
That set up a really nice ending line. You can drive into the RC at 1:19 sooner so he sees the RC pressure right behind him before he makes a takeoff decision. You hung aka a bit at the very end, but I think you can drive into it even more to give the info even sooner.
At 1:35 he ran pat he jump after the threadle – it looks like that jump was a slight lead change away and not right on his line, so be sure to maintain connection and cue that jump specifically, more like what you did at 1:45.
Course 2:
On the opening at jump 2, you were a bit too far from the line so he had to go back and find 2 and hit the wing at :03. He didn’t hit the wing at :14 and 1:48 but he still had to go back and find the jump. So your running line can be within an arm’s length of 2 and let him see your turn before he enters the tunnel, so he exits facing 2.Nice line across the back to the weaves! He was close to that entry in the first part but did a brilliant job finding it at the end!!! Good boy!
He is getting better and better with the turns on the jump line after the DW too – you are cuing and leaving, so he is setting himself up really nicely.
That Backside in front of the tunnel is SUPER hard. He needed you to do a but decel to help him or a FC, but the FC sets the line to the wrong jump if you are a little in the way 🙂 So this is a good ‘pop out’ section where you can work a wing wrap into the jump-tunnel discrimination to add some momentum – just walking into it at a steady pace, then adding more and more acceleration into it 🙂
Great job on these! I think he is doing well on these courses!!
Tracy
Hi!
I think overall it went well! He was reading the cues on just the tunnel and also when you added the wing. Yes, he had a few questions: part of that is his relative lack of experience with tunnel threadles, and part of that that you can turn sooner and ore towards the threadle side:
>>Is my body position incorrect? Feet pointed the wrong way? Any other suggestions on reinforcing the behavior on this one?
You can turn your feet to the threadle entry more – on these reps, you were not turning to the correct tunnel entry enough, so you were in some ways still presenting the wrong end. On the first side, you were turning better so he responded better. IO the second side, you were not moving as much so he had more questions.
It sounds like you were giving the left and right verbals, so be sure to turn and face your feet to the threadle end of the tunnel, and move towards it (rather than be stationary). Being stationary causes your line to somewhat still show the tunnel entry you don’t want.
So your upper body is looking good, and you can add getting closer to the wing and then turning your feet & line of motion to show the threadle entry more while still having your upper body & threadle arm still opened back to him. Let me know if that makes sense, and how the session tonight went!!
Nice work 🙂
TracyHi!
She did really well with the teeter plankrobatics!!! She seemed happy to hop on, turn around, and go back and forth – perfect! She was also happy to do the mini mountain climbers, running straight up it (squeeze cheese is magical LOL!!!)So since this went well, you can lower the Teach It side by maybe a half inch to add a tiny bit more tip. And you can get her blasting back and forth on the board even more too!
>>How much longer will you be answering our posts? Have enjoyed this class. What is on your agenda for this age group in the way of online classes>>
I am so glad you are enjoying it – it has been a fabulous group of young dogs to watch!!! The class forum will be open for feedback til September 15th. I am in the process of figuring out what the next young dog classes will be… stay tuned!
TracyHi!
>>She is very tentative in the weaves. That is not a new behavior I think I didn’t train them correctly. She also weaves with her head up and smacks herself in the face at pole three a lot.>>
You can retrain them with channels, so she is happy to lower her head and drive through. That will also make them more fun 🙂
>> I am happy to put the jumps down but I do have a question, how do I teach her to keep the bars up? Just on easy stuff for now? Or should I be doing jump grids?>>
That is a complex question – it comes down to a lot of different parts: a conditioning program that incorporates plyometrics, core strength and cardio, plus some grids once or twice a week, plus timely connected handling. And, I suggest only jumping her at 24” if there is 20 feet or more between jumps. Anything tighter will cause her to slow down or potentially drop the bars,
On the videos:
The walk through looks good! Now… do it faster 🙂 She will be moving pretty fast, so practicing the walk through will more speed will give you a better idea of how quickly you need to move on course.
On the runs:
At :07 the rotation into the FC was too soon – you ran fast then slammed on the brakes so she turned too soon. On those wraps, the rotation is not the turn cue, it is the transition from acceleration to deceleration. So, in the walk through, run into it, then slow down, then rotate – that will more closely match what she needs to see on the run.
You were MUCH clear on the 2nd rep with the decel and then the rotation, so she nailed it! Yay!>>Her tail was wagging again and her head was up! Still lots to work on but that definitely seemed like it went better!>>
Totally agree, she was a happy girlie! You rewarded when something went wrong (handler error :)) and then BIG reward when you both got it right. YAY!
Nice work here! Have fun at camp!!
TracyOh poor girlie, something definitely hurts! Hopefully it is just a bruise or something that needs a little time off.
I think the RC looked pretty good – a tiny bit of the old L but overall you got on the RC line. Think of the wing of the jump before the RC jump as an important position to be running towards – you don’t need to run 2-3 as a straight line, you can send her over 1 then trust she will take 2 as you run directly to the wing of 3 to face the RC diagonal.
Keep me posted about how she is feeling!!!
Tracy
Hi!
The speed of the walk through looked good! That really helps the run, because you are more prepared for how fast he will be going 🙂
The throwback is a good choice for 3 but you might not have time to do the throwback AND ge the connection needed for the backside of 4, as you an see in the first run (at :16 you didn’t get the backside cue started til he was a stride from takeoff from the front, which means his decision has been made about where to go). You were quicker there on the 2ndrun, which is good to know how quick you need to be for it. But it put you behind for the last 2 jumps and both of those bars came down. Being further from 3 helped!
Good job on the 2nd video being even further from 3 and rotating even sooner!
There is a lot of rotation in the throwback, so you can also consider other options like a double blind, or handling from the landing side (German turn) so that you don’t have to rotate as much – which means you can move through and show the 4-5 cues sooner. The bar at 4 came down on the 2nd video, because it was so hard to rotate for 3, do the blind, then get past the wrap exit of 4. At :16 you were doing the rotation on 3 as he was taking off, which makes it a little harder to get the backside push (great connection to get it at :17!) and even harder to get past the exit wing of 4 before he makes a takeoff decision (:18) – you were not quite past it, so he dropped he bar trying to change distractions in the air.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think of the other options for #3!
TracyHi!
>>Although I am getting wrapped around the wheel when I think of how to handle how to handle take off side threadles. Would I use my tight right verbal with my threadle hand up and keep it up as I run the line?>>
You might use a tight right verbal on the jump before the threadle jump, but the threale jump would get a threadle verbal. Do you have a course map example that we can put it in context?
T
