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She did well here, so we can tweak a couple of things then add the layering. 🙂
For the start jump, because we are starting so close to it, lower the bar to add speed. Then start nice and close to it and stay near it, til she lands… then accelerate like mad up the line sending her with her go go go verbals (and jump verbal :))I think if you turn your shoulders sooner, she will keep that bar up – it is a hard slice angle and if you were facing it too much when she took off then you turned, she was adjusting in the air and dropped the bar. So, be turned and facing the jump after it, so she squares up to the jump before it and keeps the bar up.
The other thing to add now: layering! Try and use the momentum and verbals for her to go take the line… but you will stay on the original side of the tunnel you started on, while she does the line of jumps on the other side. That will help her keep the bar up on the jump she struggled with too because it is easier to turn for the bar when you’re layering.Nice work here! Let me know how the layering goes!
TracyHi!
This is going well, she was quite perfect about reading the lines!!!
The go tunnel section and the layering all looked great 🙂On the turn to the backside: very nice work getting her turned! Yes, as you mentioned, you were late on the first one but much better on the others 🙂
You can also be more lateral as you move down the line to the backside so the lateral position helps tip her off about the turn (as opposed to straight line to the tunnel.
You can give her the turn info to the backside after the lands at 6, so she takes off for 7 facing the #8 backside. You were tending to do it as she was approaching 7, which is a little late for her stride length. Keep playing with how early you can do it and see how she does with early timing.
She is reading that flip away to the tunnel really well, so you can cue that sooner too: as she is approaching takeoff, you can start the flip (no time to praise LOL!)so she sees it before takeoff.
So on the next session, try to be as early as possible even if you are too early and push her off a line 🙂
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
About the stay:>> I try to push things in training hoping he can cope better at trials.
Yes, it builds confidence for sure! And you can also do very short lead outs in training, so you get used to the timing you will need at a trial.
T
Ooh, the pool noodle is a clever idea!!!!! That can work too!
And yes, planning more than running is very useful 🙂
Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
Glad to hear they did well with the weaves!>> But the big surprise was none of my dogs could get the obstacle discri.ination. better if i stood but all just went eother over same obstacle as just did or were totally random. They were so busy offering they didnt stop to listen probably not helped by fact i dont use a jump cue alot tendvto just use go or left or la .. but i do use a tunnel cue. Might have helped if i had been further away.>>
You can adjust this to use a left or right if they don’t have a jump verbal. And if they got a bit frantic, you can have them reset with a Cookie next to you, in a sit, before the next rep.
T
The “get it” is both the marker and the info about where the cookie is. I try to discourage “yes” as a marker because it ultimately ends up confusing the dogs, especially when mixed into high energy praise. If yes means come get the cookie but on course also means “good job, keep going” then the dog will make mistakes.
And example of that would be a hard weave entry, or praising a great teeter: when we get excited and say “yes!” (because we always do, can’t really stop ourselves), should the dog keep weaving, remain on the teeter? Or come to you for the cookie? If there has been a long history of yes as a cookie marker, the dog will be guessing and we don’t want that.
The easiest thing is to just not use yes as a marker. Either use a clicker or use a location marker like “get it”.
TracyGood morning!
Omg I’m on the west coast now so it is breakfast time here and that wrap looks DELICIOUS hahahaha!This is a really strong session for sorting out cues!
First rep- nice connection at :11 for the send, nice wrap – good timing! A position suggestion for the wraps: stay on the takeoff side, so you don’t show any motion past the bar as that can cause a wider turn when he is jumping full height. Decelerating sooner will belp stop your momentum from going past the jump.
On that first rep, switching the toy to the other hand caused a disconnection, so either run hands-free or leave the toy in one hand only.2nd rep at :22, note how you shifted your connection and arm forward and ahead of him, so he looked at you and dropped the bar.
Good wrap here too!The next two reps were closer to the first rep – they looked really good too.
The arm back connection is looking soooo much clearer! The only thing to add now is to deliver the verbals to his eyes, looking at him, and not at the jump at all. I know it is entirely counterintuitive to do that LOL! But it works beautifully because it turns your shoulders to the line and shows awesome connection.
And in sequences, you can run with the toy in a pocket (or thrown by Mike) so you don’t have to it from hand to hand, that delays info.
Great job! Onwards to bigger distances 🙂
TracyGood morning!
>>I do think I was targeting with that dog side arm, even though I wasn’t really aware of at the time. >>
Total human nature – we are all very handsy and it stinks that the dogs don’t read it LOL!
He was great with his mountain climber squeeze cheering LOL! I think this might be his favorite game EVER. And I was about to suggest a rear cross too, and then you did them. Perfect!!!
So the next step is to find something that will let you drop this board a little more, less than an inch each time. I used a teeter teach it, but you can use anything strong that can be adjusted in tiny increments. The goal is to keep his confidence up like this while adding more drop to the board very slowly. 🙂
Great job!
TracyHi!
He is also doing really well here! 2 ideas for you:
It looks like you were shaping for all 4 on here and he had a little trouble at first- start closer to the board so he can get it right away, then you can slide away a little more from the board.What is his cookie marker for a cookie in a bowl or in your hand? We are going to want to stay away from a yes marker, so he doesn’t associate a yes as a release.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
He is doing well here! This is a good amount of tip for another session, then drop it an inch and see how it goes.
2 things to add-
Do any handling you can think of… front, blind, rear, running past, etc. But do not decelerate until after he gets to the top: we don’t want to build decel into the behavior at all. So when he arrives at the top, take a least 2 more steps before you decelerate.Also, after the reward, help him get off the plank (lift him off or walk him down) before you reload the target. That way he won’t turn around or stop halfway down the board or do other things we don’t want him to do.
Nice work!
TracyGood morning! I’m so glad you are having fun at camp 🙂 I’m not surprised that Spot looks awesome 🙂 but it sure is fun for other people to see it too and comment on it 🙂
On the video:
The opening looked great, you did the ideal thing of connect, yell the cue, and stay in motion the whole time. Super!
And he nailed the tunnel discrimination!On the 10-11 threadle the first time:
It sounds like you said “over” which might be too general of a cue, and not enough collection for 10, so he didn’t process the threadle. A left verbal to get more collection will help, especially when you are running hard.
On the re-do, you started your in in sooner but a collection verbal for 10, starting as he lands from 9, will really help.
Also, if you are using a dog side arm threadle cue, open up more and swing it back – your shoulders were closed forward and supported the 180 line there.
You were more open in terms of shoulders at 1:25 but also not moving that fast, so definitely keep the open shoulder and add the collection verbal for 10 and see if that helps when you are running. You got it with more motion at 1:50 but he also knew the sequence by then LOL!Very nice transition into the wrap at 13!!! It looks like you kept him on your left for the tunnel send to 14, which set up a really nice exit to 15. He turned so well, in fact, that you can cue the right verbal for 15 sooner so he collects for it more – you did it as he was jumping, when ideally he hears it after he exits the tunnel and turns to 15.
Nice ending line too! I loved his super independent wrap on the backside <3
Great job here! Keep me posted about camp, let me know if he has any struggles and we can add it here to work on!
TracyGood morning! This was non hot mess at all! It was good for training to see what he needs and when he needs it.
Opening:
The tree makes this adventurous, I think the forced blind with you on the other side of the tree is best but be later on starting it, and adding the threadle helped – 2:30 was GREAT! And so was 3:03!
Connect more on the barrel send, you were deceling and pointing forward on the first couple (like at 1:07) which broke connection and pulled him off. When you connected and started the send when he was lifting off for the previous jump, he committed beautifully.
The barrel makes the next tunnel discrimination more true life because you are not that far ahead, so the cues had to be super early. If you waited to start the cues til you were past the jump (like at 2:37), he took the wrong end of the tunnel. But when you did it before he approached the jump like at 2:50, he got it every time. Yay!
And then you clearly were annoyed with having to threadle the tunnel, so you gave an amazing post-breakfast connected send to the barrel and nailed the blind at 3:10. YESSSSSSS!
On the 10-11 line, he did the threadle at the end, but didn’t power through it. I bet he will read the FC-BC well too, same as Min. And it is a good sanity-saver to only have to remember one handling plan 🙂
Wrap at 13 looked good both times through that section!
Ending looked really strong because he has such good barrel understanding. Add more connection to him and arm back, and point forward less when you send to the jump before the circle wrap on the ending line, to get a smoother push out to that jump.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
This is a good weave game for Kaladin, there was MUCH steam coming out of his ears on the first few reps. Then he had a light bulb moment and was fine. Yay! So keep working on it. In class, you can move the wing further down the poles to help with the high speed straight entries, as a collection aid. High speed straight entries are pretty hard!!Min also thought this was hard!! When you moved right away it was very hard. When you waited til she was one stride from the entry, she got it.
So split the difference: move sooner, but slowly, just sliding out of there so that she gets used to you moving but also so she can be successful without a lot of movement.
And yes, she was VERY happy with her Nemo prize and not looking at you!Great job 🙂
Tracy
