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Good morning!
I love your 3-wing tunnel – clever!!!>>> I didn’t include but she does run by the jumps.
Feel free to include that – those moments help me give you ideas more than the perfect moments 🙂
Her understanding of commitment as you start those blinds is really outstanding when she is on your left! Just perfect!
On your right, she is definitely not as comfortable as you can see when she came off the jump at :27 and was a little sticky at :33.
>>I am thinking to get her better turning to left, just doing pinwheels with the sends and race tracks with rewarding, making it easier?? I think that’s what you suggested before.>
Yes – more value for commitment when she is on your right and turning to her left will help: lots of right-side lazy games to strengthen her left turns, breaking down the sequencesa bit, and getting closer to the line and delaying the crosses a tiny bit. It will all balance out in the coming months.
>>She had trouble with getting the jumps after the wings to the left, so I broke it down and then did some racetracks.>>
That was great dog training and really helped build up more value.
The FCs at 1:06 and 1:18 were good to see but they are definitely harder than the blind 🙂 You would need to start them even earlier to get them finished and out of the way before she needs the line. This is a spot where the FC is not worth it, compared to the blind – compare the last 2 reps, where the crosses began at roughly the same time: the 2nd to last rep was the FC and she had to wait for you to finish. The last rep was the blind… and it was perfect 🙂 So the BC wins this round for sure 🙂
>>I remembered I really needed to be lateral to get to the crosses. I’m impressed with her lateral start sends.
Totally agree, she was GREAT with those!!
>> Maybe with your help, I won’t be late for my fronts like I am with Chaz and Tali lol. I do really want some distance with her so I can get places and not be late.>>
While I do think some of the FCs here could have started earlier, I don’t think the question is about being late on the FCs here… I think it is about if the BC is simply the better option. And, in almost all AKC, which is your primary venue? The BC is the better choice if the handler can execute it confidently. The FCs feel late (even when started on time) because they take a long time for all of us to get our rotation in, when a BC would already be finished 🙂
So it might not be a timing issue with Chaz… it might be a ‘do more blinds’ thing 🙂 We will definitely be working on knowing when the BC is better (and vice versa) as this class continues 🙂
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyHello and welcome! I love this photo of her 🙂
The week 1 skills sound like they are going well! You’ll find her getting faster and faster with these too, get your running shoes ready 🙂
T
Good morning!
Nice work here! I agree, we don’t really want more speed from her… but I think we are going to get it anyway hahahaha 🙂On the one step sends – think of sending to takeoff then moving away to the next line (more like what you did at :49), rather than sending then moving around the line (like at :19 when she pulled the bar on the middle jump).
I also notice she is bringing the toy back much faster 🙂 Big difference in just a short time!!
When adding in the full sequence – if your intention is to send to the middle jump, you can decelerate into the send, so as she is approaching the jump after the tunnel you are slowing down to prep the send… then as she is landing, you can send & leave (which will also make the right or left directionals sooner). I think you did an especially great job of that at 1:37!!! 2:08 was good too, but the verbal as a bit late and yes… your arm was a bit high 🙂
If you are running through it, try to start those left & right verbals as she is approaching the jump after the tunnel, so she hears it super early.
Timing sequence:
>>going to have to move up my timing on stuff like this for now – way late trying to say the verbal on landing from the previous obstacle. Probably needs to be on the take off side for now>>
I think what was happening here on the first rep was that you were seeing her land and then starting the verbal, so the verbal coincided with her being halfway between the 2 jumps. Try to anticipate: when you see her getting ready to takeoff for the previous jump, start the verbal so it happens in the air, and also while she is landing.
You anticipated it all much better on the 2nd rep and after that – and bear in mind, that you will be saying a lot of these verbals more than once, bringing the timing up to cover all your bases: early, on time, and even late just to be sure for now LOL!
>>do you think we should stick with 4″ or move to 6″??
I would go to 6″ for her, but lock them into the bars so we don’t get any desensitization to dropped bars as you both work out your timing and mechanics.
Nice work here!!!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
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!
Tracy
