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Hi again!
Whoa, your wings look great!!!! Totally worth showing them off!!!
When I watched these individually, a few common themes emerged. If we work on those applied to the games, then all of the behaviors will get easier and easier. Yay!
One theme on all of these – she is staring at the toy and guessing about what you want. She is trying to watch the toy hand and go where she thinks it will be thrown, or wait til you move it. So two ideas to help with that:
– use reinforcement markers such as ‘get it’ (for a thrown reward) or ‘bite’ (for the reward in your hand) without a ‘yes’ or praise before it, so she learns when to look at the toy (after the marker) and when to ignore it (all the other times LOL!!) Using ‘yes’ or praise often causes the dogs some confusion because the placement gets muddy and they end up watching us and/or waiting for the toy to move. I learned that from my dogs and she is doing the same here. The reward markers provide 2 pieces of info: the ‘you’re correct!’ marker like a click, and where to look for reinforcement.
– you can use handling motion to get the behavior (more on that below) but resist all temptation to lure the behavior or throw the toy before she offers an approximation of the correct response. Luring is not increasing the behavior you are shaping, it is actually increasing the looking at the toy behavior. So… no more lures 🙂
So how to get the behavior more cleanly so you can throw the reward? You can use your motion and handling. When you did that, she was GREAT and you could reward what you wanted. When you were stationary, she struggled and watched the toy more as the source of info (thus the running into the wing).
And using handler motion is perfectly fine, because in agility you will be moving (she is fast, so you will be RUNNING :)) and it is easy to fade the handling help out as she gets better and better with the verbals. and for now, we are using the handling as the way to elicit the behavior so we can name it. No more standing still needed 🙂 You don’t need to move fast, but you will want to be moving the whole time.
As you work through the games, pay super close attention to rate of reinforcement and do whatever it takes (without luring :)) to set her up for success. If she has one failure, change something for now to help her out. For her, that will most likely mean moving more but the reward markers will also totally help! And keeping criteria lower til she has a 90-100% rate of reinforcement in each level, for 2 sessions in a row 🙂
So now the specific of each game:
Go line versus left/right:
Gah I love the wings! So cool!!! And a really big visual! It think she did better when you worked this on just 2 jumps – 3 jumps was too big of a leap forward (pun intended LOL!!!!)
To help her with motion/handling, use one of the wings as the start wing so you can wrap her around it then move forward to the 2 jump setup using the verbals and handling. This will setup more learning for the verbals because as she exits the start wing, you can be using your GO! or left/right and also handling (run forward on go, turn your shoulders on the left/right). Then watch her head as she approaches the first jump and if you see an approximation of the behavior you cued, use a get it marker and throw the reward.
If she struggles with 2 jumps and the handler motion, you can go back to using the wing an one jump setup with the start wing as a reminder, then you can add back the 2 jump setup.Minny pinny – this was a really good camera angle to see that she is totally waiting for the toy to move and guessing based on that. So…. you can use shoulder turns to help her come around the minny pinny – then a “bite” marker (some people say “strike”) so she knows that she was correct and to grab the to in your hand.
On the serp video – there were a lot of great examples of how your motion helps her get the behavior – each time she went out to the start wing, you did a lovely job of using just enough motion to get her sent to it – YAY!!!! That allowed you to get up the line nicely! She was taking the serp jump really well but looking at the toy a bit too much – so that is there a ‘get it’ marker will help, because she will pair the serp motion with the get it marker and stop looking at you.
As a side note: I 100000% understand how hard it is to stop saying “yes” or praising and replace all that with these reward markers only. It gives me more brain pain than the verbal directionals LOL!!! But it has really helped eliminate a lot of questions that my dogs have had, and she is asking the same questions 🙂
Backside – this is another game where you can use motion rather than trying to stand still. Things went best when you started her facing the outer edge of the backside wing (like at :36) rather than facing the jump bar. And it was also easier when you were holding her from the hand next to you and had the toy in the opposite hand (like when she was on your left). When she was on your right, you were holding her with your left which caused you to rotate and it was harder to move forward. Because she is young, you can also start her with just a wing and bar (not a full jump) like I did with my young dog – that makes the wing more salient and less lie a full jump, so she is more likely to go to the backside 🙂
And when you let go – you can move forward. You were really good about doing the verbal then letting go of her, so now you can also walk directly forward to the wing as she goes to the backside – that will really help her! You did have the ‘get it’ going and that is great, so now try not to mark with ‘yes’ (soooo hard, I know, the results will be worth it!)Nice work on these!! I think the main thing she needs will be more motion for now – it is better to add the motion and get the behavior, because it is easy to fade the motion or show her different motion. Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>>> how does she feel about you holding her collar?
She’s ok with this…usually, unless she really wants to run or chase something. I’ll have to try mixing more of that in.>>Great! She seemed fine with it in the videos below! It helps the processing because we can start the verbal before the motion, as well as line her up without having to worry about a stay.
>> If my memory is correct, she likes balls, right?
LOVES LOVES LOVES! balls! I’d almost be concerned that she would go into ball/herding mode and forget that we’re doing agility! I went for the sheepskin tug this week instead.>>I think you can use balls for certain things, but they would be dropped more than thrown. She did really well with the tug toy on the videos you posted below, though! That worked nicely!
Hi!
It cracks me up that Jamie made you post LOL!! It was not too bad, but you definitely want to change your start position. You should be right at the first wing of the serp jump, close enough to touch it – it looks like you were a little too close to the wing and laterally too far from the jump, so she smoked you. You don’t need to be running yet, but you can go faster than you did here and sending to the wing from further away will help too! Your placement of reward was good even when you creamed he jump by accident LOL! And your verbals were good too!!
So for the next session, give yourself a better start position and the session will be much easier:)Tracy
Good morning! Lots of good work here!
On the backsides – I agree, he needs a couple more short sessions on this, no need to add step 3 (balance reps) yet. He was really strong on the easier lines and was getting it when he was center of the bar too on some reps. When you were past the center of the bar, nearer the exit wing – he did not compute that it was a backside (like at :06 and :26). So I figure one more session is probably all he needs, with getting his start position to be center of the bar – when he is finding that easier, go to the balance reps in the next session (can be the same day, just take a short break). I would do a balance rep first so he realizes that the front of the bar is in play and to listen for the verbals, and not just go on backside autopilot 🙂
One other thing to add is throwing the toy sooner – just as his nose arrives at the outer edge of the wing, use your marker and drop the toy in to the landing spot. If you wait til his whole body is around the wing, he is looking at you and not at the bar. So to convince him to default to the jump and not look at you (don’t take it personally haha), dropping really early will get the behavior – it is like rewarding his nose arriving at the edge of he entry wing with the toy on landing side 🙂 Feel free to anticipate that – and no worries if you end up being early which causes him to skip finishing the job and grab the toy (I would let him have it). It is better to develop the focus on the bar and landing spot than to be later and have him looking at you.
I agree, he did really well on the serps! Yay! When you had yourself lined up and sent from the first wing of the serp jump (like at :50 and 1:03), you were able to get way ahead and he did a great job maintaining the turns even with all of your speed. When you sent him to the start wing from closer to he start wing and further from the serp jump (like at :55 and :58) – he did make the turns from ahead of you but I was scared for your safety LOL!!!! So, for the next session, stand in the middle of the bar for the serp jump and send him miles away to the start wing… then run through the serp with the goal of being past the exit wing of the serp as he comes around the start wing. Give him his verbals super early for that as your body position and motion will be super challenging 🙂
Great job here! Keep me posted about how he does with his backsides!
TracyGood morning!
Nice facility in the first video! It looks like she was really able to grip the turf!
>>Today we repeated the backside wrap game – this time with me increasing the speed, with the wing 6ft away from the jump. I was really happy with how this went, especially as this was not previously in Yowza’s verbal repertoire.>
Yes! It was great!! No questions from her, even when you ran. Perfect! My only suggestion is to use a ‘get it’ marker rather than ‘yes good girl’ so that she doesn’t learn to tune into you and look at you when you say yes or good. If we pair yes or good with reinforcement too much, then the dogs begin to just come to us (and off the line, or out of the weaves) when we say “yes!” on course. Ask me how I know this to be true LOL!!!! I’ve seen it in my dogs and in a whole lot of other dogs. Oops!!!!
>> Are we ready to replace the wing with a jump?
There is no need to use the jump at this point – this skill is a repetitive jumping action that the doggie physical therapists do not want us to do much of. So, rather than go to a jump, you can change the start angle more – you can line her up so she can see the inside of the wing and the distraction jump more than she can see the entry side of the wing. Looking at this video, it would be like lining her up from the tunnel exit, then running the same line – that is a lot of pressure on the line and it is a good challenge to see if she can still do it or if she will cut in front on the wing or take the distraction jump. That will get a ton of concept work done and save her body from the jumping repetition.
>>Will this also need to be “balanced” with frontside verbal cues?
Yes, in week 5 🙂 so there is no real rush to do a lot of these because she picked them up so quickly.
2nd video –
The check/dig versus the backside was challenging, in a good way! And she seemed pretty happy to have her harness held, which is great!
She did her best when she was lined up facing the center of the bar like at :52 and 1:28 and afterwards. When you were lined up at the center, it pushed her line more to the side, more making the front side wraps much harder because she had to cut in front of you more. So keep going with having her lined up and facing the center of the bar (this moves you more to the exit wing, which is perfectly fine too).
The backsides were all really good and your movement was good! Her left turns/digs were very struggle and I think she was 100% on those. The right turns/check were harder, but I think that is normal for her. She had to really think hard to process, adjust and get organized for the front and not the back. Nice save on the 2nd balance rep from her to come get the front side! We would see that same thing form her on other reps, the slightly later processing of the right wrap cue versus the backside cue. All she needs is some more experience with it and it will be as easy as the left wraps. You did a great job reinforcing the correct decisions and not worrying about the exact tightness of the turn 🙂 She will tighten it up by herself when she is more comfy with the right wraps versus the backsides (the left wraps were very tight).Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
The minny pinny is the game we use in the MaxPup program to begin teaching the soft left/right turns, because the setup teaches the dogs how to create the turns – and then we can easily name the turns. I think lots of folks had never seen the game or how to begin teaching left & right, so I posted it here to help jumpstart the behavior.>>Is that why we reinforce them parallel to the 1st and 3rd jumps?
Yes – that helps teach the dogs what we want them to do in a fashion that is very easy to produce the correct behavior.
The soft turn games here are the next level – they challenge the dogs to process the cue and turn correctly, even without handling help and with the distraction jump 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>> The “off course” jump was never of much interest, good boy!
I agree, the left and right turn looked great, and it didn’t matter if he was out ahead of you with you moving faster, or parallel to you, etc. All good! Yay!
>> The Go was really hard without the preplaced reward. Harder for me to throw anything close to well than it was for him to Go!
We can shift some focus to the go to add more value to it – it is as useful as any of the other verbals! One thing to do is change the style of delivery. Bearing in mind that the dogs are most likely processing the tone/rhythm/pitch/volume as much as they are processing the actually word… the Go here sounded just like the left/right verbals in the style of delivery. To help that, make it louder and longer and more urgent-sounding. And, to help him learning it without a placed toy, 2 ideas for you:
-move the start wing so it is lined up to the other wings, so you don’t get stuck behind the jump as you move forward – that decelerates you a little, and that is opposite of what the physical cue for go would be. He isn’t ready to see the opposite yet, so you can just move up the line outside of the jumps for the go cue.
– watch his head on the first jump as you move up the line – if has not collected and he is looking straight, throw the reward. You don’t need to wait til he takes the 2nd jump if he meets criteria on the first jump (center of the bar, looking forward, relative extension).
Plus, with you outside the wing, you are able to be even straighter which will challenge the soft turns even more 🙂 Yay!
Let me know if that makes sense! The soft turns look fabulous so we can balance the go lines in more.
> One more question about soft turns vs. Go straight. Where do turns at like a 45 fall? Like a jump at a 45 off the dogwalk? Is the answer “it depends”?
Of course LOL!!! It totally depends on the dog – if the dog naturally will blast off on the straight line, then that very mild turn might just be a name call (or an obstacle name if it is obvious). If the dog naturally turns a bit? Nothing really needed, just let him do his thing. I have an example of that in one of the games coming on Monday – it is not a dog walk exit, but it is a line on a jumping course where I would just use the dog’s name on a very mild turn.
>>I’m thinking that if it’s a turn to jump with an off course tunnel straight ahead that’s going to be Right or Left? But is it still a Right or Left if there’s no off course obstacle ahead?
Well…. it depends LOL!! If the tunnel is straight, it is a GO TUNNEL. If the jump is a gentle arc and not a real left or right, I might just say jump if it is the only one out there (I only say “jump” on those soft arcs) or I might call the dog’s name. I only use the left or right if it is a true left or right, otherwise we dilute the verbal and it won’t be in place when we need it.
Have a fun weekend! Great job here!
TracyWait, Mardi Gras and Universal with the band?? Can we do the Zoom from Universal? I play an instrument, I can fit in with the band LOL!
And congrats on 12 weaves!!!! YAY!!
Hi!
>>Unedited full session with some HOT MESS moments.
I am a little disappointed, I watched the whole thing for the hot mess moments and there were no hot mess moments at all LOL!!!! OK, not disappointed at all, just kidding – very glad there is nothing I would consider a hot mess, and you might be too tough on yourself 🙂 Lots of good stuff here!
By contrast, the running a-frame session I just did with my 2 year old boy dog was a COMPLETE hot mess. It looked more like dock diving LOL!! No video sadly, otherwise I would post it for you to get a chuckle. It was such a hot mess session that I didn’t need to review the video to see what happened haha Thankfully my 2 girl youngsters were perfect and it is really unusual for the boy and I to have a hot mess session.
>>Maybe tried too much (for my brain) whereas I felt that I was not solid on my set up choices (once he even ran between my legs trying to keep up with me when I changed my mind, poor boy).>>
I think the full session might have gone on mentally too long for both of you. The first 5.5 minutes were really pretty precise and then things got a little looser – you had the line up oopsie at 5:40ish, then a circle cue at 6:30ish where you changed your mind. And at 6:22, he had what was likely “I am getting tired” moment from him when he went and stood away, looking at you – followed by him checking out at the very end. It is possible you were not mentally tired, but second-guessing yourself too much as the session went on.
I think a longer break between the 2 sessions can help – neither element of this video was too long, but both together with a just a short reset break might have ended up being too long.
On the video: The session was actually in 2 parts:
2 minutes and 30 seconds, approx, of the wraps verus soft turns, then about 4 minutes of the backsides.
Looking at part one, soft turn versus wrap: Really nice! He was highly successful and your verbals sounded completely different – easy to process! Yes, add more of your motion – I like a wrap wing as the start point because it is an easy start for humans and dogs, and allows us to control the amount of motion pretty easily.
The other thing I liked was how the session was precise but also relaxed and unrushed. You were precise in your cues and spent plenty of time playing too. Loved it!
The 2nd session (backsides) started at approx 3:30 after he got a little break and you reset the jump. He probably needed a warm up on an easier angle for the first rep, more like where you started at 3:47 on the 2nd rep – basically saying “this is a backside session now” because he was coming off a soft turn/wrap session and he is still young 🙂 After the 2nd rep, he was really successful.
Nice job building in good motion forward!>>I was very happy when I remembered to use the v.c. “FOCUS” which we have for looking toward the target line. If there are choices, he will “sprinkler head” between them until I release him (once there is enough of a pause on it).>>
I think this was really good because it helped you set him up for a whole lot of success. It is a great way to start it and will help also when you add in front side balance (see below). Eventually, we fade it because you will both be moving so he will have to find it on his own, but it definitely helps him here.
>.I had confusion on the exit line on the backsides, because I needed a real world example. Once I got that in my head, for the backsides, I felt like I moved in better lines.>>
Yes! Your motion forward at 4:39ish would be for a circle wrap not a push, so after that rep you were really good about ‘sliding’ across the bar on the landing side like what you did at 5:12 and 5:36. He was great on all of them – nice placement of reinforcement!
>>. I dropped his toy poorly several times (hitting the wing on the soft turn! And sending him off line on a push) and being in his way.>>
Ha! Dogs are very forgiving of that, he was happy because you got the reward out to him 🙂
>.Trying to say “GET IT” for toy release instead of “YES”. I think I did it once. He still snagged the toy in my hand once, but I did not cue him “MINE” before I took it.>>
Yes, I noticed that you were much cleaner with all of that! The rare “yes!” will not be a problem like it would be if you used it all the time 🙂
The circle wraps at the end looked really good! For those, start further back and run faster, which will challenge him to make the turn as you go flying past him 🙂
>>Training plan (next): increase motion running toward the jump (for BACKSIDE SLICE) which I did not really do, but you had recommended.
WHY: I think I need more space in front of the set up to get motion toward the jump before we are on top of the jump. Next session goal-bigger space. Or are you thinking something else is going on in my head??? Besides self doubt.>>I think you are correct to want to add more motion and speed for the next sessions! There is nothing wrong with anything going on in your head 🙂 Here are some planning ideas:
For the wrap versus soft turn setup, adding the start wing 10 or 15 feet away from the 2 jump setup will add more speed for both of you. Just start walking forward and see how he does – his success rate will tell you how quickly you can go to jogging then running.
For the backsides:
Before adding a lot more motion or distance or another obstacle, I want to add the balance reps. In order to do the balance reps, he needs to be able to go to the backside even when he is lined up facing the front side of the jump as you move forward. He was very close to that here – not quite fully facing the center of the bar, but not facing the backside wing either.So I would give him one more short session of this same backside setup, starting with a quick reminder with an easy line up with you maybe 10 feet away from the jump, then move him over so he is facing the center of the bar. When he can go to the backside a couple of times even after the line up has him facing the front side and you are moving, then we go to step 3:
Line him up facing the center of the bar, holding him and give a front side cue (your choice, can be a wrap verbal or a soft turn verbal, whichever you think is stronger) – then let go and move forward towards the exit wing. The session then becomes about the lineup facing the center of the bar and the verbal telling him if it is the front or back of the jump you want (only do one type of front in that session, it becomes too hard if it is backside versus a variety of front sides in the early sessions :)) If you have a 5 foot bar, it will be a little easier (it is hard to tell if these are 4 or 5 foot bars).
>>Is it time for me to get a running start (like from a tunnel or wing wrap) so that I can work the verbal cues with real speed? I like the tunnel since I am concerned for slipping on the turf and the wing-wrap is extra turning I could avoid.>>
Not on the backsides, not yet 🙂 That is coming soon, March 7 to be exact LOL! We want to work these harder challenges with semi-speed for now because the dogs will be more successful. If we add real speed too soon, then the dog fails more or we end up handling more to help, neither of which helps strengthen the verbals.
>>My prior training (with GINGER) had a lot of foundation exercises, once I learned how important they are (my first agility dog), but there is a zone between foundation and real trial experience. I think this exciting stage of developing speed during this phase is going to be missing link. WOOHOO!>>
Right! I agree that with our earlier generations of dogs there was a big gap between foundation and running courses in the trial ring. So we have learned to add speed gradually, add arousal gradually – and the next step in the program is to take it all onto the course and then into the trial ring. The high rate of success that comes from being obsessively systematic 🙂 has really helped the dogs be success at trials too!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! I could see enough to know that the good dog trainer totally showed up 🙂
This session went really well! She looked pretty perfect with the turns. One other thing to note was how well she held her stays as you were moving and then properly released on the verbal cue. YAY!!!In the reps where I could see you – I think the next session can have less handling help. Add a start win before the setup, so you and Promise are both moving forward – and you juts basically stay forward facing til she makes a decision to wrap or do the soft turn. You can reward early with these – if she exits the soft turn looking at the jump, you can toss the toy for the jump, no need to wait til she takes it because it is so much harder with less help from you 🙂 And same concept with the wraps – you can reward as soon as you see her turn her head back towards you for the wraps, before you even do the cross to turn.
Great job here! Let me know how the next session goes with the unhelpful handling 🙂
TracyGood morning!
The sheep seemed feisty in this video LOL!
>>Wanted to let you know how much the Monday zoom helped, I finally got to watch it last night 🙂
Great! It is good to know that they are helpful even when you can’t be there live!
On the video – she is doing really well with the backside slices! And she was looking at the bar more, which leads to clean jumping more too. I notice she definitely watches the toy a lot – like at 1:16 when you had the toy up near your shoulder and moved it, she stopped moving forward and looked at the toy. With that in mind, as you work these games, you can have the toy in your hand and have it move normally, quite visibly… it becomes a good challenge for her to learn to look forward to the obstacle to earn the reward, and not at the reward 🙂 That is helpful for training and I think it is also helpful for trials too because she will look at you less when you are running and at the obstacles more. She will look at you peripherally, which is great, but she doesn’t need to turn her head to see you directly or get distracted by your motion.
I am glad that you added motion, she was definitely ready for that challenge because she was very successful when you had no motion or very little motion. She did really well with motion too and also with the balance reps! Yay!
As you add the challenge of the balance rep (front side verbal) versus the backside verbal, 2 things to keep in mind:Emphasize the clean start on those, so she is hearing the verbal before you both start moving. that is when she processes it the best! The start was not as clean at 4:06 where she had the error – you had the motion and the verbal happened simultaneously and that made it too hard for now.
And when you do start moving, try to keep your motion less helpful 🙂 by basically just walking straight forward to the bar, giving her enough room to get to the soft turn on the front side and also to move away from you the backside. You’ll probably end up moving forward on the side of the bar closer to the exit wing, so she has a clear line for both (center of the bar for bigger dogs makes it harder for them to get to the front side of the bar for the soft turns.
She also did well on the wraps! Definitely ready for the wing game with the distraction jump.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! I think she is doing fine! On some of the reps, she was a bit too close to come in fast and organize for a tight turn. But when she was further back, she is totally organizing to turn nice and tight (like at :19, great example!)
So keep starting her pretty far back and rewarding this – and don’t wait for a visual that looks like the little Shelties turning 🙂 What was the jump height here? I think you can add another 2 inches – the sooner we give her enough height challenge, the sooner she will sort out her body. Show her the slightly higher height on some straight line set points first, then add in this wrap game.
She is doing a great job of landing knowing she is turning and setting up to do so. If she gets in closer to take off, she is going to have to slow waaaay down and that defeats the purpose of teaching her how to turn herself. She is turning her head, adjusting her stride, moving to the turn side of the bar… yay! And her jump arc on a wrap is not going to be centered – those lovely centered photos are from only certain types of dogs with specific structure coming in with less motion.
And most of us to not have dogs like that 🙂 I have 4 dogs running agility at the moment and their movement in and out of the wraps all look totally different, but they are doing what they need to given their individual structural differences in order to set up a fast, safe turn.The 2 bigs and the 2 mediums are basically the same shoulder height but radically different structures. As long as they hit the criteria for the wrap turn, I let them do what they need to do with their bodies (fascinating to see in slow motion!) and they are confident, happy and super fast 🙂
My guess is Sprite is similar in height to Contraband but built more like Hot Sauce and Voodoo, so she is going to workout how to NASCAR it like Hot Sauce does (Voodoo worked out his own gymnastic style – had to watch it in slow motion because it is astounding – he is 9 years old and still 100% physically sound!) What I mean by that is, she is going to sort out how to use her body to go really fast and tight, and it will look totally nothing like other dogs 🙂 But Hot Sauce is currently the fastest dog in my crew of dogs – she looks wider and the turns are less pretty-looking but they are safe on her body and super fast. My other medium dog, Elektra, has more of the picture-perfect looking wraps but she is a radically different structure than Hot Sauce even though she is basically the same height. And, even with better looking wraps – she is not as fast through the turn than the dogs who look less perfect.
I did an experiment over the summer of “helping” Hot Sauce turn tight with handling and got some GORGEOUS looking turns. And separately, giving her the info and letting her decide how to do it, with me just getting out of her way. Not nearly as pretty looking (but still safe for her body). I compared the two and of course she was dramatically faster when I just let her do what she had worked out. So we train the criteria and the verbals and the commitment to fluency… then get outta the way to let the dogs do the rest 🙂
Let me know if that makes sense! I think somewhere along the way we want the dogs to look like a certain way over the bars, but that visual we have came from very specific dogs. Most dogs do not fit into that mold, so we help them sort their own body out. Learning to see what each dog looks like when they are nailing the wrap is the hardest part of us humans!
TracySo far, the hardest part for all of us with these games is to NOT be a good handler LOL!!! You will want to be a bad handler and be late on the cues 🙂 Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
I think you did a great job paying attention to your motion – you were being careful to be moving AND not be helpful with handling. He really never looked at the distraction jump. He only had one tiny question early on – he wanted to go left when yo said right, but my guess is that was because there had just been a good amount of left turn reinforcement : )Each time I wrote a note to suggest something: add more motion! Move the wing further back! You did it. And he was great! So my only suggestion now is to move the game to 2 jumps, because then you can add the challenge of the GO reps.
My only other suggestion is to use your ‘get it’ marker for the reward throws rather than the yes – that will help when you get to the combo games, where he will also be wrapping back to you for the reward from your hand (which is a different marker).
Great job here – fingers crossed that you are NOT snowed in!!!!!
Tracy
