[Tom Toomla]

Thanks, I found this to be very clear and helpful

[Tom Toomla]

Affirmations – things that i am actively working on.

I will continue to find and visualize the good from a run – there is always something good to remember – it’s what keeps me coming back for more.

I will wait until Monday to analyse what went wrong, only positive thoughts on trial days

I will do my best to avoid letting him know about mistakes, I accept that I probably own 100% of the mistakes and the no’s, damns sighs and other expletive’s coming out of my mouth are probably doing nothing to help him with his confidence – they are hard to control though.

I will avoid celebrating until we are done done with a run. I continue to visualize me shouting you did it while he was on his way to the finish jump, seeing him look look back at me and then taking down the finish bar.

[Tom Toomla]

Hey there Diane

This is a baseline of where we are currently at, taken yesterday morning. Did not see your drills info before our session, otherwise I would have worked on that. Yes, I’m pretty sure I’m running your line of where not to be here in the first set of sequences. It’s pretty clear I need a better send in order to get some distance, leaving early is pulling him off the out jump – yes?

This room is what I have to work with this time of year and it’s weekends only. Don’t get to see much daylight during the week, so we’ll see how much we can get done here.

[Tom Toomla]

Hey there Tracy

Played around yesterday with music for course memorization, the jury is still out. Song I picked for Commander Cody was Hot Rod Lincoln, a snappy little tune, all about speed, but maybe a touch to fast for me. We’ll try it some more.

One thing I’ve started doing with course maps is looking at them one run at a time. When I would look at all 3 or 5 at once, I would have too many plans bouncing around in my head.

Another thing I’m working on with him is starting our run setup outside the ring, having hm come thru the gate with ficus, and maintaining that focus to the start line. I’ll set him up and ask for a jump up or hand touch before the lead out. Having him working while coming in is seeming to help him ignore his ghosts.

I’m also working on building value for just stepping thru the gate. Realized that he wasn’t crazy about the bang of the Max 200 gate slamming behind him

[Tom Toomla]

We trialed yesterday in AKC, std, fast and jumpers. Lots of good stuff and a clean Q in standard, even got 2 out of 3 contacts. Missed the 3rd obstacle in the fast send and popped the weaves in jumpers, otherwise lots of good stuff.

Trial ran painfully slow, rather that stew over it, I visualized all the good stuff from the previous runs, helped keep me positive

Also kept reminding myself to drink water, note to self, may have to time that with ring assignments

[Tom Toomla]

So it’s like rather than I will handle this with a front cross, I need to think I will handle this with a front cross right here in this specific spot.

I will show him his next cue when I see he’s committed to the obstacle he’s taking. if I wait for him to take it. he’s going to jump big and leave me in the dust.

Toy cannot leave my hand in CPE. I also very rarly train with a toy in hand anymore, they are usually in my pocket, by th eboy is smart enough to know they are in play. So now, I’m starting to work with toys either out on the course or hidden on the course – release and we run to them together.

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