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As always, thanks for your great feedback!
I did the layering exercise from last week today. I was dubious that I’d done enough value building for the jump to pull this off…. but he did great.I see all the failure as my inability to connect properly. I didn’t reward one rep early on, but on video my connection was late, I thought he connected with the toy rather than my arm …which he did, but only cos I was late and I knew when I did it that it was my fault so should have given him a reset cookie. He’s being pretty cute with taking the wing before I ask… so I called him back and tried to keep it fun.
Then i did just a little bit of the jump after the tunnel just to see if he wanted to jump it now. 🙂
Here I am doing the diamond down at club. I was super proud of myself for not over training. haha I did three small sessions with breaks in between. (It’s always a temptation to just do a little bit more cos the gear’s out).
My focus was on keeping my arms down! And I mostly pulled it off. I’m still struggling to get away earlier. But one thing at a time.
The first session is short cos I couldn’t figure out my body haha.
Second session I manage things a couple of times haha. This is so fun to be doing “handling” again. I’m feeling a little bit of magic connection.
> a couple were spins where you did a FC to the BC)
My first couple of times trying this, I just kept FCing haha. My body was convinced that this is what was called for. lol.> He probably needed more run around moments after every run or two at the beginning – he did several reps in a row then was wandering a bit. You might have added more of that later in the session, it seems he maintained his engagement better?
He needed to poop! haha. All of a sudden he was much less distracted after that.
> even though it might have been accidental
It completely was. I’d forgotten about it until it fell out of my waistband bahaha. I took that as serendipity telling me to reward my dog.
Hope your drive was ok and uneventful! Here is an doing the diamond.
Over the previous days I’d had a couple of goes just trying to get the blind right. This is super fun and I think I’m getting better at connection. Still a few fluff moments but better.
ERMAGAWD. I just had a moment where i realised that I have trained baby barry! haha. I had him in a sit, i was going to toss a treat at him, so I said “catch”, but because i normally throw the treat behind him when I say “catch” he got up and started looking for it, even though i hadn’t thrown it!! he knew what i was saying! The dumb baby allegations might be overstated haha
There’s always room for more coffee. I was blessed by a coffee cart at the show at the weekend (I was surprised cos it was a small show). 3 flat whites and a can of V on Sunday hahah. But By the end of the last gamblers, my brain was fried. haha Games are so hard to judge – so many different rules!
Then there was the “short” 3.5 hour drive home. haha No wonder i was knackered yesterday.
> big barking from the neighbor dog
My own built in distraction training (sobs). I have my A frame leaned up against the fence so they can’t eyeball each other.> One thing I notice here is that on a bunch of his sits, he rolls back and pops a leg out
Yes I’ve been working on sits on a platform and I’m going to book another physio appointment for him. He has a heap of white hairs over his pelvis and last time the physio found he was quite sore in there (tender – no injury) we blamed a certain older, bigger, mentally unhinged brother for humping him too much. (for a dog on 600 mgs of gaba a day… he is decidedly not as chill as you’d hope – but a lot more chill than if he doesn’t have it)
I want a conditioning regime before I start jumping him at full height (and definitely before weave training). I like the look of the Dogs4Motion academy stuff, but if you have any suggestions, happy to take them.> you can repeat the verbal a few times
I appreciate how patiently you are reminding me of this again… every time you remind me, every time i forget. Thank you for being so patient.> he was not sure if the verbal was the release
Ah, thanks yes. I’ve done a little sending from between my legs when i’m out on walks but it was mostly to a thrown treat, so i see there’s a layer of understanding needed.Then we revisited minni pinny and mostly he remembered how to turn left, forgot a couple of times then remembered again.
Hello! I was more tired than I thought. Took the day off work and spent half of it sleeping. Finally managed to haul my ass the (checks notes) 30m to the back yard and do some baby Barry training.
We did zig zags they went pretty good i think. He only missed when I didn’t handle.I cut out all the tugging I did between reps.
Went away so here’s is another video from another provincial racecourse. Haha. You were right about him sleeping on it! He nailed a couple of right turns! I was also super proud of him working with the toy on the ground! I did this plus some cavalettis and a truly distracted set point on Saturday. I was too tired to try training today (Sunday) lousy night’s sleep and a lot of judging.
ETA: You see i do a bit of just rewarding for going over the jump at the beginning because I realise he may not have seen my bodgy travel jump.
