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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.
Here we are doing some more mini pinny hoping baby Barry can turn left. I did the toy in the gap, I thought we made progress, then we went backwards. I also tried doing the right hand turn from between my legs… he wasn’t keen… but we’re working on it. I’m judging or competing in scent work for the next 3 weekends! I have no idea how I’m going to get through all your amazing content!
Trying to do the wind in our curly bonnet. Most of this is just me trying to go straight. I tried a couple of turns on his stronger side, it’s a starting place. Haha. I cut out the victory laps or where I was out of frame. This is all the reps.
Ah ha! Thanks for that. I knew i was doing something wrong, but couldn’t problem solve in the moment.
Tried some serp. But he wasn’t very focused.i took him for a 5m walk between sessions, but should maybe have popped him back in the van. Sorry the ear buds were out of juice so you’ll have to strain your ears, but at least you have your ear drums blown out by my *SuperStar*!
Tried find the jump again, as I was at club…. again. I focused on the side he trouble with yesterday. And we did OK til I got ahead.
I worked much harder on connection.
I think the two days training at club was a little much for his brain. But he did cool stuff.
> a gold star and extra cookies for NOT running off to the person that approached.
Oh wow I didn’t even realise how good he was being. Such a good baby. He did run and bounce off her after I cut the video. Haha.
Here we are doing mini pinny. With mixed success. He keeps getting stuck on ‘over’ (left). Part way through I remembered you told me to repeat the verbal, so you’ll see i eventually started doing that.
He didn’t like doing the middle, I think i need to work on him driving forward out of the middle position. haha
Down at club doing find the jump. I cut out his one victory lap (he’s getting so good).
I did three separate sessions, with breaks in between but have stitched the videos together. He did super well on my left, but we struggled on the right, when i watched the video i see I wasn’t as connected as I thought I was.
My body turns in one direction much more easily than the other, so that might have had something to do with it.Here I am doing the serp game (Friday night but got distracted and forgot to post it). It’s obviously been a while cos Baby Barry didn’t know what to do with the jump. The nextdoor neighbour dog was not helping! I cut out the bit where he went and barked at the fence, but i got him back. Ah well, we can call it distraction training.
> Question about the verbals: is ‘over’ left turns and ‘swing’ right turns? Lots of folks use swing to mean turning away so I wanted to be sure I knew what his were.
Yes…that’s the plan. Over (with a weird N. American accent for some reason) has always been my soft turn cue. I was going to use “swing” as the soft turn cue away, so re-deployed for right. (My mnemonic is that each cue has the same number of letters as the words left and right)
