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That looks so much better already. Next session set her farther up away from the jump that will give her more room to make a decision. Right now you are helping quite a bit by pushing her into the jump after she has come in for the threadle. Start fading that now by leading out a little bit more to the middle of the bar. You can still help her some by try to help with your arms not your feet. Small dogs key into what your feet are doing so much I think they can be more challenging to fade. Then gradually start having your feet face more forward (making it more challenging for her to commit to the jump and gradually fading your help).
She looks a lot better with the short jump bar too! Keep using that until we build a lot of commitment then we can start introducing the long bar back. But I want her to be really thinking about committing to that threadle and seeking out the far wing before making it more challenging.
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You said at one point in your video that it was your motion that was making her go to the frontside and you are correct. Lets do a couple of sessions with her working from a sit stay around the clock then add the speed of the cone back into it once she is confident with the behavior with no motion. When you lead out to the jump make sure that you are with in an arms distance of the jump and standing still. That will put pressure on the jump so she will be looking for the jump a little bit more. After you have rewarded her from your hand once or twice, then you only want to reward her after taking the jump (not for coming to the hand). It is really important so that she starts learning the concept (come in and find the non obvious side).
Then when you do go back to adding the cone back in put it much closer to the jump in the beginning and make sure that you are with in an arms distance away from the jump even when starting with the cone. Also looking at the video at 1:50 (the very last threadle) you really changed your speed from when you were asking for the threadle and then pushing her to the jump. Anytime that we are adding motion it must be consistent as we do not want her cuing off of your motion at all. Otherwise she will always need your help.
One idea that I have for her – try using a weave pole as the bar instead of a jump bar(or a really short jump bar). I would do these in the beginning steps when teaching the behavior because she doesn’t look for the far wing too much when she is slicing a jump. So by making the jump pole on 3′ or so it will give her less room to jump over the bar and less room to jump back over. This way she will start seeking the far wing out more and eventually you could add the long bar back to do some proofing but not until the very end pretty much. Is that making sense?
