Thanks, Polona! I wasnt sure if it is a good idea to ask the dog to turn 360 on a high speed. Currently we are training in an indoor hall and the surface is coated with a carpet, sometimes I see that it is slippery for the dog. What do you think, I do not do damage when I ask her to run? well, maybe running straight is not so bad, but what about turns? I knew she will be crazy because I had food, and I didnt want to make her to strain the joints.
Anyway, we will keep your suggested exercise for the next time.
Yesterday I was trying to improve sharp turns from he tunnels saying the turn command earlier. Was it better?

And also as we had enough time I played with her some games from the lesson 1 – different variations with tunnel and jump.

I was so happy that she was really putting efforts to catch me, that my movements and commands were little bit chaotic, please watch just at the dog 😀

“If I were you, I would work on playing separately. Just playing, without any training “demands” (and sometimes for some very simple agility exercises)”
This is exactly what we did yesterday – agility with food (videos above), and toys just for playing to do a break after agility exercise. Yesterday she was very excited, i was trying to make everything as fun as it can be.

“Tunnel turns were mostly good, but she was expecting it. Because you were giving the turn cue very late and she still was able to turn tight. So next time remember to say the cue sooner”
After I saw the video, I had the same feeling. Will try to improve.

As we had some break (sorry for that!!) and didn’t practise lesson 2 enough, now I’ll still proceed with the same exercises and later will follow lesson 3. Will show you our achievements constantly. I plan to join the gang with lesson 3 tasks at the end of next week, hope you don’t mind.

And one more question. We have agility competition in Vilnius on 8 th December.
What do you think, can we participate? Or should we concentrate just on your exercises and do not force running long distances?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Kristina Jugulyte.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Kristina Jugulyte.

After todays training I was talking with a colleague from our agility club about the jackpots. And she reminded me that I dont use toy or any other “thing” as a jackpot – our jackpot is a kind of special game when i gently punch her, tug, etc. I forget about it :). Thats why last time she didnt understand when i was calling her with a toy for a jackpot. So step by step I will try to switch to a toy or just use that game as the final reward.

Now about today. Our run you will find below. First time i tried to encourage Myle with balls, according to me she run 80-90 percent of her full speed

The first session was short so I decided to repeat it with chestnuts. Her speed was better, she was fast and eager to catch each chestnut. Just all the time I felt I am running too fast and I am too far from her.

Then we made 30 mins break and repeated last time – one short run with one toy who served as a jackpot. Accidently she dropped a bar, for few seconds she felt she failed because she never drops bars. We contuined to run, I run on the external tunel side to make a longer distance for myself and not to outrun Myle too fast. The toy motivated her quite good and FINALLY I was able to reward her a jackpot and play with her with a toy :).

Actually i am still not sure how many times I can run with her practising these courses. I dont want her to get tired too much and also I want to use time effectivelly. Today we run three times, she was still very enthusiastic to play with her balls.
What do you think, is it too much? Or each time I should decide by myself evaluating her speed and motivation?