Two videos from training at home 🙂

I tried putting the straight jump last. Unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to train anywhere but home.

How gradually do I progress from here on? I see that he is more relaxed, but not completely. I will also try to improve his jumping technique even further.

At the end of this month we have CRO open. Do you think it is too early for him to run agy 1? Or should we work on him slowly and give him a few more months to improve? I didn’t run a full course for a month or so.

Regarding see-saw…we did it a few times with a helper. It was great. Is there a way to get him to do the see-saw the same way when there is no helper? Because then he slows down sooner and stops earlier. I can “cheat” him a few times before he notices there is no helper.

One thing I forgot to ask : Tunnel + straight jump is where our troubles started first. Then it progressed to other jumps. I am still avoiding this combo. Should I try it now? Or will that “reactivate” the problem?

Yes I have found the access to LP playroom 2019!

I would love it if he kept jumping like that, also at full small height. The thing is, it usually gets worse at full height. But it’s no rush, we’ll slowly get there. 🙂

One of my worries is that he will keep returning to the begining every time he hits a bar in the future.

So, during the break we have, at home I will do as you said. Should I raise the height? At the training, I will try to do the “home experiment” 🙂

The rest of training (normal sequence) I should run with same heights until you return?

Good luck at Greece! ??

Forgot to ask you, do you think castration would help with some of these problems? What is your opinion?

I did a jumping training at home yesterday like you suggested. Single jump fist at floor, then 20 and then 25cm. Three jump set we did with only second jump on 20. 3 repeats. Then we did second and third jump at 20cm, also three repeats. Each repetition he was much more relaxed (that is not always the case). I didn’t see him run like that for a long time. (smiley)

I agree with you – sniffing is sometimes his cool off mechanism in some situations in training (even though I never thought about it like that). But he also looooves to sniff. I can see it when we go for a walk.

Can our relation also be the cause? In these situations he ignores me, I might be too soft on him. People tell me I spoiled him too much (smiley)

And the situation where there are people in the field, he sometimes gets frightened, and I don’t know why. In these situations he is sensitive and generally doesn’t like when people approach him (especially if they want to touch him). On the other hand, he loves approaching other people. It’s like he only likes it when it’s under his terms (smiley) . In the city, shopping centers and other places nothing bothers him, he is very stable.

Do you think we should do some excercises to improve his jumping technique so he can understand better where to jump from? Or is it not smart to put that additional pressure on him?

Hi Polona,

here is a video from our last training. In the beginning I gave him enough time to sniff around and then kept him on a leash for a while and waited for him to stop so that I can move on to his warm up exercises. That part was more or less OK.

We started with the DW because I thought that would be better to start when he is not mentally tired, but he was deconcentrated and he walked away sniffing. When I managed to ‘reach’ him he did well and got faster with each repetition.

In the second round he ran the course, that is in the video. I set it up the same as last time – straight jumps on the floor, turns at 20cm height. The video stops before the see-saw because the person recording helped there 🙂
Last round – A frame, on the second try it seems he decided to jump down?!
At that point I switched to the toy which got him to speed up.

He usually avoids all contacts at first run of the training. Is it because I don’t train them as often? I am at the course roughly 1 time per week, sometimes two, but we don’t do all contacts every time.

How should I set up the jumps for next training? The same, or? In the mean time I will do at home what you wrote, but please explain a bit 🙂

“…but do a couple repetitions on each height setup”

Up until which height? Full small, or?

“Same on the single jump. And try to start training with a single jump. Also a few repetitions on the same height. Than you make the 3 jump drill with noodles on the ground first and than gradually raise them.”

So, do I do?
single jump 3 times, increase height
single jump 3 times, increase height
single jump 3 times, increase height, OR

single jump 3 times, 3 jumps at that same height, increase height
single jump 3 times, 3 jumps at that same height, increase height
single jump 3 times, 3 jumps at that same height, increase height

I will refresh your LP games and try to play with him without training. Also the leash game, we will try to do. Sounds interesting :))

Here are two videos for this week.

We tried the see-saw at home. In the second attempt with his “approved helper :)”, his rear right leg slipped off. We then stopped doing it and went to jumps. I hope I did well there. Should I try the same next time?

Jumps: started great, after first run we put the jumps a bit closer together (from 5m to 4.5 distance). Everything was then OK. What I noticed – when I set the bars, I saw something changed in the way he jumps, and he is no longer relaxed.

And when we returned to noodles, did he start to take off too early?

Second video: we had motivation problems because he looses his mind when a puppy is close. My friend came to training with her dog and took her puppy as well. Immediately he was lost. Same thing happened when Nina came with her puppy a few months ago. I don’t know why he looses his mind completely because of the puppy. Even in a full hall of dogs during competition he doesn’t loose concentration. But one puppy and he’s gone. I couldn’t reach him at all. No toy, no food, nothing. He just wanted to leave the court and go to that puppy.

After that we tried doing the DW. He did it, but was also “not there” with his head.

I have the rest on video. During the whole training he was not himself. I will avoid trainings if a puppy is nearby because it’s impossible to work. But in case a puppy does come, what to do?

Regarding the video, it seems to me we did too much repeating. I didn’t get that impression while there. In second set Zeljko wanted to combine a part of last training with a new part, and there was some misunderstanding with the tunnels. He needed to enter the yellow, but he went into blue like in the last training. I couldn’t get him in to yellow so I sent him to the blue one to make it easier on him. After that he didn’t want to go to tunnel at all so I decided to stop.

Sorry for the long post, but I think that’s all for this week, maybe we’ll do something a little at home.

Here is a new video with a bad version of me. 🙂 I didn’t feel well, you’ll see that I couldn’t run in the second part, and it also probably had some effect on Tango as well.

I did jumps as you suggested. I noticed in second combination that he had problems with the jump after the slalom. I didn’t notice while running, but afterwards in the video. According to what you said, should I have stopped doing that jump or lower the noodle?

In the first combination he didn’t have any problems with that same jump, so it’s probably not a problem with his eyes?