I’ve worked on some of these things before, the front feet and the elephant/ pivoting before quite a bit. The nose target I’ve done too but never with a closed hand.

The cone wrapping he can do but I didn’t have anything inside to use to wrap. I’ll make sure to include that in the next video

I want to start off by saying I had a class this week with Toast. I basically just went because it’s a big place we trial a lot. I did short sequences when everyone was doing the whole course. He was AWESOME! Of course I forgot to record. But I took him out of his crate and played some crazy balls and happy tricks, put his leash on, had him jump into my lap, carried him to the ring, took the leash off,Set him down, did a few more tricks to warm up in the ring and then sent him around me and raced off. He was brilliant. I have to try to keep my nerves in check. I think that’s our biggest issue for sure is him feeding off of me.

Here’s what is in the video, racing to the end of the board and jumping onto the dropping board. A little skateboarding and me carrying him around.

It’s been really hot here and life has been a little bit crazy. But this is what we’ve got so far.

Some more teeter work. He’s getting a lot braver about jumping on and offering it himself. Because of his size, is there a reason to ever expect him to stay on the end of the teeter? In my mind the finished product is it hitting the ground and him taking off again.

I’m still testing out different start “positions”. He’s happiest about just circling behind me I think. He’s better going from right to left but I’m working to improve the other direction too. I’m trying to spend time each day making him more comfortable being carried so in time I could carry him to the ring.

We did the last two sequences of the first set of courses. I don’t normally use a start line at trials or when training. They seem to make him more stressed out. Our biggest problem is getting to the ring. He’s nervous of other dogs so getting from crate to ring is hard and then getting the leash off to sit stay is basically a punishment for him. And he really dislikes being carried. So I usually stake out a corner by myself and warm up and get ready, get to the ring and take off his leash quick, ask for a couple tricks he likes (backing up, bouncing, barking usually works too) and then just run. Any ideas to help with that?

I did some more skateboarding. The big one doesn’t seem to roll well on these floors. I’m going to try find something I can put under the skateboard so it can roll better.

I’ve been working for a couple days of having toast just onto the stool. Today I put the stool under the teeter board. The last couple of reps I made it so the board could move a little tiny bit

I’m working on the skateboard and tippy bird separately and my died. So no video of that.

I built what I think you wanted me too. I used winged instead of cones.

I yot in a couple sessions this morning with the two cones and tunnel. He did great with his two balls. You can see where we had some crazy stuff with him just retrieving through the tunnel on his own. Should I be stopping that or rewarding it? I rewarded it because I want him to want to do it.

The skateboard I started him on the bigger one today and was able to move it without him being too uncomfortable I think. I’m trying to come up with more things that move or wobble to keep working on. I’m putting him up on my porch swing with him while I read or knit or some easy higher movement. He doesn’t love it but it’s getting better.

Is there anything else from the other lessons you think I should start on or take a look at?

I was going to try the tunnel outside again but it’s supposed to rain all week now so we will have to stay indoors

This is a long video so sorry for that. But this was my whole session this morning in my training room this morning. He would NOT play any good games with my in the house or in the field. I know he was hungry because it was around 12:30 here and he hadn’t eaten breakfast because he wouldn’t work with me.
He didn’t get to the toy pouch just because the session was going well so I didn’t want to push it and try more things.

I used 3 different kinds of balls. One is a small tennis ball that squeaks which used to be his favourite thing ever, it was red, a latex squeaky ball, orange, and a wool/felt ball that was white.