Good point about the wires – thanks for the reminder. 🙂 I’ll fade them upward. Here is step 1.

I think our tunnel work is beginning to pay off 🙂

Yes, I think we’ll go back to a little one-jump work on ins and outs. We can do that at home.

In today’s DW session I introduced one and then 2 jumps. Omi had several misses but I thought he coped pretty well with the change in setup.

Your impulsivity theory appears to be spot on 😀 Thank you! I think Ice’s weaves are progressing well now. We broke the weave session into 2 parts. I closed the channel a little in between. I don’t think Ice even noticed.

We did a very short session of food bowl tunnels on the right.

Thank you! A lot of AKC courses have these awkward lines with lots of lead changes, even in major competitions. I really don’t like them much. Next time we’ll set up something with more interesting handling options.

This setup was mostly for Ice and Boss but I thought Lyric and Omi would have fun with it. I think they’re both listening better.

No, I don’t really think anything specific happened in a curved tunnel to put him off. I did wonder for a while……but I’m starting to think it’s more of a pattern, as it’s happened with training of at least 3 different skills. Ice progresses well for a while, then out of the blue seems to lose his confidence. His stays were slowly improving, then suddenly he couldn’t sit for more than a nanosecond. He was doing well with weaves in Foundations using a thrown ball. Around the time I began throwing the ball later and off to the side he started popping out at random poles. We took a 2-week break from weaves and retried for the first time today – same problem. 🙁

This is today’s stay practice. We had a minor breakthrough. Until now Ice would repeatedly break his stay after every reward or series of rewards. Today he managed to stay on his platform.

Here you can see the deterioration in his weaves, despite reintroducing props. I don’t have video from today, but taking a break from weaves didn’t help. Ice is willing enough, but he really seems to have lost confidence. I’m not sure how to help him. I did try putting a MM at the end of the weaves. It helped initially, then he started popping out again

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Just for fun, since we couldn’t go to Westminster this year I set up the WM Jumpers course for Lyric and Omi. Because we’ve run so few courses lately I find my timing is off. I can’t judge where I can get to….and where I need to be. I guess I’d better set more courses 🙂

I kept today’s session relatively short as it was still pretty warm, even in the evening.

I tried to reward more often…..and we added some wraps on the cone with a pull to the opposite tunnel entrance (Did I understand correctly?). They were both listening well. The miscues and mistakes were mostly mine 🙂

As you suggested, I added more challenges on the DW. They weren’t all perfect hits, but I think Omi is dealing better with changes. Previously if anything changed he would start leaping…..now not so much 🙂

Traveling……lucky you! 😀

This is today’s session with the tunnels further apart and cones added. I added a few flip aways. Lyric and Omi were never taught threadles/flip aways very methodically, so I thought I would try to fill that gap. It’s a work in progress. 🙂 Reviewing the videos, I see several cues that are a bit late.

I angled the cones a little more on the DW exits. At one point you see Omi decide to head directly to the helper off the side of the contact.