Ana and Rudolfa

Welcome. Looking forward to meeting Rudolfa. What kind of surgery?

“Sometimes she wants to kill me when I have the ball, so I started to ask her to give the ball and reward with food.”
Hehe. Little sweet monster. 🙂 She looks really nice! Where is she from?

Generally training was really nice. If she was not working much latly, she probably doesn’t have much stamina, so for now you can do up to 3 repetitions of something and give her a little break before starting another round. If she still ends up in a tunnel, try to get her out with some engaging game. You can throw a piece of food for her somwhere (after you show her that you have food and that you will throw it) and when she goes after it, run away form her. When she follows, throw her another bite and run back to where she left the ball. When she catches up with you throw again and run towards where you want to start – start out of action, when she is coming after you for more treats.
Always make sure you throw early enough – the first try you were late. I know it happens sometimes and you did well at the rest of the training. But if it happens often the dog learns to look back and wait for the handler and we don’t want that.
And when you are doing a rear cross, run with her some more, so you are not at your place way before she is. If you are static and waiting it is more difficult for the dog to keep the flow. It something that generally never happens with rear crosses, becuause if you had time to wait you also had time to do front or blind.

I would do the next training in a similar way, mixing some stuff from lesson2 into it.

The one thing that needs most work at the moment I think is activation – we need to start developing a routine that will help her get ready every time you ask for it. Now she works nicely, but also has periods when she shuts down and needs some time to re-start. That is normal for such a young dog, but if you see they are like that, you have to keep an eye on how you design training for them, so they don’t learn to switch off and on as they please.
So it is absolutely good that you work in short rounds and take a break in the shadow in between rounds. Where is she during the break? In the crate? When you get her to start a new round, start building some excitement already when you are picking her up. “Are you ready… “… talk to her with anticipation in your voice. Than as soon as you free her from the crate/car/leash… run to the field fast. Your movement will stimulate her to follow you. When you see she is looking at you in anticipation, you can throw a treat or ball for her and escape in the opposite direction. Let her chase you around to get rewards so you know she is paying attention and following you. When you get the right attitude, you can send her to the first obstacle out of that motion and reward heavily when she does the little sequence. During the rewarding process you can go hide behind some tunnel or something when she is not watching, so she will come look for you and when she does, it gives you a good chance to start the sequence again. If you only plan to do one thing and give her a break, you can just reward happily and than walk towards the resting place while you keep rewarding her less and less energetically until you eventually let her rest.
Generally she did good both in straight lines and in turns! You can try sequences from lesson 2 next, but first start with a little warm up like on the first video. You can keep the bars on the ground when sequence has a lot of turns. At least at first and if she is doing really well you can try with bars low in the next repetition after the break. And you can always randomly include asking for just a simple straight line and rewarding that.

I loved your last sequence, she was running really nicely! Was she carrying a ball in her mouth for the first one? If yes, I wouldn’t do that, because the dog will never run full speed with the ball in his mouth already.
I would work on food throws a lot, every day a game or two. With very good treats and running up and down as fast and far as you can, so she has to chase you. For agility balls work better at the moment. So when you pick her up to do a sequence, try squaking the ball while you run to the starting spot to catch her attention, send her to the first jump without stopping so she already is in “flow” and make big party with balls at the end of the sequence or a drill.

“ Is the white sequence ok? The number 5?”
Oh my… no. 5 and 6 is just a straight line after the tunnel. Noone noticed or told me before. 😀 I will change the picture when I can.

“ I can’t acess to some topics of lesson number 1, such as “Getting the dog ready” …”
What do you mean exactly? You can’t see the text if you click on the title?

Hmm… that is weird, I checked and it looks normal to me. Can you make a print screen of what you see?