› Forums › Let`s play Agility – Spring 2022 › Students › Hannah & Hooli, Border Collie, 13 months, Canada.
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Polona Bonač.
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April 16, 2022 at 6:49 pm #18733
Here is our attempt at the small sequence. I broke it down a bit as his tunnel commitment isn’t good… I included all the “ugly bits” lol
April 17, 2022 at 8:31 pm #18741Nice! I think you trying to help him in the beginning actually made things more difficult for him this time… Taking an obstacle is always the easiest for the dog if you are moving there with him. So I would either set him up directly in front of the obstacle, so he is really close and has nowherwe else to go but in the tunnel. Or when you are increasing the distance, release him, but follow him along, to give him an extra “push”.
Last attempts were pretty cool! He was extending nicely and showing some great speed. 🙂April 18, 2022 at 8:38 pm #18751Hi Polona,
Thank you for your tips on driving him to the tunnel – he actually drove enough that I could do the crosses! here is our attempts from today: https://youtu.be/PabMccZa8vcApril 19, 2022 at 6:52 am #18756Really cool! Things are falling in place. 🙂 Also those FCses look smooth! Maybe next time you can try combining those two elements. Starting on a jump in front of the tunnel with a wrap + FC and than sometimes finishing with a straight line on the second “lane” and sometimes with another wrap + FC when he comes out of a tunnel. You can than reward it directly first and than expand the sequence by sending him back to the tunnel again.
April 24, 2022 at 10:02 pm #18826Hey Polona…. Here is today’s sequencing with turns
April 25, 2022 at 3:57 pm #18834Hi Polona. Sorry I am going to post a second video before you have had a chance to look at the last one – I hope that’s okay! This is our try at wraps and turn aways.
April 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm #18846Yeey look at him go! I swear I already had my reply written yesterday, don’t know what happened to it.
Love how much pogress he is making! Super nice turns even with a lot of speed. I would slowly start raising bars… little by little. First doing it with less speed and gradually adding more… so he doesn’t feel overwhelmed and changes the style (gets wider). His “weakest point” was pulling towards U shaped tunnel if you stayed far behind. I used “” because I am sure he will just get faster when his confidence grows even if you do nothing about it, but it won’t hurt if you do some long straight lines with a nice visible static toy at the end to get him used to pull forward even when you are not in front of him.
Turning away – really nice as well and I also like how you can up the speed and power if you restrain him a little before the jump. I would keep practising inside to really “burn” the understanding but I think you can also try it on the field already. Starting with no speed, the same way as inside just around the wing and than gradually adding more distance and perhaps a tunnel. 🙂April 30, 2022 at 12:20 am #18870Hi Polona
It was raining the last few days so I didn’t do any work. Here is our latest video:https://youtu.be/NetB7F76s2Y
May 4, 2022 at 9:05 am #18894I am sorry, I was sure I replied… there must have been some error with sending the comment.
Nice! He is collecting skills like a madman! 🙂 I think on the next trainings you can focus on switching between being sent to a toy and being rewarded from the hand on the same/similar setups as I can see that he struggled a little with that change in this session. It is normal and he got it really quickly, but I would make it part of every training now so he knows to pay attention to it.May 5, 2022 at 12:38 pm #18909Hi Polona: thanks so much for your feedback.
Here is our start on shaping backsides: https://youtu.be/LV56lco9PU8
May 6, 2022 at 11:49 am #18916Hi Polona. Sorry to post a second video before you had a chance to look at the last! But here is our first attempt at ins. https://youtu.be/ZZ42uh-dljw
May 6, 2022 at 10:47 pm #18922Out looking good, but keep practising and fading out your position until he is able to go around without you being there to push him there. Than you can try mixing things up. It takes a while so don’t get discouraged and when you start mixing the cues you can help some more with body language again.
In – generally also good! I liked how you immediately slowed things down and showed him what you want. I would stick with slow repetitions and nose touches a bit longer. Bringing the starting “cone” closer to the jump so there is really not much speed and you can be there in position the whole time. Try to get him to touch your hand just slightly before he is in the same level with the jump, so he can directly continue into a wrap without crossing the line too much as it happened at the end of your session where he tried to follow your body language but wasn’t exactly sure what you want. I mean I am sure he would figure it out anyway, but I like to do the basics really super well so the dog understands “in” without having to read/react to my body language.
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