Frieda and Tori, 2.5 years, Border Terrier, Ireland

Welcome back, looking forward to more of Tori in action! And thanks! <3

Looking cool! When you don’t need to run after her to pick up the ball (meaning when you still have one or two in the pocket) you can turn around sooner and go in the opposite direction – the further you are from her, the more she will accelerate. It is especially important when you start making longer straight lines – you can’t stay too far behind so you can help her keep the line. Other than that, keep up the good job, no complaints! 🙂

Good girl Tori! She is running really well! Sometimes you can make the U crazy balls style – run the U in one direction, throw the ball, turn around and call her directly back to make the U from the other direction, throw,… it is good for both forward focus and stamina. 🙂 When making crosses, try not to wait for her. 0.33 and 0.40 – don’t slow down, just keep going. If you manage to get on the other side of the jump before she reaches the take off spot, it will be just as easy for her as it is when you wait on the take off side, but you will not loose momentum and being in front of her. For some reason your crosses from right to left hand were a bit more fluent. 🙂 So keep an eye on that!

Yes, that seems to be her little glitch. 🙂 If you manage to complete the FC by the time she is out of the tunnel and you are already facing your back to her, she has no problem, but if you are still facing her, she drifts away as she doesn’t know how to read your position. Your FC in those instances was never really late, there was still plenty of time for you to finish it before she gets there, but she doesn’t think so. 🙂 So we have to get her used to that. For this you only need the tunnel and jump. Keep the toy in your right hand. As soon as you start the rotation and face your front to her, start calling her name and move the hand with the toy so she can see you have it. So basically you are both motivating her and almost luring her over the bar even if you are turning not running straight. Reward with lots of enthusiasm so she knows her effort pays off. She has to get used to you turning her front to her, because sometimes you don’t have time to fully finish the cross way before the dog even gets to the jump in question.

Cool! That was a quick fix. 🙂

Nice. Was that the only thing you did in this training? How did you prepare her for the run? Her speed is ok, she will continue to add to it with experience, but maybe you can always start by doing parts of the sequence crazy balls style as a warm up and than finish by running the whole thing.
I am definitely pleased to see her run like this, when we first started she wasn’t really cooperative outside. 🙂

Awesome! You2 are rocking it! 🙂