Box Turns on Slant Board

We finally got the slant board working! Now in this video, I'm making some crucial errors- I'm throwing the tug out & over his head, keeping his head high. I need to bring the tug straight down once he is in mid air, leaping on the board- this will keep his head down & straight. But I'm so, so happy we're on the slant board now :D

Tried to get Baer on it, she was doing box turns off the wall above the board. I'll have to figure that one out.

So, I'm the type of person who goes over. Way, way overboard. Especially when it comes to my dog sports. I will practice daily for hours on end if you let me- so naturally, I'm having a hard time pacing myself in Flyball. Baer's 3 strides have been looking better & better (I'm not asking for much, I hope) and I'm thinking of doing an every other day rotation of flyball & agility. I think it'll keep our training from getting boring or repetitive, and it'll work different muscles on the dogs versus just doing box turns & power jumping every single day.

Today is Agility day, so we're going to do some fun exercises (which I hope to record if I'm not short on time).

I need to get back to doing more Agility anyway.

We had the option to move Baer out of Advanced Beginner level, and into Intermediate- and I decided not to. I'm going to hold her back for one more session. Sorry to say but she just does not have the foundations down yet- Which I need to get back to. We were doing weaves last night, and a dog who can, by herself, zoom through 12 no problem, could only get through six before turning into me and barking. Wtf? So more grinding on weaves and teeter & dog walk. At least she's getting the 2 on, 2 off contact. FINALLY. After months of work. But I love her :)

Correcting a Leaper

So I'm trying to build muscle memory @ the start line. To diminish the 6 foot leap before the start line that royally fucks her up.

I need to move the prop closer to the jump I think though- she's still leaping AT the start finish line.

But hopefully this will help out her issue. The first time, she kind of bounces- the second & third time, she's running more than jumping.

3 Strides-6th Session

So- the third run was nice. Happy with that =)

Happy with all of it, actually. Good girl.

I'm going to try a new training method for Flash tomorrow- I have some ideas to get more of a snap on the box. I'll get video :) of course.

Well, dammit.

I need to get back to my 3 stride training with Baer. Today I just did a complex agility sequence with her, which consisted of seven jumps, a full set of weave poles, a tunnel, and a hoop.

The first round we did- she was beautiful. I did two front crosses, and followed me, we looked like a great team.

The other five tries were complete...well.... fuck ups, lol.

She was knocking bars, not following my cues (more likely, my cues were wrong) and just rushing. At least she was perfect going into & out of the weave poles, even with me moving far away.

And of course, I didn't record the first try which went perfect- because it was our "test" to see if she could do it. Silly me!

I have agility class tonight, for both dogs, which will keep me busy til 8. Tomorrow I want to take the dogs on a hike before work on Pie Hill, and then I'll do flyball work with both on my lunch. I'm trying to really keep us busy & active, and plan out the training sessions we will do.

Flash needs work on his "stays", box turns, and restrained recalls over jumps.

Baer needs box turn work, and 3 stride work.

And I need more time in the day!

Flash- 4th Box Turn Session

So my footwork is improving which means the tightness of Flash's turns are improving. In the last two turns, you can see he's much tighter- and the last box turn is just downright sexy, if I do say so myself.

Good boy :)

And with Baer, I did a simple sequence today that was hoop- weaves (all 12 of them) and sharp turn to the right to a jump- she was perfect 3 times in a row.

I have amazing dogs.

Agility Foundation work with Flash- 7 months

Foundation Agility stuff I did with Flash today :)

5th Session- 3 strides from the box.

Our fifth session doing proper striding from the box.

I'm still working on Baer's coordination issues & body awareness techniques, but as long as I get good repetitions of 3 strides back, I'm going to continue practicing this.

Her box turn is all over the place in this, but I always practice her turn 5 times before we start working on other stuff. I'll get a video of that next session, because I'm curious why she's able to do a beautiful turn consecutively when it's just the box, and then her turn somewhat deteriorates when she's doing runs.