Mon 3-28 Backyard dog

Today, Canon and I worked some of the Backyard dog exercises from Clean Run.  They were really helpful.  We got through the first 3 out of 10.  I will keep working them this week cause they are really helping me with front crosses and handling.  Hopefully I can work more this week on it.  It is supposed to rain tomorrow.

I did notice that Canon has a bit of resistance going into a tunnel.  I am going to have to work on it and make it a higher value for her.  She took pushing to get her into the tunnel in the Steeplechase last weekend.  What's up with that.

Sun 3-27 DW

Moved Canon halfway up the ramp and sent her to end.  She did pretty well scoring over 90% from there.  We will work again this afternoon and see how it goes.  She may be moving pretty fast now with it.

Hope so.

Fri 3-25 DW

Went out to just work DW with Canon for her reps and she got 93% at the end of the contact.  One more high percentage, hopefully later today and I am going to move her back some on the plank.  She is holding her feet if I am in any position.  Now to get her to run for the end from higher up.

Second practice of the day, we worked a 180 to a serp to the AF, then wrap and back over AF to serp to 180.  I tried to run my fastest and get Canon to do the same and hold her AF.  She did a great job and had some fun.  we then did 25 reps on the DW at 1st position and she got 92%.  That is the second consecutive >90%, so we are moving her back to half way up the DW down ramp and try it from here.  I am going to add more close front crosses.  That was what she failed to hold it on.

Wed 3-23 DW & lead out push & AF

Canon had 77% on her DW and did very good.  She got a big percentage of one's where I stayed behind and let her go forward.  Hopefully that will improve.  That is where she missed any.

Her lead out push was great and she held her contact on the AF very well.  She did not hold it when I threw a ball.  She could not hold it through that. We will work on that.

Tues 3-22 DW contact work & jump work

DW, we were 72% holding on the contacts.  She does not like her release word I don't think.  I may try and change to "Break".  I like that one.
Jumping: we did wraps and I practiced using inside hand to support over and outside hand to cue the wrap and I said the word.  I used Wrap for tight turn to the left and Hug for tight turn to the right.
I practiced this with one jump, two, three, four and five to try and get it.  She was a bit slow anticipating the wrap.

Wed work 3-9

Canon had a lesson yesterday and we worked on my timing on front crosses, rear crosses and running with Canon in acceleration/deceleration.  It was a good lesson.  We will go to class tonight as well and have some training.  I may take some video in class tonight.

We went to class tonight and worked on a course.  we did pretty well and learned lots.  After running the course a second time and working on pieces of it, Canon needed me to go closer to the jumps and be much more clear on taking a jump that was out of the path a little bit.  She did pretty well on her contacts, but I forced her to return to the contact if she missed it.  I think I need to fade that practice so I don't mess her up in a trial.  She did a great job.

Tues, 3-8 Work with Serpitines and cues

I worked with Canon on the same setup we had been working for the serps & crosses.  I had her jump 3 in the line and the 4th she had to collect and turn into me and then jump back to the same jump and then across to the other side for a serp out.  I worked with this and found that I should cue the 4th jump, but stay back and get a front cross after the 180.  That set me up better to be in front of the dog and run with he on to her next destination.  We were able to run this line a couple of times without knocking a bar.  We may keep it up and work it all week until we can do it without knocking a bar 5 times in a row.

Video to come

Canon has a lesson today and I will see what we have to work on.

Thurs. workout

Tonight, Canon and I worked a double line of jumps to do a serp with a pinwheel at the top.  She had some trouble cutting too close to the jump and knocking the bars.  I had to adjust the jumps a little so she did not have to slice every jump.  I want her to jump them for now.  I also tried to add a front cross at the end of three jumps and see if she could collect enough to keep it going.  Kinda-sorta.  It was some progress, but we will definitely work this more so we can run all out and then add the collection.  That is part of our problem.  Video to come

Mon & Tues

Monday, it stormed pretty bad so the ground was too wet to practice.  Cade has obedience class on Monday night, so Canon did not do much in the way of training.

Tues came and I tried to get my work finished and practice in the afternoon when it was warmer.  I setup a jump chute for Canon and she did really well.  I got a call and we had to end our practice early.  We got to go to class tonight and sub for someone.  It was a sequence class and it was pretty tough.  We did better on the last four jumps/obs. than the first four.  I will set this up and work it this week.  I was late and unsure of my self on the first four and the second four, I was much better.  Good way to end the class.