Elliot:
Well it was like he had never been away - run backs were beautiful, again he seemed fast but whether he is faster than he was before he went to the smart clinic i will only know when we get to a competition!! Now box work, hmm, pretty much every turn was beautiful however our problem now is his drive back!! He drives back really really nicely to his tuggy on the runs but when he has a ball he isn't interested, i tried a second ball today but again still not interested, however Nat reckoned that on his first two goes he drove back better than on the others, and for these two i had his tuggy out ( i then put it away because he wouldn't play with it), so maybe, although he doesn't actually tug on it, just having it there is enough to make him drive back to it - i shall have another look at this next time in training (in 4 weeks!!! because we have agility the next two sundays and then I am away)
Jemma:
Hmm, definately the noisiest dog there!! Well i was really impressed with her run backs, there was only the once (when she went first) that she couldn't focus on me but the rest of the time she did really well, even doing a couple of almost proper change overs, I was very proud :D However we then went over to do box work and my proudness went away and the fustration came back!! Last August time I introduced a second ball to her and it made her speed up on her return by loads, however she has no decided that she isn't going to bring the first ball back!! Sometimes she doesn't even try that hard to catch it, other times, when she does catch it, she drops it anywhere between the box and the second jump!!! It is so fustrating because I never had this problem with her before!! We have decided that i am just going to totally scrap the second ball and go back to just getting her to come back to me until she is 100% again, the most important thing for her at the moment is doing full runs!! She was good though in the fact that she didn't run across to interfere with the dog training on the other box, although I made sure I never released her at the same time as them!! My aim for her is to at least manage to get her to flyball dog, she is 130 points off at the moment, having gained the 70 in 3 years!!!
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Good Dogs & Bad Mummy
Jemma:
She worked really nicely today, Only thing she did wrong first time we did the course was to come out of the weaves 2 too early and this was completely my fault because I was dithering about the next bit of the course and not trusting her enough to do the weaves with me running. She had really nice contacts, the only thing I think needs more work is her staying on the bottom with me running on as she seems to take the que of me moving to be her release. she also needs work on me crossing behind as she was dithering on the top of the a-frame until i caught up!! We worked on tweaking some of the other parts of the course to make them a bit neater and faster and she finished the lesson with a beautiful fast clear round, I was very proud :)
Elliot:
His jumping style wasn't as good as last week, he jumped most of the jumps tucked up, don't know why though as he was much better at SMART this week, he was as good on the water treadmill as Jem! His contacts were also loads better, we were working on him nose touching the groung rather than the target and he did some really nice ones, finishing on doing the whole a-frame and touching the grass, I was very proud - so this is our plan with him for the next few weeks, to fade out the target and start putting a jump before and after, I also think he will need a lot of work on staying put even if i am moving!! his weaves, well, they were ok i guess but he kept missing out the third one and didnt do that very consistantly but to be fair to him I haven't had time to do any work on them at home since long before christmas so it is not surprising really!!
We are back to flyball tomorrow, am looking forward to, just hope these two manage to control their excitment at being back and actually manage to do some flyball!!
She worked really nicely today, Only thing she did wrong first time we did the course was to come out of the weaves 2 too early and this was completely my fault because I was dithering about the next bit of the course and not trusting her enough to do the weaves with me running. She had really nice contacts, the only thing I think needs more work is her staying on the bottom with me running on as she seems to take the que of me moving to be her release. she also needs work on me crossing behind as she was dithering on the top of the a-frame until i caught up!! We worked on tweaking some of the other parts of the course to make them a bit neater and faster and she finished the lesson with a beautiful fast clear round, I was very proud :)
Elliot:
His jumping style wasn't as good as last week, he jumped most of the jumps tucked up, don't know why though as he was much better at SMART this week, he was as good on the water treadmill as Jem! His contacts were also loads better, we were working on him nose touching the groung rather than the target and he did some really nice ones, finishing on doing the whole a-frame and touching the grass, I was very proud - so this is our plan with him for the next few weeks, to fade out the target and start putting a jump before and after, I also think he will need a lot of work on staying put even if i am moving!! his weaves, well, they were ok i guess but he kept missing out the third one and didnt do that very consistantly but to be fair to him I haven't had time to do any work on them at home since long before christmas so it is not surprising really!!
We are back to flyball tomorrow, am looking forward to, just hope these two manage to control their excitment at being back and actually manage to do some flyball!!
Friday, 29 January 2010
Agility
Jembear:
She was a good girly today, mummy made a mess of things a couple of times but learnt by the end of lesson that she had to run when Jem was in the weaves as this stopped her coming out to look where I was and also encouraged her to go faster!! She got a little bit carried away with her contacts so I made sure I worked them, something I was told I need to do in competitions so we don't loose them all together!!She also did some lovely go out work and a flick flack into the weaves. All in all I was extremely pleased with her and can't wait to get her to some open competitions this year!!!
Elliot:
Well we didn't work him too hard. We did some whole a-frames with the target at the bottom but have decided that he is only going to get the treat when I tell him touch and not get it when he demands it to try and get him listening more and only going when I say go (I think this is right - lel please correct me if I have got it wrong!!). We then did some whole dog walks and on the third one the target blew away in the wind but he still stopped at the bottom and put his nose to the ground and it was only then that he realised it wasn't there, this made me happy as it showed that he might slowly be getting the understanding (he did then do a couple of runs and bounces off later when we weren't training them - cheeky boy!!) His last dog walk was amazing, he flew down the down plank and almost skidded to a halt at the bottom :D We then did some weaves - he struggled slightly to start with because there were 7 but I think we finished on having 3 good sets (we didn't do them for long). We then did some jumping with him and when he is running along a straight line he flicked his legs out but then on the tighter bits or when he is not 100% confident he tucks up, although occassionally he changes his mind when in the air and knocks the pole, bless him!! I can't wait until he is fixed, he is going to be a cracking little dog!!!
She was a good girly today, mummy made a mess of things a couple of times but learnt by the end of lesson that she had to run when Jem was in the weaves as this stopped her coming out to look where I was and also encouraged her to go faster!! She got a little bit carried away with her contacts so I made sure I worked them, something I was told I need to do in competitions so we don't loose them all together!!She also did some lovely go out work and a flick flack into the weaves. All in all I was extremely pleased with her and can't wait to get her to some open competitions this year!!!
Elliot:
Well we didn't work him too hard. We did some whole a-frames with the target at the bottom but have decided that he is only going to get the treat when I tell him touch and not get it when he demands it to try and get him listening more and only going when I say go (I think this is right - lel please correct me if I have got it wrong!!). We then did some whole dog walks and on the third one the target blew away in the wind but he still stopped at the bottom and put his nose to the ground and it was only then that he realised it wasn't there, this made me happy as it showed that he might slowly be getting the understanding (he did then do a couple of runs and bounces off later when we weren't training them - cheeky boy!!) His last dog walk was amazing, he flew down the down plank and almost skidded to a halt at the bottom :D We then did some weaves - he struggled slightly to start with because there were 7 but I think we finished on having 3 good sets (we didn't do them for long). We then did some jumping with him and when he is running along a straight line he flicked his legs out but then on the tighter bits or when he is not 100% confident he tucks up, although occassionally he changes his mind when in the air and knocks the pole, bless him!! I can't wait until he is fixed, he is going to be a cracking little dog!!!
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