Ticket Positional Cue Exercise

This is Ticket working through the positional cue exercise as defined by Greg Derrett. Basically, it's a sequence of 5 jumps, where 1-4 are the same, and 5 differs. For the first 3 sequences, the front cross is located in a different position depending on where you're headed next. Being in this "positional cue" tells the dog which jump is #5. The final sequence is a serpentine, which is a bit of a special case--instead of doing double front crosses, you serp the dog over the middle jump with your opposite arm.

In regards to the first sequence, we had much discussion over why Ticket was running around the jump. I personally think it's that I was finishing my front cross and drifting away from the jump, and she doesn't understand yet that she should take the jump anyway. But there could be some other things going on as well. The other sequences she ran well. We struggled a bit with the serpentine--I had a hard time waiting for Ticket to take off for the middle jump, but that's just more practice and her understanding the second arm.

She's doing great, and really flies through this stuff. Lots of fun to train. :-)

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• agility
• shetland
• sheepdog
• sheltie
• foundation

[betucan52]

me as well .............. many THANKS!

[agilityvet]

@betucan52 I put more information about the exercises themselves on my blog

agilityvet.blogspot.com

[agilityvet]

@bostonterrier333 I put more information about the exercises themselves on my blog

agilityvet.blogspot.com