Distance Training Day 3

What a hard course! Very fun though!

I studied this course a while before running, i knew i wanted to send to the blue tunnel near the first jump so i could be there to steer here around me and hopefully line her up a little for the orange. DIDNT REALLY THINK about send to the orange tunnel, I eventually realized i was obviously telling her to sharp turn jump. Once i fixed this, she was successful!!

Good luck to Chrissy and Splash for this course! o.0 Kind of trial and error for me, but now that you've seen it run you can kind of see what works and what doesnt, depends on the dog though, she had no problem at all with the closing two obstacles (jump, blue tunnel) i thought CeCe would!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• distance
• nadac
• chances
• sheltie
• sable
• merle
• agility
• drive
• speed

[trulyblueandsirius]

Nice work! I <3 Shelties, especially ones doing distance. Hope I'm not out of place to give another bit of critique/distance tip, but "the line is not your friend." It looked like you were turning more sharply to avoid going over the line. It's a really good idea to give yourself room to handle. CeCe did a lot better when you had some room to add a step or two for the sends.

[SwarmLacrosse]

@trulyblueandsirius haha oh thank you! That's one of my bad habits that I'm trying to break xD Usually at trials the other people walking the course unknowingly remind me lol Thanks though!!

[HighVoltageBC]

You did a great job, btw!!!! :D I love love love Cece!!!!

[SwarmLacrosse]

@HighVoltageBC Thanks, me too :3 And yes, this is an awesome course! (Thanks Chrissy!) Make sure to videooo!

[deake15]

Great Job!

[PureSkilled]

Woahhh!

Go you two :)

You're amazing xxxx

[SnowBall5291]

@SwarmLacrosse Thats why I LOVE videoing myself! lol, its soo much easier to see what you are doing wrong if you can see yourself, its a lot harder when you are trying to feel around the best way to handle a sequence. You can see how you figure it out along the video, the last two runs were really fantastic!

[KPMasher]

Yayyyyyy :D

You guys are so good at this! (:

Of course I will need to work on this but Claire *cough aka crabby *cough* probably won't be up for it. :P

Oh well. I'm happy for your acomplishments! YAY! Aweshum course Sara ;D

[SwarmLacrosse]

@SnowBall5291 No no its totally fine! Yeah I knew i was doing it but had a bad habit that was hard to break. Watching the videos back i realized how SEVERELY i was pointing her to the jump, i was too excitied! Once I calmed down and was focused on just sending to the tunnel and not completing the whole course I could do it. Silly me x]

[SnowBall5291]

@SnowBall5291 Sorry if this comes off bad, I just know its hard to see what went wrong at first. This is something we worked on in class last month. Apparently I turn in too soon all the time and pull Rush off obstacles lol! You guys are doing good though, tunnel/tunnel discriminations are really difficult! Especially at a distance. You are rocking it :D!

[SnowBall5291]

She looks great :D! You did the send to the orange tunnel the best at 1:18, at first I thought I read the course map wrong because I was like why are you RCing to the other jump?? Lol, You really improved as you worked on it, I could see you in the beginning turning away too soon and not looking at the tunnel so much with your body. It helps if when you come around the 180 you use your left arm to point to the tunnel then cross over with your right when she is half way there and looks commited

[Graceagility]

Awesome work, Robyn!! Wish I had two tunnels so I could practice this with Ginger. :)