Circling an Object

Jennifer Crank says:

I’m so glad you’re filming your work and submitting it for feedback. CharLee is at such an important age and there are a few things that I would like to change.

When we look at circle work there are two main objectives. First, I work on circle work as it will ultimately pertains to jump training. This is where you will be kneeling down using food with no verbal. I would like to see a little bit more work with this. You were having to do a lot more help around the barrel and his interest in this was low. I know he is not particularly food motivated but try to train at meal times when he will be more hungry. I would avoid doing any kind of circle work around a wingless upright. I see too many dogs have trouble down the road when you begin weave pole training. So I would stick strictly to barrels or wings. I would like to see. Ore of this before we move on as he needs to have a bette rider of the barrel/wing before we add the handling. Check out the video above of Valerie and Maizie. This is similar to what I’d like to see next from CharLee.

Also, be thinking about your verbals. On the barrel work you mostly used “push” but you did say “go, go go” on one of the reps would which would not be ideal if you are using that for driving forward. Also, whether you know it or not, your “yay”command is what is becoming your toy marker. So if you were going to try to be consistent with your toy markers you need to make sure that you don’t celebrate like that when not using a toy OR change your toy marker.