Introduction | + |
Lesson 1 |
A Note About This Course |
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Lesson 2 |
Training Concepts |
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Lesson 3 |
Building Up Behavior |
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Lesson 4 |
Efficient Training Podcast |
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Acceleration and Deceleration | - |
Lesson 1 |
Introduction |
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Lesson 2 |
Handling Exercise Diagrams |
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Lesson 3 |
Fundamentals Exercise 1 - Stationary Deceleration |
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Lesson 4 |
Fundamentals Exercise 2 - Adding Dog Motion |
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Lesson 5 |
Fundamentals Exercise 3 - Adding Handler Motion |
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Lesson 6 |
Fundamentals Exercise 4 - Adding a Jump Before the Turn |
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Lesson 7 |
Fundamentals Exercise 5 - Adding an Off Course Trap Jump After the Turn |
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Lesson 8 |
Fundamentals Exercise 6 - Alternating Acceleration and Deceleration |
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Lesson 9 |
Advanced Exercises 7-9 |
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Lesson 10 |
Advanced Exercises 10-12 |
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Lesson 11 |
Using Food Rewards on Acceleration/Deceleration Exercises |
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Lesson 12 |
Decel From a Distance/From Behind |
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Tunnels and Chutes | + |
Lesson 1 |
Introduction |
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Lesson 2 |
Handling Exercise Diagrams |
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Lesson 3 |
Exercise 1 - Short Tunnel, Acceleration and Deceleration |
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Lesson 4 |
Exercise 2 - Short Tunnel, Adding a Jump Before |
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Lesson 5 |
Exercise 3 - Short Tunnel, Adding a Jump After |
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Lesson 6 |
Exercise 4 - Lengthen the Tunnel |
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Lesson 7 |
Exercise 5 - Acceleration and Deceleration with a Chute |
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Lesson 8 |
Exercises 6-8 - Advanced Acceleration/Deceleration |
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Lesson 9 |
Exercises 9-10 - Advanced Deceleration from FCI AWC |
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Front Crosses | + |
Lesson 1 |
Front Cross Introcution |
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Lesson 2 |
Footwork |
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Lesson 3 |
Position and Timing |
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Lesson 4 |
Using Deceleration Before Your Front Cross |
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Lesson 5 |
Where Do I Draw The Front Cross Line? |
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Lesson 6 |
Using Your Front Cross to Cover Distance |
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Lesson 7 |
5 Minute Front Cross Summary |
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Lesson 8 |
Handling Exercise Diagrams |
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Lesson 9 |
Exercises 1-4 - Teaching the Fundamentals |
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Lesson 10 |
Exercise 5 - Advanced Front Cross |
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Lesson 11 |
Exercises 6-7 - Combining with Acceleration and Deceleration |
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Rear Crosses | + |
Lesson 1 |
Introduction |
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Lesson 2 |
Rear Cross or Front Cross? |
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Lesson 3 |
Driving the Diagonal |
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Lesson 4 |
Where to Put the Rear Cross |
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Lesson 5 |
Rear Crosses: Slight Turns vs. Sharp Turns |
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Lesson 6 |
The Pull and Flick |
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Lesson 7 |
Handling Exercise Diagrams |
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Lesson 8 |
Exercise 1 - Simple 3 Jump Rear Cross |
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Lesson 9 |
Exercise 2 - Alternate 3 Jump Rear Cross and 3 Jump Acceleration |
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Lesson 10 |
Exercise 3 - Proof Against the "Pull and Flick" |
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Lesson 11 |
Exercises 4-5: Using a Rear Cross instead of a Front Cross |
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Rear Cross Case Studies | + |
Lesson 1 |
Introduction |
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Lesson 2 |
Simple Turn Followed Immediately by a Rear Cross |
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Lesson 3 |
Slice Rear Cross Combined with Deceleration |
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Lesson 4 |
Rear Cross after Aframe; Rear Cross on Slice |
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Lesson 5 |
Simple Turn Followed by Rear Cross; Rear Cross on Slice |
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Lesson 6 |
3 Examples of Handler Paths |
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Lesson 7 |
Difficult Slice Rear Cross; Rear Cross on the Flat |
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Lesson 8 |
Extreme Deceleration During a Rear Cross |
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Lesson 9 |
Rear Cross in the Box |
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Lesson 10 |
"Half" Rear Cross Maneuver |
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Lesson 11 |
How to Rear Cross on Angled Approaches |
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My question – Is a “wrap” 360 degrees and come in front of me, & tight 180 degrees (& follow me)? It looks like you use “wrap” for either?
Here we’re using deceleration as a very strong collection cue, and what we the handler do after the deceleration tells the dog what to do after the collection.
Depending on your goals and your venue and your personal speed, you may need to have stronger verbal cues that distinguish between 180° turns 90° turns and 270° turns.
when I train like this holding the toy in my hand, often my dog jumps at the toy and ignores my cue to jump or turn. If I hide the toy in my coat, I tend to be slow to throw it. How do I teach to ignore the toy ?
I almost never have the toy in my signal hand. I always have it in my non-signaling hand and I switch when I cross. I don’t even have to think about it – it just happens.
Another strategy is to use a smallish toy that you can fold in half and hold in your hand.
I don’t have it in my signalling hand either but she comes on the “wrong side” of me, that’s how I know she is following the toy. I will try to hide it more !
Is the dog being pattern trained? The dog should pick up on the fact that the handler will decelerate and the dog will come around the wing.
Yes! You are correct.
Great stuff – easy to follow step-by-step progression. Thanks!
I’m glad you like it!
After working on just a single jump for decel with H and D both moving toward jump I got only a taste of success. Will have helper next week.
Did try the first diagram on “Diagrams for Exercise 4” the single jump (? distance between jumps ?? I put them about 12′ apart)
We had done all the work up to this, but we failed this pretty miserably. I never connected with the timing for the decel and was very awkward. Sure the dog turned, but NOT TIGHT and I didn’t know whether I should go ahead and run the new line after the jump or just stop ….
So I am not quite sure what to do? Back chain or just start all over. I don’t mind.
I just got the little tripod “UBee Size” imprinted on it. Opened it up excitedly, took out my phone, I stared it, stared at my phone and waited for the ah ha experience. So will settle in with directions and maybe a “help” call to my son in law. So getting a video of our disaster will have to wait a bit.
So the point is, without your seeing me on video, can you still give me advice?
Thanks
Video the next session, but for this one, forward chain. Do the first turn and reward with food or toy, then do the turn plus the rear cross. see how it goes.
https://youtu.be/eN0Hd244_2Y
Here’s a go at this using a tunnel before the jump. Rogan and Presto did really well with this! Epic and Fable struggled. I’ll do a session with a jump to jump instead of the tunnel to see how they do.
Generally speaking, Fable seems to be my widest turning dog right from day one – I suspect that because of her small size (46cm) and the fact that we don’t have many height categories here – she jumps 60cm – that in order for her to clear the jump she has to really ramp over them – she finds it very hard to bend over the bar or put in an extra stride. With this training session there were two or three reps where I really almost got in front of her and she put in an extra stride – I was really happy to see that but don’t think it’s something she’ll be comfortable doing without me forcing her to.
Beautiful work. I have a couple of thoughts.
Make sure you wear cleats! We’ve done that exact same thing. Sometimes on the simplest of exercises where we thought we could just do a rep or two without bothering. I’ve learned to just put on cleats every time I work my dog. 🙂
For the most part that looked great.
I felt like Epic did pretty good! He’s responding to the cue, he can only wrap so tight at that height. I wonder too about giving a little more space between the tunnel and jump to give him the room to adjust his stride.
Fable was not really responding. She gets angry about the wrap. Lol. Her I think I would work with no motion on your part a little more and see if you can get a better response. Epic may not be adding a stride, but he is preparing to turn. Fable has no intention of turning. 🙂
You could also do some contrast training with her. She seems like the type that takes everything the same, fast and in extension. Maybe some contrast training will help her see she still gets to do that. Just not every single time.
Thanks! Fable is generally angry about anything that involves slowing down – lol. Thanks for the input on Epic – I rewatched the video and see what you mean.
And yes I absolutely must stop being lazy about getting into full working gear when working! No wonder my ankle got injured 😉
Reading through the comments and watching the VIP videos is an added layer of learning, no wonder it takes me so much time…just a little OCD 🙂 question on cleats, as I have slipped too. Any particular type you’ve found work well on grass and are comfortable? Thanks!
I personally like an indoor soccer cleat. It seems to have the right amount of traction for me (they’re not super large cleats). I’ve also started wearing “trail shoes” and those are working nicely as well.
Thanks! Do you wear cleats/trail shoes for indoor trials too?
Yes – I find that it’s a nice all around cleat for grass, turf, and dirt.