| 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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I think she did well, so I added the acceleration jump as far away as I could – no bar because it was too close to the wall and I didn’t want her accidentally jumping! Next time I will move that jump closer.
https://youtu.be/4QMkuxoJ3LM
That was lovely! She looks so much more confidence with the rear cross than in your very first videos. Great work!
This is our 2nd try at this exercise. Am I giving her the correct information? I re-watched your example video, and noticed that the handler is starting at the first jump at an angle – and I was starting straight on (i was trying to set her line), so possibly that gave Zinnie mis information
https://youtu.be/eeTIWhQIqUI
Here we’re trying to build on the last lesson by making your dog choose based on your handling. I think you ran it fine, especially the second time, but your dog didn’t quite have the understanding. You can remove the final jump all together for a few reps till your dog is successfully doing the rear cross. Then you can add it back in, start with the rear cross (which your dog will be patterned to) and then try the straight ahead (which should be easier). You want to work up to being able to randomly do one or the other and your dog responds. You can also move the final jump a little further away when you’re working through mistakes rather than removing it completely.
We have been super limited on space, and this was borrowed space to begin with so I couldn’t store equipment there, so had to make do with this space and only four jumps (I was REALLY wishing I had a fifth for the full acceleration, but alas). By using this grid that was suggested I think in more than one of the cross foundation exercises and alternating acceleration and deceleration, wraps and crosses, it not only kept the training interesting for my dog, but it was SO helpful for her to learn to discriminate between the different cues I pathetically try to give her, like a chicken with its head cut off, hahaha.
AND IT PAID OFF – she was the only dog to read a rear cross on a short sequence in class this last weekend, which was her first time ever to successfully do one AT ALL in class (she is normally just GOING so fast that she powers through and spins).
This video is far from perfect, so definitely open to any and all criticisms and suggestions, but do want to thank you so much for everything you’ve done so far because I can not only see the improvement, but FEEL it. <3 My confidence was, and still is, our biggest training hurdle!
https://youtu.be/l5TlAGkgKl8
Oh, and I should say I wasn’t super consistent about her getting over those last jumps once she did the cross because I got too excited about her reading the crosses, hahahaha, but when we have more space to set these jumps up in a way that makes more sense I will definitely be better about that!
Great job! I think you can use decel instead of shoulder rotation to set up big turns before a rear cross, but otherwise your execution looked great. Discussion on that point here: https://link.getonform.com/view?id=ArgGYl4t07GIrh1zYHS4
Oh my goodness, yay!! Rewatching this I thought it looked so awkward, and it still FEELS soooo awkward, so glad to hear that you think we’re looking better! 🙂
This link takes me to someone else’s video.
Sorry for the confusion, I’ve corrected the link, here it is as well: https://link.getonform.com/view?id=ArgGYl4t07GIrh1zYHS4
And here is the link to targeting to the food bowl so the dog develops more forward focus rther than handler focus. https://baddogagilityacademy.com/teaching-and-proofing-the-rear-cross-with-a-food-bowl/
Great tips! Thanks!