Slalom training
Freya is almost 1 year old so couldn’t resist on starting to train slalom.
I decided to use the same
technique that I had used to train Pixie. I put clear plastic rails on
the slalom sticks to create a tunnel for the dog. This time I used leash
with a help to make her stay in “the tunnel” the
first few times. On first session my goal was to make Freya understand
keep in the plastic rails. This part went pretty easy.
Second
session our goal was to make her do the slalom from both directions and
to see does she change her focus from the
rails to slalom sticks. This is the most import point in slalom
training. When the dog changes the focus straight to the slalom sticks,
it is time to start removing them. Our second session was super and
Freya’s focus was on the slalom sticks but I only took
2 goes from both sides and left it there.
On
our third training session I did first slalom with all the rails on the
stick and after I started remove them 2 at the
time from the middle. I ended the session with only two rails on the
end and on the beginning. Freya was just super. She got the idea of
slalom super fast and even tried to
accelerate towards the end (this didn’t work out yet). We need to build a little bit of muscle in woods to make hold herself
better in the slalom. Freya has
still some weakness in her back part of body and I think she is still
growing a bit. So at this point our slalom training will be hold back to
wait her get more body control.
Running contacts
This
has so much fun and Freya has been so cool!!!!!!
We have started to do running dog-walk between two obstacles so that it
will start to work as a part of a course. Also I have started to make
handling maneuvers to the end of dog walk. I have made runs behind a
jump and ask her to turn with a turning cue.
Freya was super in this training session. She didn’t try to jump too
early from the dog and turned really well in the end of DW and straight
towards me. I always start and end RC session with straight line runs
just keep her good spacing to a contact zone
as good as possible.
I
have also have done now our first real A-frame
session. At this point she has just run it over to get used to the
obstacle. I could only watch with great fear when she ran the A-frame to
first time today. She jumped from front contact zone straight to other
contact zone. She did hit the contact but this
way of doing the obstacle was totally unacceptable. So no reward and
she got another try. This time she really ran the contact obstacle with
two canter strike on both sides. This was what I hoped it would be come.
After doing a nice ground work with DW, the
A-frame seems to come together pretty easy. Freya did 5 nice runs over
the A-frame and each time did perfect. Now need to just make as part of
course training so that I can do whatever I want and she will do the
same way every time.
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