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May. 9th, 2009 11:00 amTwo separate sessions, a few days, maybe a week, apart.
What a freakin' brilliant dog. I'm very happy with how he's doing. He has a high success rate, but even when he doesn't meet my criteria he still always hits the contact. He hasn't completely bailed off before the yellow in a long time....I'm starting to work on turning with him. In some parts you can see there is a pole at the end of the contact. As the turns I do with him get sharper, I want to have that there to encourage him to run to the end of the board and wrap around the pole.
I'm also seriously considering building a dogwalk. I was looking at some online, but I drew up some plans and figure that I could very easily build a base for one at under 100 dollars. Having just a board is fine, but I feel like he needs more training on a full length dogwalk if I'm seriously going to do this running contact stuff. If I had regular access to a dogwalk I would be fine, but I only get to use one once a week at class, and it is a group handling class so I can't spend my time there working on the dogwalk with him. I'm glad my mom has such a big yard, especially for our area. There is easily enough room for a full set of agility equipment, although I only have 4 mini-jumps, a pop up tunnel, weave poles and a teeter. I don't really plan on trying to get a full set out there; I really don't need it.
What a freakin' brilliant dog. I'm very happy with how he's doing. He has a high success rate, but even when he doesn't meet my criteria he still always hits the contact. He hasn't completely bailed off before the yellow in a long time....I'm starting to work on turning with him. In some parts you can see there is a pole at the end of the contact. As the turns I do with him get sharper, I want to have that there to encourage him to run to the end of the board and wrap around the pole.
Running Contacts, adding soft turns from Adrian Rowan on Vimeo.
I'm also seriously considering building a dogwalk. I was looking at some online, but I drew up some plans and figure that I could very easily build a base for one at under 100 dollars. Having just a board is fine, but I feel like he needs more training on a full length dogwalk if I'm seriously going to do this running contact stuff. If I had regular access to a dogwalk I would be fine, but I only get to use one once a week at class, and it is a group handling class so I can't spend my time there working on the dogwalk with him. I'm glad my mom has such a big yard, especially for our area. There is easily enough room for a full set of agility equipment, although I only have 4 mini-jumps, a pop up tunnel, weave poles and a teeter. I don't really plan on trying to get a full set out there; I really don't need it.