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Racking my brain trying to magically come up with answers is so tiring.
At class tonight Panic jumped off many dogwalks, of course they were all 90 degree turns to jumps. I've been working on turns the past week so my first instinct after class was to think OH NO RUNNING CONTACTS JUST AREN'T GOING TO WORK I'M TOO INCOMPETENT OF A TRAINER D: D: D:
After that I started thinking a lot about cuing turns of the dogwalk. I realized that Panic does not do well with lateral motion away from the dogwalk (which makes sense-I'm running away from him and he wants to catch up) but reads deceleration cues really, really well. In an ideal world I need to be able to utilize both but at this point I've finally realized that lateral motion is not something I can just throw out there and expect him to do well with.
I feel really ignorant now. Although the dogwalk is not a turning obstacle I think I DO have to treat the downside much like a jump. A total DUH moment. Panic is still very green. He can read lateral pretty well on jumps now but early in training I couldn't just start moving away and still expect him to take the jump. I had to support it a lot more. The same goes for the dogwalk. I need to support his descent until he really gets his job. Deceleration works and for now that is what I need to use.
So with this knowledge I acquired I decided I would do some experimenting with Panic for his dinner. He did pretty awesome with decel, but when I added some lateral he jumped. Instead of just using a NRM and having him redo it, I had him lie down and got Maxie out to work. Not happy Panic! Next rep he GOT IT. Hahaha. I think we'll get there eventually.
At class tonight Panic jumped off many dogwalks, of course they were all 90 degree turns to jumps. I've been working on turns the past week so my first instinct after class was to think OH NO RUNNING CONTACTS JUST AREN'T GOING TO WORK I'M TOO INCOMPETENT OF A TRAINER D: D: D:
After that I started thinking a lot about cuing turns of the dogwalk. I realized that Panic does not do well with lateral motion away from the dogwalk (which makes sense-I'm running away from him and he wants to catch up) but reads deceleration cues really, really well. In an ideal world I need to be able to utilize both but at this point I've finally realized that lateral motion is not something I can just throw out there and expect him to do well with.
I feel really ignorant now. Although the dogwalk is not a turning obstacle I think I DO have to treat the downside much like a jump. A total DUH moment. Panic is still very green. He can read lateral pretty well on jumps now but early in training I couldn't just start moving away and still expect him to take the jump. I had to support it a lot more. The same goes for the dogwalk. I need to support his descent until he really gets his job. Deceleration works and for now that is what I need to use.
So with this knowledge I acquired I decided I would do some experimenting with Panic for his dinner. He did pretty awesome with decel, but when I added some lateral he jumped. Instead of just using a NRM and having him redo it, I had him lie down and got Maxie out to work. Not happy Panic! Next rep he GOT IT. Hahaha. I think we'll get there eventually.