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Angles that seem uncomfortable but doable. But first thoughts you might have are UGH. Very happy to see most students in class could front cross and get Out of dogs way round circle course 12-13-14; they didn’t wait on top of bar for dog (if you wait at bar, dog has no room to jump and doesn’t know how much to turn……)

These are courses to try handling several different ways, Can you rear, can you front, can you blind? Work to feel comfortable with how you can get through the sequences.

I have a typo on course map. Meant to say handle with dog on LEFT but I’m Left-Right challenged and screw it up 50% of the time.

Been seeing lots of pinwheels recently so set up exercise to work it.

People tend to wait and slow down in pinwheels and dogs just really dump speed. You can work this by training pinwheels as one unit (and reward the pinwheels. But you can also really impact speed and performance with handling. We worked handling and the different options to get through boring old “dump speed” pinwheels.

First, to share My Jen Pinder Aha Moment on PinWheels. Pinwheels are NOT shoulder pulls. You need to think of the middle jump as if it was rotated 180 degrees and handle it that way (push to jump). Or in Linda Mecklenburg like terms, Run and touch the standard of middle jump and get outta there. If you don’t get out of there, dog will start slowing down.

In the pinwheel sequence, I could force handlers to get out of final pinwheel by having them front cross in landing side of double. But this does require cueing dog to turn BEFORE commitment to double; most likely means rotation into front cross happens MUCh earlier than handler expects. Else handler movement and position (along with spread) means EXTEND.

The other sequence gave some chances to work rear crosses on weaves— and understanding concept of setting up to get into dogs blind spot (the cone behind them) to do the rear (even a rear cross on weaves out of chute!!!). Refreshed handlers on concept on the dogs field of vision and how rear crosses work as you move across their field of vision and in and out of the blind spot “cone”.

You have to Walk before You can Run!!!

This is a series of weave pole exercises and also HANDLING where you can (and should) do 2-3 segments at a walk to make sure you know where, when and WHAT information to give dog. Then you can do entire sequence at speed. If you can’t give the dog the right info at a walk, how can you expect to do it at speed? For example: On black circle course…Are you telling dog to Extend out of tunnel or Turn. Where EXACTLY do you give info for weaves? Rear Crossing 7-8 means handler has to RUN to get to end of tunnel and basically guarantees extension out of tunnel.

The morale of the night: is if you’re having trouble with something, don’t be afraid to slow it down to a walk. Even if you know what you’re doing, the DOG might need it slower to learn what you’re telling him.
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Darn, I’m losing more and more excuses… and obviously internet surfing some today

But really this looks interesting exercises for People and Dogs
and doesn’t seems as crazy as dog yoga

Pet Fitness Website: petfit.com
Videos /instructors for exercises for People and Dogs

• Power Dog Walks with Intervals
• Dog Tag
• Fetch Races
• Fetch Tease for Abs
• Dog Squat Tease
• Dogstacle Course
• Dog Stairs