Yearly Archives: 2011
Friday Dogwalk Practice
Here’s the video from yesterday. Enzo had a bit of extra boing! in his step yesterday. He boinged for almost every toy throw and he had a few where he just leapt off the dogwalk from the middle. Otherwise he did really good. Even did good with the pull into the hard side of the tunnel.
Seems like he’s still hanging around 70% accuracy. would love to see that up to 80-90%
Sunday’s Dogwalk Training
Here’s some of our dogwalk practice from Sunday.
Trying to work turns still and he’s doing better with the box again. I didn’t get it on video but I tried with the one bar at the top of the contact He didn’t really seem to get it and started just leaping at the bar. I might try two bars one at the top of the contact and one at the bottom and see if that looks a little different to him.
Oh and I also got a call off of the tunnel at the other end! Didn’t get that on video either. Been trying to do every so often but he always would blast into the tunnel.
Running Dogwalk from this week
I was sick with a cold this week so didn’t really feel like posting our practice sessions so I’m putting them all in this post.
Our first practice session this week, I was feeling like crap but didn’t want to slack off too much so I went out and did a quick session with Enzo. He was doing great without the box again but I wanted to work turns and though the box would help. Unfortunately he completely forgot the box and acted like it was on fire! I was too tired to work through it so let it go.
My instructor, Stephanie suggested trying to use just a bar and see if I can teach him that he just needs to step over the bar. I might try that tommorrow.
Trial
So we got to test out Enzo’s new running contacts this past weekend. Saturday he did great on both the aframe and the dogwalk but had some issues with the obstacle after the contacts. He went over an off course jump after the aframe and fell of the table after the dogwalk. I forgot to put the memory card back in my camera on Saturday so I didn’t get video of that run (oops). His dogwalk was really solid and all 4 feet deep in the yellow!
I did get video of Sunday’s run. He went over an off course jump right in the opening unfortunately. His aframe was great and his dogwalk was no so good but he didn’t get called. It looks like he collected his stride a bit so didn’t make it down far enough. I decided to test his table a bit and of course yes there is a reason why I normally don’t move a muscle when he’s on the table!
Oh and he had great JWW runs both days and placed 2nd both days.
Boxless Dogwalk Sucess!
I decided to try starting out with no box today. The dogwalk worked great! He nailed the first one, and then missed the second one which I accidentally clicked…oops. Then he got the rest. The dogwalk second from the end, he did get a foot down right at the end. I didn’t see it real time but saw the dogwalk bounce in the video. I had to watch the video like 5 times to see it for sure so I wouldn’t really expect a judge to see that. The last two I did some gentle turns at the end by moving his jump standard over a few feet. That’s probably why they weren’t quite as good.
Decent Practice Today
That first dogwalk looks like he actually got but just barely got his front feet in at the bottom. I thought so but wasn’t sure until I watched the video. I didn’t mark it as wrong but didn’t reward either. All of his misses today were ones where he didn’t put that second stride in which seems better than him putting in two strides but not getting down far enough in my mind since the one stride should be easier to fix than trying to get him to sometimes add a 3rd stride. He may need to sometimes though. We’ll have to see.
He also did much better with his aframes today. No misses. The video didn’t work but I did an extra one at the end to get the video and stuck it at the end of the dogwalk videos.
Last Practice before the rain
It’s supposed to rain from today through Tuesday but I managed to sneak in a quick practice session right as the rain was starting. Got Jeff to video so I didn’t have to mess with the camera.
I did a few reps on the dogwalk and all looked good so I left it at that and moved over to the aframe. I’m beginning to get a little worried about how I’m going to handle this though!
Furrari Aussies - Agility and Disc Dogs 