We took the shelties to the kennels yesterday to do a bit of training as we have been finding it difficult to get to group training - we seem to be chasing our tails at the moment! We had a couple of goals to work on with each dog, both needed practice on contacts with tunnels underneath but Brodie needed some tricky weave entries and Brax needed some A frame contacts and gridwork.
Here are a couple of videos of Brodie running. The first is trying to get him more independent finding weaves entries at 90 degree angles. The first time he does the weaves I help him quite a lot but the second time I let him go off more by himself. You can see on the video that he is more hesistant without his mummy there!
The second video is us just having a run round, practising a couple of crosses but mainly to speed up his seesaw which was done with the help of cheese! I also worked Brodie doing obstacle discrimmination with the tunnel wrapped round one end of the A frame. He did have a couple of times where he got it wrong but generally was better when I only gave him a verbal command and hung back to let him make the decision.
Thanks for sharing the videos. I don't do agility due to Eva's weak hind legs but am interested in it. Always enjoy watching the agility videos from bloggers!
ReplyDeleteI think you and Brodie did well in the practice!
Thanks Priscilla, I like having videos of the dogs as I can see where I can improve my handling. Sometimes it all goes wrong though - I have lots of funny videos that I'll have to put on the blog :)
ReplyDeleteClever Brodie :) He has done so well this season (& than handler too) :)
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