So, this morning I’m chatting with my mom, like I do every morning. It’s a routine for us. I call and check and make sure that they are doing fine at the farm and she asks what plans I have for the day, and then off we go. LOL Well, this morning she was asking about Dare’s jump training, and I was telling her that a friend of ours wanted to see some video of Dare doing some one jump and two jump exercises. In these exercises, she wanted me to switch up the jump heights, and the even if the bar is straight across or not, each repetition. Just to provide a different visual for her to solve in jumping. Our friend said she even hangs odd things off the jumps sometimes, to change things up. Wonder if she’s ever lit up the jump with white led christmas lights? Just kidding!
Anyway, the other trainer that has been helping with our jumping asked that I work with Dare on recognizing the stride regulator as a jump. At this point, Dare seems to be convinced that a stride regulator is an object that you attempt to land your front feet directly in front of, no matter how far away from the next obstacle this places your take-off. Oh, and sometimes, it’s just a springboard for your back feet. Bleh, not ideal. So, yesterday I worked on trying to just get her to lengthen out her stride over the stride regulator by playing fetch back and forth, etc. I had some success, but nothing ground breaking.
So back to my mom…I’m telling her the same thing I’ve just written, and she says, “Why don’t you try flipping the stride regulator over?” It kind of took me by suprise. What an interesting, simple thing to try. Why hadn’t I thought of that? LOL All I’m trying to do is get her to look at the stride regulator in a different manner, and it being upside down would certainly look different. Sometimes my mom just cracks me up. She is so practical, and yet absolutely brilliant at times. Anyway, I can’t wait to give that a try tomorrow. Even if it doesn’t work, I think my mom should get bonus points for a new twist on this exercise. 
Yay Mom!
Hope it works!
Thats a good idea. Or you could put jump stanchion on either side of the stride regulartors until she is consistently jumping them. ( maybe you are alredy doing that). Diana
Mom’s always seem to come up with good ideas! Good luck today with trying it out.
Hehe, Diana, we actually did already put a jump under the stride regulator to see if she was cueing off the uprights, rather than the jump bars. But I haven’t tried jumps on either side of the of the bump, I can try that too.
I just meant the stanchions, not a jump bar. but it sounds like that didnt work.. Diana
Yeah, I was actually glad she wasn’t cueing off stanchions, since depending on whether they are at the front or the back of the spreads could really present a problem.
One more thing. How did you teach the broad jump? Many dogs walk or run on the planks. Did your dog do this? How did you fix it. Diana
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Yes, I have had dogs that wanted to walk across the broad jump. We usually work on the broad jump with a jump with a really short jump bar over it at first. I may give that a try. Just put a bar over the stride regulator, and then fade it out, so it’s back to just the uprights again, and then see if we can fade those out too.
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