Ok, so here is the promised video of the jump training Layla and I were working on today. It’s serpentines and threadles. She’s doing really well. I can see in the video that I probably need to improve my timing and make my cues a little bit better, but she’s doing a good job responding to me regardless. LOL

Now we’re loading up the car to take Twist and Raven over to my friends house. I’m going to set up a Rally Obedience course for them and see what we need to work on before the Sheltie Specialty in a couple weeks. Then back home and possibly a walk for the younger two dogs. No need for any fat burning pills pills today. I should be busy enough just keeping up with the dogs today.

The jump training continues. The first video is of Layla doing the tighter turn drill that had me baffled. I think it’s definitely better now that I’ve moved the jump. Here’s a short clip of the new and improved tighter turn drill. LOL

The next video is of the Jump Around the Clock drill. We don’t need any industrial hand wheels to do this one. I just need to keep track of our imaginary hands of the clock. If I remember the drill correctly, you are to have the dog jump from all around the clock. So, if you set the dog at 6 you go to 12 on the clock. If you set the dog at 4 you go to 10 etc. The next step would be that you start changing up the distance of dog from the jump and also your distance from the jump to test out their ability to recognize the need to either extend or collect at the jump. I am thinking that we may run into some trouble doing this in the limited space in the barn. We’ll see though. In the meantime, here is the first part of the drill that we’ve done.