Well this week has been pretty quiet Agility-wise. I did however get some training done with hoaxey at the beginning of the week. Monday evening, Yvette kindly let me work Hoaxey with Skate on her one2one with Nic. We worked weave entries and double box which was great for Hoaxey. Hoax' weave entries are coming on, she is still unconfident with them but Nic pointed out a few places that I was making things more difficult for her and we worked some tough angles. Nic doesn't really like the bars (weave guides) I use for Hoax but I used them for Boo and they improved his entries a million times so I am sticking with em! Her box work was lovely when I was with it. We did a nice excersise with lots of pull throughs and Hoax worked them perfectly! Usually Nic takes the mickey out of my 'Steeeady' cue but even he had to admit it worked perfectly with Hoaxey on this excersise.
Tuesday we did a course at MAD with Heather training. Hoax worked well but I got frustrated with a section where I needed to pull her off a jump after a pipe tunnel. She just fired out that tunnel time after time and didnt look to me just too the jump. She just wouldn't believe we didn't do it! It seems to be a weakness in my training as I have the same issue with pulling Boo past obstacles. I guess I have to say that if I picked a dog who looks for a line or a dog that looks back to me always I would choose the former... maybe this is where I have gone wrong as I allow them to take their line too often? Ah well, plenty of time to work on that stuff with the merlie girl.
The other thing I always find hard is mixing speed work with accuracy. I constantly worry whether I am doing too much of either. If I do a few weeks work on speed with hoaxey she does get faster and more and more confident, she also gets wider and less controllable! I also find if I do too much technial stuff with her she begins to loose some speed and gets very neat but questions too much. I really find it hard deciding what to do as I want to keep her quick but also need those neat turns! Ahhh well, I guess I just keep working her over both and hope that with time and experience, comes the confidence to execute both with gusto.
I also think I worry way too much and expect rather a lot from myself and my woofs :)
Oh and I am never happy until it is totally perfect! LOL
1 comment:
she worked the one to one really well and skate and hoaxey work very similar although hoaxey is much more sensible than skate, she worked the boxes really well and she is coming on a treat, nice to have you training with us and you arte more than welcome to come to the next one.
big hugs skater xx
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