In the last few days I've set up this course from agilitynerd and played around with it. I really enjoy it!
http://agilitynerd.com/blog/agility/courses/steve/jump-wrap-exercises.html
There are some trees to work around in our area, so some of the angles were slightly different, but in general it gave us a lot of good questions.
-We had some trouble with 2 to 3, where Jonah took the off-course jump at 4/12. It took a much harder call than I had expected on paper or walking it. Other than that, it ran smoothly.
-Next I ran the course backwards. The only spot we had trouble was 6 to 5 (weaves to jump). I tried to peel off pretty far, thanks to a tree being in the way. That pulled him out of the weaves. We actually had to practice that a few times before he would charge straight through the weaves with me about 12-15 feet away.
Sequence 2:
-I thought this one was lots of fun. I really liked 4-8. I ended up putting a FC on the landing side of 5 and then another between 6 and 7. When I looked at the map I thought it looked pretty demotivating to just spin around in circles that much, so I wanted to change it by turning him the other way. It worked really well and he was super drivey with good tight turns.
There was one more sequence but I haven't done it yet.
I really liked these, though, and it was nice to have tough exercises from an easy setup. Thanks, Steve!
http://agilitynerd.com/blog/agility/courses/steve/jump-wrap-exercises.html
There are some trees to work around in our area, so some of the angles were slightly different, but in general it gave us a lot of good questions.
-We had some trouble with 2 to 3, where Jonah took the off-course jump at 4/12. It took a much harder call than I had expected on paper or walking it. Other than that, it ran smoothly.
-Next I ran the course backwards. The only spot we had trouble was 6 to 5 (weaves to jump). I tried to peel off pretty far, thanks to a tree being in the way. That pulled him out of the weaves. We actually had to practice that a few times before he would charge straight through the weaves with me about 12-15 feet away.
Sequence 2:
There was one more sequence but I haven't done it yet.
I really liked these, though, and it was nice to have tough exercises from an easy setup. Thanks, Steve!
You are very welcome. Glad you had fun with them!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you had the off course 4/12 in seq #1. Did you turn your dog left over #2? Handling it as a FC wrap it is a couple steps forward to the correct tunnel entrance. It also works to use a Ketschker and have your dog on your right after #2 and drive to the tunnel entrance. If you keep moving they shouldn't take the wrong side of the tunnel.