I tried to follow my own advice and not dwell on the mistakes. I did end up putting him back in the weaves a few times since he had a major case of tunnel-vision and kept trying to skip the last half of the poles. This wasn't the same case as last night where he was just missing the entry...this was a why-waste-time-in-the-weaves when there's a tunnel calling my name(!) - so I thought we did need to stop and have a little conversation about that. :)
Here's a little video of a couple of our jumpers runs...overall, I think he handled this sequence very nicely, although (as usual) I certainly could have done a better job giving him direction in a few spots.
And here are a few videos of our standard runs. The first one he *really* did not want to wait on the contacts - you can see that he self-released several times. Our second run was better, but he still wanted to go-go-go. Even when I stopped to treat him on the dogwalk contact, I could tell that he was more interested in going on than taking the treats. I guess that's a good thing. :)
I know I say this a lot, but he really is so much fun to run. And as much as I dislike watching *me* on the videos, I love to see him having a great time on course. I think he's really coming along nicely. :)
3 comments:
Wow at the lead outs you're getting with him!
Glad to see his little accident didn't cause him to be fearful of the tunnel. He does look like the has a little 'tunnel vision' (ok made a bad joke, ha ha).
Wow, Peyton is looking great! It's so good to see him having fun out there after his little "incident" in the tunnel a few weeks ago. He's so blazing fast that he makes Tess look like she's sleepwalking on course :)
Keep up the good work!
Aww thanks! But so *not* true about Tess...she is great. There's something to be said about control on course...most days I feel like I'm running a yo-yo. It's fun, but not always pretty. :)
One of these days hopefully we'll find both, but in the meantime it's a bit of a wild ride...
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