Today we continued jump training by playing jumps on a curved line. We also played serpentine jumpers to practice blind crosses for the first time, rear crosses, and front crosses.
Pearls:
- When doing a blind cross, as you bring your new driving arm up, leave your arm out behind you and down a bit while wagging your hand to get your dog's attention onto your new cueing arm
- Begin running with Jackie to get her running with me and ahead of me; play with rewarding on a small-ish circle for staying with me, and then rewarding for being on the inside of the circle or the outside of the circle I am describing for her to run
- When doing front crosses or blind crosses, always turn toward your dog
- Keep running! Dogs follow movement, and your dog will stop if you stop, so keep running
Playing jumping while turning tightly, blind cross, and front cross:
