Naturally Jumping continues with week 3, exactly the same as the first week. I'm anxious to hurry up and move along to the problem-solving weeks, but Auggie is having fun right now and that's the point.
A few dropped bars this week and even a few popped jumps (apparently he's feelin' groovy!) as he cruises along through the week. The last jump on the third day he drops the first bar because I sent him into the chute at a very severe angle, but at this point I'm sort of playing with him and trying some different things at the start. He is still stutter-stepping up to the first jump sometimes because he hasn't truly learned how to judge the distance or feel confident in his judgment of that distance.
July 16, 2010
July 9, 2010
Return to Natural Jumping - Round 2, Week 2
Since we never truly completed the Natural Jumping program before, and now that we have Auggie in preferred where he's locked at the 12" jump height, I have gone back to Clothier's Natural Jumping program. So I went back, back, way back to week 2 (which is the first week for dogs used to jumping several jumps in a row) and started through the program like we'd never done it before.
Of course, we HAD done it before, and Auggie remembered that we did it before... so he was delighted to go back to this kind of jump training. Auggie just loves the jump chute and if I leave it up in the backyard, he'll go play and put himself through the jumps; and if the chute isn't up, he'll go stand around back there and whine and cry that there are no jumps for him to play with!
The first few days had some struggling as he sought out the rhythm again, but by the third day, he had the rhythm down and was having lots of fun flying through the chute! He still wants to run along the side of the jump rather than running and jumping in the middle of the jumps, and I still can't figure out why he does that, or how to get him to run straight through the middle. I'm still leaning towards it not being a huge problem. I guess we'll find out!
Of course, we HAD done it before, and Auggie remembered that we did it before... so he was delighted to go back to this kind of jump training. Auggie just loves the jump chute and if I leave it up in the backyard, he'll go play and put himself through the jumps; and if the chute isn't up, he'll go stand around back there and whine and cry that there are no jumps for him to play with!
The first few days had some struggling as he sought out the rhythm again, but by the third day, he had the rhythm down and was having lots of fun flying through the chute! He still wants to run along the side of the jump rather than running and jumping in the middle of the jumps, and I still can't figure out why he does that, or how to get him to run straight through the middle. I'm still leaning towards it not being a huge problem. I guess we'll find out!
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