{"id":1137,"date":"2010-01-15T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/2010\/01\/dylans-jumping-part-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:57:08","slug":"dylans-jumping-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Dylan's Jumping Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take back what I said.<\/p>\n

It is pretty clear to me that as a rule, Dylan jumps with his hind legs tucked under him. I’m not sure this has gotten any worse since he’s started competing, and I’m not sure it’s a physical limitation or injury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I spent a lot of time after posting yesterday hunting out old<\/strong> videos of Dylan, from when he was just learning. I wanted to cry. His jumping is beautiful; long, clean, fully extended with no tucking. He flexes and shapes his turns.<\/p>\n

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Alright, I’ll admit that it’s not perfect on every single jump. He shows a distinct predisposition for tucking his jumps. But that doesn’t necessarily explain why he jumps the way he does now either; is it the remnant of a physical injury (or a current one)? Is it just his predisposition became his ‘style’ because he wasn’t taught any other way?<\/p>\n

I guess this is where the experience comes in. Kim is a brilliant jumping dog, but has hit and miss contacts and slow weaves. I worked very hard to make sure Dylan has solid, fast contacts (ok, the fast is still a work in progress!) and solid, fast weaves. He does! But I didn’t even think about his jumping technique, I just assumed that as he got accustomed to the height and movement, he would develop a suitable jumping technique, as Kim did. In fact, assume<\/em> is too strong a word; it never crossed my mind at all.<\/p>\n

I also made assumptions based on Dylan being a Border Collie\/WSD and what everyone had told me about Border Collies\/WSDs. I don’t know if everyone was lying, or whether Dyl is just an unusual collie, but he is not a risky, hard-headed dog who needs a strong handler. He is soft, cautious and needs a sympathetic handler, but I didn’t realise that at first. I guess that’s partially based on my expectations of Border Collies, as well.<\/p>\n

If only it would just stop snowing and let me go and do some training!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I take back what I said. It is pretty clear to me that as a rule, Dylan jumps with his hind legs tucked under him. I’m not sure this has gotten any worse since he’s started competing, and I’m not sure it’s a physical limitation or injury. I spent a lot of time after posting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,32],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-videos","tag-jumping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-il","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}