This post is a self-reminder. For all that I love playing with my dogs, I need to analyse what we do and what I want for me to ever get there.<\/p>\n
Although there will be some variation from handler to handler, I think there is a fairly standard formula for “perfect contacts” (actually, for perfect anything — weaves, jumping, tunnels, startline, etc) Whatever method you train for, you want your contacts (or weaves, tunnels, etc) to be:<\/p>\n
+ FAST
\n+ CONTROLLED**
\n+ CONSISTENT<\/p>\n
Obviously there is an underlying theme of “do the obstacle correctly”, but I’m assuming that’s a given.<\/p>\n
Kim’s contacts<\/strong> Dylan’s contacts<\/strong> I have achieved FAST contacts with Kim, but am missing the other 2 points. In attempting to avoid that with my next dog, I have trained Dylan to be CONTROLLED and CONSISTENT, but have somehow missed out on the FAST bit.<\/p>\n Future!Puppy will have FAST, CONTROLLED and CONSISTENT contacts. (Remind me, 4 years from now, that I said that. And nobody panic, as future!puppy is in the faraway future.)<\/p>\n ** Control does not necessarily mean stop contacts, or whatever. It just means that the dog isn’t going to lose all self-control (or the handler lose all handling control!) when the dog performs the obstacle. It’s no good having a fast dog who consistently leaps from the top of the Aframe — control is also needed.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post is a self-reminder. For all that I love playing with my dogs, I need to analyse what we do and what I want for me to ever get there. Although there will be some variation from handler to handler, I think there is a fairly standard formula for “perfect contacts” (actually, for perfect […]<\/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":[4,12,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-kim","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-e9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– INCONSISTENT!
\n– Poor early training means she sometimes stops\/creeps the dogwalk plank (and leaps) or just runs and jumps
\n– Seesaw is extremely unpredictable
\n+ fast fast fast
\n– lack of control<\/p>\n
\n– No speed: is slow, creeps the downplank, and underconfident on dogwalk
\n+ Consistent consistent! Has never being marked for missing a contact in competition.
\n+ control<\/p>\n