Huge's training 30.1.2013

Today we had our official training session, for a while i took a little video about the training. We trained blind-angled tunnel, this seems to be easy one for Huge. I have managed to train Huge to do obstacles independently. This makes the leading in some situation much easier, it is possible to send Huge to obstacles. We  did some basic handling exercises and then i did some weave poles using 12 poles which went quite ok, from the tunnel too :)

Here are some parts of the training, almost all of them.

Training with Sulo and Uikku

Today we had official training with Sulo. The level of the training was like 3 class. We trained forced frot crosses, same as with Huge last week, but the exercices were much more difficult. Although the difficulty level Sulo managed everything fine, as always. I think we are ready for a next competition, but we have to wait till March.
After Sulo's training we made some forward sending training using tunnel with Uikku and also couple of running contacts with A-frame and dog walk. Uikku goes dog walk now much better than last time when i was running with her.

Huge's running contact training

Today we got back on track with the running contact training after making some amateur mistakes in  the last two weeks. Today i also trained with Uikku which is a normal situation. We got a place in running contact training goup in Minnan Koirakoulu two weeks ago. This is the only place in our region which offers running contact training at the moment. Before this we started RC training with some kind of reverse engineering method. I have been analysed different dog training videos and also Trkman training principles about RC. I was already thinking about to train RC to Sulo in 2011 but in that time i only had a will to do it, no actual techniques to do it, so we end up to train 2on2off with Sulo. With Core i had already did some kind of running contacts. But as we know there are running contacts and running contacts. Core's running contacts are a pulling kind of style, this means I have to pull Core to the end of the dog walk and also to an A-frame. I took part to a Minna's A-frame course in 2012 and the results were really good. In that course we also talked about the possibility to train RC to dog walk too, but i never managed to train "pure" running contacts to Core.

Anyway i didn't wanted to do 2on2off or this kind of pulling style with Huge so i started to analyse training material and videos more detailed. I can say i ripped them in to parts and put the core parts to my training :) There seems to be some details which are not actually mentioned in the training notes. I had also some experience with Core. I did some experimental trainings with Core in 2011 -2012. Before starting to do RC training with Huge i understood the fact that Huge got huge power in back legs which means really long and high jumps, I have seen his father jump over 1 meter fence without any speed! I analysed some people's training videos and find an idol form Hungary Zsuzsa Vares. She is training running contacts with several dogs.

In summer i started do a plank with Huge with tunnel and low "jumps". In October we went to 60 cm high real dog walk using a loop. We have also did some 90 cm dog walks but not many repetions yet.
We have found a style to traing which is ok in my point of view. Time will show how things proceed but at the moment things look good. In some point I have to start to train also A-frame to Huge and i have passed a weave pole training a bit.

Training with Huge 23.1.2013

Today Huge had guided training session in Active Dog. We made some enforced front crosses. This exercise went really well even i have not been very intrested to do that kind of training with Huge. During the training we did couple of weave-poles with 6 sticks, seesaw and dog walk. Full high dog walk training was not very good idea to do, we didn't get the neccessary speed for it. We have been trained running contact with 60 cm and 90 cm high dog-walk using loops occasionally.