Saturday, 22 August 2009

Practising 'Rear Cross'

We have been practising 'Rear Cross' for a few days. I felt the need to master the skill when we couldn't switch the sides smoothly in our 'Clear Round' run at Tauranga Jumpers Championship. In the run I intended to switch the sides with 'Front Cross' right after a tunnel, but I couldn't do it smoothly as Cinnamon came out of the tunnel much faster than I had expected.






In the agility class this week, I had trouble switching the sides again. This time, again, I was thinking about switching the sides right after a tunnel, because I didn't want to slow Cinnamon down by doing a switch before a tunnel, one of obstacles that she is often reluctant to do.



I started practising 'Rear Cross' with shadow training without Cinnamon and then brought Cinnamon in to do ground training without using real jumps. Things went well up to this stage, but I found the next step using real jumps really hard. A problem is that Cinnamon sometimes spins in a wrong direction after doing a jump right after rear cross, before going to the correct side. Now I am thinking about using a toy or something as a target in order to make her turn to the correct side without spinning in a wrong direction.

I hope to be able to report some progress in our next post.
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8 comments:

  1. Dughallmor Beagles22 August 2009 at 14:04

    Good luck! We just saw Cinnamon's busking video again over at Honey's blog....we are so impressed!
    How's Cookie doing? Better I hope :o)
    Have a good weekend....
    Slobbers xx

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  2. Sam22 August 2009 at 14:23

    Rear crosses are tough.. Marge can only do them going to the right and not to the left. Gotta work on that..

    Looking forward to reading about how you teach this! I need help with it too.

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  3. Anonymous22 August 2009 at 15:08

    You sure are doing good!!!

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  4. Abbey,Maya, And Scooter22 August 2009 at 17:06

    Hello Its us again (feathers and fur Gang) Thanks. Those cookies really were tasty! So sorry my profile link did not work. I dont mind You googleing us. We are new at this blogging thing so We dont get many viewers. We are happy to finally have someone visit us. LOL. Scooter is doing really good at his training. Us Beagles are really smart dogs! I mean look at how smart cinnamon and cookie are!!!
    Talk to you later, Abbey, Maya and Scooter

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  5. The Oceanside Animals22 August 2009 at 17:31

    My wife says rear crosses are really hard. Keep working at it and you'll get it!

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  6. Dexter22 August 2009 at 22:56

    Excellent handling! We get similar problems when I am sometimes not in the right spot and Momma almost trips on me. EEEE!

    But you got it the second time.

    Kisses,
    Dexter

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  7. Achieve1dream23 August 2009 at 02:25

    Unfortunately I can offer no advice as I have no agility experience at all, but I can offer you support! Keep working on it. You'll get it. And always have fun!

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  8. TWa7625 August 2009 at 22:42

    Once again here giving tips...

    You can use the target training in teaching the rear crosses. It helps the dog to go forward on obstacles and so on prevents dog turning around to check where did you go.
    (target training has one minus side... you teach dog to rush to next obstacle and there is need to learn different kind of leading after it)

    Target behind obstacle, send dog to the target, change side and give treat from the hand wich you are going to use next guidance.

    Another tip: keep sending her earlier to the obstacles. Every time her paws are in ground after a jump you can give next obstacle sing. This helps you to do rear crosses becouse she will start to go front of you.

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