Private Lesson #4

Well Yoshi's last scheduled private lesson was on Monday before he starts at the Tuesday night class at Bellecreek next week. He did very good, but I can definitely see that having a dogwalk at home is going to be helpful to reinforce my 2o2o training.. he is realy patchy in wanting to come straight down to the base. We did some jumping exercises first with a front cross...which made him shoot through some weave poles nearby (weird because the dog doesnt even know that obstacle much) He just shot through two poles really. So I guess I will have to emphasis "come" when jumping near weave poles. With the rear cross though...no problems! He did great. I think it is because I typically did rear crosses with him through his early jump training. Anyways... When I jump him I need to remember to try some front crosses because he does get confused with those still. We also did flatwork exercises... I had to send him out around two cones and go further and further away... turning with me and away from me. Also I had to walk with him right at my leg and then stop and try to get him to stay right with me unless I send him off... I think its going to work brilliantly. We also did work with the channel weaves...we made them just a bit tighter and he had no problems running through(I pray for fast weaves one day!) I am giving Yoshi a little bit of time off this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) Then he will have class on Thursday (unless it pours down rain there or something) and then over the weekend he might visit the beach. I think I might work him once and then just give him the other days off so he doesnt get burned out. He will have a class on Tuesday night anyway so he might start having regular two classes a week (depends on the plan at the place in pearland..this week is the last class for the 4 week session I paid for)