Dusty Video Footage

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Submitted by agiledogs on Sat, 2007-01-13 22:27.

I uploaded two video clips from our New Years Eve weekend trial. However, I wasn't able to figure out how to link text with the vidoe.

In the first, Dusty performs the teeter. In the second, he just ain't goin' do it. While editting the two clips, I was appalled at how high my hand was--I could have been directing a giraffe around the course. Gotta start getting my husband to tape my practice sessions and see if I have that awful habit there too or if it shows up only when I'm geared up to run at a trial.

I was also struck by Dusty's attitude toward the teeter in the second clip. His non-performance of the teeter didn't really seem to be caused by fear at all. He just seemed to be driven way over the top by adrenaline and poor handling.

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Re: Dusty Video Footage

Submitted by Olga Chaiko on Sun, 2007-01-14 19:15.
Hi Rose,

Dusty surely is an exciting and an excitable aussie, ;-). Fun doggy!

Now, you pretty much answered your own questions once you watched Dusty's runs with the purpose of performance and handling analysis.

I have watched the clips and Dusty's teeter performance in video 1 vs. video 2, and I was about to write to you that Dusty doesn't seem to have any fear or other issue with the teeter, at least judging from these runs.. 

Then I read your blog entry and you write that you noticed the reason Dusty didn't do the teeter in the 2nd video was "adrenaline and poor handling"... so there you have it!

Video is an extremely powerful tool. It is being used in all "human" sports. This is nothing new. I train by myself and I don't get to train very much. However, I have pretty much all my runs at the trials videotaped for years, so Luz (my star competition dog) and I review the videos right after each run and then review again at home. Video analysis is what allowed Luz and I to become a team we are.

Agility Dynamite! is a cutting edge format of Agility instruction, being based on video and a two way communication between me and the students. It allows for an accelerated rate of learning for both handlers and dogs, because video doesn't lie.

I have noted quite a few things that you and Dusty need to add to your toolbox, both in the handling and skills departments.

Please get your husband to videotape you and Dusty practicing Agility Dynamite! lesson sequences and post them so I can better help you have even more fun and success with your dog.

Olga.
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Re: Dusty Video Footage

Submitted by agiledogs on Sun, 2007-01-14 20:01.

Hi, Olga:

I was hoping to have my husband tape Dusty running the complete course from Lesson 6 this afternoon, but unfortunately there was still a thin coating of ice on the A-frame from last night.  We are now experiencing snow, so it may be quite some time before my contacts are safe to use again.  Such is life in the Midwest.

I certainly will be doing my darnedest to stop looking like a traffic cop running around the course when I go to class on Wednesday and Thursday night.  If you can give me any other areas to work on, I will work on them also.

The agility course is not the only place where Dusty can get completely out of control, and since his atrocious behavior on course at the New Years Eve trial, I'm trying to make sure that from now on that kind of behavior receives no reinforcement.  Dusty is currently wearing an e-collar 24/7 so that I can stop him in his tracks if he decides to go into a frenzy over the neighbor coming and going in his truck, or somebody or some dog walking past the front of the house, someone coming to the door, and everyday stuff like that.  I am no longer allowing him to go out to the van without a leash--it's another time when he just looses control of himself.  In the backyard and agility yard, I refuse to move until he stops whirling and barking.

Rose