1/19/25. Short tracks around fences and woods
1/19/25. Laid these short tracks one at a time, ran him within 5 minutes and put him in the car to marinate while I laid the next one. Food drops varied between 10-15 steps apart. He got better with each track. Track #1. Struggled at the turn into tall cover https://youtu.be/imxw4lYuoHA?feature=shared Track #2 short track from tall cover to short towards fence https://youtu.be/bA4Q4ZZpGu4?feature=shared Track #3 Between 2 fences towards woods https://youtu.be/R9EverPLGJ8?feature=shared Track #4 Parallel woods and turn away https://youtu.be/88B4jnpOJYc?feature=shared
About to watch video. PLEASE, don’t start cross tracks without one of us.
ReplyDeleteHOLY COW, what a great start!!! And great restarts after the articles…(which need to be way more than gloves and wallets). I’m not unhappy with his actual turns….would I like him to find the next leg faster? Yes….but I also love a dog who looks around to make sure he’s correct. I don’t see you holding too tight?
I might have some problems with tracklaying…. Was this a stairstep? Did you follow the stairstep pattern? If all you did was put in a 6 turn track, were you testing or training? Was your goal to perform corners, or to tighten them up? Under the concept of turns, you could work on how much your dog over shoots, how confidently he refinds, teaching him to check behind you, turns on terrain…for just a few!
I thought he handled the gravel area quite well—that’s a lot of scenting changes in a short period, and I’m kinda not surprised the article challenged him. Maybe try to remember to only work on one thing on track. Go back another time and work on the gravel piece, and then another time to work on gravel to dead leaves, woods, whatever.
I do love that you worked him at 50”; it’s so easy to get wrapped up in age!
Have you been doing cross tracks on your own up to now? If so, please let us know how you’ve done them, as XT are like to screw with your turns.
Answers: This is the stairstep exercise that is on the website.
ReplyDeleteI was doing it to tighten up his turns.
Articles were gloves (leather and fabric), a square piece of hard leather, a soft plastic eyeglass case and a computer mouse.
I was going to try the crosstrack exercise on the website next, should I wait until I can get together with you or Mary Ann? We did inadvertent cross tracks at Bryan Park last spring.
Thank you for your help!
Perfect. I couldn’t tell that from the map. Couldn’t see all the articles, saw a glove at the start and then another glove and what i thought was a wallet…. Not sure what’s in your bag, but things I’d have in there are belts (leather & fabric), checkbook covers, cell phone case, socks, bandanas, a variety of hats, eyeglass cases. In training I use plastic and metal, those are rare (but not illegal) in TDX.
DeleteYes, please wait for XT training until one of us is with you. I’d like him STRONG at 5 hours age before we introduce XT. We all get accidental XT when training in public places…that seems to be very different to the dogs than 2 people walking 3 feet apart at a 90 degree angle to the track.
Finally, since this didn’t really tighten up his turns, I’d probably not change much the next time it comes up in the rotation. If he’s not tighter next time, then that’s twice, and we need to think about it a bit more.
He is an awesome tracking dog, and you two are an awesome team!