Here's what I see (I had the sound off so I couldn't tell how you were marking them). Hopefully, it might help - if not, just ignore :) 1. No pounce into box, bad striding. I'd reward this very casually. "Good girl" then get her jazzed up again at the start and try again. 2. Pounce into box way better, but striding is still not what you want. I'd reward this a bit more enthusiastically. 3. PERFECT! Striding was just right. Pounce was spot on. Have a giant flipping party over this one! In fact, I'd be tempted to take a break right there and reward a ton. In the end, this really does become the most balanced, easiest thing for them. 4. Unfortunately, this was pretty much the same as 2. That kind of demonstrates that she wasn't entirely sure she liked leaping the apex. 5. Again, this was pretty much perfect and I'd have a HUGE party over this. But, you can see that she wasn't too sure about it - her stride was a bit too big which put her uncomfortably deep into the box. 6. Her apex jump was good here but she added a stride - probably b/c on the last attempt she didn't like how she buried herself in the box. Unfortunately, the tiny stride didn't help and she missed the box totally. > At this point, I might experiment a bit without the box, doing just a few repetitions where your primary goal is getting the apex leap. Watch rep 3 and see where her front feet land - try to reward that placement. The secondary goal is to get a single stride on the down (meaning, just one more hit with both front feet). Until she gains confidence, that single stride might be a bit too short to actually land in the box but, imo, that's ok for a few reps when your focusing on getting the first hit right. Alternatively, you could make a slightly bigger box. The other reason I wouldn't fuss about hitting the actual box is because the length of stride she needs is going to change when you raise the frame. So, once you feel that she 'gets' the apex leap/single stride (say, 70-80% correct), I'd just raise it. Then, you can add back the box to get the correct length of stride. She's really too big and long strided to reliably put more than one single stride on the down. So, you don't want her to repeat that in training b/c I can pretty much guarantee that when she's in the ring she'll be too excited to do it. One of the 'box' frames that I've seen fail seemed to do so b/c the striding wasn't addressed...and it's why I couldn't get Dust to do it - I just couldn't get her to do the apex jump/single stride reliably. Good grief, this is a book. Sorry :)
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Here's what I see (I had the sound off so I couldn't tell how you were marking them). Hopefully, it might help - if not, just ignore :)
1. No pounce into box, bad striding. I'd reward this very casually. "Good girl" then get her jazzed up again at the start and try again.
2. Pounce into box way better, but striding is still not what you want. I'd reward this a bit more enthusiastically.
3. PERFECT! Striding was just right. Pounce was spot on. Have a giant flipping party over this one! In fact, I'd be tempted to take a break right there and reward a ton. In the end, this really does become the most balanced, easiest thing for them.
4. Unfortunately, this was pretty much the same as 2. That kind of demonstrates that she wasn't entirely sure she liked leaping the apex.
5. Again, this was pretty much perfect and I'd have a HUGE party over this. But, you can see that she wasn't too sure about it - her stride was a bit too big which put her uncomfortably deep into the box.
6. Her apex jump was good here but she added a stride - probably b/c on the last attempt she didn't like how she buried herself in the box. Unfortunately, the tiny stride didn't help and she missed the box totally.
> At this point, I might experiment a bit without the box, doing just a few repetitions where your primary goal is getting the apex leap. Watch rep 3 and see where her front feet land - try to reward that placement. The secondary goal is to get a single stride on the down (meaning, just one more hit with both front feet). Until she gains confidence, that single stride might be a bit too short to actually land in the box but, imo, that's ok for a few reps when your focusing on getting the first hit right. Alternatively, you could make a slightly bigger box. The other reason I wouldn't fuss about hitting the actual box is because the length of stride she needs is going to change when you raise the frame. So, once you feel that she 'gets' the apex leap/single stride (say, 70-80% correct), I'd just raise it. Then, you can add back the box to get the correct length of stride. She's really too big and long strided to reliably put more than one single stride on the down. So, you don't want her to repeat that in training b/c I can pretty much guarantee that when she's in the ring she'll be too excited to do it. One of the 'box' frames that I've seen fail seemed to do so b/c the striding wasn't addressed...and it's why I couldn't get Dust to do it - I just couldn't get her to do the apex jump/single stride reliably.
Good grief, this is a book. Sorry :)
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