Planes and Angles 05/21/2017 to 05/31/2017 (Page 1 of 5)

Yeah, got it. Not looking at the thong is also a challenge for me

Thanks for the video and it's good to see Robby again.

"Colleteral damage"
That one thing I hear almost everytime when I practice: "watch the flowers!"

Sven

I was out yesterday mostly but I was able to watch it today!  Very good exercise, I think!  Watch the flowers.... I have no flowers planted and that's a good thing, Garret and Hagen would have a hard time with temptation on that one!

Lonnie trains the retrievers with a similar exercise that's called the "Wagon Wheel".  All about planes and angles... Or with the dogs, lines and angles. 

When he sends his finished dog away with hand signals the commands are "back" (both right or left for a straight back), "over" (left or right straight to the side, there's the right angle)
And "angle" for angle back- a 45 degree to either right or left back. 

My point is, that's a finished dog level.  Many, many sessions of training, on both sides of the dog.

Not easy or quick at all. 

Thank you Robby, very much, for the video!

Thanks Jess and Ron too.

Today's practice was not as easy as I was expecting it to be.
It kept go to the front a little and not on the vertical plane across the front.
The grass was a little wet, and I love the little poof of water vapor at the crack.
I focused on keeping it slow and controlled.

Ron

It is definitely harder than it looks!  Telling my whip to stay in that plane is not easy.

I can tell you, for me with doing all the angles and planes , it's quite tiring.
But I'm not rushing it and building up stamina is not a bad thing.
It's getting a little easier but it's not easy keeping all the throws just like each other in the different angles and planes.
I'm trying to keep them identical and the only thing that changes is the angle or plane.

Ron

Matt - that does not mean that you are doing something wrong. Perhaps it only means that you mastered the exercise...

Ron & Rachel - that's perfectly okay! I could give you very easy exercises to practice. Everybody would feel good and everyone would think "I mastered the whip". But what you would do then is exactly what all the others do. Ask my students... I'm a pain in the ass when I teach. I don't give them the easy stuff. I teach them the impossible, boring, never working stuff. Because when they master those boring and impossible exercises, they know more than all the others in YouTube land.

Sometimes I think, those "whip masters" know only silence or jelling. Gentle talking or even whispering - no way.
I teach you to whisper.

Robby

After watching how many "boring" and impossible steps build into a very sound performing well trained dog, I can really appreciate that, Robby!  Thank you!

Thank you Robby, Robert, I'm going to put it down to my youth . This drill will help me with the Tasmanian Cutback, as it's helping me develop more awareness of how the whip thong moves when I can't see it, and at unusual angles.

Practice today was gaining more confidence of not looking directly at the whip during the throw. More of feeling it.
I took Ben's tip and did a lot of it with my eyes closed, visualizing what it was doing and where it was doing it. I should have made a video so I could have positive proof of what I was feeling. Maybe next time.

Ron