For a long lunch yesterday I met Kris up at On The Run for some open ring time. The focus was to see how she did her obstacles in another new place. I was especially curious about the teeter since it's again inside on mats.
Dogwalk, teeter, aframe and weaves all were just fine. Weave poles were even quite fast her first attempt at them then slowed down on subsequent weaves. She is also still being careful on the dogwalk but that doesn't bother me at all at this point.
We decided since we were there and things were going well we should introduce the jumps she hasn't yet seen. Out came the double jump and the panel. I tried them both at full height first. She came to a dead stop at both of them on first approach. We brought the panel down to 16 and she did it fine, brought it to 20 and did it fine, then brought it to 24 and did it fine going forward. On the double we brought it down to 20. She still balked at it first time, we approached it again with a little more momentum and she took it. A few more at 20 went fine. We went up to 24 and she was willing and cleared it but it was a little "spikey". So we have some work to do there.
Then out came the broad jump. This time we tried it first at about 16 (32) inches and she, not surprisingly had no clue. She walked over the boards. A few more tries and no success. We put up a wingless single jump in the middle of the broad jump and she cleared it. Did a few of those and it she was jumping it. Took the jump out and she went back to walking on the boards. Next we set the bar on the boards without the uprights and she jumped it a few times. We left it there so, again, we have some work to do.
Again she showed what I think is unbelievable "focus stamina" by working this entire time. Probably about 25 minutes when all was said and done. It might be her trait that I am most impressed with so far.
With Kris' help at least we thought to work on the "other" jumps. It's so easy to forget all about them, especially the broad jump.
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