Daisy Peel

And the, the peak of their arc is centered over the bar.

If they, and then the other thing I want them to learn is, so that would be extension.

The other thing I want them to learn is collection.

So if they're really close to the bar, I want them to jump more vertical and land really close to the bar.

And I'm pretty picky about it because there are ways that a dog will try and accomplish that task naturally.

So I usually use myself as a barrier.

So I'll be standing on this side, the dog is here and I lure them over the bar.

So they come over and then they land parallel.

and there there are a couple picky little details that i usually try to hit on because what i really want for my dogs is to experience ways of jumping that don't come to them naturally so i kind of set it up so that they can't employ a natural jumping effort yeah yeah yeah i get it yeah

So I have all sorts of little gymnastics exercises that I put them through so that they know all these different mechanical skills.

And then I also want to make sure that they can employ those mechanical skills in response to my physical and verbal cues.

So if we're running hard together and I'm running past a jump, I'd like to see them extend.

But if on approach to that jump they see me decelerate,

or move laterally, I'd like to see them add a stride on approach and jump more collected and mirror my movement.

So there's a lot of that as well.

You can't really do that until they have the mechanical skill and they know, oh, she's slowing down.

I should jump this way.

And the dog's angle of approach varies.

So if the dog is going to slice a jump, then that means they have to be able to change leads and change leads again just to take the jump.

And most of the time, the handler's running straight when that happens.