Come to hand
Start with most obvious option - then move on to less&less obvious ones. So on this set up,
go in this order: yellow, green, blue, orange, pink, red.
Here, start with a jump and then first go to DW - then to parallel tunnel, then to
perpendicular tunnel, then to weaves.
Some tricky come to hand scenarios from trials, with obstacles in your way, so you can't
help much with handler movement (ie. with pulling laterally as you call – you need to run
right in, pushing the dog away – while calling in...). Of course, pretend it's in the middle of
the course and you got stuck behind some – it's too easy if you are in front.
On this one (Moravia Open 2016 Medium Finals), many dogs went from 2 to 4, thinking
handlers are calling them off 1st tunnel entry - to 2nd one...
Examples of come to hand on real courses:
cth: 3-4, 5-6, 8-9, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 14-15, 21-22
cth: 4-5, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 12-13, 15-16, 17-18, 18-19
cth: 2-3, 3-4, 5-6, 6-7, 10-11, 11-12, 13-14, 17-18
cth: 1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 13-14, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21
cth: 7-8 (tricky!), 10-11, 11-12, 15-16, 17-18, 18-19
cth: 3-4, 5-6, 9-10, 11-12, 12-13
cth: 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 7-8, 8-9, 10-11, 14-15, 15-16, 17-18, 23-24, 24-25
cth: 3-4 (tricky!), 4-5, 6-7, 7-8, 9-10, 12-13, 13-14, 16-17, 17-18
Threadles and pushes:
Various forms of threadles:
Figure 8s (green), in-in on jumps (yellow) and tunnel (orange) and come to hand to
bypass tunnel (red).
Come to hand (green), in-in (pink, blue), come to hand + push (yellow):
Threadles becoming harder the further back the handler (blue dot) is and the more in red
direction you move the jump
Pushes becoming harder the further back the handler (blue dot) is and the more in red
direction you move the jump:
Same dog line is »in« with handler on blue side and »out« with handler on pink side:
Different approaches to pushes:
Tunnel fun:
Different tunnel entries options from the same approach:
Different options after the short (1) tunnel: both tunnel entries, jump and DW
More challenges with backside approaches, layering, sends etc:
Another cool set up for practicing various different skills (bypassing jumps and tunnels,
layering etc.):
Adding some extra tunnels (thick blue lines) to courses for extra challenges (blue – while
red shows existing challenges):
Weaves:
More ideas for variation:
The set up I did with Le in the video, with the changes I did to the course to add some extra
challenges 