Counting Down

Counting down the practices until the February tournament. Yesterday's practice saw some progress (I removed the cone) and he's still doing good on the turn. We still haven't gone back to add hurdles in again and Zio tends to only want to do the swimmer's turn if he has a slight angle to the box.

I've stapled a piece of velcro to the practice box so that I can "stick" a tennis ball to it here at home. I can tell he's expecting the ball to shoot out, so he's clumsy on the turn. Now I'm debating whether I should go back to the way I was doing it so that he doesn't accidently learn to stop in the middle of his turn.