Moving Back

As I've discovered, you initially teach from close to the box and only move further away from the box when you have consistency. Zio is very consistent now from the 6-8 feet range, so I moved back to about 20 feet. We'll stay at this distance for a day or two and go back a little further, maybe with some jumps in. Out of ten turns from 20', he only had one that was three legs on the box turn. No reward, so he got all four on the box the next time. Good boy!

He did go wide on a few turns in the beginning yesterday, so I put some PVC pipe on the ground parallel to the lane (where he was stepping when going wide). After that, he was tight on his turns again. Eight more days until the next tournament. I'll be super excited if he'll do the turns like this in the tournament.