Today was all about Ripley :) or as Andrea says it was all about me :)) You gotta love when that happens, lol. Poor Peso had a bit of a mishap trying to catch a ball at 10' high so Andrea left both him and Phe at home. I decided to work Rip first and in the end, we just didn't have time for B either.
We started with the 3 jump set up that we did with the big boys last Thursday to see how Rip read the serps, threadles and push throughs. Well let me tell you...we never got past the serps! I learned lots today and have lots of things to do for homework. If I stood at the far post of the 2nd jump, Ripley would not take jump 1 instead he would come into jump 2. Even if he focused forward to jump 1!! I need to work on lateral distance to a jump for sure. When he did take that jump he has some issues keeping jump 2 up when he was jumping into me. We worked just that jump 2 stepping towards jump 3 feeding with that hand and he did better. We worked on this serp work for 3 sessions. ** Ripley was definitely flanking me during these exercises, need to watch that.
We then moved on to teeter work. Rip did 2 bangs on each side, starting with it from his left shoulder. He jumped up, nailed the drop and did some great touches. When I moved to his right shoulder we noticed that he would put his front up to push the teeter down but would not jump up that way (strange! something I am not sure if we should be watching or not). We then went right to him doing a full teeter. He is driving really nice up to the end and nailing his contact. I started with him on my right, moved to my left and when I went back to my right he seemed to be jumping off at the bottom or not able to stick the same way. Will keep our eye on that.
We moved on to the frame after that. He did the frame really well for a few times, sometimes releasing to a jump ahead, a jump to the side or just to my side. His final frame Andrea noticed that he was taking too many strides to get up and down. We are going to keep an eye on this too but feel that he will not do this for long. He is one fast boy and we are sure that he will be very drivey. On his final frame we allowed him to turn away into the tunnel. At the end he even waited for us to talk while he sat in front of the tunnel but didn't choose to go in without being told :) I was very proud of that.
Summary:
To Do List
- work lateral distance to a jump
- work the serp into my space
- ensure he doesn't flank me
- watch his teeter and frame
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