Easy..It's my first time!

Interesting that I would choose this method of writing all my training notes and thoughts. But here we go.

I had a lesson with Lo on Wednesday February 25 and of course it was awesome. However, just prior to the lesson I realised that I have a very difficult time knowing what cues to give Party as I am walking the course. Not that I don’t know what cues, but more that Idon’t choose the correct cues. I have made bad handling choices in the past and truly do not like it. I spend enough money on lessons and my dog is very well trained but alas I seem to have a learning deficit when it comes to handling. I discussed this with Lo and she gave me some different course to walk, of course with choices on how to handle it. After discussing the whys of it she had me run them. Boy, do I have to brush up on my knowledge base. Actually what I need is to remember the various cuing scenarios. i.e. lateral send, lateral push, and so on. So some of my homework is to collect all this data. My other homework is to collect course maps and know how i want to handle it before i get on course. YIKES I never do that and after finding some maps on line i found out it really, really hard for me! Guess I will be doing a whole lot of this