Training Journal

    • Gold Top Dog

    Training Journal

    I want to start a training journal to record the progress with Maze. But I have no idea how to start it. We're working towards competing in Rally O. She's enjoying the work but I'm noticing where we're having some issues that I'd like to write down so I can remember to work on them.

    Advice??

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    • Gold Top Dog

    Video - it's the best "diary" you can keep on your progress because it's impartial.

    • Gold Top Dog
    I am taking weekly videos. But I can't really make notes on a video. Lol.
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    • Gold Top Dog

    If you post them online, you can make notes/comments.  You don't have to make them public.  Plus, right before your next sessions you can simply review and go, "Oh, jeez, we really need to work on X"

    I guess at the end of each training session, just write down your notes in a book, then.  I don't understand where you're not sure where to start?  "Worked on X.  Doing well on this piece of X.  Need to figure out why this piece of X she's coming around crooked.  Plan to work more of this piece using blah blah next time."

    I mean, when I'm seriously training, I'm able to keep track mentally of what I want to accomplish w/the next session, and things just come up in the moment and I work them right then.  But I realize w/multiple dogs and potential delays between training session, it's helpful to have a written note to remind yourself of the things you want to address next time.  They have a Rally O workbook, but... I don't find working under someone else's time table very good for Rally.  It's good for Retrieves, not so much the Rally stuff, which is 80% teaching where HEEL is, forward, backward, no matter which way the handler turns.

    • Gold Top Dog
    I didn't know that! Lol. Shows how much I use the net for video purposes.

    I've seen the Rally workbook but it's not for me. As for getting started, I'm used to writing books and such so I have a beginning, middle and end. LOL. I started my journal yesterday with exactly what you put. and I added what I need to work on as well. Smile