One of the Demos for My Virtual Rally Advanced Class

Here's a video I want to share. This was a Rally course for my Virtual Rally Advanced class this week. I had both of my dogs do the course for a demo. Students can watch this on their own.  We work on the signs individually in the class and I make comments after each student does a sign.  They do all the signs and sometimes there's time to do 2 or 3 signs together so they can work in the transition between signs with comment.  Teaching virtual rally is interesting because students have to learn how to set a course, so that's part of the training as well.
SIGN #115. Halt - Stand 
SIGN #315. Double Left About Turn - Right Turn 
SIGN #112. HALT - 180° Pivot Right - HALT 
SIGN # 215. Stand-Left Turn-Fwd 
SIGN # 202. HALT - Stand - Sit 
SIGN # 213. About U Turn - About Turn Right 
SIGN # 117. HALT – Pivot Left – Forward 

My Novice dog is almost 3. I handled him much differently than my Master dog, almost 11). My Novice dog got lots of treats. He's doing so much better staying in heel position with the reward system I'm using. I'm beginning to take more time between treats, but occasionally. My Novice dog didn't do the last sign correctly, but that didn't bother me because he had done so well up to that point. I try not to correct during a course run. I'll do a retry if I feel it's worth it.  

Here is the video...   https://youtu.be/whA3iIt2580.

Comments are welcome.  Thank you for watching.

It's all About The Journey....
B
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Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA

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