More jump grids for Spot

In Thursday's class, Spot was the only one there! The weather was iffy and traffic horrible, so I was 15 minutes late.

We warmed up, did some contacts and some weaves. We did 2 sets of 2x2s, and he did very well. He's definitely improving.

Then we did some jump grids. First we did a 2 jump grid with a single and a double, which we raised and lowered. Then we tried some with me running with him, which he did fine with.

Then we did a 5 jump grid, starting out all at the same level, then changing the height of every other one higher, then back down. I also did some running with him on this one.

Finally we did a grid with 5 jumps. The first 4 jumps stayed the same distance away from each other, but the fifth jump we moved closer and then further away. This was to teach him to evaluate distance and figure out how to determine a set point. We also wanted to see how much of a distance he could bounce jump. We got it to about 12 feet.

Overall Spot did very well. He's a natural jumper. He actually would sometimes not wait for me to give the ok. He would self release and take all the jumps.

The next step will be setting up turns.