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Описание: We have been playing around with Stand and rest, trying to find the best calm, relaxed expression recipe for Blu - i have not yet found it consistently. You will see me trying different things in this session.

From Blu's time off + us mostly doing liberty i discovered that he gets over stimulated with treats especially with equipment which is my bad for not using equipment sprinkled into our liberty this year.

Stand and Rest experiments -
A few times we repeated the beginning exercise you did with Amor - me standing on the outside of the arena.
Me slouching my shoulders in a more obvious way for relaxation and then me standing upright more of waiting for a go signal.
You will see Blu poke his nose at times after i treat him. I have been trying different things to ask him to not do this, slowing down, waiting - i cut out the long waiting times in this vid but we had many long waits in our clover leaf sessions.
At times when Blu nose pokes he backs himself up to give space, which i think is good.
we practiced a lot of me walking up to him and handling the reins while he relaxed.
I am trying to watch his facial expression to reward for soft eyes and relaxed ears.
I forget to reward after a movement and a halt and then relaxation. I think if i remembered this more it would help!

The 4 leaf clover
This has been a really interesting and challenging exercise. Our first few attempts were very funny, we had BIG blowouts! Each of us going in different directions. I have been playing around with Blu going around the outside of a
large square with me standing at the center + we have been playing around with a serpentine on a circle so we go in and out between the cones so i think the 4-leaf was a bit confusing for us both at first!

Part of me supporting him more is for me to try and get the school halt figured out - this has so far eluded me. I decided to isolate the pelvis tipping cue so you see me try that at the end. Blu can do the weight shift and the forward jump and the halt but so far he has not offered much rotating of his pelvis much so i wanted to try and capture that.