Martin Reid
Hey,
Interesting case!
First of all, I think it’s quite useful to note the dog seems a lot more in training (not even just a dog walk but it’s just generally running) which will affect this as well so for example, if you are saying walk walk – go go. You might change it to something like run run – go go. This might out with a little bit of confusion.
I would definitely try and get to some training shows where you can reward in the ring and do multiple dog walks as well, but first of all address the above. Really if there is a big issue in competition compared to training, you need to be in a position where the dog can work in a competition environment but in a training situation.
When you are correcting the dog walk, I also think the sweet spot (the first attempt in the video) where the dog did the majority of the middle and down ramp, okay of course it should be possible from here but I think to keep confidence I would’ve just immediately set the Dog just on the down ramp (like the handler it on the second correction) as then hopefully the rate of success would be even more which like you say will be better for confidence
Hope that helps
Martin