Set Point Exercises

Flex performed 20 of these jump set point repetitions and only knocked the bar once. It was at 18" not his normal 16" jump height. Part of Susan Salo's example is to take the bar higher than the jump height and then back them down again. I only did 2 repetitions with him at the 18". I really wanted him to be successful so after the knocked bar my goal was to get him to perform it successfully and then back him down to 16" and then 14".

Gus performed the same exercise at 10", 12" and 14". He was successful on all 20 attempts. He did however audibly tick the bars on 5 of the attempts. To adjust this I brought him closer to the stride regulator for his starting position so he was not taking any steps before he got into the work area. This dramatically improved his performance. We also worked on his stay in this exercise and he only broke his stay twice. I am extremely proud of his efforts on this. He is doing a fantastic job of listening and being calm. He did show a little bit of stress with the exercise about 2/3 of the way through. I lightened up the tone of my voice and jackpotted him a couple of times which seemed to help. Classes start in 2 weeks so we will see how he does with the extra distractions and excitement.