, with the #3 jump being the jump to the right of the actual #3 jump. People were pretty excited about it and also wondering what was "the catch". The catch ending up being a really tough gamble. 
The gamble was: right side of tunnel, then jump, jump, jump. Except that to there was no way to get the #3 jump with the dog coming from the tunnel. So handlers called their dog back, set them up and sent them off. But if you start moving down the line (which was angled to the right) toward #4 jump, you would pull your dog off #3 jump. So it was a balancing act between sending your dog out over jumps #2 & #3 while holding your ground and then choosing the right moment to leave and run down to support jump #4.
IMHO the #1 tunnel didn't really fit into the rest of the gamble. If you watch the video, people basically call their dog back and reset like it is a new gamble. The only thing the tunnel did was take away all of the dog's momemtum, and most of their chance of getting the gamble.
The video is a collage of about a dozen dog & handler teams attempting the gamble. I think 2 teams got it. Enjoy 
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April Fool Gamble
Wow - just shows you how much stronger a physical cue is compared to a verbal cue!! From what I see, the key was to wait until the dog commited to that out jump before moving along the line. How much time did the judge allow for the gamble - all the handlers seemed to be in a real hurry!!
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Sue Charlton
Tess, Piper and Reese
Edmonton, AB
Crossing the pink tape line
Interesting! If the venue had been NADAC instead of USDAA, only one of the dogs (the white standard poodle) would have qualified, since it was the only dog that didn't cross back over the pink tape line (neither dogs nor handlers can cross the tape line in a NADAC gamble).
Still, pretty neat to watch! And even better, something to set up in the back yard to see if we can figure it out!
FlyGirls
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe
Pink tape == gravitational black hole???
Yes, Arna and her poodle boy did well on that, by not following the concept contained in my subject line.
Now maybe I'm jumping to conclusions since you don't get enough background from the clips on the lead up to the gamble other than those 2 lead-in jumps before the tunnel, but why did almost everyone end up babysitting their dogs to the tunnel right up to their tippytoes on the line?
The best set up for this gamble in these clips was by Arna and the poodle. For the lead-ins she's on the dogs right, does a wrong side tunnel entrance (i.e. a wrong lead entrance handle technique), and is 10+ feet from the line. She therefore has plenty of encroachment possibilities to help take the wrong #3 out of the picture. When Quin(?) comes out of the tunnel, she uses that encroachment space to shape his path before jump #2, and uses a "turn" or "tandem turn" command to shift his leads. She keeps her shoulders/feet pointed far to the right. She almost gets in trouble for staying still as long as she did and could have lost the great handle to correct #3, but got moving again before Quin thought to check on her.
There's plenty of momentum available there for that sequence as long as you give yourself enough room from the line to shape the path correctly. Of course, isn't that the case for all gambles? :-) At any rate, the moment you *start* a gamble riding the line, you've lost 95% of the tools available to you.
Tough Gamble
I'm going to have to try this one! Just from looking at the tape, I would try to send to the tunnel from much further back from the line, ideally so that I could run a parallel path to the last part of the gamble line. Easy to say when the pressure is off though! Was time a factor?
Wendy
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