Three different breed of dogs, over 60 crosstracks made in different timing

Idea was that the blue track is laid down and aged for 1 h 45 minutes. After the track is walked to the field, red track is also laid down . Abut 15 minutes after original
Then after 15 minutes green track is walked down. Then after 1 hour and 45 minutes we work up first blue (not just handler, but also other people), then after 15 minutes the red same way and then last green.
So the first dog will have about 1000 steps track with 12 cross tracks, made in different timing. Half of gross tracks are made 15 minutes after original and half are made 30 minutes after original. Blue track is in the video the rottweiler

Red track was started 15 minutes after the blue. So blue had 6 cross tracks made before, the track was laid down. As green was started 15 minutes after red. There were also 8 cross tracks made 15 minutes after the red was laid down.   We worked the first (blue) up 15 minutes before red. We went to work up the track handler + dog + 2 people. So basically all this group walked once again over the red track in 6 crossing. So there 4 different timing and totally 32 cross tracks of people + 6 cross tracks of dog. Red was aged about 1 h 45 minutes and had a length about 1200 steps. Red is in the video malinois.

Green was laid down 15 minutes after red. That means, it had 6 cross tracks made  30 minutes before (blue tracks) + 8 cross tracks made 15 minutes before. So totally there was 14 cross tracks which were older than original one. As we worked up blue (dog + 3 people) and red (dog + 2 people). This dog got additionally in 6 spots crossings 30 minutes before working up from blue group and 8 spots crossing 15 minutes before tracking from the red group. So in this logic it had crossing from 4 different timing totally 24 + 24 = 48 person crossings and 14 dog crossings (two different dogs). Green dog is german shepherd in the video. Lenth of the track was about 1400 steps and 1h 45 minutes aged

Field was very wet. In the video I point in certain parts camera to the ground and you see how much there was water. It was not planned like this, but we just have had too much rain.

Idea of working tracks up

We tried to track so, that at the moment when I saw, that dog working strong I started to add additional elements. First I released leash, next we left more distance from the dog and next we allowed dog to take also corners so, that we were in un logical position. All the time dog needed to solve the cross tracks, which had very much different kind of characteristics.  As much as both, handler tracks and crossing were walked in a normal steps also they were quite similar.

Here is the video. It is quite long and I hope that you have time to look it through.

Why?

The reason why I do training like this is, that I want to give to the dogs as much as possible different problems to solve, to teach them more selfconfident in tracking. Also giving longer distance, working “without” leash etc the idea is to get dogs more stronger to work independently and find solutions by themselves.