2012 Flyball Season Starting Soon!!
http://sites.google.com/site/juneauflyball/team-announcements/flyballseasonstartingsoon Flyball is sport for dogs. Any dog can play from very young to very old, from the smallest to the tallest. Your dog simply needs to be obedient, eager to please, and have a play drive. A flyball team consists of six dogs, four of which race at a given time (two are alternates). Two teams race at a time. Each dog jumps four hurdles, or "gates," steps on a Flyball Box pedal that releases a tennis ball, grabs the ball and returns back over the gates to the handler. As one dog finishes, the next dog starts until all four have gone. Our local group of Flyball players train handlers and dogs in small steps by introducing specific games which both handler and dog find very enriching and fun. Generally, one dog is on deck at a time so dog-to-dog interaction is limited which means new dogs should not be intimidated to come. We help you train your dog from the very first day. If you are interested, send an inquiry by clicking the email link at left. Now that the club is operating under Capital Kennel Club of Juneau, practice and fee schedules have changed. In order to participate on the Kennel Club's Flyball team, new handlers must first attend a beginner practice series. Class series will be announced shortly on this website as well as the CKCOJ website. We will make every effort to hold regular beginner sessions, however, frequency depends upon interest! In order to make a class series productive, we need a reasonable number of interested people. If we have enough people, special sessions can be created to accommodate you so if you don't see a class listed and you are interested in Flyball, contact us anyway and we'll work towards putting one together for you! Canadian American Classic Tournament 2010
While it may seem dogs at this caliber must be worked to death in order to be so good, what we learned from Rocket Relay owners, Kelly and Aaron Robbins, is that their dogs train for the fun of it just like we do at the casual level and their dogs only train once or twice a week for about 5 to 10 focused minutes (in addition to conditioning). The dog is motivated by one thing: the desire to engage in a session of tug-of-war. Watch closely as each handler dangles a tug toy to entice the dog back!
In this video, Rocket Relay handler, Aaron Robbins, in heat 3, dog 4 (Anchor dog) simply doesn't engage the reward toy and his dog responds by skidding to a U-turn and repeats the course to win the championship! If a dog false starts or errs in any way it has to go again after all other dogs have gone but since this was the Anchor dog there was no need to reset the dog. This re-run may not seem so amazing but the Flyball community regards this as pretty unbelievable!
Juneau feels quite privileged to have attended a seminar by the Robbins so we can pass on what we learned. Enjoy! What Is Flyball?
This is an enjoyable video of every day dogs playing Flyball.
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