Flyball Practice!

[lute]

Way to go Jersey! I love flyball. It's such a fun sport to watch. I've only seen it once in person.

[BC_MoM]

Awww I want to do something like this with Jamie so bad but right now I REALLY don't have the time, maybe if they had Saturday classes or something nearby I could though, hmm...

BTW I really like your "informative" videos! Make more for training

We have 8pm-10pm Sunday classes, lol.

Way to go Jersey! I love flyball. It's such a fun sport to watch. I've only seen it once in person.

I've seen none in person, and my first tournament is at the end of the month in Calgary. Jersey isn't ready, so I am running Muna, a friend's dog. I LOVE her:

[NicoleLJ]

Wow she is flying. THose borders and jacks really know how to take flight. If anyone wants to See Sheena doing her flyball stuff here is her page:

http://giftofgracekennels.com/id28.html

Those were taken from two years ago. Her best time was 5.4 seconds. With Sheena luckily it doesn't matter which way I hold her she knows her job. Which is good because half the time I don't. Last practice the team had me letting her go from the side in stead of moving to the center as I normally would. They wanted to see if she would still know to move to the center, pass the other dog and do her routine, She did, The reason for this is for when I phase out and forget to get her ready, Then on of my team mates can just say go and I let her go, Sheena knows the rest. I thought it was a perfect solution to the problem.

Sorry for taking over yout thread, I am just a flyball nut. Keep those stories coming,
Nicole

[BC_MoM]

I'm a flyball nut too! I don't mind.

Sounds like Sheena loves what she does there. I'd love to see a vid of her doing it!

[cloverfdx]

Have fun at the tourny, enjoy the kaos of the day LOL.

[Spiritwind]

I too have been reading this thread since it started... I wish I could watch the videos but my computer is a mess and will not let me LOL I also do a little bit of flyball..... with my smooth collie girl, actually we have a class tonight at 6:30..... I had to miss the last 2 wks of flyball because I was sick with the flu and couldn't get out of bed, so I'm looking forward to getting back.

My girl is still learning it and still has a ways to go, but LOVES the running part, she is pretty fast, and is now doing the single stride between each jump when they are regulation distance apart from eachother.... is doing much better with the box... is now getting all 4 feet on the box, and albe to do the "swimmers turn" as they call it (atleast where I doing training at)... which was kind of hard for her to learn because she is soo long bodied, it took her a couple classes to finally get her to get all 4 feet on the box and learn to kick back off the box....

The hardest part for her is to not spit out the ball on the way back to me... she loves the running and the excitement of flyball.. when other dogs are running she is barking and jumping and watching them closely because she wants to go run and play too... and she has an excellent recall to come back to me as fast as she possibly can... but she is one I had to train to get the ball because she had little interest in the ball, her main focus was food..... the trainer of the class said her first Jack Russell was the same way... she had to train him to pick up the ball etc... because he wasn't ball motivated either.... well Paris will get the ball now, they had me use a clicker to train her to get the ball, never used a clicker before then, and I have to say I LOVE those things now! Its amazing (to me) how fast she picked up what I wanted her to do (it took a couple steps) with the clicker.. no way she would have gotten it like that without the clicker...... but now she keeps spitting the ball out on her way back.... so thats what we were working on the last class I was at..

This is the 2nd class I've done.. in the first class we had a Boston Terrier who caught on quickly and was AMAZING.... they didn't bring him to the 2nd class, so I don't know if they are still working him or not, but he was great.... and in both classes i've taken we have this other person with a cute little shih tzu/maltese mix... believe that is what he is... smallest dog I've ever seen do flyball... he does really good!! but in the last class I was at, they said they needed to change the tension on the trigger in the box, because he couldnt trigger the box when he jumped on it to get the ball LOL

[BC_MoM]

I have the opposite problem! Jersey won't spit the ball out for a tug or another ball! LOL

It sounds like need to teach Paris to "HOLD IT". Teach her to hold the ball in her mouth with the clicker. Start off with just a couple seconds, and work your way up slowly to 15 seconds. Then when she is good with that, you can add it to her runback. When she goes off the box (or picks up the ball off the ground if you're doing dead ball) and starts running back say "PARIS, HOLD IT!"

Good luck!