Getting Started at Flyball
Flyball is a fast growing sport as is becoming very popular, so what is flyball. The simple answer is that it is a dog relay. There are 4 dogs in each team, and each dog has to run over 4 jumps, fetch a tennis ball from the flyball box and come back over all 4 jumps. It is the fastest, most exhilarating dog sport at the moment Any breed of dog can do it and all though you will see alot of collies competing, Springers can enjoy it just as much -especially if they are ball mad.
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Any excuse to play with a tennis ball for most Springer's. This is Bob learning flyball during our Spring Thing Fling in Angelsey, he was a natural |
The training takes time and you do need to
join a flyball club to have access to the correct equipment - unlike agility
which you can do in your garden.
At first, the dogs run in a lane of netting with the jumps and a flyball box
- this means they can't really run out of the lane and round the jumps.
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Jack who was also trying flyball for the first time and loving it |
Then they progress to running with jump wings at the side of the jumps,
meaning that they can run out if they want, but it's more difficult.
Then, they progress to running without any jump wings or netting.
The sizes of the jumps depend on the size of the dogs
For more information and to find a club near
you check out
http://www.flyball.org.uk/