Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to run 2 heats
(2 more than anticipated) and although she had some trouble on the
first, came back to nail the second and get her title. She's off to a
great career. She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Janet Boss spoke these words of wisdom in
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Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to run 2 heats
(2 more than anticipated) and although she had some trouble on the
first, came back to nail the second and get her title. She's off to a
great career. She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!


That's TERRIFIC!

Congratulations!

Janet Boss said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to
run 2 heats (2 more than anticipated) and although she had
some trouble on the first, came back to nail the second and
get her title. She's off to a great career.

Congratulations, Janet.

I have no idea how flyball titles work, but it's impressive that
Marcie did what you wanted so young and both of you had fun
doing it and getting there.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

In article ,
Rocky wrote:


I have no idea how flyball titles work, but it's impressive that
Marcie did what you wanted so young and both of you had fun
doing it and getting there.

Thanks. In a nutshell, dogs earn points based on their team's total
time. Points are awarded for under 24 seconds, under 28 seconds and
under 32 seconds. (25, 5, and 1, respectively).

A Canadian team came. They are THE team. One heat was 15.7 seconds.
They were a blast to watch and their passes were amazing.

Titles are geared towards really rewarding every step of the game. They
get earned at 20, 100, 500, 1500, 2500, 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000, then
every 10000 after that. 20K used to be the biggie - I still remember
the first region dog to reach that - a very big deal. Now dogs are
going to 70K, 80K, 100K! When I was racing Lucy and Franklin, the
1500 and 2500 titles didn't exist, and it was a long wait between 500
and 5000 points! Lucy retired, and Franklin left us, with ~23,000+ and
24,000+ each.

At Lucy's first tournament (over a decade ago), she ran almost full time
for 2 days and earned her FD, 1 and 5 points at a time (more 1's!).
Marcie got the title in one heat (as did Franklin). What a difference.
Some of that is team structure, some training time. Lucy had her first
tournament 3 months after I got her and started training her and she was
nowhere near ready. These days, dogs are in training longer, get to do
warmups at tournaments for periods of time so they get used to actual
racing lanes instead of just practice, and are better prepared for their
debut.

Even more exciting than Marcie's debut was a new teammate with her first
flyball dog, earning her FD and FDX this weekend, with her 6 yo BC.
To see how excited she was and know that this will become a fun
addiction for her, when she had started out just wanting to give her dog
something fun to do, was great,

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

On 2009-04-05 20:58:14 -0400, Janet Boss
said:

She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!

That is fantastic - and it is exciting!

"Janet Boss" wrote in message
...
Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today!

Go Marcie!!

Janet Boss wrote:

Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to run 2 heats
(2 more than anticipated) and although she had some trouble on the
first, came back to nail the second and get her title. She's off to a
great career. She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!
Great!

--
Bill Clodius
los the lost and net the pet to email

Janet Boss wrote:
Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to run 2 heats
(2 more than anticipated) and although she had some trouble on the
first, came back to nail the second and get her title. She's off to a
great career. She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!

Way to go, Marcie!

FurPaw

--
Don't believe everything that you think.

To reply, unleash the dog.

"Janet Boss" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Rocky wrote:


I have no idea how flyball titles work, but it's impressive that
Marcie did what you wanted so young and both of you had fun
doing it and getting there.

Thanks. In a nutshell, dogs earn points based on their team's total
time. Points are awarded for under 24 seconds, under 28 seconds and
under 32 seconds. (25, 5, and 1, respectively).

A Canadian team came. They are THE team. One heat was 15.7 seconds.
They were a blast to watch and their passes were amazing.

Titles are geared towards really rewarding every step of the game.
They
get earned at 20, 100, 500, 1500, 2500, 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000,
then
every 10000 after that. 20K used to be the biggie - I still remember
the first region dog to reach that - a very big deal. Now dogs are
going to 70K, 80K, 100K! When I was racing Lucy and Franklin, the
1500 and 2500 titles didn't exist, and it was a long wait between 500
and 5000 points! Lucy retired, and Franklin left us, with ~23,000+
and
24,000+ each.

At Lucy's first tournament (over a decade ago), she ran almost full
time
for 2 days and earned her FD, 1 and 5 points at a time (more 1's!).
Marcie got the title in one heat (as did Franklin). What a
difference.
Some of that is team structure, some training time. Lucy had her
first
tournament 3 months after I got her and started training her and she
was
nowhere near ready. These days, dogs are in training longer, get to
do
warmups at tournaments for periods of time so they get used to actual
racing lanes instead of just practice, and are better prepared for
their
debut.

Even more exciting than Marcie's debut was a new teammate with her
first
flyball dog, earning her FD and FDX this weekend, with her 6 yo BC.
To see how excited she was and know that this will become a fun
addiction for her, when she had started out just wanting to give her
dog
something fun to do, was great,

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Very cool! Congrats to Marcie.

It took Atty the entire weekend to get her FD. (We know about those 1
point at a time titles!) A couple of our first timers in our group
were FDX the first day. Needless to say, *we* weren't on the "first
team"!

Unfortunately, due to my car accident in December, we're out of flyball
for awhile. I went back for the first time since the accident in March
only to be told the next week by my doctor that in no way, shape, or
form, and I to do that again for awhile! Bummer. Atty so loves
flyball.

Sue and Atty

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:58:14 -0400, Janet Boss wrote:

Is officially a "Flyball Dog" (FD) as of today! We got to run 2 heats
(2 more than anticipated) and although she had some trouble on the
first, came back to nail the second and get her title. She's off to a
great career. She's the youngest dog I've ever done this with, so it is
pretty exciting for us!

So, not to sound ignorant, but what on earth is flyball?

--Susan