Comments on: Flyball in the public eye: Good or bad? http://www.flyballblog.com/flyball-in-the-public-eye-good-or-bad/ i-Flyball Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Linda http://www.flyballblog.com/flyball-in-the-public-eye-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 Linda Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:48:26 +0000 http://www.flyballblog.com/?p=360#comment-1477 Related to the subject of promoting flyball can someone point me in the direction to find history on the idea of the CanAm (such as how and why it came about and what discussions or voting there may have been, if any). I searched via google as well as the NAFA website, but cannot find anything. Thanks. Linda Related to the subject of promoting flyball can someone point me in the direction to find history on the idea of the CanAm (such as how and why it came about and what discussions or voting there may have been, if any). I searched via google as well as the NAFA website, but cannot find anything. Thanks.

Linda

]]> By: Linda http://www.flyballblog.com/flyball-in-the-public-eye-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 Linda Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:38:06 +0000 http://www.flyballblog.com/?p=360#comment-1474 Great blogs and great websites. Regarding the topic of the big picture of flyball across US & Canada, I’ve been looking at both NAFA & U-FLI websites as well as their respective Rulebooks to get a better idea of each organization’s goals and vision. Both organizations describe similar things such as sanctioning events, rules, judges, and promoting the sport of flyball. Some nuances I noticed are: NAFA mentions the purpose, "...to encourage national and international amateur Flyball competition and to confer titles of excellence." U-FLI mentions objectives such as "...to introduce innovation to the sport..." and "...to re-establish flyball as a fun, family-friendly dog-sport." I believe some key questions for us to ask ourselves, as individual flyball participants as well as those in leadership roles, is what do these purposes, goals & objectives really mean. How are decisions being made with respect to the overall vision. Does everyone understand the goals and is everyone on the same page. Does everyone support the goals or do the goals need to be revised. Possibly another question is do the goals begin at the top level and get disseminated down to the individual level or do the goals begin at the individual level and get implemented and supported up through the top level. I’m still looking for the answers as I imagine some others might also be. Linda Great blogs and great websites.

Regarding the topic of the big picture of flyball across US & Canada, I’ve been looking at both NAFA & U-FLI websites as well as their respective Rulebooks to get a better idea of each organization’s goals and vision. Both organizations describe similar things such as sanctioning events, rules, judges, and promoting the sport of flyball.

Some nuances I noticed are:

NAFA mentions the purpose, “…to encourage national and international amateur Flyball competition and to confer titles of excellence.”

U-FLI mentions objectives such as “…to introduce innovation to the sport…” and “…to re-establish flyball as a fun, family-friendly dog-sport.”

I believe some key questions for us to ask ourselves, as individual flyball participants as well as those in leadership roles, is what do these purposes, goals & objectives really mean.

How are decisions being made with respect to the overall vision. Does everyone understand the goals and is everyone on the same page. Does everyone support the goals or do the goals need to be revised.

Possibly another question is do the goals begin at the top level and get disseminated down to the individual level or do the goals begin at the individual level and get implemented and supported up through the top level.

I’m still looking for the answers as I imagine some others might also be.

Linda

]]> By: Chris http://www.flyballblog.com/flyball-in-the-public-eye-good-or-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Chris Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:22:36 +0000 http://www.flyballblog.com/?p=360#comment-1472 I asked the same thing. Why isn't flyball on TV? It's fast, it's fun and it has a "G" rating! It just so happens that an "all flyball" continuous broadcast channel was created this past weekend on Livestream.com. It can be viewed at http://www.livestream.com/flyballtoday It is so new that it only has about 12 minutes worth of content and then it plays a "re-run" of its program. I am the producer and it takes time to edit and upload to the library new video content. The goal of "Flyball Today" is to bring live coverage of flyball tournaments. We hope to bring you the first such broadcast in April. YouTube has some great flyball videos. If anyone reading this wants to re-broadcast their videos on Flyball Today's livestream channel, just email me at chrisandblast@hotmail.com with the URL of your YouTube video and state that you own the copyright to the material you are submitting and you give permission to have your video broadcast on Flyball Today. Livestream is very strict about getting permission to broadcast material if you do not own it. I am especially interested in CanAm videos. I don't have any video from the CanAm as I did not own a video camera when I attended last October. I think both "live" and pre-recorded programming featuring flyball is best presented by the greater flyball community itself for one reason: It is the kind of program that should be audience driven. Chris I asked the same thing. Why isn’t flyball on TV? It’s fast, it’s fun and it has a “G” rating!

It just so happens that an “all flyball” continuous broadcast channel was created this past weekend on Livestream.com.

It can be viewed at http://www.livestream.com/flyballtoday

It is so new that it only has about 12 minutes worth of content and then it plays a “re-run” of its program. I am the producer and it takes time to edit and upload to the library new video content.

The goal of “Flyball Today” is to bring live coverage of flyball tournaments. We hope to bring you the first such broadcast in April.

YouTube has some great flyball videos. If anyone reading this wants to re-broadcast their videos on Flyball Today’s livestream channel, just email me at chrisandblast@hotmail.com with the URL of your YouTube video and state that you own the copyright to the material you are submitting and you give permission to have your video broadcast on Flyball Today. Livestream is very strict about getting permission to broadcast material if you do not own it.

I am especially interested in CanAm videos. I don’t have any video from the CanAm as I did not own a video camera when I attended last October.

I think both “live” and pre-recorded programming featuring flyball is best presented by the greater flyball community itself for one reason: It is the kind of program that should be audience driven.

Chris

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