Flyball Training - Lesson 6

August 24th, 2007 | Dog Training, Flyball

This is the last of the flyball lessons and you should only start this lesson if all other lessons have been accomplished. Your dog is now ready for complete runs to the box over all four jumps. If you see problems in any area, back up and repeat the lessons up to this point.

Add distractions and other dogs gradually over several sessions.

Passing

Passing other dogs can be a problem for green dogs but with time and patience, this can be worked out.

Start by running the green dog in the start position and holding a second dog close to the start/finish line with enough room for the green dog to run by. Release the second dog after the green dog has passed. Keep doing this and start releasing the second dog sooner each time.

Passing the other way just involves the opposite, running the green dog as the start dog. Hold the green dog until the start dog runs past. Work up to releasing the green dog sooner each time.

Warm-Ups

See the Sure Shot Flyball blog for an excellent article about warm-ups in the ring.

If you have followed all of the lessons and have taken your time training your dog, you should now have an excellent flyball dog. If you are still having small problems, do not be afraid to back up and do some of the lessons over. The most important thing to remember is to have patience and work small problems out before you start running your dog full time. You will have a difficult time correcting these problems later if left uncorrected now.

Training Manual Information

This is a series of articles that I will post about Flyball training. I would ask that you please try to keep your comments to the specific topic of the each article, for there will be many others. You can see a high level outline of the topic to be covered in future post by viewing the Training Manual. Keeping the comments specific to each article will help future readers.

Please keep in mind that there are numerous methods in use, but these are the ones that I use and they work for me. If you have others that you would like to share, please post your comments.