Tournament? No. Seminar.
This past weekend a small representative of the River Runners attended the Touch N Go seminar in Edmonton. Touch N Go are a flyball team from Las Vegas, Nevada, and currently hold the World Record time of 15.096 seconds.
So what did we learn?
1. Pack a jacket... and wear shoes!
In the end, Saturday was a 12 hour day sitting around an icy arena in a sweater and sandals. Because smart kids leave their shoes and socks at home. The horror was repeated on Sunday ... for a more reasonable 8 1/2 hours. Sigh.
What did we learn actually related to flyball? Lots! TNG shared with us many tips and tricks that will not only help us gain speed on our dogs (and those up and coming), but will help make our dogs safer and able to run well into their senior years.
Most importantly ... the seminar did a lot to reaffirm not only our teaching methods, but our club philosophies. Could we ever hold a world record? Sure, if the category is "Litres of ice cream consumed by a sports team". I'm sure we could do it.
Will we ever run 15.095 seconds? Not likely. But man, can those 80 second runs be fun!!
2 comments:
I wish we had flyball here! a couple of months ago my agility instructor bought one of the first flyball machines in the area and we are planning to try it out very very soon :)
I went to a TNG seminar in February! I was still a bit scared back then, but Chase and the Mum went too and she LOVED IT! :)
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