Why not try something new and come to Sandusky Ohio!Fur in a Blur is holding 2, tournaments in 3 days at the Erie CountyFairgrounds. An unlimited one day tournament on Friday July 3rd, and an unlimited two daytournament July 4th and 5th both offering Vets, Open, Regular, and Multi. We can promise competitive racing and lots of fun with Saturday nightfeaturing: *Human Flyball *with three new types of racing to keep thingsmore fun: 1. The Passing Race - (4 runners and a box loader needed) Each runner musthave a clean pass with in two feet(we will use line judges). And they muststart at at least 20 feet. Any pass longer than 2 ft.or bad and the runnermust rerun. Each team will run twice for their best time. Fastest time wins. 2. The Pairs Race -(4 runners and a box loader needed) Two partners willrun, elbows locked, down to the box where one will trigger the box and theother will grab the ball. This will be done by two sets of partners (for atotal of 4 on the team) for the team time. The race will be run twice byeach team and the fastest time will be recorded.The ages of each set of tworunners must differ by 20 years. Fastest time wins. 3. The Jumpers Race - (4 runners and a box loader needed) For the agile andbrave of heart. Two jumps will be used and must be completed. Any ticking ,hitting or missing of jumps and the runner must rerun. Each team will runtwice and their fastest time will be recorded. Fastest time wins. Because human flyball is an unlimited event you can participate in any orall races. Day of entry sign-ups for human flyball are permitted up to3PM. As usual Fur in a Blur has made arrangements with the Motel 6 Sandusky -Milan (#4016) for those who do not wish to camp. The block of rooms is heldat a rate of $79.99 a night under the name *Flyball*. Given how close weare to Cedar Point this is a great price. You'd like to join in on the fun but your team can't make it?No problem. Contact our open coordinator and she will see if she can hookyou up with a team. Check out the following url for details: *http://www.furinablur.org/sandusky2009.cfm*Closing for both tournaments is *Sunday May 31st.*Hope to see you there. And on a personal note, the Open team coordinator leaves for vacation on05/30, so it would really help if you contact her before then so she doesn'tneed to worry about this on vacation.-- LauraFur in a Blur (open team coordinator)
Hello Everyone: On behalf of Hot Diggity Dogs, I want to thank each and everyone of you for coming to our "No Limits" Tournament in Trenton, Ontario. Celebrating 10 years of flyball would not have been complete without all our friends. We had quite a number of new HDD people to train and therewas certainly lots of exciting racing to show what happens at a tournament. Also your promptness and preparedness for the racing lanesmade the entire weekend most enjoyable. With a record number of entries, the entire tournament ran smoothly and on time. I know it certainly made my job easier. Well done everyone! The tournament is already scored so hopefully it will be posted soon.We look forward to seeing all of you in Trenton again next year. In the meantime don't forget our Norwood Tournament is being held on August 1-2 weekend. Closing date is July 3 and, yes, we are continuingour 10 years of flyball celebration (hint...this time it will be the "people" we celebrate.)
I have Tough spun matting in my training hall and its stood up very well forover 5 years. We do have extra matting on the flyball lanes.We run agility, rally and obedience classes with about 50 plus studentsgoing through a week. Two clubs practice flyball weekly.The matting has stood up very well, and the students love it. We have triedthe vinyl matting and it was very slippery, definitely not safe for agilityor flyball. .We tape the edges and do have some tears, but I learned a technique thatsome flyball clubs use here after the fact. They tape the edges first, withtape around the edge, then lay them down and tape them down. The tapededges then do not rip when the mats are moved.We got a very good deal on mat ends from the company, the mats are shorterin some cases, but wider, and we bought a large amount from them and splitwith a couple of clubs.If you call the warehouse directly, you may be able to get some that way,they were more than happy to clear their unused job roll ends! For flyball, I bought some tough spun matting at a very good price from aclearance center here, and we tape that down over the other matting for apermanent flyball lane, as that wears more quickly. We can play agility andhave classes over these mats and move the equipment with no problems. Cleanup is a breeze.These mats are grey, so the lanes are quite prominent, but it looks great, Ithink.Hope that helps.ElsiePDQ, Saskatchewan -- WESKEYS BORDER COLLIES and BELGIAN SHEPHERDSwww.imagewireless.ca/myweb/weskeysPawzitive Attitudes Dogzone Canine Training Centrewww.pawzitiveattitudes.comAdd an event to the DogEvents Calendar!www.dogevents.ca
