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Competition Etiquette

Just a few pointers to remember when you are at a competition:

Make sure you have read your rule book before the competition and that you have some understanding of the rules.

If you are unsure of any part of the competition or wish to clarify a rule, ensure that your team captain asks the Judge at the pre-race talk.

Ensure that your team is assembled, ready to race as soon as the current team racing has left the ring. Remember a heat has not finished until the Judge has declared a winner. The judge will raise the signal flag to let the waiting teams know they can enter the ring.

Before entering the flyball racing area, ensure that your dog is toileted. If your dog urinates or defecates in the ring, it results in immediate forfeit of a heat. It may also result in distractions for other dogs racing and can also leave the ring a smelly and unsavoury area for racing.

If your team has finished warming up their dogs and setting their box and jumps before the Judge blows their whistle for the start of the next heat, line your team up in a way that the Judge knows that you are ready. As soon as the heat has been awarded, ensure your team is lined up and ready to race again. This will also assist with a smooth running program.

Never throw your motivators in the ring or throw your balls into a bucket. This can result in your team forfeiting the heat after a warning by the Judge.

Ensure that as soon as you have finished your heat you secure your dog. Do not let it run around off lead in the inbound area of the ring. Incidents can happen behind the start/finish line too.

You are not allowed tether your dogin the ring at any point. If you are not racing, your dog must be on lead and the end of the lead must be held securly by the handler.

Ensure that all loose balls are picked up as quickly as possible. Ball shaggers are good at doing this. A dog going for a loose ball from the opposition will be deemed as an incident of interfernce or distraction depending on where the incident occurs and could result in your team forfeititing that heat.

If your dog interferes with the other team and your dog does not come straight back, go directly and get the dog so as to prevent any further stress to the other team and prevent further/escalated incidence.

If your team is having problems with the dogs not completing the course properly, the team should possibly look at substituting a reserve dog to ensure no incidents occur.

Dogs outside the ring should be secured, whether it be on lead with a handler or placed in a crate. Do not tie dogs to the inside or outside of the flyball ring.

When in the Ring, whether as competitor, boxloader, shagger or steward, please remember that no food, drink or smoking is permitted in the ring .

Competition Etiquette

Just a few pointers to remember when you are at a competition:

Make sure you have read your rule book before the competition and that you have some understanding of the rules.

If you are unsure of any part of the competition or wish to clarify a rule, ensure that your team captain asks the Judge at the pre-race talk.

Ensure that your team is assembled, ready to race as soon as the current team racing has left the ring. Remember a heat has not finished until the Judge has declared a winner. The judge will raise the signal flag to let the waiting teams know they can enter the ring.

Before entering the flyball racing area, ensure that your dog is toileted. If your dog urinates or defecates in the ring, it results in immediate forfeit of a heat. It may also result in distractions for other dogs racing and can also leave the ring a smelly and unsavoury area for racing.

If your team has finished warming up their dogs and setting their box and jumps before the Judge blows their whistle for the start of the next heat, line your team up in a way that the Judge knows that you are ready. As soon as the heat has been awarded, ensure your team is lined up and ready to race again. This will also assist with a smooth running program.

Never throw your motivators in the ring or throw your balls into a bucket. This can result in your team forfeiting the heat after a warning by the Judge.
Ensure that as soon as you have finished your heat you secure your dog. Do not let it run around off lead in the inbound area of the ring. Incidents can happen behind the start/finish line too.
You are not allowed tether your dogin the ring at any point. If you are not racing, your dog must be on lead and the end of the lead must be held securly by the handler.
Ensure that all loose balls are picked up as quickly as possible. Ball shaggers are good at doing this. A dog going for a loose ball from the opposition will be deemed as an incident of interfernce or distraction depending on where the incident occurs and could result in your team forfeititing that heat.
If your dog interferes with the other team and your dog does not come straight back, go directly and get the dog so as to prevent any further stress to the other team and prevent further/escalated incidence.
If your team is having problems with the dogs not completing the course properly, the team should possibly look at substituting a reserve dog to ensure no incidents occur.
Dogs outside the ring should be secured, whether it be on lead with a handler or placed in a crate. Do not tie dogs to the inside or outside of the flyball ring.
When in the Ring, whether as competitor, boxloader, shagger or steward, please remember that no food, drink or smoking is permitted in the ring .