Flyball Fever has moved!

We have a dog on the team who can do 4.7 seconds without even trying, the problem we are having with him though is he takes his time on the way down to the box and then flies back to his owner. We have tried everything we can think of to speed him up but nothing works. We timed him today and from triggering the box to the finish and he was doing this in around 1.7 seconds. From his handler to the box he was around 3 seconds so if we could crack this problem we would have one amazing dog. Does anyone have any ideas for things we could try?

We've had a couple of dogs slower to the box than the return. We had the handler stand by the box, call the dog, showing the dog it's toy (ragger). Dog will hopefully race down to handler & then play at that end. We did find that both dogs wanted to trigger the box before playing ragger, but we felt it did improve their speed down that way.

Alernatively, the other training we do, is that handler runs dog as usual, but we have runners chasing dog upto the box (and back if necc, but doesn't sound like it!)

I think on U-Tube there is a video clip of the lanes being very close together, so the slower dog can chase/race the faster one up to the box.......

oooh never thought of having the lanes close together! that might work a treat and would help with my dogs focus too as he can get distraced by dogs in the other lane at times. We tried running with him and it didnt help and he isnt really into toys so calling his to a ragger is no good! why cant dogs be robots then we wouldnt have to bother with all the training