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Posted by Greta on 12/6/2008, 8:51 pm, in reply to "Flyball videos..."
Now that you are racing in U-FLI, are you not totally addicted to the reaction time clock? We ran a U-FLI tourney and then the next tourney, I'm like, I can't start right, I don't know HOW early I was! Spoiled for life in 30 seconds. Jeeez.
For those who are going "HUH?", take a look at the clock in the video where at one point it reads: "-0.01" -- that means that the start dog crossed the start line one-thousandth of a second early. It makes it a lot easier to adjust your start point.
In NAFA, if your start is LATE, it shows how late (0.01, 0.23, whatever), so you have an idea how much closer to move next time. But if your start is early, and your dog has a false start, the clock just shows "0.00" or doesn't show a reaction time at all, so you have to guess how much to back up.
This is one reason flyball handling is a lot harder than it looks. Races are won and lost by thousandths of a second, due to handling decisions, and you have to make tiny adjustments on the fly.
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