What is a Flyball Box?
A flyball box is the most important piece of equipment for flyball racing. The flyball box is essentially a trigger box that is spring loaded. The whole front panel of the box is the trigger. Dogs are taught to jump onto the front pedal to trigger a tennis ball to shoot out. There are many different kinds of flyball boxes. Some have a flat front pedal, while some are curved. The balls are loaded by a “Box Loader” . Some boxes have one hole, two holes, or three holes. Each dog is left handed or right handed (some are ambidextrous) so when the dog reaches the box, they have to turn one way or the other to go back over the jumps. The ball is put in the hole that is at the edge of the box in the way the dog turns (say a dog turns left, a ball is placed in the left hole.
