Fetching for Flygility

Popular in Australia and New Zealand, this hybrid sport combines elements of flyball and dog agility for a competition testing both speed and teamwork.

As in flyball, dogs pursue balls projected from a flyball box and fetch them to the handler. But courses in flygility are longer, stretching 30 meters from the start line to the box, and they feature agility obstacles.

​Handlers stand behind the start line and coach their dogs through the course. Beginner-level courses have a straight line of jumps and tunnels along with the flybox. Advanced courses are more challenging, with weave poles, U tunnels, and changes of direction.

Dogs compete as teams of three in flygility.