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Dock-Diving (Dock-Jumping): 

Also known as dock jumping, big air, is a dog sport in which dogs compete in jumping for distance from a dock into a body of water. The dog and the handler work together, as a team, to jump the greatest distance. The handler throws are retrievable object into a pool (or pond), and the dog runs down a 40’ dock that stands 24” above the water. The dog leaps out as far as he can and measured by distance of the jump.

X-treme Vertical: 

It is a height competition as opposed to distance. An apparatus "extender" hangs a bumper 8 feet out over the pool, after the height is measured from the dock to the bumper and beginning at 6 feet above the water. Dogs must release the bumper for the jump to count, by either grabbing it by mouth or knocking it clean off.

Agility: 

A dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-lead with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles.

In its simplest form, an agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles, laid out by an agility judge in a design of his or her own choosing on a roughly 100 by 100-foot area that is made up of grass, dirt floors, or rubber mats, with numbers indicating the order in which the dog must complete the obstacles.

Flyball:

A dog sport in which teams of dogs race against each other from a start/finish line, over a line of hurdles, to a box that releases a tennis ball to be caught when the dog presses the spring loaded pad, then back to their handlers while carrying the ball.

Flyball is run in teams of four dogs, as a relay. The course consists of four hurdles placed 10 feet apart from each other, with the starting line six feet from the first hurdle, and the flyball box 15 feet after the last one, making for a 51-foot length. Ideal running is nose-to-nose at the start line. The first team to have all four dogs cross the finish line error free wins the heat. Penalties are applied to teams if the ball is dropped or if the next relay dog is released early.

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