I had a grand time watching the flyball demonstration at The National Dog Show Presented by Purina last month.  Flyball involves teams of dogs racing against each other in a relay through a course and over hurdles to reach a box that when the dog pushes against it, releases a tennis ball.  The dog catches the tennis ball and then races back through the hurdles again to the starting line where the next dog in relay takes off through the course.  The key word in this description is races!  Boy, can these dogs FLY!  I was completely out of my element photographing this event.  I tried just focusing on the hurdle and fired off multiple shots in an attempt to catch the dog in mid-air.  I have more frames with no dog or only a tail as the dogs were wayyyy faster than my reflexes in clicking the shutter.  Even when I started shooting before the dogs ever got to the hurdle I missed them!  They were THAT fast!  Here’s one descent shot.