Ontheflipside Flyball Team

We are excited to welcome Aaron and Strive Dogs back for our fall seminar. Come spend Thanksgiving weekend with us!!

📣 Puppy Announcement 📣

Welcome to the team Zippity doo dah - Zip! This adorable 10 week old Sheltie joins Mike and Dawn, as part of our Wisconsin crew. We are so excited to have another breed on the team, looking forward to watching him grow!

A couple times a year we get the OGs together for some snackies and some romping around practice. (L:R Anthem (14 this week) Verse (15.5) Proof (13) Zoey (14)) Hug your oldies 💜🩷💚

Mid season recap + two tournament wraps ups!

Hard to believe we are already more than midway through our 2026 season. We’ve accomplished so much already, but we really think the best is yet to come!

We’ve been chipping away at our personal best, one weekend at a time. Last weekend we decided to try a completely new combination, Cajun, Bru, Lasso and Maybe over 9, dogs were flying….. handlers…. Not so much. Best time on the clock was 14.78, when we went back to look at line to lines the very first heat was a 14.12. Can you imagine! We will keep dreaming for now.

Every PB we’ve had this year has been a different combination, last weekend we ran a 14.580 with Kiwi, Bru, Lasso and Maybe over 9. On Sunday, we ran a 14.586 with Cajun, Kiwi, Hotshot, Maybe over 8. We’ve got a few months to dial it in!!

Highlights from HH Summer Toss (Amana,IA):
💥 Frontside new PB 14.580
💥 Rush (Border Collie) new PB L2L: 3.65
💥 Hatari 3.6 in anchor
💥 Dupe 3.340 on the clock

A huge thank you to everyone who jumped in and helped when we had to race ourselves. Couldn’t have done it without you!

Highlights from AU Weekend Pass (Henry, IL)
💥 Hotshot PB 3.681

Looking forward to the rest of the season.

Now that Jenn has formally announced our newest addition, we can too!!

Welcome to the team Divot! Jenn adds another sable beast to her pack, can’t wait to see what the future holds for you guys!

New PB!

💥 14.580 💥

Kiwi, Bru, Lasso, Maybe

Weekend recap before the flyball hangover sets in.

What. A. Weekend.

A huge thank you to Asylum Unleashed for a great tournament. You never know what the Henry, IL weather has in store for you, tornadoes? 50 degrees and raining? 110 degrees? All things are possible! We lucked out at had warm, great weather all weekend. We love this tournament, especially the Saturday night potluck, such a great touch.

For the last few tournaments we’ve been trying to dial in exactly what our top line up is going to be on Frontside. We’ve worked so hard over the last 2 years to add new dogs and train hard and the work is finally paying off. On Saturday we ran 2 different line ups that were 14.7 on the clock and 14.45 L2L. On Sunday, last race of the day we did a 14.72 on the clock with 12 feet of passing, with the help of Flyball Vision we saw it could’ve been a 14.33. The pieces are there!!!

Not to be outdone our backside team hit a new PB or 15.311! Those dogs ran great all weekend, even taking home first place!

The whippets held down our team flight, Spicy, Scuba and Munchie rocked it! The future is bright for those knuckleheads.

Last but not least, Upside! With the help of our friends on Mighty Mutts, upside rocked it! Sync and the border collies were absolutely steady eddies, Hoopty on the other hand… 🤦🏼‍♀️

We can’t wait to be in Amana at the end of June! Safe travels everyone!

What a weekend!!!

While the time doesn’t “officially” count for anything but our open time, the new PB speaks volumes about the work we’ve done as a team. We’ve had our own ups and downs over the last few seasons. Everything seemed possible on paper but dogs didn’t seem to click. This year. We are putting together multiple variation of dogs that can run 14.5-14.7.

On Sunday we hit a new PB and then as we walked back to campers when we got weather alerts from Omaha. Severe storms were headed our way, predicting softball size hail and tornadoes. We made the decision as a team to call it and pack up to head home and get settled before the storms rolled in. All of us drive some kind of large RV or 5th wheel/trailer and we needed to do what was best for us. We are glad we did, see the pictures of the flipside crews huddled in their basements waiting for it all to pass!

We are just getting into a rhythm and can’t wait to see everyone in Henry! Enjoy some pictures from the weekend!

Jumping our UFLI height with our ufli line up!

New team record! 14.592

It's taken almost a week to gather our thoughts on the weekend! But here goes nothing!

It's been almost 4 years since we've run a new best team time, we've tried multiple lineups with lots of dogs that on paper seemed so promising. Looking at times dogs can put up, it only takes 4 dogs, running 3.75 or lower in the same line up to hit a 14. That's just it, on paper, things seem so "easy". We would come out of a practice or go into a tournament knowing the potential and nothing coming of it. We have at least 8 dogs that can run 3.5s in any position yet sometimes we would struggle to hit a clean 14! Sometimes things click and sometimes, luck isn't on your side.

On Saturday, first heat of the day we broke our PB for the first time 14.753! That line up was Cajun, Lasso, Bru, Hotshot, after that first race the wheels on the Frontside wagon came off. We struggled to put much together after that. The good news for us, Backside and Upside had tons of success! Rush and Hatari ran new PBs, Rush hitting 3.6 for the first time and Hatari running a smooth 3.626!

Sunday, we decided to do a little "remodeling" across the teams. One idea we came up with, pick captains and just draw dogs names out of a hat. After much consideration and trial and error, we came up with brand new line ups for each team. What's the worst that could happen? Exciting things! Baffle ran a new PB 3.581, Hotshot went from anchor to second and Maybe made her debut on Frontside! With three McAllister dogs in the line up and a guest handler BOOM, new PB. 14.652! While fast times are fun, we had tons of other successes! Our little mini aussie, Sync ran full time as a height dog on Upside collecting a cool 385 points! We've been working very hard on ball holding, lots of success on that this weekend across all 3 teams!

When most of us started flyball, our goal was to run under 24 seconds by the end of the day on Sunday. Now we are flittering with mid 14s and having 2 teams run under 15 seconds. We've come a very long way and still have so much we still want to accomplish. As we continue to compete and train over the summer, we are looking forward to celebrating new wins!