Cik&Cap – the easiest way to perfect turns by Silvia Trkman
Do you want to improve your course times for two and more seconds? Do you want to make handling and timing easier for you? Do you want to improve your dogs obstacle focus, distance skills, sends and independent performance? Do you want to take lots of stress off your dogs joints? Do you want to make turns more fun for your dog? Then you need to teach cik&cap.
Sounds fancy, but it is just another trick. This video offers step by step instructions how to teach it, real life examples, detailed course analysis on where, when and why to use it and some more tricks on how to improve your dogs performance.
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And an article I wrote for Agility Zone magazine on Cik&Cap:
As you probably figured out by now: I love training dogs! And I love it even more when I have a new, not-yet-tested idea. It’s funny, because I actually really hate having new phone, computer or car, I hate getting used to new things and reading instructions is what makes me annoyed and nervous in like a second. People that know me always laugh at me to be able to test and develop new methods for years, they know patience, persistence and not giving up are my strongest points – until they see me reading instructions. Give me instructions to follow and I’m giving up in the next second. Give me the dog with the problem and I will solve it. Might take me years, but I will.
I love new challenges and I love that every next dog brings me some new ones: Aiken taught me how to motivate hard-to-motivate dogs, Lo taught me how to deal with fears and phobias, Bu taught me how to work with autistic dog with special needs and La… Hm… She showed me how easy it is with problem-free dog (if we don’t see hyperactivity and total lack of self-control as a problem, of course 
). As I needed a problem to solve, something to improve anyway, I came up with that idea of cik&cap turns. She already won World Championships with 6s of advantage before that, so no, we didn’t need it. But we loved it and with every next dog, every next student and every next course that I run, I love it even more, I see even more advantage in it and even more positive side-effects.
Cik&cap turns are born as a trick, that’s where the name comes from: cik-cak/zig-zag was how I called figure 8 between my legs trick. And then simply generalized it for sending the dog to wrap other objects, eventually jump wings and then eventually jump wings with a bar inbetween – low first, and then higher&higher. Very easy, elegant way to cut off 2 to 5s off your course times, depending on how good or not your dog is naturally turning and how long or not he is jumping when jumping in extension. Yeah, most people think I gain most with running contacts, but as there are maximum two occasions to do running contacts per course (none in jumpers), that’s not really true. You can gain the most on turns.
And it’s not just about the turns. At the same time you are training for perfect turns, you are training sends, distance skills, independence, commitment and obstacle focus and you’re making turns and agility as such way more fun for the dog. Especially if you’re just starting, beginnings can be somewhat frustrating for both the dog and the handler as they both have so much more to learn – but knowing cik&cap makes it more fun for both, it allows the dog to run and have fun right from the start and gives the handler more time to think about where and how to cross etc. Handling and timing definitely gets MUCH easier with cik&cap, it allows you to get perfect turns even when you don’t happen to be on a perfect spot at the perfect moment. And probably most importantly: as it allows the dog to know all the time where he is going next, so that he has time to adjust his speed and prepare for the turn, it takes lots of stress off your dog’s joints. It always hurts me to see dogs landing in wrong direction, having to absorb all the momentum to stop and turn and then speed up again, sometimes even falling on their shoulders… NOT good! Cik&cap allows your dog to always land with front paws turned in the right direction, so the momentum from the landing is used for speeding up again.
So yes, cik&cap is definitely The trick that you want to teach to every agility dog. Have fun!
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I was just thinking about that : are you using this for learning the ” out ” too ?
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Nope, “out” I only train on full jump, first helping with body language a lot and then less&less. Some of the jumps are just “out” and some “outs” can be “out” + “cik/cap”, so it’s important to train cik/caps also in this situation, with a handler on a landing side.
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Okey, thank’s !
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Would you use the cik/cap in this case ?
(On the second jump)
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I would use cik for long jumping dogs (Bi), left for normal length jumping dogs (Bu and La) – and I would use cik with all IF 2 was moved more out (up on your picture).
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Thank’s ! No, the 2 is right, it’s 90°, I think.
I wasen’t sure the day of the competition if I needed to use the cik with my dog ( wo jumps as long as Bi …
). I didn’t use it an it didn’t work 
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Oh, I was just saying in general, if the middle jump of a pinwheel is moved out (making a narrow pinwheel), then it’s definitely cik/cap. If the pinweel is wide, then it’s left/right. And for symmetrical pinwheel, it’s cik/cap for long jumping dogs and left/right for shorter jumping dogs.
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Hey Silvia!
I have got a nearly 4 year old Labrador x German Shepherd mix dog, and i wondered if cik and cap is still good to teach it to her. Well, we don’t really have a jumping problem but usually, when I want her to jump short i turn myself backwards and say “schhh…”, if you know what I mean. It often works, but I can’t say that I am completely happy with that. I mean, she always jumps full height, so is it still possible to teach her Cik and Cap? Furthermore, it is often really hard for me to get her motivated, is this a problem? Thank you soo much!
greetings Marie & Flicka
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Sure, it’s always possible to teach an old dog new ticks!
I started with cik&cap when La was 2 and Lo was 9 So it’s never too late! But of course, you’ll need to start from zero, with no bars and then build from there. You can still jump full height on your normal trainings and trials, but cik&cap training will need to be done progressively away from that. It might even help with her motivation issues, as it’s so much fun and so much about running!
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Hi Sylvia – I just bought your Cik Cap video this week and I am just wondering when you shape both directions at the same time at what point do you give each behaviour it’s name? What do you look for as the desired final behaviour before giving a name (tight around the pole?, offering two turns in the same direction?). How do I make each direction clear but at the same time keeping each directional behaviour strong? Thanks so much. I love the video. Brilliant.
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Glad you liked the video!
I start giving a name to it as soon as they are going around it tightly and will just use a name of the direction they choose. I want them to understand it’s about tightness and don’t worry about the direction at all, I just help with the body language and they get it somewhere on a way.
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Bonjour,
J’ai commencé à travailler avec ma chienne selon votre DVD, elle a bien compris le principe, j’en suis à l’étape ou j’ajoute de la hauteur, on en est à la taille médium maintenant (elle saute en Large). Mais de plus en plus, je remarque que quand je lui demande un tourné court, elle me le fait plutôt pas joli, et dès que je demande un “multiwrap”, le 2ème est splendide !
Est-ce que c’est mauvais ? Dois-je revenir une étape en arrière ou uniquement cliquer et lancer ma balle lors du 2ème enroulement ?
Merci Beaucoup !
Et vous pouvez répondre en Anglais, je le comprends bien
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Yes, 2nd wrap is often easier because there is no speed involved. But of course, you want her to be tight on the first one already, so maybe lower it some again and focus on speedy approaches this time, to make sure she can do it nicely also when coming to the jump with full speed, on a 1st try. Raise it again when you get nice tightness on lower jumps.
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Merci Beaucoup ! Je vais donc redescendre les sauts
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J’ai fait une petite vidéo :
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Yes, looks good!
Those with no speed are especially good, so do practice coming in with lots of speed, from a straight line or a tunnel, too!
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That’s our next Step
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Can cik and cap be used with the Awesome Paws Handling System? I know you use Greg Derrett’s, but I use Linda’s and just want to stay consistent.
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Me??? Greg Derrett? Oh no, where on earth did you get THAT! Do my front crosses really look THAT late?!?
My handling is WAY closer to Linda’s, just more “aggressive” and is as far from Greg’s as it gets! Nobody here uses his system, it’s a no go on our courses where you really want to get to places as fast as possible. And yes, cik&cap goes together with any handling.
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WOW!!!! I heard you used Gregs!!!!!!!!!!!! My bad!!! HAHAHAHA WOW! Well, thanks for clarifying! I don’t have a trained eye to determine who uses what in the ring.. not yet at least!
I’m ordering cik and cap!
Can’t wait!
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You can recognize them by late front crosses
I only learned about GD when I had a first seminar in USA and I commented one run with “but all your front crosses were way too late” – to then learned that was actually on purpose!
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I find reading about the cik-cap jumping interesting and reading about its safety to the dogs more than straight on. Is this a different style than Susan Salo? However she does bend grids as I believe she has a horse background and quite educated in jumping. When can you start cik cap? My pup is 6 months and very fit, reading your lifestyle I believe my pup has a similar one as he goes for many runs and I think is quite agile. However, I am careful to not overdue it. I just want to go slow and be careful. I will take the Foundation class in the fall and he will be a year then so glad about that. Taking Puppy class now. So I guess I should follow that for now and develop him as the class goes before doing too much endurance stuff? Just wondering.
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I start with cik&cap pretty early, 5 months or so, but of course not as endurance stuff or doing too many repetitions – just like some fun sprints
I don’t really know SS stuff, so I can’t comment on that, but I think horses are a bit different as dogs in how they move and jump… You could go to audit March Foundations, plenty of cool discussions there – and then start some with Cameron. Mastering the whole program takes a bit longer as 4 months, so most people take it twice if they don’t start on their own first already.
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