Proficiency

This course is geared to helping you refine your paddling skills to make them efficient, effective and reliable.

Prerequisite: Core Techniques or equivalent

20110 Price: $140.00 which includes equipment or $95.00 if you have your own.

Frequent Paddler Price: $130.00 which includes equipment or $85.00 if you have your own.

Location 1: Annsville Creek Paddlesport Center

Location 2: Norrie Point Paddlesport Center

This course will refine and extend your skills to make them efficient, effective and reliable. We will help you hone your skills by working on balance, fine boat and blade control on both flat and moving water, taking advantage of your current skills to help you learn in creative, dynamic ways.

To get the most from this course you should be an experienced paddler with good core paddling skills. In this course, we’ll take advantage of your current skills to help you learn in creative, dynamic ways. This program is a real benchmark for proficiency for any paddler.

We will focus on cause and effect, using the combination of body movement, boat positioning, and blade placement to efficiently and effectively maneuver our kayaks. While we’ll learn a number of strokes, they will be integrated by the unifying theme of Body, Boat, and Blade.

A goal of this program is to move these skills from flat water to more open water.

Topics include: forward power stroke, low brace turn, bow rudder, sculling draw, hanging draw, draw on the move, sculling support, high/low brace, edging, rescues, towing.