Course Content
This is a 4-day intensive course that will be held on a class II river, and on each day you will spend between 6-7 hours on the water.
- You will learn all the basic concepts of using a decked kayak, starting from the different environments of use, an outlook to the gear, safety aspects before getting into the water (proper preparation, proper handling of boats, etc). The techniques that you will learn during the 4-day course will be your first steps in the path to become a solid White Water Kayaker You will be exposed to the main concepts of river rescue, with a special focus to self-rescue. Then you will be taught all the basic paddle strokes that we use to move and control the kayak, and how to use our lower body to control the boat and paddle efficiently.
- We will then try to perform some more complex actions like paddling on a straight line for a distance, turning at will, stopping, going backwards.... By the end of the course you should feel much more comfortable inside that "plastic shell", inspired to continue to paddle towards new destinations, may them be rivers, ocean coasts, back waters, lakes.
