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Advanced Course
Advanced White Water Kayak 2011
Including Elements of BCU 5 Star Training
Expand your paddling Horizon
Canoe Control advanced Whitewater kayak course. This course is available in a number of locations in the South West and included within the core course structure will be the current BCU 5 Star Kayak training and White Water safety & rescue. However this course is ideal as a foundation for paddlers wanting to expand their horizons.
River Progression and development
This is the ideal course for the progressive kayaker wanting to step up and dramatically improve their ability. Our course days will be spent on grade 3-4 white water. At this level of boating technical flaws can quickly be identified. To resolve any paddling issues, the first morning will be used to analyze students' boating skills. For this, a non-remote site, specific to the course standard will be used. The course group will then descend a section of river chosen for its suitability. Numerous types of rapids will be run - rocky, steep, technical, pool - drop and continuous, slides, drops, slots etc. Different styles and their merits when running each rapid will be reviewed. What are the seen dangers such as trees, stoppers, pinning rocks. What about the unseen dangers such as undercuts, siphons and entrapment etc? The consequences of all will be examined and discussed.
Skill Progression and Development
Whilst you are with us we will enhance/improve your present technical paddling ability. We will work on many aspect to achieve this
•Improved Body posture.
•Core Stability.
•Improving forward paddling.
•Pressure on the blade face.
•Use many more techniques to improve boat and paddle control.
Safety and Awareness
Safety cover will be applied if it is considered necessary. On the river there will be sessions on group and self-awareness and at the end of each day there will be a video and review when students will have a full debrief on their day. This course will be presented by river professionals, guides/coaches who spend their working lives on the rivers of the world.
Other Locations
During the summer this course is also available in the French Alps and Provence. For further information on Alpine courses please refer to the French Alps page on the main menu.
For a full description of this course including itinerary please download the info sheet. If you cannot find what you are looking for or require further information then please do not hesitate to contact us. Check out BCU course syllabi www.bcu.org.uk.
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Dates & Prices
Advanced White Water Kayak 2011
(BCU 5 Star Training can be included)
Spring / Autumn 2011
Location
South West Rivers
Dart, Erm, Tavy and Walkham etc
Dates
Feb 26 - 27 Feb
Nov 12 - 13 Nov
Dates also by arrangement
BCU 1-5 Star courses also by arrangement.
Intro to Adv Courses
Price course only
Two days
£150.00 per person non-residential
REDUCTIONS (do not apply to CC Credit Crunch Course)
Return booking 10%
2-3 persons 5%
4-7 persons 8%
8-10 persons 10%
For under 15 years 15%
For a full description of this course including itinerary please download the info sheet. If you cannot find what you are looking for or require further information then please do not hesitate to contact us. Check out BCU course syllabi www.bcu.org.uk.
Book online Now
In order to make a booking check the dates and prices under the tab with the same name above and then download and complete a booking form (see links below). Reserve your place by paying a deposit below and then return your completed booking form as an email attachment to 'stuart [at] canoecontrol.com'. If you prefer to make your payment by cheque or bank transfer then please refer to the instructions in the booking form. If you need to discuss any special arrangements or large group bookings then please do not hesitate to contact us using the option on the main menu.
The terms and conditions of booking with Canoe Control are included in the booking form.
Booking form in MS Word format bookingform.doc
Booking form in PDF format bookingform.pdf
Please print out the form and sign it before scanning it and returning it by email. If you do not have access to a scanner then please use the MS Word version and return a completed copy by email together with a signed copy by post.