KAYAKING LESSONS: 3-Day Class II Kayak Clinic
Top 3 Reasons to Go
- Improve on your basic whitewater kayaking skills and build comfort on class II rapids.
- Our friendly professional instructors are ACA certified and love passing on their passion for the sport. Our ratio of 1 instructor to 4 students assures lots of personal attention.
- Our full service adventure resort offers onsite camping and lodging
In this 3-day kayaking clinic for advanced beginner kayakers, we teach and refine the kayaking techniques, tips and skills needed to paddle a kayak safely and confidently on Class II rivers. Before taking this advanced beginner kayaking clinic, you should have at least five to ten days previous whitewater kayaking experience.
Whether your goal is to use class II as a stepping stone to kayaking more difficult whitewater or as a destination in itself, the skills taught in this class will serve you well. We work on refining your maneuvering skills, including eddy turns, peel outs, ferries, self rescue and basic surfing.
After a review of the basic strokes, including sweep strokes, forward strokes, draws, and braces, we introduce or improve upon some advanced strokes and maneuvers such as the gliding draw, bracing and edging the kayak. Then we head out to whitewater where we work on fine tuning eddy turns, peelouts and ferries concentrating especially on entering micro-eddies, peeling out into fast current , and ferrying across difficult jets of water. We also introduce wave and hole surfing. On the third day we work on rolling, surfing and refining class II techniques.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic
To help the Class I-II level whitewater kayakers refine their skills, move to the next level of the sport, and begin to explore whitewater moves on a higher class of whitewater.
Who should take the clinic
To take this course you should be in good physical condition, be comfortable in the water, and have taken a Novice I or Beginner clinic at Zoar Outdoor or elsewhere. In addition, you should have paddled enough that you feel comfortable with self rescues (wet exits), eddy turns, peel-outs and ferries on Class I-II whitewater.
Who should take the clinic
After a review of the basic strokes, including sweep strokes, forward strokes, draws, and braces, we will introduce or improve upon a few advanced strokes such as the static draws. We will head out to whitewater where we will work on fine tuning eddy turns, peel-outs and ferries concentrating especially on entering micro-eddies, peeling out into fast current , and ferrying across difficult jets of water. We will also introduce wave and hole surfing. If time permits, we will work on teaching or improving the Eskimo roll and applying it to whitewater situations.
2008 DATES
May 21-23 (Wed-Fri)*; July 16-18 (Wed-Fri)*; 23-25 (Wed-Fri)*; 30-August 1 (Wed-Fri)*; August 6-8 (Wed-Fri)*; 20-22 (Wed-Fri)*; 30-September 1 (Sat-Mon)
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September 17-19 (Wed-Fri)*; October 11-13 (Sat-Mon)
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PRICE
3-day midweek $360.00
3-day weekend $400.00
