INTERMEDIATE CANOEING CLINICS IN MASSACHUSETTS
Top 3 Reasons to Go
- New England's only guaranteed summer whitewater only 2 hours from Boston and 3 1/2 hours from New York
- 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
Ever feel like you're paddling hard, but getting nowhere? Our intermediate canoeing clinics will give you the techniques and confidence to move up the canoeing learning curve!
Let our playboating “efficiency experts” teach you to gain confidence in ferries and eddy turns on Class II and III whitewater as well as introducing advanced paddling moves such as wave and hole surfing, s-turns, and jet ferries. By the end of your clinic you should be strategically planning whitewater moves and canoeing harder water with less effort. Participants must be able to perform eddy turns, peel outs, and ferries in Class II water and self rescue as needed. This clinic can be taken by either tandem or solo canoeists.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic:
To help class II and intermediate whitewater canoeists 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 clinic you should have taken a Class II clinic at Zoar Outdoor or elsewhere and paddled on class II whitewater enough that you feel comfortable with eddy turns, peel outs, ferries and self-rescues. Our minimum age for this clinic is 14
What will be covered:
After a review of basic strokes and whitewater moves, we will introduce or improve upon a few advanced strokes such as the Duffek, bracing strokes and cross strokes. We will then head out to whitewater where we will aggressively 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 attaining drops and wave and hole surfing. Come prepared to discuss your specific goals or trouble spots in your paddling. The more information you can provide the better the instructor can tailor your clinic.
2008 DATES
May 24-25 (Sat-Sun) , July 24-25 (Thu-Fri)*
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August 7-8 (Thu-Fri)*, September 4-5 (Thu-Fri)*
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PRICE
Midweek $240.00
Weekend $280.00
