INTERMEDIATE KAYAKING: 2-Day Class III Kayak Clinic
Top 3 Reasons to Go
- Bring your kayaking skills to the next level and start to build a solid class III foundation.
- 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
If you've mastered Class II and are ready for the next challenge, an intermediate kayaking clinic is the next step. Our Class III kayaking clinic works on refining eddy turns, peel outs and ferries so they work on the more powerful water and smaller eddies found on Class III rapids. In addition, we use surfing waves as a means to cross fast currents and we work on eddy hopping to scout what’s up ahead.
We spend about a third of this clinic on flatwater, a third on class II whitewater and a third on class III whitewater. Participants must be able to perform eddy turns, peel outs and ferries in a kayak on class II whitewater, roll (>50%) on Class II whitewater and perform self rescues.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic
To help class II whitewater kayakers move to the next level of the sport and begin to explore whitewater moves on a higher class of whitewater. This clinic focuses on solidifying class II skills before building class III skills so students have a solid foundation for paddling more difficult whitewater.
Who should take the clinic
To take this clinic you must be able to perform eddy turns, peel outs and ferries in class II water, roll (50%) on class II water and perform self rescues. Our minimum age for this clinic is 14.
What will be covered
After a review of basic strokes and whitewater moves, we introduce or improve upon a few advanced strokes such as the Duffek, bracing strokes and gliding draw . We then head out to whitewater where we 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 also introduce stern squirting, attaining drops, wave and hole surfing, and we work on teaching or improving the Eskimo roll and applying it to whitewater situations. 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
April 26-27 (Sat-Sun), May 17-18 (Sat-Sun), May 31-June 1 (Sat-Sun)
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July 3-4 (Thu-Fri)*, 19-20 (Sat-Sun)
August 9-10 (Sat-Sun), 14-15 (Thu-Fri)* Womens Clinic , 21-22 (Thu-Fri)*
September 13-14 (Sat-Sun)
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PRICE
2-day midweek $240.00
2-day weekend $280.00
