For UAPS Members First -
https://www.paddleuaps.com/event-6140310
Combination Pool and Lake Kayak Instructor. Course fee includes the $120 CKC/AWA reinvestment fee. If you have already paid this fee for 2025, please email info@paddleuaps.com to reduce your course fee.
Prerequisites:
- Minimum Age: 16 years
- Must have intermediate flatwater skills
Date/location:
- Friday, May 9 - Eastglen Pool, 6-9 pm, classroom session
- Saturday, May 10 - Eastglen Pool. Arrive changed and ready to paddle in the pool from 7-8:15 am. Bring a change of clothes and lunch for the classroom session. There will be a second pool paddling session from 3-5 pm.
- Sunday, May 11 - Hermitage Pond, start time tbd, will be wrapped up by early/mid afternoon
Environment: Teaching beginners in the pool and on outdoor flatwater, such as lakes canals, ponds or non-moving water sites (flow less than 10 metres/minute)
Course Outline: This course combines the basics of the pool course and the technical review of the Lake course. It includes:
- NCCP overview
- Basic pool safety
- Pool and paddling equipment
- Boat fit
- Getting in and out of boats on dryland and wet exits
- Basic strokes; forward and reverse; sweeps, draws, hip flicks, high and low braces, flatwater roll, and hand of god
- Practice routines
- Games
- Making ethical decision training
- Professionalism, ethics, and promotion
- Teaching methodology
- Risk management
- Site selection and group management
- Environment monitoring – weather and water conditions
- Common paddling injuries
- Basic rescue techniques
- Professional issues and administration
Check out these video clips for a reference of the paddling skills required for certification as a Lake Kayak Instructor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2MvSMJ7zA&list=PLmdJ_UnnshFfdYxRay5kpPJEZjMIhufSs
