Skills Clinics & Development Coaching
Skills Clinics & Development Coaching
Skills Clinics
If you enjoy paddling, learning new skills, pushing your limits, working on your technical proficiency and getting feedback. This program will be great for you. Our skills clinics are great for refreshing your skills, getting the winter dust off and making sure you’re ready for the upcoming paddling season.
Current Clinics
This is a uniquely designed program to provide the opportunity to gain or build on your abilities in current and more dynamic conditions. Introducing paddlers eddy lines, S-turns, rescues and more in these environments helps build confidence and gain a greater understanding and ability in these conditions. The program takes part at Discovery Island Lodge using Surge Narrows and the surrounding current to build out the skills. Not to mention video feedback, great food, amazing paddlers and a great ratio of coach to participant. This weekend program won’t disappoint.
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In many places along the East Coast of Vancouver Island massive bodies of water are forced between narrow gaps of land and around islands, these narrow passes are famous for their currents. For many kayakers these places can be intimidating and looked on with fear, for others they are a playground where skills can be gained and refined.
Our current clinics are run over 1 or 2 days during which we will use both ebb and flood currents to practice and apply a full range of strokes for effective paddling in moving water. Skills include; ferry glides, S- turns, J- turns, entering and exiting current, rolling in current and rescue scenarios in dynamic water.
There will also be a theory presentation on tides and currents during which, participants will learn how to read and interrupt current tables in relation to safe paddling.
This clinic presents the intermediate paddler with an excellent opportunity to accelerate the learning process in a safe and controlled environment
$980 (plus GST & Service fee)
Booking Terms
Rolling Clinics
If you enjoy rolling, or the idea of rolling we offer private rolling sessions with up to 2 people for two hours. This will help you build out the fundamentals to get you to rolling your kayak. If you already know how to kayak but are looking to refine the roll or work on another, we can also do this. Our rolling clinics are 1:1 or a private of two people 2:1 ratio. We can do a private group if you would like to know how support one another in your rolling ventures after the clinic.
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$100 (plus GST & Service fee)
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$80 per person (plus GST and booking fee)
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Email amber@bluedogkayaking.com for pricing breakdown.
“Dave and Amber ran a very well organized and challenging course for our Level 2 Sea Kayak Instructor certification. For higher level courses the paddling and teaching experience of your instructors really matters and in this regard we could not have asked for better instructors. I'd highly recommend other prospective instructor candidates consider Blue Dog Kayaking for a hands-on course using proven teaching methodologies."
-Dan Wong, Owner of Jackpine Paddle