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WHITEWATER KAYAKING: YOUR BEGINNING

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Person Minimum age of 12
$350

Beginner Kayak Instruction 2-Day Course

This 2-day whitewater kayak instruction course is designed to introduce beginner paddlers to the sport of whitewater kayaking. Our goal is to provide beginner kayakers with a solid foundation of basic kayaking skills necessary to kayak in Class I and II whitewater.

This includes:
• Outfitting a kayak
• Wet exits
• T-rescues, swimming and self-rescue
• Body positioning
• Basic Strokes, edging and bracing techniques

• Introduce reading rivers and hydrology, eddy turns, peel-outs and ferrying across the current
• Paddling through class I-II whitewater