Kayak & Canoe Skills

Courses In the Lake District

Activity Overview

If you want more than a quick taster session, then kayak and canoe skills courses are for you. You will develop your skills to enable you to enjoy which ever aspects of canoe sport interest you. You can chose courses where you will have a chance to use a variety of different types of boat, or concentrate your efforts on just mastering one. You can find out about our Kayak Touring courses as well.

Kayak or canoe skills courses are based on developing your skills and can be tailor made to suit your requirements, but some typical examples are outlined below:

Complete Beginner (1 or 2 day course)

In this course we cover the following:

Canoe and Kayak equipment
Basic paddling skills forwards and backwards
Simple steering and using rudder strokes
Moving the boat sideways
Try a different boat
Safe wet exits and taking a swim

The British Canoe Union new Paddlesport Awards will be available for those who meet the standard.

Improver's Course (2 day course)

In our Improver's Course we cover:

Better forward paddling
Going on a journey
Access to water ways in Britain
Edging your boat and increasing your range of strokes
Wet exists and rescues
Preventing a capsize

The British Canoe Union Paddlesport Award will be available for those who meet the standard.

Intermediate Course (2 day course)

This course is for boaters with some experience of most of the main kayak or canoeing strokes. The course will cover the following techniques on flat water: