Conclave Programme for January 2016
UncategorizedUpdate: we’ve published our outline timings for our January Conclave: see here.
We’ve a strong team of instructors, all of whom tailor their coaching to individual needs and aspirations. Between us, we’re more than happy to offer any/all of the following:
- Style that’s “Free”: cultivating your own, personal approach to boating…
- Tools of the trade: is it all in how you use them?
- The Wet end and the Dry end: finesse with a Cue…
- Listening to the water and letting the boat do the work…
- Sport Canoeing: in the spirit of The Solo Mystique…
- Introduction to ACA Freestyle manoeuvres – solo / tandem…
- Sideslips, Free Spins, the Christie and the Axle…
- The Wedge, the X-Axle, the Post and the X-Post…
- Progressions in ACA Freestyle – solo / tandem…
- Reverse axles, the reverse wedge and the x-reverse Christie…
- Other Axles / Posts / Wedges / Christies, plus Gimbals, etc…
- Transverse Stance, Reversals, High Thrust (Bootlegger) variants, etc.
- Transitions – the art of linking manoeuvres…
- Functional Freestyle: on and beyond quietwater, including with loaded boats…
- Finesse on moving water…
- Paddle Canada “Style Canoeing”: aka “Canadian Style” – a contrasting tradition…
- Coaching in the “Quietwater Plus” tradition….
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- Using ACA Freestyle to coach British Canoeing’s “Fundamentals of Paddlesport”…
- Coaching Progressions for ACA Freestyle and becoming an ACA Instructor…
- Mythbusting: from orgins in Sportcanoeing to “Quietwater Plus”…
That’s not an exhaustive list… but it’s more than enough to keep even the keenest of students busy for a lot longer than a weekend!
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