1. Why style: goals, aspirations and rewards…
2. Core concepts: what contributes to good style?
3. Core ACA Freestyle manoeuvres
4. Further ACA Freestyle manoeuvres
5. Style in other contexts: wind, waves, current, features

For more on what might be covered see here.

• Friday evening Buffet in The Boat House @ Barrow
• Friday night Bed & Breakfast @ Quorn Grange
  • Sharing in Twin / Double room with sole occupancy option
  • Continental Breakfast with Cooked Breakfast option
• Saturday workshops with our coaching team at The Boat House @ Barrow
  • Includes a lunch each day in The Boat House @ Barrow
• Saturday evening Carvery  @ Quorn Grange
• Saturday night Bed & Breakfast @ Quorn Grange
  • Sharing in Twin / Double room with sole occupancy option
  • Continental Breakfast with Cooked Breakfast option
• Sunday workshops with our coaching team at The Boat House @ Barrow
  • Includes a lunch each day in The Boat House @ Barrow
• Any / all weekend training materials and follow up support

To cover the above we’re charging:

• Bed, Breakfast and Evening Meals (including Carvery) – £50 (one night) / £85 (both nights)
  • Solo occupancy in rooms: £10 / night
  • Full Breakfast – additional £4.50 / day
• Core workshops, including lunches – from £55 to £95
  • Boat hire – £10 / day

Note: For those with alternative local accommodation (or wanting to camp at The Boat House):

• Camping – £5 / head / night
• Friday evening Buffet – £10
• Saturday evening Carvery – £20

This is now all bookable through the Open Canoe Association website.

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….
• • 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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