Canoe and/or Kayak Coach Sheltered Water

Course Overview

The British Canoeing Awarding Body Canoe and/or Kayak Coach award enables you to coach other paddlers to develop their performance in sheltered water. Helping students develop the foundations of paddling and enabling them to have confidence, control and precision over their paddling.

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Canoe, Kayak or Both? This course and the corresponding assessment can be taken as an individual discipline in Canoe or Kayak, or combined covering both, if doing both on assessment you will coach one session in each craft, if doing one craft you will coach 2 sessions in your chosen discipline

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Training

Developing technical understanding and analysing body movement is what we do best. Over the two days, we’ll help you to use these skills to develop your coaching or Canoeists, kayakers or both.

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The first day will be spent breaking down paddling technique, working out how to see what to coach based on a sound understanding of efficient technique, and how to assess your student's potential for development. We will share tips and work with you to facilitate your coaching development and cover using video analysis as a positive learning tool for your clients.

 

Starting with key observation principle we’ll help you break down movement into easy-to-see chunks and you'll leave with a series of observation tools to make analyzing paddling easy, predictable, and methodical.

 

We'll link this into a structuring session and look at applying the knowledge from your Core Coach training into the delivery of tasks for your students, where during day 2 you’ll put it into practice delivering coaching sessions.

 

Assessment

We run both scheduled assessments and bespoke on-demand assessments.

 

We strongly believe assessments should be a learning experience and we’ll work with you to ensure the assessment fits you.

 

You can either bring your own group to coach, which could be a continuation from previous sessions, or we can arrange a new group for you to coach for the day.

 

Prior to the day you’ll have sent us your discussion task from previous coaching sessions - we're more than happy to help with this process.

 

You’ll deliver a coaching session that meets the needs of the group you are coaching in a Sheltered Water Environment.

 

See assessment guidance and assessment day pack here.

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Prerequisites

Go paddling! Spend some time analysing what you do as a paddler, and what makes the difference when you hit your smoothest lines.

 

• For training courses - Core Coach Training, and the ability to paddle your craft efficiently in the sheltered water environment.

• For assessment - Registration and Assessment check-in; Completed Assessment discussion task - please send us these at least 2 weeks prior to the course.

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Course Documents

For course documents and assessment criteria please see BCAB.

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Kit List

• Your choice of kayak

• Paddle

• Spray deck

• Buoyancy aid

• Paddlesport helmet

• Footwear suitable for advanced conditions

• Dry suit (available to hire), or cag and dry trousers 

• Plenty of thermals to wear under dry suit

See our Kit Hire page for pricing.

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Location

Our scheduled course are based in the Lake District, please see individual dates for precise location of each course.

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What Happens Next?

​Once you have completed your training, you’ll leave with a clear action plan for your progression towards assessment. To develop your paddling further, you may be interested in a bespoke coaching session.

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Book Now

To book a place on this course, click on a course above to book and pay for the course, then complete and submit the Booking Form. If the following dates are not suitable, or you want to make a private booking for your club or centre, please get in touch.