White Water Skills Course
Develop your white water paddling skills with this detailed and structured online course
This course breaks down all the essential skills you need to paddle white water with style and control. Moving over eddie lines, punching through stoppers, boofing drops, using river momentum and way, way more. Each lesson is progressive and we build on the skills we have learnt through the course.
This course is perfect for all levels. Novice paddlers newer to the sport, intermediate paddlers looking to polish and improve, coaches and instructors looking to develop their craft by seeing how skills are broken down in detail.
Ask questions on any of the subject areas in this course and one of the OWW coaches will be happy to get back.
Ready to take your white water paddling up a gear?
Course Modules
Introduction
- Course Introduction
- General safety lesson
Foundations
- Kayak design
- Seat positioning
Balance and Control
- Edges
- Go Mode
- Accelerations
- Engaging the core
Core Skills
- Introduction
- Eddyline - Edges
- Eddyline - Angle
- Eddyline - Speed
- Breaking in strategy
- Breaking out strategy
- S Turns
- Ferry glides
Moving Down River
- Momentum
- Moving Laterally
- Shove and drive
- Tweaked bow rudder
- Stern turns
River Features
- Using waves
- Punching stoppers
- Stoppers sweep
- Stopper exits
- Using towback
Boofing
- Straight
- Sweep
- Edge drop
- Flaring
Head Game
- Warm up
- Visualisation and self talk
Course Wrap Up
- Wrap up
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- Free 7 day trial
- Access to the full OWW Library of courses + Community
- Accelerate your skills development
- Get unlimited support and feedback from the OWW Coaches
- Become a safer paddler
- Get inspiration
- Learn about kayaks and equipment
- Interact with a growing community of paddlers
- A whole year of learning for less than a day of on water coaching
Anja, Norway
Great videos that really shows all the aspects of different strokes and skills. would recommend it for both novice kayakers as well as experienced paddlers. Lots of useful tips for me as a coach too.
Kevin, UK
This course is brilliant - very well put together with high definition footage and easy to understand descriptions of techniques. I have used much of the course material on the water and in theory and it is faultless. I just keep going over and over and it never gets old. Great job guys - I thoroughly recommend to beginner, intermediate and enthusiasts alike - great stuff
Lee, USA
Videos are brilliantly shot, simple to follow. Love the use of multiple angles, really helps to understand the full picture of a movement. Great resource, amazing!
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