ACA whitewater kayak instructor development workshop

Jackson Kayak regional team members Rob Terry and Colin Kemp will be
teaming
up to offer an and
exam
in Reno, NV.

About the Course:
Whether you want to earn some extra gas money to pay for those long
drives
to the put in, safely and effectively introduce your friends to the
sport,
or develop your personal paddling, teaching and safety skills, this
course
is it. The first 3/4s of the course, the Instructor Development Workshop
(IDW), is designed to help instructor candidates take their personal
skill
set and refine the elements necessary to excel as kayak instructors in
the
whitewater environment. During the IDW candidates will have the
opportunity
to develop stroke modeling skills, participate in safety and rescue
drills,
practice teaching a variety of topics, and get introduced to the
progression
that takes uninitiated beginners and turns them into competent class II
paddlers. The final element of the course, the Instructor Certifecation
Exam
(ICE) is designed to assess the candidates skill set and place them at
the
appropriate level of certification. Candidates who have successfully
completed the IDW and ICE can be certified at the Intro to Kayaking,
Basic
River, or Whitewater level. Adept Descents schedules this 40 hour course
to
take place over two consecutive weekends, the advantage of this
scheduling
style is two fold. First, a course that takes place on Friday evening,
Saturday and Sunday usually allows instructor candidates to avoid using
valuable vacation days that could have been put towards personal paddling
trips; secondly (and more importantly) it allows candidates to digest
what
they learn in the first weekend, practice in their free time and return
to
the course better prepared to excel in the ICE.