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New courses for 2025 Dec 04, 2024

Exciting Plans for Online Sea Kayaking in 2025

At Online Sea Kayaking, we’re always striving to bring you fresh, innovative content that enhances your skills and inspires your paddling adventures. As we look ahead to 2025, we’re thrilled to share a sneak peek at some exciting projects...

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The TTPP Model for Skills Development and Performance Review Sep 27, 2024

Enhancing Sea Kayaking Skills with the TTPP Model

Sea kayaking is a beautiful blend of adventure, exploration, and physical challenge. To excel in this sport, paddlers need a comprehensive skill set that encompasses technical prowess, tactical thinking, physical fitness, and psychological...

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Incident Leadership - Delegation leadership new lessons Jun 21, 2024

Here, we have a course snippet from our "Incident Leadership" lesson series.
As a leader, there is potential to get drawn into a rescue and become stuck in the system.

By delegating tasks to our group, we can keep an eye on the bigger picture, control the group and keep them...

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Leadership in Rocks - Decision Making decision making leadership May 08, 2024

In this snippet from our NEW Leadership course, we discuss "Decision Making" for leaders taking their group among the rocks.

Kayaking through rock gardens presents a unique and challenging environment that requires not just skill but a comprehensive understanding of the terrain.

In this detailed...

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New Expedition Skills Lessons - Cooking Crustaceans foraging new lessons sea food Mar 25, 2024

We are excited to announce 7 new lessons on coastal foraging and the cooking of wild foods.

Building on the previous 5 instalments of our expedition skills module, we share a range of ideas, tips and methods to help you forage, catch, dispatch and cook your wild food. We start by...

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NEW OSK Community Lead and Administrator news Feb 26, 2024

As we are sure many of you are aware, due to the success of our ever growing OSK Community, we decided to create a new OSK position.

We would like to formally introduce our new "Community Lead/ Administrator", Dan McGonigle. 

Day 27 of his Ireland Circumnavigation.

Dan will be interacting...

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Circumnavigation of Great Britain Dec 06, 2023

In 2002 OSK Coach Simon, became the youngest person to paddle around Great Britain.  Here is a draft chapter from a book Simon wrote shortly after he finished but never ended up getting published. We hope it gives you a small insight into this challenging day and the expedition that started...

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CPR For Suspected Drowning Nov 13, 2023

In our new online sea kayaking course, first aid for kayakers, highly experienced first aid trainer Steve Bowens takes us through Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation or CPR. Without a shadow of doubt CPR has the potential to be a life saving skill. We highly recommend that all paddlers take a basic...

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OSK - from friendship to business. Oct 05, 2023

The idea and concept of Online Sea Kayaking was developed by old friends and paddling buddies Simon and James. The two met over 25 years ago at Aberystwyth University on the west coast of Wales. Attracted by the great paddling the area offered it was a top location. Easy access to the awesome...

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Coaching Sea Kayaking - New Course Jun 08, 2023

We have recently launched our new course on Coaching Sea Kayaking.  In this blog post we want to look at how choosing the right environment is key when it comes to a day of coaching.  If you get the environment right the whole session will be a lot easier and also more beneficial for...

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Day paddle equipment Apr 25, 2023

What do you take with you when you head out for a day paddle?  This is likely to vary depending on the weather, how far you plan to paddle, the conditions, how many people are in the group, if you are the leader or being led and how remote the coastline is.  We have put together a...

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Rescues in wind lessons Mar 25, 2023

Earlier this year we managed to film the content for the rescues in wind lessons.  It was a section to the rescues course that had alluded us up to this point as we just hadn't managed to find the right environment at a time that we had set aside to meet up to film.  We this time we...

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