OSK Blog

Edging is a fundamental skill for Sea Kayakers.  It is a skill that is part of nearly every stroke or manoeuvre.  This course looks at detail at the different aspects of edging a sea kayak.  There are a few reasons why we might edge a sea kayak.

1. To shorten the waterline length...

Rescues in the surf are often very simple as the waves bring the swimmer and their equipment to the beach.   However there are times when the rescuer needs to step in to help the swimmer out.  We now have a series of lessons in our rescues course looking at lots of different rescue...

We have now captured hours and hours and Terabytes and Terabytes of video footage of amazing sea kayaking.  We want to use this to promote sea kayaking and show everyone how amazing the sport is.  We decided to have a little play around with some of the equipment and editing...

We are thrilled to be able to offer a fully Certified British Canoeing Certified Coastal Navigation and Tidal Planning Course.  We started discussions with British Canoeing in April and our online course was then shared with the BC technical committee for approval.  There was great...

Being able to self rescue after a capsize and a swim is a great and really valuable skill to practice. Not only is it fun to play around in the water, developing this skill its also really handy. If we can self rescue quickly and efficiently it gives us confidence to try new exercises and it...

Here is a complete lesson from the Ruddering Masterclass.

There is so much work that goes into a full online sea kayaking course to get to the point where it is in your library.  Early on in the development of OSK we decided that the quality of the videos was going to form the unique selling...

With lockdown easing we finally got the opportunity to film the tide race section to the paddling in tide course.  The weather forecast was perfect and we hoped to get some great conditions to be able to clearly demonstrate the different skills.  The first session James took to the...

Here is our firs blog post of many to come.

Many paddlers ask why?  At first glance there seems little point in learning how to surf backwards in a sea kayak.  Most paddlers want to be able to comfortably land and launch through the surf to go on a journey and explore the...