Foundations lessons

• Overview of the roll
• Equipment 
• How we learn
• Venues

Building confidence lessons

• Introduction
• Partner capsize
• Confidence exercises

Hip flick lessons

• Hip flick overview
• Mechanics
• Hip flick exercises

Learning the roll lessons

• Introduction
• Stage 1 - Head on the surface
• Stage 2 - Head under
• Stage 3 - Fully over
• Stage 4 - Half roll
• Stage 5 - Full roll
• Stage 6 - Not set up

Developing a reliable roll lessons

• Introduction
• Common faults
• Boat not capsizing
• Setup exercises
• Offside roll
• Balance brace
• Sculling for support

Rough water rolling lessons

• Introduction
• Finishing forwards
• Rough water tactics
• Rough water exercises
• Rolling in surf - introduction
• Rolling in surf - Small waves
• Rolling in surf - Bigger waves
•  Rolling in tide

Before we get afloat lessons

• Parts of a sea kayak
• Choosing a sea kayak
• Clothing
• Paddles
• Preparing the kayak
• How to hold the paddle

Getting afloat lessons

• Using a spray deck
• Launching and landing
• Capsize drill
• Deep water rescue

Skills development lessons

• Stability exercise
• Body rotation
• Forwards paddling
• Sweep strokes
• Stopping and Reversing
• Moving sideways
• Preventing a capsize

Classic draw lessons

• Introduction
• Body
• Blade
• Top hand & control hand
• Correcting turning
• Edging

Sculling draw lessons

• Introduction
• Transferable skills
• Quick method
• Path of the paddle
• Turning
• Shaft angle
• Consolidation

Hanging draw lessons

• Introduction
• Quick method
• Three key considerations
• Finer details
• Object and timing
• Consolidation exercises

Paddling in wind lessons

• Forwards physics
• Forwards exercise
• Static physics
• Static exercise
• Reverse Physics
• Skegs and rudders
• Adjusting for weathercocking
• Turning upwind
• Turning downwind
• Turning exercises

Rough water boat handling lessons

• Introduction
• Staying loose
• Building confidence
• Rebound waves
• Paddling into waves
• Paddling across waves
• Following seas
• Surfing following seas
• Turning in waves

Fundamental lessons

• The whole stroke
• Environment and equipment
• Boat fit
• Posture
• Warm ups
• Paddle grip
• Rotation and leg drive 
• Keep the paddle away

Catch, Power, Recovery lessons

• The catch phase
• The power phase
• The recovery phase

Developing the stroke lessons

• Common Faults
• Cruising vs accelerating

Exercises

• Straight Arms
• Paddle and glide
• Tap Tap

Performance wing paddling lessons

• Introduction
• Equipment
• Technique
• Stroke rate
• Training for performance
• Planning considerations

Greenland paddling lessons

• Introduction
• Whole stroke
• Catch
• Power
• Recovery
• Variations

Introduction lessons

• Course Introduction
• About Your Coaches
• Safety

Edging lessons

• Introduction to Edging
• Edging and leaning
• Boat fit
• Why we edge
• How we edge
• Secondary and primary stability
• Building confidence
• Static edging 0 - 3
• Disconnecting upper and lower body
• Number 3 edge
• Eyes closed

Sweep strokes lessons

• Sweep Stokes Introduction
• Body
• Path of the Paddle
• Blade Angle
• Exercise - Turning on the Spot

Outside edge turn lessons

• Outside Edge Turns Introduction
• Paddling Forwards
• Exercise - Circle Partner
• Exercise - Follow the Leader
• Low Brace Turn
• Shapes of Turn
• Sweep With Recovery
• Exercise - Figure of 8
• Exercise - Follow the Coast
• Exercise - 360° Tight Circle
• Exercise - 360° Tight Reverse Circle

Inside edge turn lessons

• Inside Edge Turns Introduction
• Inside Low Brace Turn
• Hand Brake Turn
• Exercise - 180° Tight Turn
• Inside Pivot Turn

Development exercises

• Exercise - Round Your Partner
• Exercise - Inside Only
• Exercise - 180° Reverse Turn
• Wrapping Up

Deep water rescue lessons

• Introduction
• Swimmer tasks
• Making contact
• Emptying 
• Getting the swimmer back in
• 60 second rescue

Rescue toolbox lessons

• Hand of God
• Scoop rescue
• Assisted paddler 
• Bow presentation
• Flooded hatch

Self rescue lessons

• Introduction
• Introduction to back deck scramble 
• Back deck scramble - Legs
• Back deck scramble - Empty
• Back deck scramble - On to kayak
• Reentry roll
• Paddlefloat rescues

Towing toolbox lessons

• Introduction
• Types of tow
• Clipping on and rope management
• Long and short tows
• Towing rafts
• Contact tows 
• Contact tow systems

Rock rescue lessons

• Introduction
• Strategies and Tactics
• Swimming out
• Toggle tows
• Quick rescues
• Towing out
• Tow Assisted rescues
• Split task rescues

Wind rescue lessons

• Introduction
• DWR adaptations
• Moving swimmers, equipment and paddlers
• Separated swimmers

Tide rescue lessons

• Strategies and Tactics
• Deep Water Rescue
• Grab and Go
• Anchor Tows
• Self Rescues

Surf rescue lessons

• Introduction
• Coaching a swimmer
• Swimmer rescues
• Rescuing equipment
• Self rescues

Tidal fundamental lessons

• Course introduction
• Tidal basics
• Four main moves
• Breaking in - Edge control
• Breaking in - Position
• Breaking in - Boat speed
• Breaking in - Angle
• Breaking in - Putting it all together
• Breaking out
• Cross stream moves - Intro
• Cross stream moves - Ferry gliding
• Cross stream moves - S turns
• Upstream moves

Paddling in tide races lessons

• Introduction
• Understanding the environment
• Leadership and decision making
• Rescues part 1
• Rescues part 2
• Building confidence
• Active paddling
• Cross stream moves

Surfing tide races lessons

• Getting started
• Position
• Timing and accelerating 
• Direction and control

Weather lessons

• Weather formation
• Synoptic charts
• Sea Breezes
• Fog and low visibility
• Local weather and winds
• Swell and sea conditions
• Weather and tide height
• Marine forecasts
• Beaufort scale
• Online forecasts

Charts and maps lessons

• Introduction
• Latitude and longitude
• Measuring distance on a chart
• Depths and drying heights
• Navigational marks
• Laying off
• Magnetic variation
• Ordinance survey maps

Tides lessons

• Understanding tides
• Tidal streams
• Back eddies
• High water times
• Springs and neaps
• Calculating spring or neap ranges
• sources of information introduction
• Guide books
• Tidal diamonds
• Tidal stream atlas
• 50/90 rule and the rule of thirds

Planning lessons

• Introduction
• Wind, sea state and tides
• Planning considerations
• Timings and distance
• Recording information
• Shore based contacts
• Worked example 

Environmental considerations lessons

• ntroduction
• Predicting change through observations
• Buys Ballots Law
• Barometers

Practical navigation lessons

• Introduction
• Kayak setup
• Practical navigation strategies
• Navigating in open water
• Night navigation equipment
• Night navigation strategies

Advanced tidal planning lessons

• Introduction
• Tidal gates
• Tidal gates - Worked example
• Computation of rates

One hour vector lessons

• Overview
• Worked Example - Skerries crossing
• Worked Example - Start and finish points
• Group speeds 
• Worked Example - Building a vector
• Worked Example - Calculating ETA
• Worked Example - Summary
• Preparing for errors
• Vector issues

Multi hour vector lessons

• Overview
• Worked Example - Collecting information
• Worked Example - Hour by hour
• Worked Example - Chain vector
• Worked Example - Estimating position

Introduction lessons

• Welcome to the course
• About your instructor
• outline and objectives

Basics lessons

• Finding a forecast
• Swell period
• Wave height
• Swell direction
• Beach profiles
• Wind direction
• Rips
• Safety and swimming in the surf

Landing and launching lessons

• Timing and patience
• Launching techniques
• Landing techniques

Foundations lessons

• Two different effects
• Low brace and Low recovery
• Small wave on the side
• Low brace bongo slide
• High brace in the surf
• Surf into low brace
• Getting off a wave
• Straight into brace

Staying straight lessons

• Introduction
• Top of wave
• Timing
• Breaking

Diagonal run lessons

• Introduction 
• Rudder
• Position and angles
• Angels and design
• White water

Rolling in surf lessons

• Introduction
• Small waves
• Larger surf

Surfing backwards lessons

• Introduction
• High brace
• Edge and trim
• Small waves
• Control

Introduction lessons

• Welcome to the course
• About your instructor
• Outline and objectives
• Safety

Foundations lessons

• Edging and leaning
• Edging 0-3 Know your limit
• Blade for support
• Mental preparation
• Environment and ability

Low recovery lessons

• Brace or recovery
• Blades and path
• Elbow position
• Extend
• Legs and hip flick
• Head
• Kerplunk
• Bringing it all together
• Eyes closed
• Muscle memory and reaction
• Get out of the kayak

Low brace lessons

• Introduction
• Blade angle
• Elbow position
• Blade position
• Speed
• Eyes closed
• Rough water

High recovery lessons

• Introduction and safety
• Hip flick exercise
• working as a pair
• 90 degrees flat blade and pull down
• Legs and rotation
• Hands and elbows
• Timing
• Layback recovery
• Roll foundation

Foundation lessons

• What is a rudder - bow and stern
• Push and pull forces
• Speed

Stern rudder lessons

• Introduction
• Elbow behind the force
• Turn towards the blade
• Turn away from the blade
• Being towed
• Hitting an object
• Through a gap
• Surfing a wave
• Edging

Bow rudder lessons

• Introduction - position and power face
• Sweep and edge
• Top hand positions
• Blade positions
• Blade angle
• Different shape turns
• Rocks
• Elbow and cross bow
• Bow jam

Course Introduction

• Introduction
• What is a sea kayak coach
• Me as a sea kayak coach
• Your coaching Philosophy
• Safety and leadership
• Understanding risk

How we learn

• The learning cycle
• Stages of learning
• Processing information

How we coach

• Introduction
• Session planning
• The coach student relationship
• Needs vs wants
• Coach vs student centred
• The right environment
• Technical and tactical skills
• technical templates
• Observation
• Task design
• IDEAS and EDICTS
• Organising practice 1
• Organising practice 2
• Constraints based tasks
• Feedback
• Questioning
• Reviewing sessions

Becoming a better coach

• Reflective practices
• Coaching session 1
• Coaching session 1 guided review
• Coaching session 2
• Coaching session 2 guided review
• Coaching session 3
• Coaching session 3 guided review
• Coaching session 4
• Coaching session 4 guided review

First Aid for Sea Kayakers

• Introduction
• Primary survey
• Unconscious non breathing - CPR
• Unconscious breathing casualty
• Conscious and breathing
• Defibrillators AED
• Moving a casualty
• Hypo and Hyperthermia
• Drowning
• Common Injuries
• Bleeding

Yoga for sea kayakers

• Introduction
• Beginner routine
• Intermediate routine
• Core routine
• Breathing
• Shoulders
• Lower back routine
• Rotation
• Bonus routine with Katrina