Surfing a Sea Kayak Online Course
Develop your control in the surf
This course gives you all of the knowledge and skills to understand the surf forecasts and how this translates into the expected conditions, Land and launch through the surf zone and all the way to mastering control going straight and on a diagonal run. With 42 individual lessons, the course breaks down the key foundations to enable you to progress your understanding and kayak handing in the surf. The course then moves on to help you master control in the surf and more advanced techniques.
Course modules
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
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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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