Paddlesport Safety and Rescue

• Practise clothing and equipment choices for sheltered-water paddling
• Learn contact and towing rescues for common paddling issues
• Develop self-rescue skills in a sheltered-water setting
• Practise deep-water rescues

Location:

The course will be held in Rickmansworth Aquadrome

This course will support you to explore and practice simple strategies and safe skills that provide you with the tools to solve common paddling issues in a sheltered water environment, providing peace of mind when venturing out onto the water.

The course is open to anyone of any age.

It will be delivered to cover 6 modules :

Clothing and Equipment

Safety frameworks

Contact and Towing rescues

Self-rescues

Deep water rescues

Reflection and development

There will be opportunities to develop and progress your rescue skills and meet like-minded people during the course.

This course is a pre requisite for British Canoeing Paddlesport Instructor and British Canoeing SUP Instructor awards.

For more information on the course please look at

https://paddlesuptraining.com/courses/paddlesport-safety-and-rescue/

We can also deliver this course at different dates and at a location to suit a pre organised group of participants. Maybe your club/society would like to put this course on for its members?

For more information please email : Thamespaddlboarding@gmail.com

Parental consent form if under the age of 18yrs.

Clothing suitable to be in the water for extended period of time.

There is an option to hire dry suits, when appropriate.