Posted: January 27th, 2012 | Author: deborah | Filed under: General | No Comments »
The first weekend kayaking trip organised under the banner West London Whitewater Kayaking Trips is taking place on 18 & 19 February.
Backed by Brentford FC Community Sports Trust, this trip will be based in the Penstar Bunkhouse in the Brecon Beacons and we’ll be exploring the rivers in the surrounding area.
The cost will be approximately £100 for food, accomodation and coaching and the pre-requisite is 2 star, or 2 star standard. Having a roll is not necessary.
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This Sunday session will focus on refreshing your rescue skills on the Thames so that none of your safety is allowed to get rusty. This is a perfect follow up to the Foundation Safety and Rescue training for the day before. This day will allow you to practise the skills you learnt the previous day. It also gives those who did the course a while ago a chance to refresh their memory. In addition to this we will run a site specific training that will allow proficient paddlers the opportunity to paddle with the club without always needing the company of a coach on certain environments. This session should be booked in advance as places are limited.
Price: £10 for edge members
Date: Sunday 13th May
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This course is a BCU training course. This is essential for anyone who wishes to paddle without always requiring the cover of a coach on flat water. This course will be run by Glenn Jarman who is an experienced Level 3 whitewater coach.
The course aims to provide the student with the key safety and rescue skills required to operate safely in a sheltered water environment and to be able to deal with common emergencies. These skills will then form the basis of all safety and rescue training throughout the BCU Scheme.You can obtain details about this course and the full syllabus on the bcu website.
Cost of this 1 day course will be £20 for edge members. If you would like to book this course places are limited so let us know asap by emailing enquiries@edgepaddling.com
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Come along to the pool to practise sea kayaking specific rescue skills in the comfort and space of Isleworth Pool
This will include amoungst other things prevention of capsize along with how to rescue peers and self rescues.
This session is suitable for sea kayaking novices as well as more experienced sea paddlers.
Here are more details of our pool sessions
