Canoeing / Kayaking Courses  

What's the difference between canoeing and kayaking?

The two photos on this page show the two different types of craft used. “Canoeing” is often used as the generic term for all types of paddle sport (with the exception of rafting).

However, the kayak (a craft generally with a deck and paddled in a sitting position with a double-bladed paddle), originates from the Inuit-inhabited areas of Greenland and the East & West coasts of North America. The photo on the right pictures a kayak in a vertical manoeuvre! There is also a red kayak on the bank in the left middle foreground of the picture below behind the closer and larger canoe in the immediate foreground.
The canoe (formally referred to as a Canadian Canoe) can be paddled from a sitting or kneeling position with a single-bladed paddle. This type of craft developed in many different parts of the world at around the same time, including the Hawaiian War canoe, the Aboriginal gum bark canoe of Australia, the coracle in the U.K. and the North American Indian canoes.

Informal Coaching

On Wednesday nights from 6.30 - 8.30pm in the Spring & Summer and on Saturdays from 10am - 12 noon all year round, we run Informal Coaching sessions for canoeing / kayaking. Please click on the link below for a downloadable leaflet :

Informal Coaching (pdf format)

 

Canoeing Awards

The Centre offers a range of courses for individual beginner, intermediate and advanced paddlers, and BCU personal performance and qualification awards including Paddlepower, 1, 2, 3 Star for Inland, Sea Kayak & Open Canoe. Canoeing & Kayaking are available for both Junior & Adult groups.

Details of all our BCU Canoeing / Kayaking Coach Training & Assessment awards for 2008 (there will be further updates in June for Star Training & Paddlepower courses) are available as a downloadable Word document by clicking below:

OUTDOOR COURSES 2009 BROCHURE - out soon (pdf format)

Additional courses to be run this year include:

BCU Coach Training & Assessment courses

TBC

 

BCU Canoe Safety Test, Aquatic First Aid, & Disability Awareness Training - courses arranged on demand.
 
 
 
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