Looking to improve your whitewater skills?
Canoeing Victoria will be conducted a whitewater skills course on the Goulburn River near Eildon in February 2013.
The course will be conducted over 2 days at $340 per person and will include the following:
- Enter and exit their kayak or canoe from an eddy
- Use efficient basic strokes to control the kayak or canoe
- Use efficient power strokes:
- forward strokes
- reverse strokes
- Use efficient directional strokes:
- forward sweeps
- reverse sweeps
- bow draw
- draw strokes
- stern rudder
- Use efficient support strokes:
- low support (to gunwales in open canoe)
- Ferry glide
- forwards
- reverse
- Mixed strokes
- bow draw to forward stroke combination
- Break into eddies out of the current
- Break out of eddies into the current
- Use the most appropriate combinations of strokes when negotiating a rapid or performing a manouver
- Edge the craft to maintain stability
- Use edging and body position to control kayak or canoe
- Use water features for advantage to assist in turning and crossing currents
- Read water to determine a safe route through a rapid
- Follow a pre-determined route through a rapid
- Identify and evaluate options, then implement appropriate actions, in unplanned situations
- Use avoidance techniques for any river hazards
- Roll, e.g. C to C or sweep technique (not required for open canoes).
