WHY BE A PERFORMANCE COACH? Becoming a Performance Coach can have a huge impact on your professional and personal life. Be it exploring coaching to further develop your ability to help others, to support your coaching career or a quest for a sense of purpose. The Performance Coach Award is aimed at experienced coaches who…
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The Core Coach Training is open to all paddlers regardless your discipline or previous coaching experience. During this course, you will explore different approaches to understanding and enabling learning. You will also be supported in evolving your personal coaching development plan to enable you to take your learning into practice after the course. The training…
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Your Advanced Surf Kayak Award is designed to advance your surfing skills, techniques and accuracy in decision-making for a safe day surfing in a range of environments. This includes reefs, points, offshore breaks and sandy beaches. As we can now surf in more locations you will need to know the environmental factors for each location…
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Your Progressive Surf Kayak Award develops your surf kayak skills for a fun and safe day out surfing. You will gain the confidence to surf gentle sloping and spilling waves that are no more than double overhead height when seated in your kayak. When choosing a place to surf it is important to ensure that…
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Your Surf Kayak Award will give you the skills you need to have a safe and fun day out surfing. It will give you the confidence to paddle in gentle surf with sloping and spilling waves with proficient skills. Some places where we can surf have more potential dangers than others. You will learn how…
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Do you want to coach kayak surfing? Want to support your club? To start a career in coaching paddlesport? If the answer is yes to any of those questions the Surf Kayak Coach (Advanced Water) Award could be for you! Why become a Surf Kayak Coach (Advanced Water)? First of all, you will be joining…
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Do you want to coach kayak surfing? Want to support your club? To start a career in coaching paddlesport? If the answer is yes to any of those questions the Surf Kayak Coach Award could be for you! Why become a Surf Kayak Coach? First of all, you will be joining a community of like…
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