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Kayaking 101 : Primary Strokes
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Length: 3 hours
Cost: $65
Are you interested in dipping your toes into some water based adventuring? If so, this is the class for you! In Primary Strokes our American Canoe Association (ACA) and British Canoe Association (BCU) certified instructors will introduce you to fundamental kayaking skills like proper boat and PFD fit, carrying and lifting techniques, efficient forward and reverse strokes, and several maneuvering strokes including sweeps, draws, and rudders. This 3 hour class takes place in a protected and calm water environment best suited for learning basic strokes.
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Kayaking 102 : Strokes and Rescues
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
This full day class goes several steps beyond Kayaking 101- Primary Strokes. We will review and refine basic strokes and introduce wet exit and reentry technique. Your ACA or BCU certified instructor will demonstrate and teach several reentry methods including T-rescues, bow rescues and paddle float rescue.
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Kayaking 103 : Surfing For All
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Narrow River Launch in Narragansett, RI
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Imagine yourself sliding gracefully down the face of a glassy green wave with the sun shining down and the spray flying up all around you; big smile on your face. Sounds pretty good, right? We can help you have this marvelous experience by teaching you the skills and techniques which make surfing kayaks possible.
Your instructors, skilled kayak surfers as well as talented teachers, will demonstrate good surfing practices including reading waves, surf etiquette, breaking out through the surf zone, catching waves, proper boat trim and weighting, edging and steering strokes, bracing, and dealing with capsizes in surf.
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Kayaking 201 : Flatwater Motion and Movement
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
This full day class is designed to explore and expand the relationship between your body, boat and blade. With these tools you will learn the fundamental processes of boat control, body position, boat edging, and paddle strokes.
We will also look at advanced strokes and the ability to quickly maneuver your boat. This will ultimately prepare you to be a more efficient paddler and enhance your experience on the water.
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Kayaking 202 : Ocean Motion and Movement
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
This class is designed for those paddlers who want to venture into the ocean with increased stroke efficiency, better seamanship skills and boat control. Ocean Motion and Movement is an extension of our Strokes and Rescues course and takes place on open water. We begin the day with some planning and quickly set out on our journey across the bay.
This is a chance to put your essential strokes to work in an ocean environment complete with some wind and wave action, and to broaden your skill set with basic navigation techniques, marine weather analysis and trip planning including float plans, risk assessment and emergency preparedness.
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Kayaking 301 : Surfing The Long Boat
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Narrow River Launch in Narragansett, RI
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Have you ever had one of those days where the waves start to come up just as you are getting ready to land at the end of a long paddling day? Would you like to learn how to land and launch through that stuff? If so, you have come to the right place.
This class is specifically designed for sea kayakers who want to learn to handle surf environments. This dynamic and exciting place challenges your skills, and is a wonderful place to fine tune your abilities. Your instructor will show you how to brace in surf, judge landing areas, and land on the beach. You will have plenty of time to practice your new skills and increase your confidence in this exciting, fun filled course.
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Kayaking 302 : Rock Hopping
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Narrow River Launch in Narragansett, RI
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So much of the action on the sea happens along the edges, where the rocks, beaches and shorelines meet the dynamic and sometimes sneaky ocean. It is a place just waiting to be explored by you and your kayak, and EMS Kayak School instructors are here to help you. Most of the strokes taught in programs like Strokes and Rescues or Ocean motion and Movement become essential in this class, allowing you too properly and progress into those more challenging environments.
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Kayaking 303 : Tidal Tutorial
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Launch locations vary, please call 800-310-4504 for more information.
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New England is blessed with some of the finest river mouths and harbors in the United States. It also has some very strong tidal currents in some of these same spots. It so happens these are really exciting and challenging places to paddle with the right skills, experience and attitude.
In this program, you will learn how to predict and judge tidal current strength, cross a moving tidal stream and efficiently, and use tidal currents to your advantage. Our instructors will show you how to surf on standing waves, deal with following seas, and cross eddy lines. They will also show you how to smile and wave at the cameras, because you will be so cool at the end of this class! This course is for the experienced paddler looking to play safely in tidal currents and rips up to 4 knots. Takes place in open conditions in Fischer’s Island Sound.
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Pool Rolling and Rescues
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Length: 2 hours (7pm-9pm)
Cost: $65
Location: Whitin Community Center in Whitinsville, MA
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Quite simply, rolling your kayak to an upright position is the best self rescue method, period. It is one of those counterintuitive skills progressions, however, that demands a skilled instructor with a good eye and deep understanding of the mechanics of various rolling styles to smooth the learning process. So we try to make your learning experience as easy as possible in a warm pool with rolling-friendly kayaks and knowledgeable ACA and BCU certified instructors.
All our instructors are familiar with several different rolling and teaching styles, and will determine which ones are the best match for each student. Working at your pace, the instructors will lead you through logical progressions of skills and movements which fit together to create “the bombproof roll”.
We currently offer bracing and rescues, water confidence, pool rolling 201, pool time and rolling for rollers at this location. All classes are held in the same location, pool space and time slot to maximize our level of instruction!
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White Water Kayaking Camp
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Length: 3 days
Cost: $450
Location: Eastern Mountain Sports in North Conway, NH.
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This program is for the paddler who is looking for a fast progression and ready to learn, it is taught by our own Kayak School Director Peter Casson and a fellow Brit Ben Lawry between them they have 60 years of white water boating and 40 years of coaching there students.
It is based out of New Hampshire where they will use a number of venues including the Pemigewasset and the Winnipesaukee. We will locate ourselves at the Cold Brook Camp Ground giving us the most flexibility.
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White Water Kayaking 101
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Eastern Mountain Sports in North Conway, NH.
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Learn to white water kayak with Eastern Mountain Sports Kayak Schools experienced and professional ACA Instructors. Come have a blast on a class 1-2 white water river while you learn the proper skills needed to safely and effectively enjoy this fantastic sport.
This is a great way to get started in white water, we will spend the first part of the day outfitting you with the right equipment and then move onto some flat-water to learn about basic strokes and boat control. After lunch we will choose a stretch of river to go have some fun. We touch on many skills needed to paddle white water, but our focus is about having a good time and enjoying the thrill of white water and the scenery around us.
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White Water Kayaking 202
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Eastern Mountain Sports in North Conway, NH.
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Learn to whitewater kayak with Eastern Mountain Sports Kayak Schools experienced and professional ACA Instructors. Come have a blast on a class 2 white water river while you learn the proper skills needed to safely and effectively enjoy this fantastic sport.
If you paddled white water before or taken some flat water paddling lessons and want to test your skills on the river this is the course for you, after being outfitted with equipment we will move right to the river. After short flat water refresher and warm up we will start working on some skills so you can negotiate the river with grace.
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White Water Kayaking Trips
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Length: 1 day
Cost: $115
Location: Locations vary, please call 800-310-4504 for information.
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So you have taken some courses and are looking to gain some experience on local rivers need someone to help you get ready to venture out on your own then this is the place to start, the rivers listed are some of the samplers we use but we will be paddling solid grade 2 water with short class 3 sections or drops. We will meet at the put in or take out and deal with often the most interesting part of any trip the shuttle. We will then move onto the river and go paddle, during the day we will offer coaching as the environment dictates.
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