SUP Instructor Course: Touring 2 Paddle Canada
$599.00
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Paddle Canada’s most advanced SUP Touring Course.
Become and Paddle Canada Touring Level 2 Instructor and lead your own multi-day Paddle Canada SUP touring courses or instruct with a local paddleboard school. This is an advanced level Paddle Canada certification with a focus on planning and leading self support multi-day stand up paddleboarding tours.
Lead overnight self support SUP tours.
A one of a kind Paddle Canada course lead by Paddle Canada Instructor Trainer Emre Bosut. The SUP Touring 2 Instructor course is the highest level of Paddle Canada SUP instructor. The course focuses on the challenges and responsibilities of leading self support multi-day SUP tours including; route and weather planing, food preparation and packing, setting up low impact campsites, and long term group management in challenging coastal paddling environments.
Course structure; The Touring 2 course is a continuation of T’ashii’s Touring 1 Instructor course. The course spends 3 days (2 nights camping) teaching instructors to lead remote overnight touring trips as we camp on Vargas Island.
Successful participants in the course will receive a Paddle Canada SUP Touring 2 Instructor certification along with instructional aids to help run their own tours and courses.
2018 Course Dates
- Friday, Sept. 7 to Sunday, Sept. 9 2018
Prerequisites
Paddle Canada Touring 1 Instructor and the ability to perform Touring 2 skills at instructional level (prior experience with multi-day SUP touring).
Instructor candidates must register for a Paddle Canada Membership before the course begins to receive Paddle Canada instructor certification. Course ID: 66489
Preparation
Instructor candidates must be confident in performing all coastal navigation skills covered in the Touring 1 Instructor course. Includes: Reading a chart, compass navigation, weather forecasting, leading groups in tidal currents, leading groups in exposed coastal areas, coastal rescues, reading tide and current charts.
Includes
Food and accommodation; 1 night at the HI hostel before we depart and 2 night camping on Vargas Island.
Expert instruction with a focus on planning and leading a multi-day stand up paddleboarding trip.
Lesson Planning Tools.
Extra
Paddle Canada Membership $90 (must be registered before the course begins). Or $10 upgrade fee for current Paddle Canada instructors.
3 day Touring Paddleboard rental $90
Wetsuit rental $20
Not Included
Packing equipment, Navigational compass/chart, Transportation.
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