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- Basic Skills Training Basic Skills TrainingACA LEVEL 3: Basic Skills & Kayak Safety (two parts)
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Pay by Credit Card Part 3B: Skill Building Tour with Strokes & Maneuvering Refinement
Price: $99/full day Prerequisite: Part 3A: Intro to Flatwater
class or equivalent
Part 4A: Intro to Surf Zone Skills
Prerequisite: Level 3A: Basic Skills or
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ACA Level 4: Golden Gate Tides and CurrentsPrice: Top Schedule & Reservations Pay by Credit Card ACA LEVEL 4-5: Intermediate & Advanced Tidal Current PlayTides Rip Surfing, Playing & Rescue
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Prerequisite: Level 4A: Intro to Surf Zone
Skills (Part 4B: Surf Skills recommended) Top Schedule & Reservations Pay by Credit Card
Intro to Rock Garden Paddling |
| A "jungle gym for kayakers," this complex maze of rocks and reefs on the rugged coastline north of Santa Cruz provides an ideal location to fine-tune boat handling and water-reading skills in rock gardens. |
Prerequisite: Level 4A: Intro to Surf Zone
Skills (Part 4B: Surf Skills recommended)
Price: See Custom Training price list
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Skills-Immersion Weekend: Sea
Caves!
Mellow Mendo: Intro to Coast and Caves
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"The
craggy Mendocino coast is among the more scenic shorelines in a
state famous for its beautiful shores, but what puts Mendo on the
map as one of the planet's premier paddling destinations is the
number and complexity of its sea caves." -- from Guide to Sea Kayaking Central & Northern California |
| Come see what all the fuss is about. More than just a tour, this class first takes you to a few of Mendo's better known caves while introducing the skills necessary to safely visit some of this fascinating coastline's more out-of-the-way nooks and crannies. Later, our small class size and top-notch instructors allow us to explore further into the labyrinthine maze of ocean-carved rock than most other tours go (conditions permitting, of course). |
Prerequisite: Level 4A: Intro to Surf
Zone Skills;
recommended: recent experience in choppy seas.
Class Size: 8 students max./ 2 or 3 instructors.
Price : $250/two days (includes kayak,
etc.; does not include camping fees)
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| PHOTOS Grab your headlamp! It's time to get beyond Van Damme and explore the legendary caves, rock gardens, and scenery that make Mendo so magic. Join a small group of other skilled paddlers and ROCK OUT! Frankly you'll get to see more of the caves and do more with Eskape than on your own. Let us help you to push your skills safely under the watchful eye of our highly-skilled instructors. Practice running pour-overs, chutes and tunnels. Discover little-known caves like Rainbow Mist Cavern, and go deep into Belly of the Beast. Our small class size (6 students maximum), advanced-skills requirements, and top-notch trainers allow us to go where others don't and do what most only dream. Base camp/car camping. |
Prerequisite: At least one Level 4 Open
Coast class and instructor recommendation
Price: $250/ two days
(includes kayak, etc.; does not
include camping fees)
$325/ 3 days (add Monday for 3 days of
fun!)
$400/ 4 days (add Monday and Tues. for
4 days!)
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| Ocean paddling at its finest against one of the most dramatic and scenic coastal backdrops in the world. Two days of hands-on practice with a focus on surf zone skills. Base camp/car camping. Also can be run as an advanced open-coast expedition 3 or 4 days from Carmel to Big Sur. |
Prerequisite: At least one Level 4 Open
Coast class and instructor recommendation
Price: See Custom Training price list
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Tuesday Night Rolling:
at NASA Pool
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Rolling Instruction or Drop-in Practice Eskape is again renting the NASA pool on Tuesday nights |
| from 7:00 to 8:30 pm from Feb. through
Nov. Reserve your spot for either our popular 4-session Learn to Roll Series , or sign up for a one-night tune up. Also.. "Beyond the Pool" Training: Bombproofing Your Roll in Surf and Bracing & Rolling Clinic |
Video Strokes Clinic: ACA Strokes and Maneuvers Refinement
| Improve your overall paddling skills, break bad habits, and learn to paddle farther, faster, with less effort as well as how to maneuver your boat more precisely and efficiently. Any coach or trainer in any sport knows that video analysis is key for mastering good technique. Modeled after his ACA instructor training workshops (but without the emphasis on how to teach), this class uses the magic of video to help you refine fundamental stroke technique with an emphasis on greater efficiency and boat control. (Pre-req.: Basic Kayaking Skills and Next Stroke). |
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Master Strokes Clinic
| Improve boat control, get more comfortable putting your kayak on edge, and learn to make your kayak "dance." In this class we'll introduce and practice a variety of more advanced maneuvering, edging and bracing skills, such as carving turns, deep sculling braces, low-brace turns, sculling draws, side slips, bow rudders, and "blending" of hybrid strokes for precision maneuvering drills. (Pre-req.: Basic Kayaking Skills and Next Stroke; Recommended: Video Strokes Clinic or solid understanding of basic strokes). |
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NEW: ACA Skills-Awards Training and Assessments--Levels 1 through 4
The ACA has rolled out its new skills-awards assessments and training classes (essentially equivalent to BCU Star Awards). As an ACA Instructor-Trainer Educator, Roger is one of the few instructors in the area, certified for assessing for Levels 1 through 4. This training should leave you well prepared for assessment in either (or both) the ACA or BCU systems. Coastal (Sea) Kayak Assessments Outlines
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