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Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) Course Overview: The Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding course emphasizes safety, enjoyment and skill acquisition for intermediate through advanced individuals in class I- III whitewater. This course builds upon the ACA Level 4: Whitewater SUP skills course in that it refines skills on how to paddle boards in challenging whitewater and perform self-rescues. Essential Eligibility Criteria (EEC): ACA courses are open to all individuals who acknowledge the ability to perform the following essential eligibility criteria. 1. Breathe independently (i.e., not require medical devices to sustain breathing) 2. Independently maintain sealed airway passages while under water 3. Independently hold head upright without neck / head support 4. Manage personal care independently or with assistance of a companion 5. Manage personal mobility independently or with a reasonable amount of assistance 6. Follow instructions and effectively communicate independently or with assistance of a companion 7. Independently turn from face-down to face-up and remain floating face up while wearing a properly fitted life jacket* 8. Get in / out of a paddlecraft independently or with a reasonable amount of assistance* 9. Independently get out and from under a capsized paddlecraft* 10. Rethe paddlecraft following deep water capsize independently or with a reasonable amount of assistance* 11. Maintain a safe body position while attempting skills, activities and rescues listed in the appropriate Course Outline, and have the ability to recognize and identify to others when such efforts would be unsafe given your personal situation* * To participate in adaptive programs, participants must acknowledge only the first six EEC listed above. Entry-level adaptive programs will involve teaching and practicing EEC #7-11. SUPC – 02/2018 © American Canoe Association www.americancanoe.org Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) Minimum Personal Equipment: Properly fitted PFD (inflatable lifejackets not allowed in this course), helmet, elbow and knee pads, SUP paddle, Stand Up Paddleboard designed for moving water and whitewater, appropriate clothing for the weather. Instructors: ACA Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboard Instructor (SUP) Course Prerequisites: Previous experience on a board in whitewater is strongly recommended Course Duration: 8 hours (or more at instructor discretion) Course Location / Venue: Course may will be conducted on sections of whitewater rivers rated up to class I-III Class Ratio: 4 Students : 1 Instructor; with an additional instructor or qualified assistant the ratio can be 8 : 2 Succeeding courses: None The following is a general summary of course content for the Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding course. The content covered and sequence of instruction should be adjusted to best fit the participant’s needs, class location and time allowance. Course Content Introduction, Expectations, & Logistics: ● Welcome, introductions, paperwork The Paddling Environment: ● Student & instructor course ● Wind expectations and limitations ● Waves ● Course itinerary & site logistics ● Weather ● Review waiver, assumption of risk, ● Water challenge by choice, medical disclosure Personal Preparation: ● About the ACA ● Personal ability ● PFD policy (always wear on water, ● Swimming ability inflatable lifejackets not allowed in ● Water comfort & confidence this course) ● Fitness, conditioning, and warm up ● Leash guidelines ● Safe paddle and board handling ● Appropriate personal behavior ● Safety and rescue considerations ● No alcohol / substance abuse ● Personal equipment (reviewed by ● Proper etiquette on & off the water Instructor) ● Respect private property ● Practice Leave No Trace ethics SUPC – 02/2018 © American Canoe Association www.americancanoe.org Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) Getting Started: ● Power of the Current / River Level ● Launching, carries, landing ● Cold Water ● Water confidence and comfort ● Dams / Flow Diversion Structures / ● Rescue Priorities: People, gear, & Pipelines boards ● Undercut Rocks / Ice ● How to fall on the board to prevent ● International Scale of River Difficulty separation from the board (handout: American Whitewater Safety ● How to fall off the board in deep & Code) shallow water ● The Terminology of Paddling River Running on Stand Up Paddleboards (frequently blended in with stroke ● Understanding of elevation & instruction) constriction for board/paddler ● Types of strokes: power, turning & acceleration bracing ● Strategies for accelerating the paddler ● Stroke components: catch, propulsion, when approaching a rapid recovery, control and correction ● Strategies for preventing deceleration in ● Effective Body Usage and Bio-Kinetics a rapid ● Use of larger torso muscles ● Body position & stance in different ● Arms as struts connecting paddle to types of rapids for torso acceleration/deceleration ● Avoidance of positions that contribute to shoulder injury or dislocations (“paddler’s box”) River Running: ● Stances and variations for different ● How to paddle in current applications & conditions ○ Spacing / Avoid "tunnel vision" ● Foot movement, placement, & ○ Use offensive Vision patterns to sequencing emphasize what to do. ○ Paddling goofy and regular stances The Paddling Environment: ● Scouting ○ From board / From shore Fundamentals of River Running ○ How to establish the "best" route / ● Characteristics of Current “Plan "B" ● Downstream and Upstream V's / Chutes ● Portaging Hazards ● Eddies/ Eddy Lines ● Group Organization on the River ● Waves/ Wave Holes ● CLAP (Communication, Line of Sight, ● Bends Assessment, Position) ● Effects of Obstacles ○ Group cohesiveness (lead, sweep ● Ledges / Horizon Lines boards, etc.) ● Strainers & Sieves ○ Universal River Signals System ● Rocks/ Pillows ● Emergency Procedures ● Holes / Hydraulics ● Other Hazards SUPC – 02/2018 © American Canoe Association www.americancanoe.org Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) Equipment: ○ Pinned Craft ● Boards: types/shapes, materials, parts ● Principles of wading (including safety features: foot straps, ● Causes, prevention of, and rescues for grab loops, deck attachment points) foot entrapments ● Leash wear (when appropriate) ● River knife Standing & Balance ● Boards outfitting: comfort & safety ● Prone ● Fin set ups, fin shapes/sizes, materials, ● Sitting applications ● Kneeling ● Paddle: types, parts, length, blade size & ● Neutral stance with variation/slight shape, fitting, hand position stagger & placements ● Care of equipment ● Board wiggle: legs act independently ● Personal Equipment: water, food, shoes, from upper body, head/torso remain whistle, sunscreen, bug spray, sun over center of board glasses, eyeglass straps, protective ● Offset Stance: offset stance with clothing for impact, heat or cold, hat, various weight distribution nose to tail foot protection, food, ● Offset surf stance variations: narrow, ● Life jackets (PFDs): types, fit, impact wide, drop knee on back leg, one or both protection, leash attachments feet forward ● Helmet: types, fit ● Asymmetrical stance relative to the axial ● Elbow pads, knee pads, shin pads, & lateral centerlines tailbone pad, hip pads, etc. ● Open vs. closed stances ● Releasable tow tether ● Paddling in goofy & regular stances ● Car topping: loading and unloading, racks, tie downs (cam straps and ropes Maneuvers: Taught so participants learn in both regular Safety & Rescue: and goofy stances ● Principles of Rescue Flat-Water: ○ Priorities - People, Boards, Gear ● Spins (onside and offside): boards pivots ○ Responsibilities of Victim in place ○ Responsibilities of Rescuers ● Forward: boards moves in reasonably ● Types of Rescue straight line ○ Preventing & anticipating a fall ● Reverse: boards moves in a reasonably ○ Self-Rescue in moving current straight line body/board positions ● Stopping: boards stops within a ■ handling equipment reasonable distance ○ Board-Assisted Rescue ● Moving Pivot Turn with Submerged ○ Tired Swimmer Tail ○ Towing ● Veering, Carving, and paddling the ○ Bumping “inside circle/outside circle” ● Shoreline Rescue - Extension Rescues ● Abeam: boards moves sideways without ○ Use of Throw Bags/Ropes headway SUPC – 02/2018 © American Canoe Association www.americancanoe.org Level 5: Advanced Whitewater Stand Up Paddleboarding (Sample Skills Course) ● Sideslips: boards moves sideways with ● Cross Nose Draw into Forward w/ grip headway switch ● Low brace Whitewater (class II+-III) ● High Brace ● Front Ferry from both river left & river ● Extended Forward Sweep (Cross board right w/ multiple stroke combinations draw & forward sweep combo) (toeside & heelside) ● Cross Tail – Heel Side Low Brace ● Jet ferry from both river left & river right (toeside & heelside) ● Eddy Turns (wide / shallow) from both Conclusion & Wrap Up: river left & river right w/ multiple stroke ● Group debrief / Individual feedback combinations and “carving” turns ● Course limitations (toeside & heelside) ● Importance of First Aid & CPR ● Peel Outs (wide / shallow) from both ● Importance of additional instruction, river left & river right w/ multiple stroke practice, experience combinations and “carving” turns ● Importance of appropriate level of (toeside & heelside) safety & rescue training ● C-Turn (peel out and eddy into same ● Demo advanced maneuver eddy) from both river left & river right ●
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