Outdoor pursuits training diary, Dartmoor, Devon, UK and Spain

Weekly Diary <2006 - 2007>
Online diary recording the trainees' progress through the course.

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Week 8 - White water canoeing and kayaking Becoming an outdoor instructor requires a great deal of hard work. Becoming a good outdoor instructor requires experience. During the course it is important that the group gains a breadth of outdoor experiences. We take the group to Wales for the mountains and Dartmoor and the surrounding area provides us with some fine rivers to experience the thrills of moving water. Kayaking was also on the menu in this final week before the christmas break.

Rescuing a capsized paddler and emptying their boat one of the many skills of kayaking		Having succesfully negotiated the rapid some of the team watch in delight as others attempt to get down.

A good line leading up to running the weir ensures a safe descent the abiltiy to manouvre the canoe accurately is important	Waiting in a safe area on the river. Eddies provide paddlers with relatively still water and from here the next part of the river to run can assessed.	Good balance, a dynamic position and an awareness of his surroundings one of the students shows how it should be done

Hang on tight.....	A great stretch of moving water on one of the local rivers.