Leadership Training - Navigation & Trip Experience ...in the San Juan Islands
Paddle through waves, cross eddylines, and get hands-on experience at
kayaking leadership and navigation, reading water, weather observations, predicting
tides and currents, and kayak trip planning. If you own a sea kayak, you need this
course. Click the course name link above for more details.
Five-Day Kayak Training Camp
Our most comprehensive sea kayaking course. Start with an expanded three-day version of our
Paddle Strokes and Rescue Techniques course on Lake Sammamish (E.
of Seattle), and cap it off with a two-day overnight camping
Leadership Training & Trip Experience course in the San Juan Islands. Click above links for
more details.
Exposed Coast Training Expedition - Sitka, Alaska
The ultimate advanced sea kayak adventure ... ten days in SE Alaska. Spend eight days paddling
and wilderness camping with George Gronseth and Barb Sherrill on the exposed open coast of the
Pacific Ocean in Alaska. Discover what it's like to leave the sheltered waters (and crowds)
behind and paddle out into the open ocean. Along the way you'll learn to plan and lead your own
future wilderness kayak expeditions. All this while spending over a week exploring a beautiful
Alaskan wilderness coastline teeming with wildlife and the historic Russian outpost town of
Sitka! Click above link for more details.
Greenland Paddling Technique
The Kayak Academy was the first N. American school to offer instruction in
Greenland style paddling technique. George Gronseth's 1990 field research
with native kayakers sent shock waves through the kayak industry, and George
still has more experience teaching and paddling with Greenland style paddles than
anyone this side of the Atlantic. Get started the right way, take lessons with
George. The techniques for using Eskimo paddles are as different as
propellers are from stern-paddle-wheels, and no-one understands this better than
George Gronseth. Click above link for more details.
Greenland Paddle Carving and Paddling Technique
No prior woodworking experience required.
Build your own Greenland kayak paddle and start learning how to use it. All materials and
tools provided in this one of a kind course that combines both shop time and on the water
practice. Click above link for more details.
Greenland Rolling with Dubside
Greenland Eskimos developed the greatest variety of kayak rolling techniques and performed them
with the narrow-bladed Greenland kayak paddle. Come learn Greenland style kayak rolls with
Dubside who is a top contender in the Greenland National Qajaq (Kayak) Rolling Competition.
Semi-Private Instruction includes Layback Rolls and Forward Ending Rolls or Private Instruction
for Advanced Rolls.
Tidal Rapids Training ...in Deception Pass
Learn how to play with, instead of fear, tide rips and rough water!
One full day in the amazing tidal rapids at Deception Pass. Click above link for more details.
Ocean Surf Kayaking
Ride waves, carve turns, and learn to launch and land in surf. The best
bracing practice there is, and an outragiously fun time! Click above link for more details.
High Wind Training
Are you prepared for getting caught in gale force conditions? Test your
skills in the high winds and steep waves that make the Gorge on the
Columbia River a world famous destination for expert sail boarders. This is
our most challenging one-day course.
You must be an experienced paddler with much training under your belt.
This course is only offered once per year (June or July), start
preparing now for next year's class by signing up for our Surfing, Tidal
Rapids Training, and Cross Over River Training classes this year. Click above
link for more details.
Semi-Exposed Coast Training Expedition - Sitka, Alaska
This is a slightly mellower, easier paced, advanced-intermediate version of our Exposed Coast
Training Expedition.
You'll still get ten days in Alaska with George Gronseth and experience paddling in
swells, but fewer miles per day and less exposure to the full force of the open ocean. Click
above link for more details.
River Kayak Cross Training for Sea Kayakers
Don't start over. Learn river kayaking as an extension of your sea kayaking
skills. Master boat handling skills, and learn a new avenue for
fun! One to three day courses. Click above link for more details.
Kids Kayak Day Camp
Five-day Kids Kayak Camp based at Lake Sammamish State Park Swim Beach, Issaquah, Washington.
Have fun while learning kayak paddle strokes and safety skills. Some highlights of the week
include building and racing cardboard kayaks, exploring Issaquah creek, and taking a day-long
kayak trip on the final day. Sorry, the lesson is for kids only, ages 11 - 17. Click
above link for more details.
Kayak Demo Day
Click above link for more details.
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