Educational Division

Overview-The Educational Division has two subcategories, Instructional and Water Stewardship Programs. The Instructional Programs will focus on teaching beginning canoers, kayakers, windsurfers, and crewers the basics of paddling and then work to improve their abilities so they feel comfortable and confident on the water. This a great place to start if you are looking to develop paddling as a fun, atheltic, and recreational hobby! From here, the Recreational, Racing, and White Water Divisions are only a small step away. Water Stewardship Events are designed to teach paddlers of all levels of expertise about good environmental habits and respecting nature in order to keep the Earth's waterways as clean and natural as possible.

Events

-Below is the Summer 2005 Educational Paddling Program. The 2006 Program information will be posted this spring!

2005 SUMMER PROGRAM
Canoe/Kayak/Windsurf/Crew
A Unique Learning Experience for the Jr. High and High School Aged

• Areas to be covered:
  • canoe/kayak - various paddling strokes, safety and rescue techniques
  • crew - Olympic scull rowing
  • windsurfing - basic knowledge and techniques
• Location: Wolf Lake, west of US131 on M-43
• When:
  • Duration: Beginning July 6, 2005 - July 27, 2005 (10 sessions)
  • Class will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 12:30 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
• Equiptment:
  • Instructor Provides - life jackets, canoes/kayaks, paddles
  • Participant Provides - bathing suite, towel, swim goggles, sandals/watershoes, hat, rain gear, sun screen, water bottle, dry change of clothes
• Instructor: Dave Diget
  • Over 48 years of swimming instruction and coaching
  • Certified for canoeing and kayaking for over 20 years
  • Inventor and innovator of many types of water apparatus and equipment