Advanced Technical Strokes Course
Keen to refine your carving skills?
Interested in improving your boofs?
Struggling to push past a plateau?
Take your paddling to the next level!
Mersey River Slalom Course
Packrafting Tasmania is running a 2-day course that focuses on mastering technical skills and strokes on easier whitewater. This can be done as either a pre-cursor to, or after, the 3-day Advanced River Running Course. This course encourages participants to fine tune their skills/strokes/techniques. The aim is for paddlers to consistently nail manoeuvres such as carving into and out of eddies, S-turns and S-crosses as well as a variety of boofing techniques. Participants need to have undertaken at least a high intermediate course with the instructors previously or else provide evidence to show that they are at the required level to attend.
Our focus is on refining individual’s technical skills & introducing more complex techniques
We work with you to fine tune your strokes, body & boat positions, edging as well as your use of water features.
This is done through breaking down the complexities of various techniques such as bow rudders, forward paddling, carving and boofing so that paddlers can understand the why, how and when of each skill.
We also use video analysis to assist in both determining good and bad technique and correcting any issues found.
Learn more advanced techniques
A lot of this course focuses on a variety of boofing and carving techniques. Part of the course will see us utilising gates on a slalom course to challenge participants to consistently nail their techniques.
We will look at sweep, conventional and cross-current boofs. As well as how to adapt techniques for micro-eddies as well as medium and long radius carves into eddies.
Our aim is to smooth out paddlers techniques and improve their ability to efficiently create and maintain speed during manoeuvres.
The program will start at 9:30 AM at the Berlin Wall Rapid on the Saturday morning and conclude by 3 PM on the Sunday.
We recommend for this venue that all participants opt to camp with instructors at a nearby bush camping site. This will allow us to spend time together after dinner on the Saturday night on video analysis. If you need to get hold of camping gas or need help with gear please let us know.
For those flying interstate it is ideal to book flights out of Launceston for after 7pm however participants can opt to finish the course early if they need to catch an earlier flight.
Take your paddling to another level!
Learn how to use the water, your boat, your body and your paddle to full advantage.
Work on your carving…
Ideally packrafters should enter and exit eddies cleanly through beautiful, controlled carves. Using video analysis we help paddlers to breakdown and understand the many elements required. With an improved carve, not only will you look and feel better on the water, you will have so much more control and ultimately become a safer paddler.
