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White Water Coach – Soča, Slovenia
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| For the paddler who wishes to coach on Class II and III whitewater. Set in the perfect natural classroom of the Soča river, this course will have you guiding, coaching, and making decisions with confidence on Class III rivers.
We’ve put this course together for paddlers who are following either a formal coach education like the BCU or for anyone wishing simply to learn to coach white water kayaking. We’ll cover everything from your paddling skills and coaching methods to modern, dynamic guiding techniques and real-world group management.
This course can include, BCU Moderate Water Endorsement |
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Soča, Slovenia
White Water Coach
1250€
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River Leader Training Course – Soča, Slovenia
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| For the Paddler who is comfortable paddling on Class II and III whitewater, but wants the confidence to lead their peers. Set in the perfect natural classroom of the Soča river, this course will have you guiding, coaching, and making decisions with confidence on Class III rivers.
We’ve put this course together for BCU and ICU Level 2 coaches who want to step their game up a notch. To ease out that step up to the new Moderate Water Endorsement or Level 3 Coach, we’ll cover everything from your paddling skills and coaching methods to modern, dynamic guiding techniques and real-world group management.
This course will include, BCU 4 Star Training & BCU Basic WWS&R |
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Soča, Slovenia
River Leader Training Course
1250€
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Alpine River Leader Training Course – Soča, Slovenia
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| Set in the perfect natural classroom of the Soča river, this course will have you guiding, coaching, and making decisions with confidence on Class III and IV whitewater.
We’ve put this course together for BCU and ICU level 3 coaches who want to step their game up a notch. To ease out that step up to level 4, we’ll cover everything from your paddling skills and coaching methods to modern, dynamic guiding techniques and real-world group management
This course will include, BCU 5 Star Training & BCU Advanced WWS&R |
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Soča, Slovenia
Alpine River Leader Training Course
1250€
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Elemental Skills – Soča, Slovenia
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| Want to get the basics sorted? This course will give you the tools to understand and improve your own paddling, as well as the confidence to choose your own lines, and run Class III to your heart’s content, in safety and style. The Soča’s crystal clear blue water and clean bedrock rapids offer a the perfect setting to improve your paddling with confidence. |
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Soča, Slovenia
Elemental Skills
1250€
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Pay Deposit 450€
Trip Date:
31/7 March/April 2012
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Fundamental Core Skills – Soča, Slovenia
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| For the Class III paddler wanting to the confidence and knowledge to step up a grade, there could be no better place to learn than the Soča valley. The pool drop bedrock style of the Soca offers the perfect training ground, with endless opportunities to perfect your technique before testing it out on more challenging whitewater. This week will see you building confidence and style. |
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Soča, Slovenia
Fundamental Core Skills
1250€
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Steep Creeking – Piemonte, Italy
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| For a short window each spring, crystal clear meltwater pours down the valleys of Piemonte in northern Italy, and paddlers arrive from around the world to enjoy the finest combination of whitewater, culture, food, and wine available on the planet.
The region’s paddling is characterised by smooth granite slides and bedrock rapids, which offer steep and technical, yet surprisingly forgiving paddling. Set against a backdrop of ancient villages, beautiful cafes, and soaring snow capped peaks, there’s no better place in the world for the steep creeking connoisseur, and for the lover of good food and wine, there’s truly no better kayaking destination than Val Sesia.
Pool drop, bedrock falls and slides will leave you speechless, whilst top level instruction will give you the tactics and techniques you need to handle them in safety and style. |
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Piemonte, Italy
Steep Creeking
1250€
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Advanced White Water Coach – Soča, Slovenia or Sjoa, Norway
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| A course for white water kayakers who already coach or wish to coach on Class IV. This program is shaped by what we do at Gene17, all our core elements. We’ll offer the very best in teaching the modern style, how to coach individuals within a group and providing the tactics for formal river running. By the end of the week you’ll know where you are in terms of personal progression, and where you need to go in order to become the next generation of Advanced WW Coach.
This course can include, BCU Advanced Water Endorsement |
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Soča, Slovenia
Sjoa, Norway
Advanced White Water Coach
1250€
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Progressive & Dynamic – Sjoa, Norway
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| Norway is famous for waterfalls, slides, and monster rapids, however it is also home to more of the world’s finest Class III and IV intermediate water than you’ll find anywhere else. From the big and bouncy Sjoa to steep and technical Store Ula, and everything in between, the region has it all, and that’s why we run our progressive trips here.
You’ll spend the week based on the banks of the Sjoa river, home to some of the world’s finest whitewater, and less than an hour’s drive from a huge range of rivers of all styles. From steep creeks for practising boofs and flares, to curlers and waves to ride on big volume rivers, there’s nowhere better to experience a wide variety of whitewater.
This course will give you the transferable skills you need to tackle all types of river, and the confidence to make your own decisions and pick your own lines. Add in the long days (it doesn’t get dark until midnight) and the sheer scale of the landscape, and we’ll give you the best paddling of your life. By the end of the week you might even want to take on one of those waterfalls… |
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Sjoa, Norway
Progressive & Dynamic
1250€
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Norway Creeking – Sjoa to Valldal, Norway
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| Think of Norway and you might conjure up images of clean waterfalls or spectacular slides, and if this is what you’re after then the Norway Creeking trip won’t disappoint. Norway’s stunning ancient landscape is like nowhere else in the world, and couldn’t be more perfect for steep whitewater kayaking. Huge Snow covered plateaus drain into wide glacial valleys over smooth granite bedrock, making for easy scouting and portaging and clean, steep fun in incomparable scenery.
In reality Norway is home to a huge variety of grades and styles of paddling, from big volume rivers to steep and technical creeks, and offers the opportunity to learn skills which will transfer to all types of whitewater. There’s also plenty of opportunity to warm up before taking on the steeps, making for a forgiving and controlled environment in which you to push your paddling.
Our guides come back here year after year, and know the rivers as well as the locals, so with fantastic road access to some of the steepest rivers in the world, excellent photo opportunities and not a jammed tree or siphon in sight, there’s no better place to push your paddling to the next level. |
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Sjoa to Valldal, Norway Creeking
950€
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Pay Deposit 450€
Trip Date:
1/8 July 2012 |
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