Technical skills covered:
· Lifting & carrying
· Launching & coming ashore
· Embarking & disembarking
· Forward paddle a circuit of 100m with directional control
· Reverse paddle a circuit of 25m with directional control
· Stopping
· Forward & reverse sweep strokes
· Planned capsize followed by swim ashore with retention of kayak and paddle
· Emptying of water
· Simple beginnings of moving sideways (“J” draw and classic draw)
· Simple beginnings of stern rudder (going in a straight line)
· Simple beginnings of low recovery
· Rafted ‘X’ rescue