White Water SUP Coach Training Course

The White Water SUP Coach Training Award is an inclusive course, designed for you, to support you in your coaching of paddlers who want to gain/improve their own paddleboarding skills.

On this course, you will be taught how to observe, analyse and coach SUP in the White Water environment, of Grade 2 (3). This will include how to coach beginners, or more experienced paddlers looking to develop their skills.

As a Coach you can work independently or you could be deployed by a club, centre or organisation. Being a White Water SUP Coach allows you to design you own coaching to support their learners and provide Paddle UK Awards and Training (which could help your employment, club or freelance work) such as:

• Personal Performance Awards – for example the Start Award, Discover Award, Explore Award, SUP Sheltered Water Award & SUP White Water Award.

There will be opportunities to develop and progress your own paddling skills and meet like-minded SUP boarders during the course. Many of our course candidates develop long lasting friendships, connections and contacts which is in fitting with the Paddle UK educational philosophy re fostering a paddlesports community.

Pre Course: 

Ensure you have the prerequisites in place – check he what do I need to bring. You can discuss with us in advance anything to do with the course and we will fully support you in the lead up to it.

We follow the course documents which can be found at the following link.

Day 1:

We meet at Tamdhu and follow the guidance notes as the above link for what to cover on day 1 – we will likely spend the day entirely at Tamdhu and focus our learning around the bottom section as well as carrying the boards to the top of the rapids on occasion as well to run the whole thing. If candidates are progressing very well then we might head and do a section in the afternoon from Ballindalloch to Tamdhu.

Day 2:

We will discuss on day 1 the potential for venues on day two this might be a section of the Spey or Findhorn and you will have the opportunity to practice your own coaching having ben set some homework from the day before to prepare you own coaching sessions which you will be able to deliver and gain feedback on from the course provider.

Post Course:

We always offer people to email in any questions they might have post course or in the journey between training and assessment and know that we are happy to support people even after the course in how they develop as coaches should anyone ever have any questions or want to run ideas past us. 

We are proud to recommend local accommodation options within the area for people when you are up for your SUP White Water Coach training Course:

Aviemore:

Youth Hostel A budget friendly option for people.

Coylumbridge Hotel Aviemroe – good for groups and families alike.

Premier Inn – always a good shout.

Rothiemurchus Campsite – situated in the stunning forest, this is a beautiful budget friendly option.

Glenmore Campsite – situated at Scotland’s highest beach, Loch Morlich has phenomenal views across to Cairngorm Mountain.

Newtonmore & Surrounding Areas:

https://www.wherestagsroar.co.uk/ award winning accommodation in the Highlands – perfect to stay at while up on an outdoor adventure.

Invernahavon Caravan Park – a bit quieter than the others as it is a little further away from the hustle and bustle of Aviemore.

Dalraddy Holiday Park – a family and dog friendly campsite.

• Do you Love SUP and want to help develop the sport/people within it?
• Do you want to coach stand up paddleboarding (SUP)?
• Do You want to support your club to deliver sessions?
• Would you like to start or further your career in coaching SUP in white water?

If the answer is yes to any of the above questions, then the (SUP) Stand Up Paddleboard White Water Coach Award Training Course could be the right way forward! With 2 days of inclusive coaching to help you progress your coaching ability and SUP ability this will help you along the stepping stones of the coaching pathway for white water SUP.

We pride ourselves on providing as much kit as possible for you.  However, the list below is what we recommend you should bring to your SUP White Water Coach training Course:

• Travel insurance. (We are insured for all our trips, but we recommend everyone has their own travel insurance as well.)
• Transportation to the venue. (We may be able to help with this though – if you need transportation please drop us an enquiry and we can see what we can do to help.)
• Lunch, water.
• Personal medication
• Everything that you wish to bring personal kit wise as most people prefer to use their own but we can sup[ply buoyancy aids, wetsuits etc if people wish.
• You need to ensure you have the prerequisites – – Core Coach Training- White Water Safety & Rescue Training- Full Home Nation membership- Up to date Safeguarding training- Up to date First aid Certificate

Here at Highland Outdoor Adventures, we pride ourselves on providing as much as we can but you are welcome to bring your own equipment if you do prefer. The list below is what we provide you with for your SUP White Water Coach Training Course.

It is expected normally when sitting awards like this people would come with at least their own personal equipment but we appreciate not everyone may have things yet so we can still supply equipment if needed. We do find that people prefer to use their own.

• Hala SUP’s -The world’s best Stand up Paddleboards – perfect for our SUP White Water Coach Training Course- if you need
• Paddles 
• Wetsuits – if you need
• Buoyancy aids – if you need
• Helmets – if you need
• Neoprene wetsuit boots – if you need
• Swimshorts to go over the top of wetsuits – if you need
• All instruction & administration fees included.
• All first aid and safety equipment.
• Photographs of the day provided for you at no extra cost! If the weather is good we will have a DSLR professional camera  so we can take photos and videos of your adventure and you can look back at the day for years to come. If the weather is less favourable we will bring a GoPro (as it is waterproof) so we will still be able to take photos for you.
• We may source mock clients for the day but please let us know if you prefer to bring your own (only appropriate for courses with 2 people).