1 Day Canyon Courses
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Option 1: Sharpen Your Rescue Skills
This course is to sharpen your rescue skills, rope rescue is a perishable skill without practice. This course is about simple effective rescues. Join to train and practice in a controlled environment.
Option 2: White-Water Features
Come and learn to identify features more efficiently and how to navigate them. You will learn how to move through features and learn techniques to avoid them if necessary
Option 3: Canyon Movement on Rope
This course is to progress your movement on rope. Learn and polish your ascending and descending in the canyon in a real environment.
Option 4: Small party assisted rescue or SPAR
This course is to cover decision making, techniques and skills, that a small group of canyoners can utilise in the event that a member of the group was to become injured.
2 Day Canyoning Courses
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Option 1: White-Water Canyoner
This course is for people that are looking to take their canyoning from low flow canyons to the next aquatic level from A2 to A3/A4.
Course content
· Canyoning water features
· Read the canyon and evaluate more quickly
· Movement on and off ropes in the canyon
· Learn rope systems for aquatic canyons
· Sharpen your rescue skills
Itinerary
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- Start by looking at your gear and rigging it for aquatic canyons
- Look at your personal skills in the canyon and work out what you want to work on
- Identify canyon features in the canyon
- Movement in an aquatic canyon
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- Prepare for a longer day in an aquatic canyon
- Learn reading and evaluating efficiently in canyon
- Use specific rope systems for aquatic canyons
- Learn safety and rescue techniques in canyon
Option 2: The Trip Leader
This course is for canyoners that are comfortable in A3 but want the confidence to lead others.
Course content
· Get a personal progression plan with what you want to work on
· Work on guiding styles keeping it modern and dynamic with current techniques
· Learn how to manage a group and the unexpected
· Role model best practice
· Refresh and sharpen your safety skills
· Boost your canyon awareness
Itinerary
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- Start by looking at your gear, communication and intentions
- Take a look at your personal skills in the canyon
- Introducing role modelling best practice in canyon
- Learn guiding styles with a modern and dynamic approach in canyon
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- Work on how to manage a group and the unexpected in canyon situations
- Canyon safety and extraction skills in canyon
- In canyon awareness, learn how to adapt to your teammates and environment
- Evaluate the canyon more efficiently
- Finish with a personal progression plan for you to work on
Option 3: The Ultimate Team Mate
This course is for canyoners that go canyoning as part of a team but feel as if they would like to contribute more to the descent. This is by becoming an effective team member and being able to look after themselves and others.
Course content
· Get a personal progression plan with where you’re at and what to work on
· Look at your personal skills in canyon
· Learn a lighter weight approach to team equipment in the canyon
· Sharpen your rescue skills in canyon
· Read the canyon and move more efficiently through terrain
· Canyon communication and signals
Itinerary
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- Start by looking at your gear and preparing it for the canyon
- Take a look at your personal skills in canyon
- Learn simple and effective rescue techniques in canyon
- Learn canyon communication and signals in canyon
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- Prepare for a longer day in the canyon moving as a team
- Look at a lightweight approach to team equipment in canyon
- Learn to read the canyon and move more efficiently
- Finish with a personal progression plan for you to work on
Option 4: Small party assisted rescue or SPAR
This course is to cover decision making, techniques and skills, that a small group of canyoners can utilise in the event that a member of the group was to become injured.
Course content
- Trip planning entry, exit and possible exits Setting intentions.
- Equipment carried and look at what extras may be added.
- Patient packing and progression techniques.
- Improvised anchors
- Benighted
Itinerary
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- Start by looking at trip planning for the day and setting intentions.
- Have look over the equipment carried in the group and if we can add or remove anything.
- Get into the canyon workshop scenarios of likely injury’s and progression techniques.
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- Plan for the day and set intentions
- Get into the canyon and look at improvised anchors.
- Workshop likely injury’s and progression techniques
- Look at becoming stuck in the canyon for an extended period of time and communicating out of the canyon.
- Debrief what’s been learned over the 2 days.