This course provides the skills and knowledge for proficient paddleboarding in moderate conditions, along a moderately exposed shore with frequent easy-landing opportunities.
Touring 2 SUP Skills
Discipline: Stand Up Paddleboard Stream: Skills DevelopmentCourse Overview
Typical Course Length
12-16 hours (2 days)
Course Topics
Safety Skills
- Safety equipment
- Group management
- Communication
- Advanced scenarios
Paddling Skills
- Paddling efficiency for longer distances
- Launching from an exposed shoreline
- Landing in surf conditions
- Paddling in current
- Paddling in adverse conditions
- Paddling in wind and waves with fully loaded board
Knowledge
- Decision making models
- Planning daily mileage
- Advanced weather forecasting
- Navigation
- Tides and currents
- Reading natural cues
- Touring equipment
Course Prerequisites
- Touring 1 SUP course or equivalent skills and knowledge.
- Experience
- At least 3, one-day SUP touring trips in different locations.
- Paddlers need time and practice to sufficiently develop the skills learned in the prerequisite course before registering in this course.
- First Aid
- Wilderness first aid (16 hours) with CPR strongly recommended.
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If you have any specific syllabus questions, please get in touch with the Stand Up Paddleboard Program Committee who is responsible for the development and maintaince of this course.