A four-week, one hour per week online course delivered via Zoom in collaboration with Steve Bowens from H2O Training and Norma MacLeod from Immerse Hebrides.

You will learn about tides, weather, currents, personal safety, and forecasting, and use any practical knowledge during the course. There are some simple research tasks between some sessions that can be done from home (not mandatory).

You will be invited to share your findings in a closed Facebook group to get feedback and additional information and slides will be provided via the group or via email.

Content:

• Tides
• Wind and weather
• Rips
• Equipment

This is the first course aimed at those who are or would like to Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) on the coast and in estuaries. We recommend this course if you have quite limited experience of paddleboarding or knowledge of basic navigation and weather interpretation.

This is the first course aimed at those who are or would like to Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) on the coast and in estuaries. Each session begins with an explanation of underpinning principles before going on to interpreting information and applying it to a plan to paddle on the coast or in tidal estuaries.

The seminars include explanations, demonstrations using models, video clips and a weekly fun quiz. Each week there is an optional research task to apply what you have learnt to your own local paddling location.

Everyone on the course is invited to join a closed Facebook group where further discussions and information is available.

Content

• Week 1: Tides – use tidal information to plan your coastal trip
• Week 2: Weather – apply weather information from a range of sources to help plan your coastal trip
• Week 3: Rips – Formation, parts, types, effects, how to escape a rip.
• Week 4: Equipment Hazards – Choice of equipment for the coast and several safety considerations when going on the coast.

Duration

The seminars are run for one hour over four weeks. Each session will be recorded and available to view for one week after, so if you miss a session you can catch up in your own time.

Cannot make each weekly time/date?

You will have access to a recording each week for ONE WEEK. We have very limited online storage so need to delete the recording after this time.

This is Freediving 101 – a 4 week ONLINE course (one hour a week) run LIVE on Zoom by fully qualified AIDA Freediving coach and big wave surfer Tom Luddington.

Tom has a breath hold of 6 minutes and 24 seconds ranking him in the top 10 in the UK and has dived down to 60 metres depth on a single breath.

The course is suitable for complete beginners and experienced water people alike and focuses on the essentials of ‘how to safely go freediving’.

Content:

• Knowledge is power – 12 ways to safely freedive for longer
• The Diaphragm Mastered – The real secrets of relaxation in depth
• Frenzel Fitness – The Equalisation Workshop
• Pro Freediving Skills – Video Analysis
• Reducing Risk and Basic Rescues
• Inspiring Marine Life Slideshow with Dr Lou Luddington and Quiz