Sweetwater works with many of the world’s top performers and our coaches have been at the forefront of development as freestyle pioneers for over a decade. Dedication has allowed us to develop and evolve coaching techniques allowing our clients to rapidly progress towards their aims and aspirations. The learning scope of our freestyle courses is so broad that we send out a pre-course expectation to ensure you get the best learning opportunities from your coach. Both Intermediate and Advanced boaters will benefit from our coaching programme that prides itself on delivering to individual needs.
Whether you’re an aspiring world champion or this is your first freestyle session we have a course for you.
Freestyle Sessions
Counts towards your BCU Freestyle Star Awards training
Why not use one of our 2hr sessions to give your freestyle a quick boost? Whether it’s tailoring your own development programme or taking advantage of the odd session to get some help to nail those nifty tricks, one of these sessions will suit.
Freestyle sessions offer all the latest coaching tools to ensure you maximise your progression both during and after your session. These sessions will give you new skills and an action plan to promote your continued development.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a solid foundation from which to build more advance skills.
- Keep up to date with the latest developments in freestyle techniques and skills.
- Increase your understanding of play holes and waves to enhance your paddling.
- Learn simple and easy to use skills to review and improve your level of progression.
- Meet other paddlers with a passion for freestyle.
Pre requisites: In order to get the best out of this course you should have fundamental boat control on Grade 3 water. This includes manoeuvres such as breaking in/out, ferry gliding, surfing and a consistent white water roll. You should also be reasonably fit. If you have little freestyle experience or are lacking a confident roll, please check out our 3 star freestyle courses or contact us to arrange a bespoke one to one session.
Freestyle Days
Counts towards your BCU Freetsyle Star Awards training
Experience an intense day of top level coaching; you’ll have the chance to get a solid foundation and learn all the latest freestyle moves whilst gaining valuable advice on how to get the best out of your boating time. We apply all the latest coaching techniques and resources to maximise your progression. These include video analysis, bank side drills, movement awareness and more.
Pre requisites: In order to get the best out of this course you should have fundamental boat control on Grade 3 water. This includes manoeuvres such as breaking in/out, ferry gliding, surfing and a consistent white water roll. You should also be reasonably fit. If you have little freestyle experience or are lacking a confident roll, please check out our 3 star freestyle courses or contact us to arrange a bespoke one to one session.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the latest techniques in sports exercise and performance preparation.
- Develop mental rehearsal skills for enhanced learning and performance.
- Learn the latest freestyle techniques, maneuvers and combinations.
- Learn esential skills to self-direct your own development.
- Have fun learning in an open friendly environment with others who share a passion for freestyle.
Video Analysis Sessions
This is a two hour session with one hour on the water recording an agreed predetermined set of exercises that provide valuable data on chosen areas of development. After the water session your coach then provides a 1hr feedback session that integrates this information into a strategic development plan to improve your performance. After the session feedback is presented with session notes and a CD.
Sweetwater have extensive experience in providing both recreational and competitive paddlers with technical and tactical video analyse in order to accelerate learning and increase performance.
Video analysis sessions have the following benefits:
- Identifying bad trends in technique form.
- Accelerate the learning and acquisition of new manoeuvres.
- Improve tactical positioning.
- Create, refine and sequence freestyle routines.
- Identify key performance indicators.
- Setting out development and/or performance goals.
- Video records of your performance.
If you would like any further information or to check your suitability for video analysis session, please call our office or email: service@sweetwater.co.uk and one of our team will get back to you.
Performance Freestyle Coaching
Working closely with a coach on a one to one basis not only helps you get the most from each training sessions, it can also help you steer clear of the training pitfalls such as: injury, overtraining, self-doubt and plateaus in your development.
At Sweetwater our coach’s work with you to formulate your own unique training plan that help you track your progress and development. In addition you’ll have regular e-mail and telephone contact with your coach to help you through the journey to competition readiness. Those who are seasoned in competitive freestyle know the importance of having a clear vision of what needs to be done to reach competition readiness. In order to be a consistent high-level performer you will need to follow your own best paths, a process of self-discovery and stretching limits, in which you act on discoveries that lead you to your best focus and best performance. Our role is to guide and support you in this process helping you to discover what works and feels best for you and ensuring ongoing learning and enhancing your ability in:
- Finding joy in what you do well and in the small steps forward towards your main goal.
- Drawing out relevant lessons from each experience or performance.
- Reflecting on what you did well and what freed you to do it.
- Reflecting on what you can improve and how you can make those refinements.
- Reflecting on how your focus effected your performance and how to respect your best focus
- Targeting relevant focus areas for improvement and acting on the lessons learned on an ongoing basis.
If you are interested in our performance programmes and not sure of your requirements, complete our Individual Performance Profile. We have complied a series of questions that help you target the areas where you may require assistance. Having completed the form please contact us and we’ll be more than happy to discuss your requirements.
Pre requisites:performance freestyle coaching is available to all levels of ability; these tailored programmes offer a development pathway from grass roots to world class. If you would like any further information on performance training programmes call our office or email: service@sweetwatercoaching.co.uk and one of our coaches will get back to you with sound honest advice.
