Sweetwater works with many of the world’s top performers and our coaches have been at the forefront of development as pioneers of freestyle coaching for over a decade. To date we have worked with several national teams and assisted many of their athletes to achieve medals in national and international events. This experience and 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 range 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
Why not use one of our 2hr one-to-one 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 dial-in 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.
Freestyle Days (1 or 2 Day Options)
Experience an intense day or two 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 much more.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the latest freestyle techniques, manoeuvres and combinations.
- Learn essential skills to self-direct your own development.
- Have fun learning in an open friendly environment with others who share a passion for freestyle.
Pre requisites: In order to get the best out of these courses 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.
Video Analysis Sessions
Try our one-to-one video analysis sessions. This is a three hour session with two hours of coaching on the water, recording an agreed predetermined set of exercises that provide valuable data on your chosen areas of development. After the water session your coach then provides a 1hr feedback session that integrates this information into a comprehensive development plan to improve your performance. After the session feedback is presented with digital session notes and video.
Sweetwater have extensive experience in providing both recreational and competitive paddlers with video analyse in order to accelerate learning and increase performance.
Video analysis sessions have the following benefits:
- Identifying good and bad trends in technique form.
- Accelerate the learning and acquisition of new skills.
- Create, refine and sequence individual manoeuvre, combos and routines.
- Improve competition scoring and understanding of the rules.
- 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.
Short and Long-term Coaching Programmes
Information regarding our proven and highly successful medium/long-term coaching programmes can be found on the Athletes page, please click here for more information> ADP.
If you would like to arrange a bespoke freestyle coaching course or session please click here > customising your course.
Freestyle Camps
Europe’s premier freestyle camps provide an action packed program delivered by the best coaches in the field. We apply all the latest coaching techniques and comprehensive resources to maximise your progression throughout the week, including daily video analysis and a final report on your performance with recommendations to assist your future development. The week has two general themes; learning to train, and learning to compete both with the aim of working towards achieving the rides that meet your aspirations, competitive or otherwise. It’s all about the excitement of the ride and throwing down those nifty tricks!
During the week there’s a ‘three crowns event’ which involves 3 unique fun competitions, first up is the flat water freestyle team event (b-boy/girl style competition), the second event is on a wave/hole feature tag-team style and the final event is individual rides. But that’s not all, there’s also a mid week boater’x race. These short fun competitions are spread through the week and are an integral part of the weeks programme chosen to promote active recovery, enhance skills we cover during the week and help improve their retention. It takes a team to crown the final winner!
The camps are aimed at both intermediate and advanced paddlers. If you are just starting out in freestyle our coaches will fast track you forward. If you already have freestyle experience we guarantee to take you forward to the next level and open your eyes to new and progressive ideas such as new combo’s, and ride strategies.
If you have an interest in the following development areas then this course would have great benefits for you.
- Learning the latest freestyle moves and combos
- Linking manoeuvres and combos into routines.
- Ride planning and maximising your rides scoring potential
- Understand how judging works and understanding of the latest competition rules.
- How to train effectively and be your best for competition.
- Injecting new creativity into your paddling.
- Learn to use video analysis and other tools to improving your learning curve.
- Understanding river features and maximising on their potential.
- Gain action plan to promote your continued development
In order to get the best out of our freestyle camps you should have fundamental freestyle skills on Grade 3 water. This includes manoeuvres such as surfing, green spins and a consistent white water roll. You should also be reasonably fit. If you have little freestyle experience or lacking a coincident roll, you should check out our freestyle sessions/days.
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.
