A tide that will be at its highest level for most of the session. This provides a flat water environment ideal for novice paddlers to learn foundation paddle sport skills

• All welcome
• these sessions are perfect tides on which to learn the basics

• To be able to swim 50m
• Enthusiasm

• Beginner Sessions, river trips, improver sessions, River trips, Flat water play boating, Stand up paddle boarding, Open canoes, Slalom training sessions
• 1* coaching skills – forward paddling, sweep turns, dynamic turns, self-rescues.

A tide that will be at its lowest for most of the session. The river will be flowing in a channel providing a safe environment for developing moving water skills

• Improvers
• Paddlers who have attended an ACC ‘Introduction to moving water session’

• Forward paddling
• Edging
• Sweep strokes
• Ferry glides
• Wet exit
• Self-rescue

• Ferry gliding, static wave surfing , breaking and breaking out under the rail or road bridge supports, Slalom training sessions
• Moving water play boating

A tide between high and low where the water is moving quickly past the moored boats either up or down river. This offers paddling in a fast moving-water environment with associated risks

• 2* plus paddlers
• Paddlers with demonstrable confidence/competence on ACC low tide sessions

• Moving water skills as per ‘Low Tide’
• Confidence

• Breaking in breaking out under the road bridge, Slalom training sessions
• Tide assisted river trips to Bramber, sea trips around the harbour wall via Ferry Rd.