HIGH TIDE – GREEN
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SUITABLE FOR
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SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
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SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
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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
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- All welcome
- these sessions are perfect tides on which to learn the basics
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- To be able to swim 50m
- Enthusiasm
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- 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.
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LOW TIDE – AMBER
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SUITABLE FOR
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SKILLS REQUIRED
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SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
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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
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- Improvers
- Paddlers who have attended an ACC ‘Introduction to moving water session’
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- Forward paddling
- Edging
- Sweep strokes
- Ferry glides
- Wet exit
- Self-rescue
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- Ferry gliding, static wave surfing , breaking and breaking out under the rail or road bridge supports, Slalom training sessions
- Moving water play boating
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MIDDLE TIDE – RED
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SUITABLE FOR
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SKILLS REQUIRED
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SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
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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
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- 2* plus paddlers
- Paddlers with demonstrable confidence/competence on ACC low tide sessions
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- Moving water skills as per ‘Low Tide’
- Confidence
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- 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.
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