The Placid Water Racing Awards are intended to recognise and encourage improvement in canoe and kayak performance. They can be attempted in any canoe or kayak, although the aim is to encourage the use of placid water craft in an individuals progression to racing modern boats.
The 500m award is particularly useful to determine the appropriate level of entry for paddlers into Marathon and Sprint Racing.
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Level 1 Placid Water Coach
The Level 1 Placid Water Coach Award is aimed at coachers, youth leaders and others who wish to introduce canoeing at a ‘taster’ level, using open cockpit kayaks and canoes only, on small, sheltered, simple-water sites - very sheltered water.
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Level 2 Placid Water Coach
The purpose of the Level 2 Placid Water Coach course is to ensure that all candidates have a sound background knowledge and are able to recognise and support good quality, responsible and safe introduction/ instruction of Placid Water paddling skills (canoe and kayak).
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Level 3 Placid Water Coach
The purpose of the Level 3 Placid Water Coach course is to ensure that that all candidates have a sound background knowledge and the experience necessary to run a unit (club or centre) based on Placid Water Canoeing.
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Level 4 Placid Water Coach
The Level 4 Placid Water Coach award is a pre-requisite for an A4 assessor to run Level 3 Placid Water
Coach courses. Level 4 Coaches are expected to demonstrate a wide experience of their particular discipline. For Placid Water the pre-requisites are: an experienced Level 3 Placid Water Coach which also involves being a Level 2 Racing Coach...
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Placid Water Star Tests
“The Placid Water Star Tests are designed to provide a series of awards to recognise and encourage the
development of a progression of canoe and kayak strokes and techniques to support PW touring and competition”
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