PR 101 - Start here

This a one-day course which includes building a solid foundation of packrafting skills. It is aimed at novices and those who have a packraft and want to learn to paddle it without obligating friends or getting into trouble. You can hire a packraft and other gear from us at special rates by arrangement. Items covered:

• Equipment needed to be safe on moving water

PR 201 - Take it up a step

Intermediate personal skills course - 1 Day
This is a course specifically designed for packrafting, and is a combination of selected whitewater paddling skills, Swiftwater Rescue, and a bunch of skills unique to packrafting. Hands on skills taught include:

• self-rescue in rapids

Adventure Racing Clinics

Paddle as a team, not two individuals. Faster for longer. With packrafting becoming a feature of the AR scene, we offer a specialised half day clinic for paddling a double packraft. Double packrafts are not the same as two single packrafts in a line. The techniques for tandem paddling aren’t taught often. Our observation of recent events is that most doubles could go a lot faster and people would fall out less often if they acquired the additional paddling and rescue techniques that make a double a team, instead of two individuals. This is particularly true in rivers with obstacles to avoid. These clinics will focus on three skills;

1. Double self-rescues. Get back in quickly, safely, with less effort and lost time.
2. Efficient paddling
3. Tandem paddling in rapids with obstacles. Teamwork is the key, it’s not instinctive. We’ll teach you.

Instructor Trips - Needs Based Instruction on Real Trips

This is our idea (because we know it works) and is designed as a day trip on a local river with a few rapids, some of which you might want to scout and be guided through. On the trip you will be with one or two instructors, who will lead the trip and give you personal tuition as you progress. Paddling with others is what every packrafter will be doing, and the aim of these days is to bring you up to a balanced set of skills that enable you to be a confident packrafter. That means others will want to packraft with you, because they know you can take care of yourself, and them, on a trip.

• Learning the more advanced dynamic paddle strokes applied specifically to packrafting.

Groups - Save $100

A group is 4 persons. That’s our Instructor to Packrafter ratio.
If you can persuade three of your friends to join you, we will run an instruction course or Instructor Trip just for you. You can decide what skills or which river you want to run. Between you there’s a saving of $100.