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Play the River Weekend

The Play the River course is all about playing: get on the river with your Riverrunner and give it your all! Here you'll learn how to play your way down the river with tricks and style. Targeted drills will help you improve your technique, get your tail under water and keep your boat tip in the air! In addition to the different variations of undercutting, we will explain and practice rock splats, rock spins, pirouettes and many other riverrunning techniques in detail.

Individual and exclusive care

To offer you the greatest possible learning success in this course, we will take a maximum of 4 participants per kayak instructor. This ensures that there is enough time to address all topics and questions and to work with video analysis again and again during the course.

To join the Play the River course you should already have a good general technique (F2 level or higher) and a roll rate - even in unfavorable conditions - of at least 80%.

Explanation of the main terms and material
Tips for fitting your kayak and finding the ideal seating position
Fundamentals of flow theory
Dynamic sweeping with forward stroke and draw stroke
Torque on the boat "hold" and learn to use it in the various moves
Steering kayak by weight shift and upper body rotation
Use the current: edge correctly and build up pressure on the paddle blade!
Different variants of undercutting
Rocksplats and Rockspins
Candles and pirouettes
Backdeck Roll and much more.

Dynamic sweeping with dry tip and dry tail
Hold" torque on the boat over several changes of direction
Undercutting when entering the flow
Undercutting when entering the sweep water
Putting the kayak on the stern when crossing waves
Candles in rollers and small steps
Keeping the kayak on the stern and on the tip for a long time by shifting weight
Implement Rocksplat from the drive and from dynamic undercutting.
Wavewheels and kickflips over waves and shoulders and much more.

Discover the fun of river running and learn as many moves as possible
Improve boat feel and control over maneuvers
Recognize own "problem areas" through video analysis and feedback from the trainers
Define individual exercises that will help you personally and which you can perform at any time after the course
Implement playful driving in white water

Luca Daprá and/or Bernie Steidl

We offer this course in North or South Tyrol. The course location depends on the current water levels and will be determined in time before the course starts. The following locations are available:

Merano (Slalom Canal and Passer)
Sterzing (Eisack)
Innsbruck (e.g. Inn River, Imster Gorge)

In order to participate in the technique course, you must

can swim.
be in good general health.
ride safely class III whitewater (e.g. Lower Ötz, abseil section of the Soca, Brandenberger Ache: Wiesklamm, Loisach).
master the Whitewater Roll (at least 80% rewind rate).
be at least 14 years old (for younger ones we offer special youth courses offered).
bring a Riverrunner kayak. If you don't have one (yet), we can lend you one.

Key data

Meeting place
Duration
Prices

We meet on the first day of the course at 10:00 am at the agreed location. This will be communicated by e-mail at least two weeks before the start of the course.