Play the River
The Play the River course is all about playing: Get on the river with your Riverrunner and give it your all! Here you will learn how to play your way down the river with tricks and style. Targeted exercises 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 practise rock splats, rock spins, pirouettes and many other riverrunning techniques in detail.
Individual and exclusive support
In order to be able 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 take part in 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%.
This course opens up new, playful possibilities!
Information about the kayak course
- Defining individual goals and clarifying the most important terms
- Tips for fitting your kayak and determining the ideal seating position
- Use the current: Waves, intersection zones, eddies and much more.
- Expand dynamic movement using weight positioning and upper body rotation.
- "Hold" the torque on the boat and learn to use it in the various moves
- Different variants of undercutting
- Surfing: Frontsurf, sidesurf, backsurf
- Rocksplats and Rockspins
- Candles and pirouettes
- Back deck roll
- About waves: Kickflips and wavewheels
- Dynamic sweeping with a dry tip and dry tail
- "Hold" torque on the boat over several changes of direction
- Undercutting when entering the current
- Undercutting when entering the eddy
- Positioning the kayak on the stern when crossing waves
- Candles in rolls and small steps
- Keep the kayak on the stern and on the tip by shifting your weight over a longer period of time
- Implement Rocksplat from the drive and from dynamic undercutting
- Wavewheels and kickflips over waves and shoulders and much more.
We offer this course in North and South Tyrol and on the Soča.
- Innsbruck (e.g. Inn, Imster Gorge)
- Soča
- Vipiteno (Isarco)
- Merano (Slalom Canal and Passer)
To take part in the Play the River course, you must
- Be able to swim confidently
- Be in overall good health.
- safely class III whitewater (e.g. Untere Ötz, abseiling section of the Soča, Loisach, Brandenberger Ache: Wiesklamm).
- master the Whitewater Roll (at least 80% roll-up rate).
- be at least 14 years old (we offer courses for groups of younger paddlers on request).
- bring a Riverrunner kayak. If you don't (yet) have one, we can lend you one.
- Discover the fun of river running and learn as many moves as possible
- Improve boat feel and control over maneuvers
- Recognize own technical deficits through video analysis and feedback from the trainer
- Define individual exercises that you can continue to work with after the course
- Find suitable training locations independently
- Implement playful riding in white water
