Open Water Training

• Discussion of Group Management in inlet

• Practice ferrying to buoy and back

• Circles in eddy

• Taking turns landing group through surf

• Demo of proper technique

• Beach Dynamics, launching landing

• Practice launching group

• Establishing a launching & landing drill

• Head out to reef

• Towing in swells

• Rescues in rough water

• Return back through inlet with incoming tide

• Practice surfing Inlet waves on way in   NEW – Video your Rolling” and de-brief

Surfing Component

• Launching & Landing

• Discussion of Different Wave Types

• Discussion of Beach Topography

• Discussion of Signals, from the “Beach Boss”

• Discussion of “Leveraging the Rip”

• Low Bracing / High Bracing

• Practicing Staying Up WITHOUT a Paddle

• Rolling or Self- Rescues in Surf Zone

• Safety Considerations in the Surf Zone

• Catching the wave (max 4 strokes)

• Trim, how we control our speed

• Stern Ruddering using the full body

• “Bongo” Surfing, why we DON’T like it

• Surfing Perpendicular to the Wave (Straight)

• Exiting the Wave, Low Brace Turn (Shed the Speed)

• Back Surfing…..WHAT !!!

• Surfing with paddle in One Hand / Then No Paddle !!

• Just in case ” Towing in the Surf Zone”

• Surfing with Eyes Closed, feel the Environment

• Emergency Procedures for Pending Crash

• Position of Boat / Body / Wave , if out of boat , if Helping in a Rescue

• End with some Video Taping