Successful completion of this course will allow ACA Instructors certified at the “Basic” level to teach the ACA Traditional skills courses. We are offering this course as a 1 day Instructor Certification Exam with the expectation that all participants will have taken at least a 1 day traditional skills course in the past, or be very well versed in traditional paddling history and skills.

You will be asked to effectively teach dry land and on water topics related to traditional paddling as well as demonstrate strokes, braces, and rolls using a Greenland paddle.

• Skills covered:
• Teaching Greenland or Traditional Topics such as:
• History of the kayak
• People of the north
• Tools of the Inuit
• Forward Stroke: Sliding and canted
• Several Rolls