Kayaking and Open Canoeing :

1 Star in both canoe and kayak

2 Star – Generic skills award needed to be a paddle sports coach

3 Star – Assessed in one discipline, training in another

FSRT -  The foundation safety and rescue training required for coaching

UKCC BCU Level 1 coach in paddle sports

Prepared for UKCC BCU Level 2 coach in paddle sports

Rock Climbing :

Personal Climbing – looking at getting you happy to climb a variety of styles such as sport, trad, bouldering, climbing walls. By using this variety we will get you climbing at a standard that exceeds that needed to gain your SPA climbing instructors award. We will also be looking at gear choices, placements, rope choices and usage, crag etiquette, guide books, route choice, route finding, rescue skills and far more. We will use the local escarpments a lot of the time, but also travelling to get a variety of rock types in and will visit plenty of indoor walls too.

Setting up – We will teach you a huge variety of ways to rig for bottom and top roping, group and personal abseils, and how to rig when you have led a climb. This will cover the use of placing anchors, anchor choice, equalising, and gear choice, along with usage of rigging ropes.

Instructing – You will be trained to get the MLTB SPA training award which will be run as part of the course. For those with the relevant experience and who have already undertaken the SPA Training course we can help you work towards assessment.

Mountain Biking:

Personal Skills - You will cover essential skills including setting up and checking your bike before a ride, basic safety equipment, climbing, descending and cornering techniques, emergency repairs, and essential navigation skills.

Instructor Training - You will take the Mountain Bike Instructor Award Scheme (MIAS ) assessment. There are two possible outcomes available on this course, Level 1 or Level 2.  Level 1 allows you to lead groups of cyclists on low-level terrain rides. Level 2 is for those with a more Mountain Biking experience and allows leaders to take groups into more difficult terrain.

First Aid : You will participate in a 16 hour Rescue Emergency Care (REC) Emergency First Aid course, which is aimed at those who work in, or regularly spend time in the outdoors, and is recognised by MLTE, BCU and MIAS as valid for the First Aid requirements for instructors under their schemes.

Bushcraft

You will learn the basic knowledge to enable you to assist on weekend Bushcraft courses, including Fire lighting, friction fire lighting, cordage, tarps, cooking, pot hangers, water filtration, group control and lesson planning, site choice and requirements

Walking and Navigation

All outdoor instructors need to be able to navigate, and we use hill and mountain walking as the tool to teach this, as there is no other better way. You will take part in day hikes, learning to navigate a group across wild terrain.

Risk Assessments and operating procedures

This is something that as an instructor you need to be able to do, because the ability to use dynamic risk assessments to keep groups safe in the outdoors is paramount to pretty much anything else we do. These link with the operating procedures, so that we know what broad outlines we should be delivering on a course. By the end of the course you will be able to write both of these for all of the disciplines that we cover on this course.

Pricing: £6270pp non residential (accommodation is available from £60 pw)

Available on any date throughout the year

To book or for more information please call us on 01978 861912 or email sales@proadventure.co.uk

Paul Goulding - August to December 2009 course

Antony Fleming-Williams - August to December 2010

I decided to change career path to go into the outdoor industry, after endlessly looking for the right course (and believe me I did my research!) I chose ProAdventure.  The main reasons I chose them was they appeared to be the only course I could find in my price bracket that put you into real customer situations,  My thoughts were after a 16 week course who will most employable? For me the answer was ‘The person with the most experience’.  So with Pro Adventure not only did I gain all of the qualifications that the others had to offer, I got experience in the industry too!! Sold!

From day one of being at ProAdventure, even whilst intensively coaching and reviewing sessions Rich made us feel very welcome and part of the team. It was clear that this course wasn’t just about getting qualifications but setting you up to become an instructor and work in the industry.  From Zero to Hero.  Throughout the course we were taught through the routine of Plan, Do, Review, constantly picking apart ours and other coaching styles Why did it work? How? When? Who? This whole process becomes second nature and is invaluable in understanding how to constantly better your coaching and personal skills. Rich has an extremely good understanding of how to change his teaching style to suit the needs of the individual.

I left the 16 weeks having climbed my first Lead In the Snow! I’d paddled several rivers in Wales, been to Scotland on a 5 day canoe Expedition on the River Spey, I’d received my BCU 3 star in both disciplines, gathered all of the other amazing qualifications that were on offer and more, but most importantly I had become a qualified coach and felt more than ready to start working in the industry.

Thanks to Rich and everybody at Pro Adventure who helped make this experience valuable and worthwhile.

*****

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