Canoe skills test

This test I'd like to use to estimate how far people progressed at the start of a course if they have been paddling before. And of course it's a great tool to see what people learned at the end of the day. It gets even better when you can compare it with a previous day or a previous session.

But it's not only a great instruction tool, it's also a very nice drill, which covers a lot of strokes, to work on your own paddling. The exercise is explained to do it forward, but turn forward in backward and backward in forward and you have a new challenge!

Exercise: Canoe skills test

• Move sideways from shore

• make a figure-S through the buoys

• paddle straight until the next buoys

• move sideways to the other side of the buoys

• paddle backward to the starting point