ProAdventure Google Group

Mountain Bike Games

peteca...@gmail.com (Peter Carol) — Thu, 02 Feb 2008 21:01:10 UT

The same goes here as for the coaching thread, this is somewhere for
mountain bike coaches/instructors/leaders to share ideas for games.

Here are some to get us going,

All in a line with a couple of bikes lengths between each rider, the
rider at the back slaloms to the front, and so on.

Slow race, let the good riders show off and stay in sight. The heros

Mountain Bike Coaching Hints and Tips

peteca...@gmail.com (Peter Carol) — Thu, 02 Feb 2008 20:26:35 UT

This is a place to put down the benefits of your own experience
instructing mountain biking.

Share your drills, tips and ideas that help learners and coaches .

Any thing we use from these will be accredited to you by name. The aim
is to share knowledge to improve the standard of mountain bike skills

Re: New Zealand Coast to Coast kayak race Training

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:14:54 UT

We are running a set of training weekends for this event on July 7/8,
July 21/22 and August 18/19.
There are places available for these weekends and this course will run
as there are already people booked on these training weekends.
Pete

New Zealand Coast to Coast kayak race Training

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Tue, 06 Jun 2007 15:01:15 UT

We have had several requests about training for the necessary White
Water Skills for this race and are offering a five day training course
to get your skills to the necessary level so that we can issue you
with the required certification for the race.
This is how I have described it to other enquirers,

Bushcraft Courses

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Mon, 06 Jun 2007 07:54:37 UT

Ask us about our popular Survival and Bushcraft courses here, or if
our published dates don't suit you get 6 or more together on the forum
and we will put on an extra course for you.
The course details can be found at [link]
The majority of our instructors qualified through the Bushcraft

Level 2 Training Kayak

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Fri, 06 Jun 2007 08:48:32 UT

We have had a few enquiries regarding Level 2 Training Kayak courses.
We run these, and they are a two day course.
The course covers:-
Personal Equipment
Personal Skills
Teaching Styles
Learning Styles
Group Leadership
Feedback - Giving and recieving
Questioning - open and closed
Games
Location choice

Re: Intensive Instructor Training Course

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Thu, 06 Jun 2007 11:04:41 UT

The web page on this course can be found here
[link]
On Jun 5, 4:44 pm, ProAdventure <proadventuresa...@googlemail. com>
wrote:

Individuals and small groups....

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Tue, 06 Jun 2007 08:47:41 UT

If you are interested in booking an activity or course with us but are
having trouble coming up with the minimum group numbers (2
participants on weekdays, 4 participants on weekends), post a message
on the board to let others know....there is probably someone out there
who would like to join your group!

Re: Intensive Instructor Training Course

proadventuresa...@googlemail.com (ProAdventure) — Tue, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:55 UT

The next Intensive Instructor Training Course will start on 2nd
November 2007!

Level 3 Coach Training Canoe

proadventurech...@googlemail.com (Chief instructor) — Tue, 06 Jun 2007 15:42:20 UT

Hi all,
At the moment i have 3 people who want to do their Level 3 Coach
training course. Need a few more to enable it to run.
If your interested please let me know wither on here or via email or
phone to the office
Thanks
Pre-Requisites are:-
4 Star Canoe
8 hour First Aid
Canoe Safety Test
Level 2 Canoe

Intensive Instructor Training Course

proadventurech...@googlemail.com (Chief instructor) — Tue, 06 Jun 2007 15:38:29 UT

This is a six week course, which in theory takes you from Zero to
Hero.
Ok, what is actually does is give you four weeks of skills training in
Canoeing, Kayaking, Gorge walking, Climbing and mountain biking, which
gets you well on the way to getting ready for various NGB
qualifications.
During the last two weeks we run a Canoe safety test, a REC two day