Core Coach Award

The Coach Awards are designed for people whose core function is to coach paddlers who want to gain/improve paddlesport skills within a chosen discipline. This will include coaching beginners new to the sport, or paddlers looking to develop their skills in the given discipline/environment.

Whilst the Paddlesport Instructor is a bums on seats qualification where the Instructor tends to supervise sessions with the emphasis on having a fun and safe session, the Core Coach steps the techniques up a bit, with specific teaching of skills to make students better paddlers.

Part 1 is the basic core coach, a two day course run over a weekend, teaching you the fundamentals of “how” to teach people paddlesports. Costing £220, the course takes place on Monday 30th June and Tuesday 1st July 2025.

Part 2 of the course is discipline specific and teaches you “what” associated with up to 22 different paddling disciplines such as polo, whitewater, slalom, freestyle. The course being offered is sheltered water canoe and kayak specific to enhance the repertoire of local coaches teaching on local canals, slow moving rivers and lakes. This discipline specific course is a second full weekend and is priced at £220, and takes place on the 5^th to 6^th July.

Should you be looking to take part 2 in a different discipline, let us know and we will do our best to either run a course or direct you to an alternative provider.

Assessments will not take place before candidates are ready to be assessed, this coud be between 2 weeks and 6 months. An assessment must be completed with a second candidate, and will be completed in a single day with each candidate required to identify a minimum of 4 students to work with during the assessment. The assessment charge is £125 per candidate that includes all Paddle UK fees.  Candidates need to be a minimum of 18 years old at the date of the assessment.

Anyone completing the full course wll need to complete two parts of training (core coach and specific discipline), and a one day assessment.

Bookings for the core coach course closes 4 weeks before the course start date, allowing us time to process Paddle UK paperwork.

This training course (513) is for the core coaching element only.