Adaptive Paddling Workshop

Anyone can attend this American Canoe Association adaptive paddling workshop (APW), which has been taught across the country since 1990 and at Bay Cliff since 1998. This course brings together certified instructors, recreational paddlers, and people with physical disabilities to promote recreational paddling opportunities for persons with disabilities.

The 4-day course for endorsement candidates includes on-water and classroom instruction and interactive learning with paddlers with disabilities. Learn what disabilities are, how to work with people with disabilities, what adaptive equipment is available, and how to adapt paddles, boats, and rescue techniques. Participate in real-time instruction with a student, which involves making adaptations, a pool session, and an outdoor paddling session. In addition, instructors will have an opportunity to update paddling skills and practice rescue techniques. This is a great workshop for certified paddlesports instructors, but instructor certification is not required. Recreational paddlers are welcome as well. Paddling experience is required.

Paddlers with physical disabilities who want to learn how to kayak can attend this workshop as student participants FREE of charge! Students attend the last two days of the workshop and participate in adaptation development and paddlesports instruction with instructors. Skills are practiced in a pool and then in an outdoor setting. No prior experience is required.


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“When I injured my spinal cord… I was left with paraplegia. I would now have to do some of my favorite activities from a wheelchair. Basketball, softball, and backpacking are not the same sports that they were before my injury. Canoeing, however, is exactly the same sport it was before my injury. I have to take a different route to the water, and adapt my seating, but the sport has not changed. The first time after my injury that I paddled with my daughters, my older daughter smiled at me from the bow. It was a smile I’ll never forget.” – Tom