WIPA Windsurfing Certification Level 3 (16 Hour Commitment)
Description
This is a 16-hour WIPA certification course for INSTRUCTORS broken into two full-day sessions. This session is targeted at J+ rated members. At the end of the course, you will be confident performing and teaching other students how to water start, use harness and footstraps, and get planing with control. A full list of taught and tested maneuvers follows.
This course will be taught by USSA-Certified instructor David Gadarian.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF :
- you have taught CSC intermediate-level windsurfing classes OR
- you'd like to teach intermediate lessons if only you felt more confident in your instructional skills!
- AND you can commit 16 hours to this certification course
- AND teach at least four Intermediate classes this and next season.
Register ONLY IF you can commit to both time slots below:
When:
- Sat May 10 9AM-5PM (8h Land Session)
- Sun May 11 9AM-5PM (4h Land Session, 4h Water Session)
Cost: Zilch. CSC has grant money earmarked for this, so instead of paying $500 for the privilege of top-flight instruction & official certification, you can get certified for the low, low cost of teaching at least four Intermediate classes across this and next season!
Why?
- Benefits to you—You'll gain a sound pedagogical framework for teaching intermediate windsurfers, practical tips for coaching the mechanics effectively, confidence, and the bragging rights of being officially certified.
- Benefits to our community—increases our teaching consistency and makes students likelier to succeed and enjoy our great sport!
- Benefits to the club—certified instructors allows us access to grants and will likely become important for insurance. Do the club a solid by getting your cert!
Maneuvers:
- Flying the sail- feathering
- Steering board in the waterstart position
- Back foot first waterstart
- Rig recovery and clearing the sail many ways
- Clew first beach and waterstart
- Getting into and out of harness lines
- Getting into foot straps first time planing
- 5 Gears into planing
- C posture, normal 7 posture, super 7 posture
- Footwork, displacement to planing waterline, upwind & downwind
stance adjustments, gusts and lulls - Carving wavy S's in the straps
- Preventing and correcting spin out
- Catapulting safety and prevention
- Escaping from under the sail.
- Short board, deep water self-rescue
If we have a ton of people sign up, I may run a lottery April 25 so that we're fair to people who don't read the announcement right away.