Save the Date and Start Your Paddling Season Off Right With SKILS!!!

An invitation to any of you Western Canadian Paddlers who are interested in obtaining your Paddle Canada Level 2 Instructor Certification with our great friends at SKILS in Victoria, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island.
 
SKILS is running this course on April 4-6, 2014.  (Online classroom starts on March 4, 2014)

If you have not met or been on the water with SKILS instructors, JF Marleau (also a Nikki Rekman Sales Team Member and Kokatat Regional Team Paddler) and Michael Pardy, then you are in for a great time.

These guys will challenge you, inform you and most of all show you a FUN time!



Prerequisites:

• Paddle Canada Level 3 Skills
• Paddle Canada Sea Kayaking Level-1 Instructor certification.
• Paddling experience in a wide variety of conditions and locations
• Wilderness First Aid (16 hours minimum)
• CPR
• Previous experiential and outdoor teaching experience is a definite asset

Significant teaching experience in a wide variety of conditions and locations as a level-1 instructor. The prospective candidate must have taught a minimum of two (2) level-1 skills courses within the past two (2) years, being the lead instructor on at least one (1) of those courses.

Instructor: Michael Pardy

Instructor: JF Marleau

Werner Paddles Healthy Waters and Paddle Canada

Werner's Healthy Waters partners with several non profit organizations in Canada and the USA.  We are super stoked that they are working with Paddle Canada now.

When you purchase a new Werner Paddle, simply go to our website, fill out a little information and then choose from among our non-profit partners and Werner will make a donation in your name.  

Werner sells a lot of paddles in Canada so this is a reminder to register your purchase so that Paddle Canada benefits.

Paddle Canada promotes all disciplines of recreational paddling to Canadians.  Their mission includes promoting paddling safety, education, environmental awareness and heritage.  To learn more check out their web site.