Assessment Overview: This ACA Assessment Course is designed to evaluate a participant’s ability to perform all of the skills listed along with demonstrating an appropriate level of knowledge. This assessment course provides the participant with the opportunity to receive documentation of having achieved a certain level of paddling ability. This will meet the prerequisite for participating in an ACA L3 Coastal Kayaking Instructor Certification Workshop.

Technical Skills  Effective wet exit  Launching and landing  Effective forward paddling  Effective reverse paddling  Rotate 360˚  Turning with forward momentum  Turning with reverse momentum  Sideways movement—static  Sideways movement with forward momentum  Preventing capsize  Sculling for support  Deep water rescue  Self-rescue  Towing  Rescues

Knowledge  Weather (knowledge of weather resources and the impact of weather on kayakers)  Basic navigation (interpret basic chart datum, plotting a course and adjusting for variation)  Leave No Trace skills and ethics  Group awareness and communication  Hazard assessment and avoidance  Recognition and avoidance of hypothermia and hyperthermia

Please contact Mike at (703)850-1257 or email mike@ckapco.com for more information.