These are our customer specific classes that are intended for a paddler who only wants to work on a specific thing.
We are located in Pinellas County Florida. We are conveniently positioned between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
We offer private sea kayaking lessons for an individual & couples (5 students per class max) from a basic introduction to kayaking to more advanced skills such as Greenland Kayak Rolling. Each class is unique and customized to your personal goals. Kayaks, PFD & paddle are not provided.
If you would like to talk over the phone, or schedule a video conference, contact Jeff at jeffreystillwater@gmail.com
Private Kayak Classes: These are classes that we have created to work specifically for a paddler who only want to work on a specific thing. $195
Group Kayak Lesson: This is a class with three to five students. $69
- Confidence Skills
- This unique kayak builds on paddlers knowledge of their known paddling techniques.
- The goal is to increase fun and a paddlers time on the water while decreasing shoulder and back problems.
- Learn tricks on how to enjoy paddling from lakes, rivers, protected flat water environments, and slightly windy ocean environments.
- Foundation Skills
- Develop the foundations needed for easy, skillful kayaking in most conditions
- Learn efficient forward paddling, turning, reverse paddling and stopping
- Stability and preventing capsize
- Rescue, assisted, and self-rescue
- Lifting, launching, and landing your kayak
- Directional Skills
- Directional control examines how movement is effected by the placement of the paddle,
- degree of edging, and blade angle
Rolling Recovery is a different set of skills
- Rolling Class $79
- by appointment
- The Private class is about 1 hour in duration
- The roll requires little upper body strength
- Paddlers will develop a safe capsize recovery by using their hips to roll
- If you paddle mostly in flowing seas we will focus more on bracing to decrease the need of rolling
- ($35 for repeat sessions)
- you must have your own kayak, skirt, PFD, and paddle