A great start to 2010

A great start to 2010 for Outlook Adventure, so far we have had groups taking part in Coasteering, Kayaking and Mountain biking as well as running the first First Aid course of the year. At this time of year it also gives our instructors the time to update their own qualifications and skills.

BCU 3 Star Training and Assessment 13-14 Feb 2010

This BCU 3* training and assessment course will cover the white water training syllabus to prepare the paddler for the 3* assessment (The Sunday for those at the desired level). This course is a pre requisite for any paddler wanting to progress onto the UKCC level 2 Coaching award.

Personal paddling skills such as ferry gliding, breaking in and out of moving water, support strokes as well as surfing waves and stoppers will be covered. We will also look at launching and landing, rolling, forwards, reverse paddling as well as moving the boats sideways.

Rescue skills such as throw lines, tow lines, defensive swimming and Eskimo rescues will be covered as well as touching on basic rescue scenarios.

This course is designed to introduce the 3* syllabus as well as coach and improve the paddler in the necessary skills and techniques.

Assessment will take place on day 2 on grade 2 moving water for those that are ready for it, otherwise day 2 can be treated as another training day.

Please see the BCU website for more information on the 3* WW award. www.bcu.org.uk

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Course Cost: £120 for 2 days.

Location: River Barle and River Exe, Exmoor.

Discounts to corporate groups for 2010

During 2010 Outlook Adventure will be offering discounts to corporate groups on a range of activities from Team building to Coasteering.

As we are a mobile activity provider we are able to bring the Adventure to you and can run a session at a number of locations in the South West as well as activity weekends around the UK.

For more information do not hesitate to contact the Outlook Adventure Team.

Info@outlookadventure.co.uk

01566 789 572

Navigation Training Dates

During 2010 Outlook Adventure will be running a number of 2 day Beginner and intermediate Navigation Course on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. On completion of these award, participants will be able to plan and follow simple walks in the countryside mainly on paths and tracks. The Courses follow the NNAS scheme and is tail...ored to meet the abilities of each individual attending. Check out our website http://www.outlookadventure.co.uk/ for a full list of dates, or contact the Outlook Adventure team 01566 789 572 -07904 579 177

Outlook Adventure Climbing Taster Session

This weekend Outlook Adventure ran a climbing taster session at the Barn Climbing wall just outside of Launceston. The course was for people who have no climbing experience and designed to be a fun session for the absolute beginner.

During the session we covered the following topics:

Warming up
Basic climbing and movement technique
How to put a harness on correctly
How to tie into your harness
How to belay
How to hold a falling climbing and how to lower off a climber

It was good to see a great turn out and everyone is already looking forward to the session. Over the winter months Outlook will be running a number of indoor courses, working towards moving outside on to real rock in the New Year. check out teh website for more information on Dates and Courses http://www.outlookadventure.co.uk/

992 Troops Adventure Training Package

Today saw the start of 992 Troops Adventure Training Package. The Recruits from the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines will be taking part in a number of activities with us this week from Coasteering to Sea Kayaking.

Adventure Training within the Military is seen as good way to develop leadership, teamwork, physical fitness, moral and physical courage, among other personal attributes and skills vital to operational capability.

It is also seen by the RM Recruits as a good week to let their hair down and have a bit of fun during the thirty-two weeks of intensive training to become a Royal Marines Commando.

Today I was out with one of the groups Coasteering, taking a chance to get out in the November sun and surprisingly the water was still warm for this time of the year. We spent around 4 Hour exploring the coastline and jumping from ever increasing heights, with some of the Recruits having to summon up some of that physical courage that the Royal Marines are looking for when it came to the 40 foot jump at the end.

The other two groups have been out Sea kayaking and Rock Climbing on the Indoor wall at CTCRM (Commando Training Centre Royal Marines). Tomorrow the groups will swap over and hopefully the good weather will stay with us for another day.

Dart Loop

After all the rain over the past few days the Outlook Adventure team jumped at the chance to get out on the river, it also gave Neil a chance to try out his new Big Dog Kayak.

We meet up at Newbridge and got kitted up with the other 100 or so paddlers taking the opportunity to get out on the river. Once on the river we got straight on with it so that we could get away from all the big college and Uni Groups and headed off downstream. We had a few swimmers on the Washing Machine, once they were back in their boats we had time to have a play before we were caught up by the groups. Heading of down the river gave some of the guy’s time to practise their skills breaking in and out of eddies and with some more swimmers it also gave us another chance to carry out some rescues and throw line practise.

All in all it was a great day out on the river and we are already looking to get back out on the river next week maybe on the upper Dart to get away from the crowds.

Outlook adventure will also be running a number of BCU 3* courses over the winter check out the website for dates www.outlookadventure.co.uk