March 10, 2010

From the WK Brain: The 50,000 foot view of a sport

When stepping back over the past 3 years to look at our sport, World Kayak has slowly developed a snapshot of a successful sport. It is from that snapshot we continue to develop, introducing what we feel is missing from our paddling community. To do this, a good number of folks got involved in research; research that took us to other successful sports to seek out the common denominators of their success. Once our research was done, we took those common denominators and applied it over our sport. The findings were very interesting and helped us map out the paths to come in our World Kayak programming.

So, here’s what WK would like to see of our sport:

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  • Teaching Theory- contribution by: JamesI saw a fella named Rob Terry do a session on this kind of stuff.  One of the most eye opening presentations at last year’s Whitewater Symposium.  … Full Contribution