How KE Works

Welcome to Kayakeducation.com (KE). World Kayak believes that having the latest teaching techniques at your fingertips is key to being more effective in instructing your whitewater students. At this very moment in time, someone somewhere is discovering that next technique. In Colorado USA there’s probably someone teaching the roll in an exciting new way or in England there is someone with an excellent game for teaching the peel out from an eddy.  These ideas should be at your finger tips!  World Kayak would like to provide a means for ALL instructors to hear of that new technique and help perfect it.

A Video Overview of Kayak Education.com- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrx2JNmSrIY

2010 sees the launch of a global initiative at World Kayak to bring the whitewater instructional world a resource that enables everyone to keep current with modern instructional techniques. This initiative starts with a conversation. From that conversation, we all learn. World Kayak invites all instructors to join us in building a resource that will bring best practice to all educators and organizations.

A Quick Tour
The Kayak Education portal is set up as a very customized social network, a combination of blogspot and Facebook.  Every registered educator and/or school will have its own identity on the network and a complete profile that they can manage with all the key information and a control system for all their KE activity.

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Recent News and Info

World Kayak launches Let’s Go Paddling Initiative

Avatar Image leehart - April 8th, 2010

World Kayak is spearheading the new Let’s Go Paddling initiative for the summer of 2010.  The goal is to drive non-boaters to boating and boaters to whitewater kayaking.  The program involves 40+ regions globally.  In each region WK is helping plan a full month of paddlesports activity leading to a festival.  Activities will include canoeing, kayaking, stand up boarding, dragon boats and much more; all encouraging non-boaters and boaters alike to join in a full month of boat play.  At the end of the month a full festival will take place in each region, bringing the community together in a single event.

This entire event series will be backed by significant public relations.  World Kayak is shoring up a growing list of outdoor sports media and will be managing a full regional, national and international press and social media campaign.

Each region will be supported by a Welcome Center.  The Welcome Center is a kayak school or club who are at the ready to welcome new paddlers into formal education.  World Kayak feels that having a ‘clear’ path to the sport is key to growth.   The Welcome Centers will benefit from the PR/social media campaigns being lead by WK.  To become a Welcome Center, please fill in the application HERE.

More information can be found at our public site

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

Avatar Image James - March 4th, 2010

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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    James wrote a new blog post: World Kayak launches Let’s Go Paddling Initiative   3 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailWorld Kayak is spearheading the new Let’s Go Paddling initiative for the summer of 2010.  The goal is to drive non-boaters to boating and boaters to whitewater kayaking.  The program involves 40+ regions globally.  In each region WK is helping plan a full month of paddlesports activity leading to a festival.  Activities will include canoeing, kayaking, [...]

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    leehart wrote a new blog post: World Kayak launches Let’s Go Paddling Initiative   3 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailWorld Kayak is spearheading the new Let’s Go Paddling initiative for the summer of 2010.  The goal is to drive non-boaters to boating and boaters to whitewater kayaking.  The program involves 40+ regions globally.  In each region WK is helping plan a full month of paddlesports activity leading to a festival.  Activities will include canoeing, kayaking, [...]

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    James wrote a new blog post: From the WK Brain: The 50,000 foot view of a sport   4 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    ThumbnailWhen 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 [...]

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