Instruction Notes, Posters, and demos for Canoe and Swiftwater Rescue

for use in ACA Skills Courses and ACA Instructor Development Workshops

Video - Arkansas Canoe Club's annual Whitewater School on the Mulberry River

Video - Arkansas Canoe Club's annual School of River Paddling on the Spring River

Canoe Instruction, these are also used in SWR skills course and prerequsite for SWR IDW.

• ACA Course Outlines


• Waiver Talk


• Expectations of Paddle Courses


• Avoid Trouble on the River


• Planning a River Trip


• Equipment for a River Trip


• Principles of Rescue


• Why bad things happen on the river


• Safety Code of American Whitewater includes International Scale of River Difficulty Standard Rated Rapids. Alternate presentation of AW Code


• Instructor Duties


• National Lightning Safety Institute on personal protection from lightning.


• National Outdoor Leadership School guidelines for lightning.


• Arkansas Boating law extracts of 2003.


• Essentials of River Canoe course content with additional notes.


• Whitewater Canoe course content with additional notes.


• Negligence and Risk Management. for Trip Leaders and Instructors


• Video - Canoe Instructor Certification Exam on Nantahala River


• Canoe Instructor Training with Kent Ford and James Weir, you tube video


• Lower Columbia Canoe in Oregon and Washington, you tube video


• The Parallel Canoe Rescue, quick and dirty that works.


• Canoe Self Rescue with Capistrano Flip, you tube video


• Canoe over Canoe Rescue, you tube video


• Bill Mason's Path of the Paddle - White Water you tube video

Swiftwater Rescue Instruction.

• ACA Course Outlines


• Whitewater Self Defense -DVD or download of L3 SWR course


• Whitewater Rescue Manual by Walbridge and Sundmacher


• Waiver Talk


• Safety Code of American Whitewater includes International Scale of River Difficulty Standard Rated Rapids. Alternate presentation of AW Code


• Water Rescue Ropes


• Video - ACA Swiftwater Conference on the Tuckaseegee River


• Video -First Level 3 River Rescue Course at new Siloam Springs Whitewater Park on the Illinois River


• Why bad things happen on the river


• Accident Time Line shows chance of survival and available time to prevent or rescue.


• Video - Washing Machine of the Cossatot River holds a kayak.


• Video - Ledge Hole + Eddy traps swimmer at Boxley


• Unpinning Canoe or Kayak Video


• Strainer Drill Video


• Strainer Tale on Lee Creek in pdf


• Simple Cinch in pdf


• Arkansas Cinch


• Kiwi Cinch in pdf


• Carlson Cinch as 23 page pdf- scroll!


• Shrinking Loop Cinch for SWR


• Cheat sheet for four Cinches, two page pdf


• Animated Knots by Grog for Search and Rescue


• Progressive Vector Pull, - again in a video demo.


• Canoe Rescue on the Buffalo River in HQ slides.


• Haul Systems Limitations from AW 2002


• Haul Systems Anchors, Forces & Components from AW 2002


• V Lower Rescue, you tube video


• Getting Started, Rescue for River Runners you tube video


• Throwing Ropes, Rescue for River Runners you tube video


• Group Dynamics, Rescue for River Runners you tube video


• Swimming and Boat Rescue, Rescue for River Runners you tube video


• Live Bait Rescue, for River Runners you tube video


• Foot Entrapment Strategies, you tube video


• Principles of Rescue


• SWR flipcharts/posters teaching notes & aides for L4 course and IDW.

Other Videos, some related, some not.

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Questions or comments to Arthur Bowie, Bentonville, Arkansas .

20 July2022