Y Paddle Canoe Club

The Central YMCA is now taking bookings for our beginners’ course starting Monday 20th April 2009.

The course will run for six weeks (excluding the Bank holidays) on Monday nights at the YMCA pool, and will include two outdoor sessions. It will teach you all the basic skills to safely handle a kayak and will take you through to the new BCU One Star award.

To sign up contact the Y on 020 7343 1700 or http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk (booking info. on http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk/lifestyle.html)

Please post any questions as comments.

A little advance warning, the Central YMCA pool will be closed for our session on Monday 6th April - we’re taking the opportunity to hold our AGM that evening. It will be followed by our traditional curry.

The Spring Beginners’ Course will run for six weeks from Monday April 20th until the 8th June (excluding the two bank holidays). The Y isn’t yet taking bookings but if you’d like to be advised as soon as they are, please send us an email via our email contact form

This Winter we’re running our rolling and rescue course.

This is a chance to improve your rolling technique in the comfort of the YMCA pool. You will receive close guidance from from the club’s coaches and members.

Participants are expected to have BCU 1-2 star kayaking skills. This is NOT a beginners’ course.

The course runs from 19 January to 16 February 2009 (5 sessions) between 8.30-10pm - to book, please contact the Central YMCA on 020 7343 1700 or www.ymcaclub.co.uk (booking information on www.ymcaclub.co.uk/lifestyle.html)

Inspired by the canoeists and kayakers at the Olympics? Why not learn to paddle in the comfort of our Central London pool?

The seven week course leads to BCU Star qualifications, and starts Monday 22nd September. It costs £77, with a third-off for Central YMCA members.

To sign up contact the Y on 020 7343 1700 or http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk (booking info. on http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk/lifestyle.html)

The spring beginners’ course will start on Monday 14 April for six weeks.

Learn to kayak in the comfort of our Central London pool.

The six week course leads to BCU Star qualifications, and starts Monday 14th April.
To sign up contact the Y on 020 7343 1700 or http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk (booking info. on http://www.ymcaclub.co.uk/lifestyle.html)

+442073431700

As you may know, the Y pool closes at the end of this week for its annual
clean.

So there won’t be another pool session until Monday 31st March.

But we’ll be getting together on Monday 17th March for our AGM.

It’s an opportunity to review how the Club is doing and discuss how we could
improve.

Everyone is welcome.

The formal meeting shouldn’t take long and we’ll probably go for a curry
afterwards.

So make a note in your diary: 7.30pm in the poolside lounge on Monday 17th
March.

It’s that time of year when the Central YMCA pool is closed for its annual repair and refurbishment.

This means there won’t be pool sessions on the 10th, 17th and 24th of March.

We’ll resume on the 31st of March - and will use the opportunity to have our AGM on the 17th (official notice to follow soon).

Here’s a quick link to our good friend (and occasional paddler) Dawn, who with three others will be taking part in the Trailwalker challenge this July.

Find out more, and sponsor the team, here: http://nosleeptilbrighton.wordpress.com

Y-Paddle’s weekly pool sessions are held in the Central YMCA pool every Monday from 8.30pm to 10pm (except Bank Holidays and other pool closures).

We use the pool for practice, coaching, and fun & games. Access may be limited during our beginners courses (usually February, May and October).

At the pool we have a selection of recently-bought kayaks and an old C1 competition canoe.

We welcome potential members for a free taster session, please contact us in the week before you’d like to visit.

Sessions are almost always followed by a pint in the Bricklayer’s Arms on Gresse Street.

A chance for kayakers to learn and improve their rolling techniques in the comfort of the YMCA pool.

Please note, the course is now full. In between courses, the pool remains a great place to work on your rolling technique. Please contact us if you’d like to find out more.

Paddlers will receive close guidance to develop their roll from the Canoe Club’s coaches and members. The emphasis will be on “wet work” - rolling and rescues; participants are expected to have BCU 1-2 star kayaking skills.

Please note this is NOT a beginners’ course.

Fee: £28 Members £42 Non-members
Place: Swimming Pool, Central YMCA, 112 Great Russell Street, London, UK WC1B 3NQ
Course Time: 20:30-22:00 on Mondays
Course Dates: 4 weeks starting Monday 14th January 08
Course Code: 81KAYA

To book, please contact the Central YMCA on 020 7343 1700 - more information on Central YMCA lifestyle courses can be found on www.ymcaclub.org.uk/lifestyle.html