The WWRDA athlete syllabus, aims to highlight all the components that go into to making a complete Wild Water Racer. The syllabus should appeal to any athlete who wants to increase their enjoyment of Wild Water Racing, through skills and knowledge development, as well as help anyone who wants to progress to higher levels of performance in Wild Water Racing.

The athlete syllabus acknowledges that participants may come to Wild Water Racing as novice paddlers, from other paddlesport disciplines or, indeed, from other sports. All athletes are endowed with various strengths and areas for improvement. What the syllabus can do is highlight the areas in which a participant is strong or is improving rapidly as well as the areas that need improvement allowing the athlete to develop all aspects as a whole and progress all their skills and knowledge together at the same level. By developing all aspects to each level together, participants are more likely to improve in an enjoyable and progressive way.

In terms of coaching, the athlete syllabus is intended to encourage people to participate in coaching by passing on knowledge and instilling confidence in coaches who get involved. The athlete syllabus should act as confirmation for already active WWR coaches. It should fill in knowledge gaps for new coaches or coaches from other paddlesport disciplines. It should guide experienced athletes that would like to start coaching as well as guide athletes who are self-coaching. Equally, it should also guide those new to Wild Water Racing including bankside supporters and parents of young athletes.
Coaches, whatever their experience level, are encouraged to develop their own coaching programs using the athlete syllabus as their guide, but also to enhance it using their own knowledge, experience and attributes.

These are all PDF files.

Summary of Modules

Syllabus

In black and white for cheaper printing

Summary of Modules

Syllabus