All Water Camps

The ocean is constantly changing. Learning to harness its energy can seem like a dark art, yet it offers endless opportunities that challenge and develop us as paddlers. Ultimately by becoming more comfortable in uncomfortable situations our enjoyment and skills continue to increase.

Unlike flat water, where conditions can be relatively predictable, the wind, swell, current and water movement are continually interacting with each other.

Learning to paddle in these conditions changes the way you think about paddling.

Many paddlers arrive with good paddling skills but limited experience of the ocean.

You may already have years of experience in a kayak, canoe, SUP or outrigger on rivers, lakes or sheltered water.

Those skills are valuable — but the ocean asks different questions.

How do you read a swell?

Where is the energy in the water?

How does the wind affect your boat?

When should you commit to a bump — and when should you back off?

How do you adapt your technique as the conditions change?

And perhaps most importantly, how do you make those decisions for yourself?

That’s what we work on.

We don’t expect you to arrive already knowing how to paddle the ocean.

We give you the knowledge, experience and coaching to progressively develop those skills.

Our progressive programme takes you from developing your foundations in a V6 through to confident individual paddling in an OC1.

Each level builds on the last, but every camp is adapted to the conditions and the people on the water.

The programme follows a four-level progression, with each level building upon the previous.

The first three levels are primarily V6-based, giving you the opportunity to develop ocean skills within the support of a crew.

Level 4 begins the transition towards OC1 and individual ocean paddling, where you start applying what you’ve learned and developing your own relationship with the ocean.

Our coaching combines practical experience with evidence-based performance principles.

Sessions mix on-water coaching with short land-based workshops, covering everything from technique and ocean awareness to training, nutrition and performance.

The ocean doesn’t follow a programme — so we don’t either. We adapt each camp to make the most of the conditions on the day.

The ocean doesn’t follow a programme — so neither do we.

Every camp combine land-based workshops with practical coaching on the water.

The objectives of each level remain consistent, but the order and emphasis of sessions can change according to the conditions, the group and individual needs.

If the conditions are perfect for downwind paddling, we’ll make the most of them.

If the ocean gives us something different, we’ll adapt.

This flexibility is an important part of learning to paddle the ocean: you learn to work with the conditions rather than expecting the ocean to work around you.

With a lifetime spent on the ocean across foiling, surfing, Ocean Ski, SUP and outrigger canoe, I bring a broad practical understanding of how different craft move and how we interact with the ocean.

This practical experience is underpinned by an academic understanding of sports performance and skill development with a Masters in Sports Science.

The result is a coaching approach that combines practical experience with evidence-based performance coaching.

Our aim is to share knowledge and develop both confidence and skill in a safe but challenging environment.

We don’t believe in simply telling paddlers what to do.

We want you to understand why you’re doing it.

The better you understand your craft, the conditions and your own paddling, the better decisions you can make for yourself.

Ultimately, we want to develop paddlers who become increasingly independent and intuitive on the water.