Solo Sport Canoeing Skills

Advance from novice to expert in the fastest, easiest way by developing your sport canoeing skills in the progression outlined here. Do it on your own or speed your mastery 100 fold with canoeing instruction from the Moore Canoeing School.
      Each skill in this outline will eventually have its own page including details, drills and graphics.

Pre-Bronze - Introductory Skills

• stretch
• take your cue (holding your canoe paddle)
• enter your canoe
• heel your canoe
• slice your cue
• natural draw
• reverse draw
• reverse inverted draw
• common stroke

Bronze - Basic Control Skills

• C stroke
• sweep stroke
• deep C stroke
• sculling introduction
• inverted brace (aka: low brace or underhand brace)
• natural brace (aka: high brace or overhand brace)
• circle stroke (kinetic axle)
• static axle
• cross axle

Silver I - Basic Intermediate Skills

• sculling sideslips (on & offside)
• static sideslips (on & offside)
• reverse circle
• reverse C
• forward brake
• backward brake
• braces (cross & reverse)
• reverse sweep
• natural stern jam
• bow jams (natural & inverted)
• static axle (2 degree)
• back axle
• traveling stroke

Silver II - Intermediate Skills

• palm rolls
• reverse traveling stroke
• back stroke
• cross back stroke
• cross circles (kinetic axles - natural & reverse)
• cross C (natural & reverse)
• static axles (one degree - natural & cross)
• snap brakes (natural, cross, forward & back)
• cross slips

Silver III - Advanced Intermediate Skills

Gold - Advanced Skills

More Moore
School Pages

School Home Page (added 9/21/11)
Introduction for New Students (added 9/23/11)
What to Expect in Class (added 9/23/11)
What to Wear and What to Bring (added 9/23/11)
Dressing for Sport Canoeing (added 9/23/11)
Get the Most from Your Instruction (added 9/23/11)
Skill Classifications
Skills Progression
Skills Philosophy
Bronze Watercourse