Nordisk Instruktörslicens Finland (NIL Finland) is an association with a primary objective to standardise, share, develop and demonstrate a quality and safety level regaring Sea Kayaking. The list below is an outline of the first level training for which a participant can receive a certificate. The more specific and official details can be found of the www.nilfinland.fi website.
Paddle technique
- Forwards paddling technique
- Sitting posture
- Steering with sweep strokes
- Abrupt stopping while maintaining direction
- Reverse paddling
- Sideways movement
- Steering using paddle as sternrudder on both sides
- Steering by edging the kayak (steering combined with an edge)
- Low brace on both sides
- Understanding high brace and the beginnings of mastering high brace
- Towing (long line)
- Rafting
- Capsize and confident exit of the kayak, paddlefloat self-rescue
- Confident capsize, exit and partner rescue as the rescued
- Confident capsize, exit and pastner rescue as the rescuer
- Emptying a kayak without bulkheads
Theory skills
- Navigation using a map and a compass
- Traffic rules on water, especially collision avoidance rules
Other skills
- Equipment you should always carry on a tour
- Working principles on sternrudders and skegs
- Towing systems and their working principles
- Waves reflecting against land; effects
- Waves and shallow waters; effects
- Waves from different directions, effects on the kayak
- Winds from the sea and from land, what should be considered in both cases
- How can you identify if someone is afraid or sick on land or during a tour
- Tenditis, sunstroke, backpain and first aid during a paddletour
- Protected nature areas and bird areas, rules & everyman's rights
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