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LoCo Coaches & Guides 2008 |
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Karl Andersson Karl loves to have fun. Surf, games, coaching... we think he likes grinning at least as much as he likes kayaking, which is a lot. Karl is a BCU coach 4 Sea and has been working with kids in competetive paddlesports in Portland. |
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Rob Avery Rob Avery has paddled for over 35 years! Starting in the UK
as a junior K1 racer, now enjoys storm-paddling, surfing, expeditions,
coaching and generally messing around in kayaks. Rob loves to share
his passion for sea kayaking and our natural environment; he is a BCU
Coach, ACA Coastal Instructor, Wilderness First Responder and Leave
No Trace Trainer. He owns and operates Kayak Kraft from Bainbridge Island,
WA.
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Bob Baltazar Bob started sea kayaking in 1998. Since then he has built several kayaks and now holds a BCU 4 Star Sea Award; he is also a Coach Level 2 Trainee. When he is not paddling his next favorite thing is to teach kayaking skills. In addition to teaching classes for the Oregon Ocean Paddling Society (OOPS), Bob recently instructed basic Greenland Paddle strokes and rolling at the South Sound Traditional Kayak Symposium (SSTIKS) '08. |
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Kelly has been working in the paddle sports industry for 11 years.
He is the Midwest guy for P&H sea kayaks, Pyranha kayaks, Venture
kayaks, Kokatat, and Snapdragon Spray Skirts. He is a pro paddler for
Werner Paddles, Kokatat and NRS. He is an ACA Open Water Instructor
and the Midwest Coaching officer for the BCU. In other words, he does
a whole lot of stuff with kayaking. |
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Jeffrey Briley Jeffrey enjoys sharing his love and understanding of our connections with the natural world with others through exciting adventures. He has been an environmental educator for the Peace Corp in Paraguay and has coached most paddling desciplines on the east and west coasts of the US. Jeffrey is a trilingual (English, Spanish, and Guarani) surfer, kayaker, and climber with a passion for teaching. You can usually find him doing his thing as Portland Manager for Alder Creek Kayak and Canoe or immersing himself and others in the jungles and waves of the world where he owns and operates the adventure travel company, Natural Elements International. His certifications include: " American Canoe Association Instructor in both Kayak and |
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Michael Callaghan Originally from the province of Quebec in Eastern Canada by
way of Vancouver, BC, Michael has been paddling recreationally for 8
years and teaching for 4 of those. He is a member of the Senior Instructor
team and co-conspirator at Ecomarine Ocean Kayak Centre in Vancouver
BC. Favourite paddling areas include the Lower North Shore of North
Eastern Quebec, the Discovery Islands in BC and anywhere in Newfoundland.
Happiest with type of paddle is in his hands whether it is outrigger,
dragon boat, surf, kayak, canoe or paddle board. Next trip is Vancouver
Island '09! |
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Ginni Callahan Ginni is the crazy mind behind LoCo Roundup. She is also the founder
of Columbia River Kayaking, Sea Kayak Baja Mexico, and Slow Boat Farm.
She has built a life around her passion for sea kayaking and coaching,
growing things, and community networking. Ginni is certified as an Advanced
Open Coastal Instructor by the American Canoe Association and Level
4 Coach and 5-star leader by the British Canoe Union. Since 1998 she
has taught and guided during summer on the Lower Columbia River and
winter in Baja, Mexico. Adventure travel and kayaking
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Ed Christian "I've been paddling for about 12 years and coaching for 9. I've worked and paddled around Europe and New Zealand. I am aspirant level 5 kayak (inland), level 3 canoe and surf and a coach trainer. White water and surf are my main passion in paddling. I am also coming to the end of a masters degree in sports psychology which is I think has helped develop my coaching. I have a huge passion for paddling that I love to share with others." E.Christian@chi.ac.uk |
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Mike Devlin Mike is Director of Coaching for the BCU.
"I would rather be on the sea in my kayak, or up a mountain with
friends than almost anything else......" |
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Theresa Doffe Evening Program: Kayaking as a Tool for Therapy -- Insights for
the Coach's Toolkit
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Andrew Emlen Andrew Emlen has devoted much of the last 16 years to studying and sharing the natural and cultural history of the lower Columbia. Andrew started the kayak program at Skamokawa Center in 1998. He leads tours and kayak-based educational programs, including Elderhostel and school programs. A former environmental science and field biology instructor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, he is currently adjunct faculty for Lewis & Clark College, for which he co-instructs a course on the Columbia River. He also plays cello, guitar and banjo for three different music groups. Andrew will be leading one of Sunday’s local paddle trips - come if you're interested in local geology, history or wildlife! |
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Shawna Franklin Shawna has been paddling and teaching for over 10 years. Among Shawna's many accomplishments are the successful circumnavigation of Haida Gwaii in 2007 with Justine Curgenven and Leon Sommé, and Iceland in 2003 with Chris Duff and Leon Sommé. Shawna is the first woman in the United States to obtain the BCU 5 Star Sea Award - a coveted award of paddling and leading in advanced sea conditions. Shawna has been a guest instructor at symposiums across the country and internationally. Shawna is co-owner and co-creator of Body Boat Blade International. Body Boat Blade is a kayak school devoted to producing the safest, most skilled, and fun paddlers and coaches in the world! Shawna wants to share her enthusiasm for teaching and paddling, and
sense of adventure with you! |
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Phil Hadley Phil is a Paddlesport Development Officer for Canoe England based in the West Midlands. He's also one of the National Trainers and involved with rolling out the new coaching scheme and Performance awards, and an Approvals Officer working with BCU Approved Centres. Phil works as an Outdoor Education Consultant for Dudley LEA, as well as being the Technical Adviser for a number of outdoor centres. He contributed two chapters to the BCU Handbook as well as a small contribution to Canoe and Kayak Games.He's also had articles published in Canoe Focus and Canoe and Kayak Magazine. "I'm very lucky that I've been coaching and paddling in some awesome locations around the world - Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Panama, Florida, Grand Canyon, Sakhalin - Eastern Russia, French Alps, Ardeche - hopefully that list will continue to grow!" |
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Levi Helms
Co-owner of Columbia River Kayaking LLC cooperative, Levi lives in Skamokawa, WA and loves to have fun. He and his wife Becca raise chickens and ducks and enjoy brewing beer. |
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Steve Jones
Steve's passion for paddling has led him to explore many different aspects of the sport from sea kayaking to canoeing to sprint racing. He is an ACA Open Water Costal Kayak Instructor and BCU 4* paddler and has assisted coaching both youth and adult sprint racing programs. With sea kayaking as his focus, he feels the skills and efficiency practicied in sprint racing transfer directly across all kayaking diciplines leading to a more efficient and more powerful forward stroke. |
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Matthew Keilwitz Enthiusiasm is Matthew's middle name. He is a co-owner of the Columbia River Kayaking LLC cooperative and a Slow Boat Farm summer resident. He grew up on Puget Island and attends Evergreen College in Olympia during the school year where he studies Permaculture and Outdoor Leadership. He also enjoys brewing beer and tending a 5-star compost heap. |
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Jen Kleck Jen has recently acheived the highest ranking of any American
within the British Canoe Union. In Nov. 2007, she became the first American
Level 5 Sea Kayak Coach! She is also a BCU 5 Star sea kayaker, 4 Star
surf, and an American Canoe Association certified Coastal Kayak Instructor.
She enjoys racing when she can and has set several records in the San
Diego's annual Bay2Bay regatta. She is also competetive in kayak surfing
and a member of the 1999, 2000, and 2003 National Champion women's kayak
polo teams. Jen has a BA in geology and enjoys natural history of all
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Paul Kuthe The Pacific Northwest provides a training ground that rivals those anywhere in the world. It is there that Paul crafts his own skills, as well as those of his fellow paddler. As Program Director at Alder Creek Canoe and Kayak he enriches the paddling experiences had by all who paddle with him. Weather it’s dropping class V creeks or paddling out to surf a big set... combining a love of paddling big water, and traveling deep into the wilderness allows Paul to excel in varied conditions. His roots are back home canoeing the Ozark streams of Missouri. He is most often found today on local whitewater creeks and the Oregon Coast. Paddling has always been, and will continue to be, an escape, a livelihood, and a way of life. "I live to boat." |
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Bill Lozano For the past 23 years, my wife Janice and I have run Atlantic Kayak Tours in New York’s Hudson Valley and along the coast from New York Harbor to Rhode Island. We’ve grown from a small operation to one with two Paddlesport Centers and a staff of 30. About 15 years ago we became interested in organized staff training and certification. Through Stan Chladek, of Great River Outfitters, we connected with Nigel Dennis, who ran the first BCU programs for our staff. Our commitment to BCU standards progressed, and I became the BCU North American Administrator, promoting BCU programs across the continent. AKT has come a long way, but I still have fond memories of my first kayak, a Klepper Aerius II, and sailing it in Belize, Yucatan, and other exotic spots. My outdoor passions aren’t limited to paddling. I enjoy hiking, running, snow shoeing, back country and telemark skiing. I look forward to snow each winter as much as I do getting back into a kayak every spring. Atlantic Kayak Tours |
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Djuna Mascall Djuna loves the combination of kayaking and yoga in her work and play. She works for Body Boat Blade and is co-owner and teacher at Orcas Mandala Yoga Studio. She holds a BCU 4 Star Sea award and completed an expedition around the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska with her husband Matt Nelson in June. She recently published an article in Sea Kayaker’s June Issue titled Yoga for Kayakers: Strength, Flexibility, and Awareness.
Djuna will be co-leading morning yoga at the Roundup. She will also
be offering The Yoga of Kayaking on Saturday with Cheri Perry.
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Tim Mattson Tim is a born-again kayaker. It is more than a sport to Tim, it is what defines his place in the universe. He has paddled all over the world: in Norway, Australia, Baja, New Jersey, California, Florida and of course, the pacific North West. He is addicted to the surf zone, coastal rock gardens, and anything rough enough to cause occasional episodes of "self wetting".
And he loves to share kayaking with others. With ACA instructor certification in white water, advanced open ocean, and traditional kayaking, Tim is well qualified as a kayaking educator. But his biggest qualification is his passion for paddling kayaks and his experience getting beaten up by the sea in countless and sometimes painful ways.
Tim uses and teaches about a wide range of kayaking paddles. He races with wing paddles, plays in rivers with Euro paddles, sea kayaks with Greenland paddles and is working hard to master single blade technique with his King Island paddle. There is a time and a place for each class of paddle and he believes the well rounded paddler benefits from using them all. Evening Program--The Science of Kayaking
Science is more than a career to Tim; it influences how he understands
life, the universe and everything. He can’t look at a rainbow without
thinking of total internal reflection off the back of the raindrops;
or watch the tides change without considering wave velocities across
ocean basins. Tim uses scientific principles in his on-water kayak instruction
and in lectures to the general public. These “kayaking-science”
lectures have been quite popular and are the basis for he is writing
on kayaking science. |
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Matt Nelson "I love being on the sea and working as a coach helping people learn how to become safe, self-sufficient kayakers. My first real exposure to sea kayaking took place near Homer, AK, on the Kenai Peninsula." Matt and his wife Djuna Mascall just completed their Alaska Expedition in June. He also works with Body Boat Blade on Orcas Island, WA. |
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Chris Mitchell has been teaching kayaking formally since taking a Sea Kayak Instructor training course through the Sea Kayak Association of British Columbia in 1995. He was the director of Sea Kayak Instruction at Eddyline Water Sports Center in Anacortes in 1996-1997. In 1997 he was certified as a Coastal Kayak Instructor with the American Canoe Association and more recently an Advanced Coastal Kayak Instructor and Instructor Trainer Educator. He was the trips co-coordinator for the Whatcom Association of Kayak Enthusiasts(WAKE) in 1999-2000. Since 1996 he has been an on-water instructor and lecturer at the Coast Kayak Symposium on Thetis Island in British Columbia. From 2000 though 2004 he was the Executive Director of the Trade Association of Paddlesports and producer of the West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium in Port Townsend, WA. He currently owns and operates Secondwind Sports, a kayaking school in Bellingham and Long Beach, WA. Chris is a BCU Coach Level 4 and ACA Advanced Open Water Instructor.
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Cheri was featured in Justine Curgenven's action sea kayak video This Is The Sea 3. She has coached at many symposiums and specializes in Greenland paddling and rolling. Cheri is also a yoga instructor and will be co-leading an hour of yoga in the mornings and offering The Yoga of Kayaking on Saturday. Turner Wilson and Cheri Perry teamed up (in 2005) to form Kayak Ways to teach Greenland style kayaking. They both attended the Greenland National Kayaking Championships in 2005. Since then they have been traveling and teaching all over the United States at Symposiums like Sea Kayak Georgia’s BCU week and Sweetwater BCU week. They have also taught at Greenland-style events including SSTIKS, Delmarva Paddlers Retreat, Michigan Training Camp, Mystic Seaport’s Arctic Boat Weekend and Hudson River Greenlandic Festival. They are passionate about paddling and sharing their skills. For more info and to see some of the 35 competition rolls see
kayakways.net
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Phelps Cathlamet, WA Josh is a co-owner of the Columbia River Kayaking LLC cooperative. |
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| Henry Romer Olympia, WA
Henry is a Greenland paddler, BCU Level 2 coach and an ACA Open Water Coastal instructor. His paddle trips have ranged from New Zealand to Greenland. He'll be running the Greenland roll-off on Saturday because he can say all those weird Greenlandic roll names. |
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Matthew Ross Matthew is the program director of Island Outfitters in Anacordes, WA. He is an avid sea kayaker and a master at expeditioning. He is a self-proclaimed professional student of paddlesports. Some of his qualifications and training include: • Solo-Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island March/April 2006
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| Axel Schoevers Netherlands After extensive solo backpacking trips in the western and north-western
states of the USA, Canada and Alaska between 1988 and 1993 Axel took
up kayaking in 1994. |
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| Leon Somme Orcas Island, WA Leon has been paddling and coaching paddlesports for over15 years. He loves playing around in small boats and is drawn to the power and beauty of the boundry where water meets land. Among Leon's many accomplishments are the successful circumnavigation of Haida Gwaii in 2007 with Justine Curgenven and Shawna Franklin, Iceland in 2003 with Chris Duff and Shawna Franklin, and Vancouver Island in 1998. Leon is co-owner and co-creator of Body Boat Blade International. Body Boat Blade is a kayak school devoted to producing the safest, most skilled, and fun paddlers and coaches in the world! |
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Brent Sund I have been kayaking for about 8+ years. I am a BCU coach and hold the BCU 5 Star Sea award. I enjoy coaching at several symposiums, for clubs, and kayak shops here in the northwest. I was able to coach at the prestigious U.K. Sea Kayaking Symposium in Anglesey, Wales in 2007. I also enjoy inland and surf kayaking. I am the owner of Capitol City Kayak in Olympia providing sea kayaking lessons.
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Walpole Portland, OR Qualifications: I am an NDK sponsored paddler. I am also an ACA Advanced Open Coastal Kayak Instructor and a BCU Level 4 Sea Coach with an individual 5 Star Sea award and A1* and Canoe Safety Test assessor status. Background: I started paddling in 1991 in an open canoe, first on flat water, then on class II white water. In the early days I did a lot of multi-day open canoe trips on rivers in Eastern Oregon and Washington. In a quest to explore new rivers and survive the more challenging rapids that came with them I began white water kayaking in the mid 1990s. Early in 2001 I started sea kayaking and loved it. Since then it has taken most of my time and I have been averaging almost 100 days per year on the water. In North America, I have paddled much of the Northern California and Oregon coast, Columbia River Estuary and Gorge, the Olympic Peninsular, Strait of Juan de Fuca, San Juan Islands and Deception Pass in Washington, the Brooks Peninsular on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, and Kachemak Bay and Prince William Sound in Alaska. In summer 2006 I paddled solo down the west coast of Canada. In Europe, I have visited Anglesey, UK, several times to paddle in the tide races and overfalls of the Irish Sea. In February 2003 I kayaked the Strait of Gibraltar from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and crossed from Europe to Africa. I spent the spring and summer of 2003 in Norway. In various different trips I paddled in the Sogn og Fjordane region on the West Coast (North Sea), circumnavigated two of the Lofoten Islands, including a passage through the imfamous "maelstrom," and completed a 200km tour in the Norwegian Sea near Tromso at 70 degrees North. I have had the pleasure of learning from several excellent coaches. These people have shown me a wonderful new world and I am in their debt. In real life: I am a Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University. I also enjoy cross country skiing, mountaineering, and hiking, and I have been a professional level bicycle racer and coach. |
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Whitaker Skamokawa, WA
Mark is a co-owner and manager of Columbia River Kayaking LLC cooperative. He also runs a custom portable sawmill and a small farm. |
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Turner Wilson and Cheri Perry have teamed up (in 2005) to form Kayak Ways to teach Greenland style kayaking. They both attended the Greenland National Kayaking Championships in 2005. Since then they have been traveling and teaching all over the United States at Symposiums like Sea Kayak Georgia’s BCU week and Sweetwater BCU week. They have also taught at Greenland-style events including SSTIKS, Delmarva Paddlers Retreat, Michigan Training Camp, Mystic Seaport’s Arctic Boat Weekend and Hudson River Greenlandic Festival. They are passionate about paddling and sharing their skills. For more info and to see some of the 35 competition rolls see
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| Katie Vegvary
Skamokawa, WA Katie a co-owner of Columbia River Kayaking LLC cooperative. She's also an inspired surfer, and owns a Wahkiakum county farm with her husband Alex. |
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