MIKCo Fundamental Personal Skills Checklist
Basics
- Personal clothing & gear
- Boat lifting & carrying
- Boat fitting
- Entry & exit, beach, dock and floating
- Wet exits
- Stretching exercises
Fundamental Strokes
- Forward low and high
- Backward paddling
- Stopping, forward & reverse
- Forward & reverse sweeps
- Draw
- Stern rudder
- Slap or reflex brace
Intermediate Strokes
- Sculling draw - with figure eight
- Bow rudder
- Cross bow rudder
- Stern rudder tillering
- Low brace turn
- High brace turn
- Hanging draw
- Draw on the move
Bracing
Low brace - Stationary and moving
High brace - Stationary and moving
Sculling for support
Edging & Leaning
Application to each stroke
Toward the wave, the whitewater
Towing
- Tow gear equipment options: PFD tethers, Contact, Waist, Boat mounted
- Towing a swimmer
- Parallel or serial tow
- Husky tow
- Tower as an anchor for a repair or rescue
Rescues
Contact, communication, and commitment.
Get water out and person in, any order, do it fast.
Practice in the conditions you paddle in.
Assisted Rescues
- Eskimo rescues – bow and paddle presentation
- Boat holds parallel and opposed
- T rescue with/without victim assistance
- X rescue
Self Rescue
- Paddle float rescue
- Paddle float re-entry and roll
- Sweep or combat roll
- C to C
- Spare paddle roll
- Re-entry and roll
- Extended paddle roll
All In Rescue
Knots
- Bowline
- Figure of Eight
- Round turn and 2 half hitches
- Clove hitch