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Blue Chip SUPer Club and Thames
Sailing Club
Some
things are better with experience
Blue Chip has over
40 years of
experience driven knowledge.
The Blue Chip SUPer Club has some of
the most experienced and
highly qualified instructors in the UK
with a wide breath on knowledge
including Social paddling,
Adventuring, Touring,
White Water, Racing,
Surfing and SUPolo.
We will also have our fleet of Dragon, Tandem and Mega Boards on the water
Let us share our experience and knowledge with you
on this Club Open Day
Saturday
3rd July 2021
11:00 - 16:00
For your and our volunteer’s safety, we will be operating a 2 metre distancing
procedure during the day and all equipment will be cleansed between sessions.
We will be limiting each session to no more than 4 clients to one club instructor.
What a great day for bringing SUP to new guys & gals
over 120 people tried SUP for the first time at this event last
year...
We are not taking advanced
bookings before the day on the
"Try SUPing" sessions
We have found in
past when we have offered FREE Try SUPing
sessions, that too many
people have let us down and blocked off sessions as
we do not require a financial
commitment to attend.
We recommend arriving early and once you have
signed in,
we will then book you onto the next available
session slot.
Places will
be limited
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It's all happening at our
Surbiton base:-
Thames Sailing Club, Portsmouth Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 4HH
click on the link for map. Surbiton Railway Station (17 minutes from Waterloo)
is
only 10 minutes walk away from TSC see the link above.
(there is parking at the Club)
Map
- We have the best ASI and British Canoeing SUP instructors
in the UK on hand
- We have some great SUP equipment on hand
- We are now offering you the chance to tryout SUP and best of all It's FREE -
- each "Try SUPing" session will last for about 20-30 minutes
Limitations:
- All "Try SUPing" sessions
are subject to river and weather
conditions
- All "Try SUPing" participants must:
- Sign a disclaimer
- Be able to swim 50 metres
- Wear an ISO certified buoyancy
aid (which we
can provide)
- Remain with and take
instructions from their appointed
instructor whilst on the water
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If your weight is 110 kgs or
over, you must supply your own EN ISO certified buoyancy
aid
- Blue Chip Parent and Child "Try SUPing" sessions:
- Subject to river and weather
conditions.
- The child's parent must remain on
site and within sight and sound of their child at all times.
- Minimum age 8 years old and Minimum child height 1.3 metres
- You child must be a confident swimmer and able to swim 2 x 25m lengths of a swimming pool back to back
- Your child must wear a EN ISO
certified buoyancy aid which we can supply
Each "Try SUPing" session will last for about
20-30 minutes..
Note: the Try SUPing sessions are "not a structured
SUP lesson", just a quick introduction the SUP under the
supervision
of one or more of our qualified instructors.
We reserve the right to refuse participation in a
"Try SUPing" session whatsoever on any account to anyone
on the grounds of safety or any other reason and our decision will be final.
NOTE:
The Adventure
Activities Licensing Authority (AALA) is the
licensing authority for outdoor activity centres for
young people in
Great Britain. It is part
of the
Health and Safety Executive
(HSE), the government body charged with overseeing
health and safety in all workplaces. for more
information go to:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/aala/about-activities-licensing.htm
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SUP is within the scope of the AALA
licensing scheme which means that
ANY
SUP teaching
establishment and or
ANY instructor that undertakes
teaching outdoor activities including SUP to children under the age of 18
without their parents also taking part will need to hold
a current AALA license. |
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What should I
bring for a SUP taster session?
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Paddleboarding is not a
falling in sport. Virtually none of our students
fall in – and any dunkings that have occurred
(are almost always due to over-exuberance (and
thus entirely avoidable if you want to stay dry)
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So you’re not actually
going to get wet, you really don’t need any
special kit for paddleboarding (unless you’re
going out in the waves, which is not on the
agenda for any of our taster sessions). However,
if you want to play safe there would be no harm
in having a change of clothing and a towel in
your car for your first few sessions, just in
case.
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Your feet are the only
part of your body that will come into contact
with the water, but boards have good grip so
bare feet or some old trainers will be fine. If
you have surf boots you want to use then by all
means bring them, but they certainly are not
necessary. Shorts (or skirt) are the best bet,
but you could always just roll your trouser-legs
up if there’s no other option.
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Sunglasses are
advisable, and on hot days it’s worth having
some sun screen on , as you always burn faster
on the water.
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Other than that, just
bring yourself and your enthusiasm. You’re going
to have fun out there
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of the best paddles available for you to try |
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