No-one, I just wanted to find out if it was an official corps activity.
Fair enough! Normally those kind of questions are prompted by someone somewhere saying you can’t do something 
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our Fairbourne colleague wanted me (as a L1) and the L2 I was working under at the same venue to have both done the DSM (having said that, I didn’t complain about doing it - I had the course paid for, I had to travel about 1.5 miles for it, and it was a decent day out!)
The PPA route sounds more sensible though. I still think in terms of all the old quals, and the new stuff confuses me… 
I just wanted to get a few things strait and i wasn’t sure on whether it was an approved activity. ACC always seems to be the place for the no BS answers.
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Indeed - it’s basically just a day mucking around on SUPs. Who doesn’t want to do that?
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I paddle board myself and am tempted to take it further fo Cadet activities. That said I wouldn’t go out in above F3 myself, let alone with Cadets!
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I should do more Supping, but, I just don’t love it. It’s no open boating. Our club is going to have to push it more as it’s so popular and a decent gateway drug for newbies.
yeh, my club has just applied for a grant to buy 2, and one of our instructors is pushing it heavily (he’s pretty serious though, and SUPs on Grade 3 water…)
I think what I like about it is the versatility and minimal faff. iSUPs are super easy to pack and pop in the car and decent ones are very robust. Touring ones are ace for longer distances and I’m looking to do some expeditioning on them. My GP board has been in the surf, down G2/G3 river trips as well as open water in F4 and managed them all well. I can see a specialist white water board coming my way in the not too distant future.
Go and do a paddlesport instructor / paddlesport leader and get assessed on your SUP, job done! SUPs are also the mothership for rescues.
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I’ve seen WW Supping on the loop. You’d better enjoy swimming!
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The Dart is a bit far from me now, there’s better whitewater closer!
Swimming is learning.
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exactly. if you don’t swim, you haven’t tried hard enough
As winner of my club’s ‘swimmer of the year’ award, twice now. I concur.
But with WW SUP.I feel like the ratios of swimming to learning are a bit off…
SUP the Dart. Mkay then.
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I’ve seen that guy on the Dart I think. He’s insanely good. I saw him surf Triple like it was nothing, then jump in a mate’s C1, and surf that like he owned it too.
Bit much for me! Nice quiet early morning on the river or sea, peace and quiet and time to think thank you!
Tadpole to Tiddily wink right?
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In a canoe club, it’s more like the Miss Congeniality award.
It’s also a bit of an auto win if you paddle the boat I do, the last three winners have all been OC1.
Slight necro,
The advice from my PSL assessment at the weekend was to do more SUPing, i don’t do it (I can probably count the times I’ve been on a SUP on one hand) so I know very little about good technique, or how to advise a SUP paddler in a group.
I should probably look therefore at getting a SUP to play around with, What’s a good general purpose size which I could do say a day’s paddle on flat water?
I know Red do decent boards, as many in my club have them, and seem to be able to get one on Marketplace for not horrendous money with paddle and pump.