Description
Target Audience: Aimed at all those with high swimming abilities and extensive experience in open waters who wish to discover new ways to enjoy them.
Description: A small group outing to a river to discover the possibilities offered by moving water courses to enjoy swimming in a completely different, even wild, way than we are used to. We will learn to read the river, find the points with less current to ascend it, and identify the most critical points to avoid them.
Schedule: March to November, depending on the river flow.
Duration and Timing: 4 hours
Capacity: 6
Price: 60 €
Location: Accessible and relatively calm river section, near inhabited areas. (Tortosa…)
Materials: Swimsuit, swimming goggles, and cap. Optional neoprene and GPS. Safety rope.
Structure:
- Welcome
- What will we do? (Duration, parts)
- Introductions (participants and James. Keep it brief)
- Concept:
- Integral Rewilding.
- What is the role of swimming in rivers within Integral Rewilding?
- Safety
- Knowledge of the environment
- Self-awareness (Am I calm? Fully capable? Am I afraid?)
- Materials
- Explanation of materials and their use.
- Method
- Planning
- Study of the geographical environment (Google Earth, walking, kayaking…)
- Patient observation of conditions (flow, current strength, branches)
- Behavior of the current (Good points – oasis, bad points – eddies, turbulence)
- Planning
Choice of modality:
- Departure and arrival at the same point (ascent and descent)
- Departure and arrival at different points (descent or ascent)
- Forecast of possible drifts and alternative exits.
- Choice of entry and exit point.
- Exercises (Salmon, buoy-dodging, bridges, algae, depths, apneas, surfing)
- Entry and ascent or descent depending on chosen modality
- Exit
Conclusions: (Sensations, learning)
And now what?
- Accompanied outings (how to find companions?)
- Other Integral Rewilding workshops
Final fellowship breakfast at a nearby collaborating beach bar
