Optional Revision. Understanding of board design and dimensions in order to ensure that your clients are on the right boards for their requirements.
As you have been working with paddleboards for a while now, you’re probably fairly comfortable with understanding SUP board design and dimensions. However, not all SUP instructor qualifications offer any detail or insight on this aspect of paddleboarding. So, if you’re a bit rusty on it, and/or could do with a top-up, then working through this lesson will get you up to speed with everything you need to know.
Being able to interpret the measurements and appearance of a board in order to understand what it does and who it will be suited for is a vital skill for the paddleboard instructor – particularly when it comes to the question of board stability. The lesson will take around 30 minutes to complete.The training video discusses:
- The anatomy of the paddleboard
- The importance and relevance of the main parameters
- How these factors determine the stability of the board
The knowledge in this lesson is not just for when youâre dealing with the questions of your clients, but also for when you are assigning boards to clients, and understanding how they interact with them on the water during your sessions.
Check Understanding!
- Do you know the names of the various parts of the board?
- Do you understand what the rocker profile is?
- Do you understand what the length of the board tells you?
- Do you understand what the volume of the board tells you?
- Do you understand what the width of the board tells you?
- Do you understand what the thickness of the board tells you?
- Do you understand which dimensions are primarily responsible for determining the stability of a board?
- Could you give advice as to what dimensions of board would be appropriate for, say, a 100kg person wanting a general purpose all rounder?
- Do you understand how changing other aspects of the plan shape affects stability?
If youâre unsure on any of these, go back and review the lesson again. Otherwise, you can move on to the next lesson