{"id":1541,"date":"2011-04-24T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2011-06-11T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:35:43","slug":"aca-training-included-with-nack-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"ACA Training included with NACK Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their paid membership all NACK members will get the opportunity to participate in the<strong> American Canoe Association Quickstart<\/strong> training program taught by ACA Certified instructors. The North Atlantic Canoe &amp; Kayak Training Committee has decided  to establish this new membership benefit, worth $75.00, as a way for new  paddlers to get started enjoying paddling safely and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>QuickStart is a brief, three-hour introduction to paddling a kayak.  Students are presented with basic information on dressing to paddle  safely, potential hazards and simple rescues. A minimal paddle skill set  is presented and practiced, allowing students to safely and comfortably  maneuver on still water. While designed as a stand-alone, introductory  course, QuickStart students often progress to the Introduction to Kayak  course to acquire greater paddling skill through significantly more  in depth, guided, on-water practice time.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Quickstart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americancanoe.org\/resource\/resmgr\/sei-courses\/l1_qsk_skills.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ACA Quickstart Curriculum<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their paid membership all NACK members will get the opportunity to participate in the American Canoe Association Quickstart training program taught by ACA Certified instructors. The North Atlantic Canoe &amp; Kayak Training Committee has decided to establish this new membership benefit, worth $75.00, as a way for new paddlers to get started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}