Whitewater Symposium 2007 to be best ever

Don't miss the whitewater Symposium 2007 to be held at the new artificial course at WISP in McHenry, Maryland. see wwsymposium for more info...

The symposium program is primarily directed at those who actively promote the sport. Workshops are designed to support the grassroots feeder programs that encourage new and continued participation. The result is empowering more people to take on productive roles in stewarding whitewater kayaking development.

For INSTRUCTORS and PROGRAMMERS the Symposium:
• Is the “Outdoor Retailer” of instruction – the most influential national-level gathering
• Offers river rescue training with the best kayak-focused US instructors
• Offers an opportunity to share teaching strategies with top instructors around the nation
• Offers ACA instructor updates with relevant cutting edge seminars
• Acts as a kickoff to winter planning for next season
• Encourages networking between clubs, middle schools and university outdoor programs with paddlesports
• Helps you maintain cutting edge program design and marketing
• Is a chance to share programming successes
• Helps you keep abreast of what’s current, cutting-edge, progressive, and innovative
• Is an opportunity to confirm peer best practices

For RETAILERS and MANUFACTURERS the Symposium:
• Is a forum for stores, manufacturers, reps, tech teams, pro paddlers, and school and program managers to collaborate about how to position whitewater for sustained future growth.
• Helps you reach schools, programs and instructors that initiate 10,000 beginners annually
• Offers a focus group for product feedback
• Is an opportunity for rollout of new products
• Is an opportunity to teach business skills to the smaller providers
• Is a chance to discuss optimum presentation of our sport to our target markets
• Is an opportunity to support grassroots promotion of our sport through providers who are in the “whitewater trenches”
• Is working to promote a positive media image of the sport.
• Offers business workshops for the small paddlesport business
• Can act as a kickoff to winter planning for next season