Requirements for the Course
- Completed VDWS Instructor Licence
- Active VDWS membership
- Advanced windsurfing level
- Teaching experience
For the License Completion
Practical exam at the end of the Level 3 Instructor course
Note: If you do not yet have the required practical level or have not mastered the topic of the course, you are still welcome to participate. In this case, participation will count as a license extension, not as a Level 3 certification.
Course Content
Depending on the seminar topic, the following focus areas will be weighted differently:
- Improvement of personal riding skills
- Methodology in advanced student training
- Use of digital media in teaching
- Organization of advanced student lessons or special courses
- Specific training of maneuvers and techniques
- Enhancement of personal demonstration skills
- Deepening of material knowledge and its relation to advanced equipment
- In-depth understanding of physical principles
- Expansion of didactic knowledge for advanced student training
Each Level 3 Instructor seminar concludes with a practical exam on the topic covered during the two days of the seminar.
Prerequisites:
Experience with gliding dinghies is an advantage
Course contents:
Course framework gennaker and harness course / reciprocal coaching / develop methodical teaching skills / equipment, trimming and physical background / techniques and manoeuvres.
Examination:
Up - Downwind course with two buoys.
Course will be sailed around with one tack and one jibe with gennaker. On each close hauled course, the sailor is to get into and out of the harness once. The helmsman and the foresailor will be scored equally.
Prerequisites:
Cat Basics
Course contents:
Course framework of a gennaker and harness course / reciprocal coaching / develop methodical teaching skills / equipment, trim and physical background / techniques and manoeuvres.
Examination:
Up - Downwind Parcours
Course will be sailed with tacks and jibes with gennaker. On each close hauled course the sailor has to get into and out of the harness once.
The helmsman and the foresailor will be judged equally.
Prerequisites
Recreational Boat Operator’s License (Sea)
Objective
Successful completion of this training program qualifies participants to instruct students for the SBF Inland and Sea licenses
Course Content
Course structure of a SBF Sea theory course / ability to effectively teach exam-relevant content in theory classes for the SBF Sea / use of seminar techniques for assessing knowledge / promoting participants’ receptiveness / use and limitations of teaching materials
Exam
Student-centered short teaching demonstrations on selected topics
Requirements
Dinghy Basics
Course contents
Course framework of a foil course on a dinghy / coaching each other / developing methodical teaching skills / equipment, trim and physical background / techniques and manoeuvres.
Exam
Up - Downwind Course
Course is sailed with a foil turn and a foil jibe
The helmsman will be scored