Resources
Kc4u Project Deliverables
The Kc4u team have created a variety of free resources aimed at assisting coaches, clubs, researchers, and other organizations in the field of sports
Whether you’re looking to organise sporting events in schools, improve your athletes’ crew boat technique, grow your sports organisation, or learn kayaking-related phrases in multiple languages, Kc4u has something to offer. Each resource is carefully designed to be both accessible and practical, allowing users to seamlessly incorporate the concepts and practices.
Kc4u School Event Guide for Kayak Clubs
This comprehensive handbook draws on our first-hand experiences with over 600 schoolchildren in Italy and Slovenia. It offers a step-by-step approach to planning, preparing, and implementing fun and interactive in-school crew kayaking events based on the Kc4u model. This model offers a fantastic way to raise awareness of kayaking, identify talent, empower your club athletes, promote your club, and drive recruitment. The guide comes with 25 videos of the exercises and variations from the activity stations, as well tips for coaching.
K4 Water & Land Drills Guide
Designed specifically for sprint kayak coaches, this guide features a collection of 22 land and water drills suitable for K4 crews of all levels. With careful programming and good team harmony, these drills can help athletes master the challenges and nuances of crew boat paddling by improving technical precision and efficiency, resilience and adaptability, communication, and ultimately performance. The guide includes 20 videos filmed by Kc4u participants, detailed instructions and coaching tips, and recommendations on integrating technical practice into training.
Guide to running In-School Events for Sports Clubs
Organising in-school events is an excellent way to raise awareness of your sport and actively engage kids in physical activity. It also provides a fantastic opportunity to promote your club and drive recruitment. This general guide is designed for sports clubs and details how to plan and structure in-school events for maximum engagement.
Kc4u Final Report
The Kc4u Final Report is a comprehensive document which examines all aspects of the project from its’ background, through to implementation and evaluation. It draws on extensive data from all activities, as well as the results from in-depth participant surveys (completed by over 600 children and youth), and observations from the Kc4u team and other relevant sources. These valuable insights shed light on the many benefits of K4 paddling and in particular mixed-nationality and mixed-gender crews. We showcase the best practices that have emerged from the project, and also touch on the challenges we faced along the way. The report is designed to provide tangible knowledge for those in the youth sports and sprint kayaking sectors. We hope it also serves as inspiration for others to engage more youth in innovative sporting activities.
The Kc4u Youtube channel hosts all exercises used in the In-School events, along with K4 Water and Land drills.
Kc4u Tri-lingual Kayak Language Course
The Kc4u Tri-lingual Kayak language coure app contains 15 lesson modules covering basic greetings, along with kayak and training related phrases in English, Italian & Slovene. The audio and GIFs for this highly interactive course were recorded by Kc4u participants. The course takes around 1.5-2 hours to complete and can be accessed for free via EdApp on mobile phone or computer.
National K4 Day website (SLO)
Information and registration website (in Slovene) for the National K4 Day 2024