Join the program to improve your skills in paddle racing! No matter the goal,
K2N has the knowledge and resources to help you improve!
What is Ka Nalu Nui (K2N) Online Paddle School?
Coach Robert Norman
Ka Nalu Nui (K2N) K2N Online Paddle School offers coaching resources and paddle products as an accessible resource for a worldwide scale. Improve your time trials, reach personal goals and increase your coaching skills for your own teams!
Work directly with a coach with our training programs that are customized for your specific needs. Choose the training tier that works best with your needs. K2N proudly works with 100's of paddlers all around the world all working towards being the best versions of themselves.
Access to a full video library for every paddle discipline, ranging from "beginner" coaching to "advanced" tips. We currently have 300 videos with 60 hours worth of content. This video library will continue to grow as we offer more resources for paddlers to utilize on and off the water!
K2N also offers video reviews in combination with our other services. Having a coach watch you to identify weaknesses to create a strategy for making them your strengths is our primary goal.
The K2N Online Shop offers high quality Viper Va'a Outrigger Canoe Paddles, High Visibility Racing Jerseys made by Marine Generations as well as other apparel!
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Coach Robert Norman
I transitioned into a full-time paddle coach in early 2023, after working in the gym setting as a personal trainer starting in 2012. My paddling journey began with SUP in 2014 and progressed into every paddling discipline (OC1/Surfski/K1/Dragon Boat/OC6/Prone.) My club in Hernando Florida was created in 2018, and I have been coaching my local dragon boat/OC6 team from that point. My passion for the sport is creating confidence in paddlers through building new skills.
There are many unknowns within the sports progression that makes paddlers doubt themselves. Coaching is the ultimate method to share knowledge to paddlers to help them progress properly. Using my background in personal training combined with my own journey through the sport(s) gives a distinct outlook on what it takes to progress forward. The K2N Online Paddle School has offered a unique opportunity to work with athletes all over the world with a huge range of goals. I am always available to talk to, when we work together you have my full attention!
- Over 100 Dragon Boat Team USA/Canada hopefuls made their resective teams by improving their time trial results
-Ultra Marathon surfski paddlers looking for more efficiency while tackling major events like the MR340 and Texas Water Safari
-OC6 Teams all over the world looking for more coaching skills to share with their groups to keep their organizations moving forward
-Many racers making the transition from team paddling success to understanding what it takes to find individual paddling success
K2N Online Paddle School
Training Program Tiers
Video Reviews
K2N Online Paddle School was designed to help paddlers looking to improve have a pathway for success. Understanding the nuances of paddle racing can be overwhelming for people to self assess. Offering an expansive video library (300+ videos spanning 60 hours in content) to refer to as well as interactive video review and customized training plans are a few services offered. We also include off the water exercise plans to hone better movement patterns as well as target the prime moving muscles completing these paddling motions. Get the entire paddle club atmosphere from anywhere in the world with us here at K2N!
You can subscribe monthly to access the videos and consult with a coach.
Purchasing the video series outright is available.
Different training program tiers allow you to customize exactly what you need in your training structure.
Curriculum Outline
The K2N Online Paddle School offers multiple paddle disciplines.
This includes OC1, Surfski and SUP.
Each major discipline is broken down into three categories of progression.
The first progression is Foundational. This is where we spend the time outlining the basic movements that will be elaborated on. Paddlers who are at a high level are very good at understanding and utilizing these foundational skills.
The next progression is Developmental. This phase begins expanding on the Foundational ideas with more concepts. Directional forces, kinetic chain connection and posture outline some example concepts.
The final progression is Mastery. Putting together all the big ideas and combining them with small concepts begins to connect all the dots in the movement. Mastering your movement and technique is the goal of the school!
We will also feature some shorter series as a 101 course that is a general overview of certain sports/racing tactics/team paddling. Dragon Boat Time Trial and Downwind are our current series and hope to expand to Prone, Va'a, OC6 Steering, Race Tactics, and Team Paddling Dynamics!
Exercises Off the Water
Looking to elevate your paddling ability from the physicality side of the paradigm? We offer workout plans specific for paddling movement to target the primary contributors to your paddling stroke. Breaking these progressional workouts into "Postural" "Mobility" "Stability" "Movement" and "Performance" style training plans
These videos are on the site now and are the bottom playlists under the "Videos" Tab.
They are the newest videos being added so stay tuned each week for those!
K2N On The Water Training Progams
Work with a Coach to outline your goals and create a workout plan specific to reaching them!
No matter what the distance or speeds are, we can work together to detail a step by step process to accomplishing those feats. Chattajack is major race in the US that is 32 miles in distance. K2N is proud to have over 30 paddlers part of our program finish that even with some podium
winners.
Many Dragon Boat Team USA national members use the Training Program to outline workouts to help them beat their Dragon Boat Time Trials!
Finding the structure to reach your specific goals can be daunting on your own, and many who are most succesful follow a detailed regimen!
