Industry GuidanceWatersports Case Studies
Calum Brown, 20 - Jumpstart, Professional Instructor Training
Prior to coming to UKSA, Calum was doing his A-levels his school visited UKSA on a few occasions for brief 5-day activity breaks. He decided he wanted to spend his Gap Year teaching watersports, so he trained on our Professional Instructor Training course. "The Professional Instructor Training course was awesome. I enjoyed training with people of different ages and backgrounds, getting coached by instructors who really knew their stuff. It was cool to see the other side of our school visits!". After completing his training he went onto gain a job as a watersports instructor at Minorca Sailing, teaching dinghy sailing and windsurfing to a range of ages and abilities. He has since joined a Human Biology degree at Loughborough University where he will spend his summers teaching at various centres around the world.
Will Satterly, 23 - Professional Instructor Training
Will graduated from Plymouth University in 2003, with a degree in Marine Sports Technology. After Uni Will traveled for a bit, then on return decided that he wanted to go into a job that involved work and travel. As a keen watersports enthusiast, Will was pleased to hear about a free course being run at the UKSA through the Princes Trust - 'Get into Maritime Training'. It was from this, Will learnt about our Professional Instructor Training course. He decided this was what he really wanted to do, got the funds together then attended the course in April 2006. Since completing the training Will has been employed as a multi-discipline instructor at the UKSA base in Cowes over the summer, and has just found out that he has been selected to teach windsurfing at the UKSA Australia base over the winter.
Sam's love of watersports started after she attended a sailing weekend at the UKSA organized through her brother who was an instructor at UKSA at the time. It inspired her to do more, and she began sailing on a reservoir close to her home in Surrey. She attended work experience at UKSA Cowes for a week, and decided that she would like to become an instructor. After her A-levels, Sam decided to take a GAP year before going to University. During her GAP year, Sam attended the Professional Instructor Training and Professional Instructor Development courses, and was then employed as a multi-discipline instructor at UKSA Cowes over the summer. Sam is starting Southampton University in September, but looking forward to instructing again during her summer holidays.
Tommy Filc, 21 - Jumpstart & Professional Instructor Training + Professional Instructor Development
Tommy attended the Jumpstart, Professional Instructor Training & Professional Instructor Development at the end of 2004, early 2005. Prior to this he had spent a year learning English in Malta after finishing school in France. Tommy found out about the UKSA through a friend who had shown him the UKSA brochure. He liked what he saw and decided to sign up for the Professional Instructor courses. He had a great time training at the UKSA. When asked about what his best memory of the course was he said "Whoa....There are too many.. The trip to Oz was awesome... all the great days we spend on the water, the general atmosphere at the Academy....and all the laughs we had.. " On graduating from the UKSA, he went on to work as a kitesurf instructor in Fuerteventura and then in the Dominican Republic. He then came back to Fuerteventura to set up a kiteschool, and is now the manager of a small IKO centre.
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