White Water Surf Skills
Develop your confidence and expertise in white-water surfing with the White Water Surf Skills (4N3650) programme!
Course Overview
This comprehensive Level 4 QQI course is designed to equip you with essential skills such as catching waves, popping up smoothly, and turning your board with precision, all while ensuring you understand beach safety and surf etiquette. Through engaging, hands-on learning and guided practice, you’ll master the art of surfing safely and effectively in white-water conditions.
Course Schedule
This course runs for five days:
Mon to Friday: 9:30 – 16:15 in our Killorglin Campus. All equipment required will be provided by the Campus.
What will I study?
1. Understand Beach Safety: Explain the principles of beach safety, including beach flags, tides, rips, and wind conditions.
2. Surf Etiquette: Apply surf etiquette and safe surfing practices during sessions.
3. Analyze Environmental Conditions: Interpret weather forecasts and tidal information specific to a surfing location.
4. Understand Surfing Terms: Use terms such as natural, goofy, forehand, and backhand accurately.
5. Gear Up Properly: Put on a wetsuit, attach a leash, and carry a surfboard correctly.
6. Master Basic Surfing Skills: Paddle to waist-deep water, position correctly on the board, and prone ride a wave to shore.
7. Perform Key Maneuvers: Pop up to standing in one fluid movement, control speed, and turn while riding in a standing position.
8. Manage Safety and Wipeouts: Demonstrate actions to prevent injury during wipeouts and maintain control during challenging conditions.
These outcomes ensure learners gain both theoretical knowledge and practical competence in white-water surfing.
What are the entry requirements?
• Applicants must be 16+ years of age on entry to the course.
• Competent written and spoken English (CEFR B2 or Higher).
• Non-EU/EEA applicants must have permission to work in Ireland.
• Applicants should have a standard of knowledge, skill and competence equivalent to NFQ Level 3 when accessing a Level 4 programme.
What is the cost?
Fees apply to all part-time programmes.
A fee waiver is in place for applicants in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment. You can check your fee waiver eligibility with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP), INTREO or your Local Employment Service (LES) office.
Learners in employment may also be granted a fee waiver under the Skills to Advance Initiative. For more details on this please contact Claire at [email protected]
Part-time Courses - FAQs
FET is short for Further Education & Training. Kerry College is an integrated college of FET. This means we do both progression-focused further education programmes and a range of employment-focused skills training programmes.
We enroll twice each year - January and September.
Part-time programmes run on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings, and increasingly online.
This depends on the course you choose.
Some courses have long waiting lists, others - not so much. Places are filled on a first-come, first-served basis so the best advice we can offer is to apply in plenty of time.
We enroll over 1000 applicants to our part-time courses each year - so it's always busy.
As places are offered based on the date of application, our team could be working their way down through the list.
That said, always check.
You can call Mary on our Part-time courses team at 066-7149696.
Although all of our part-time courses are fee-paying, we do have a DEASP Fee Waiver in place for those in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment.
This is subject to a waiting list and demand for course places.
Most part-time courses run at Kerry College are Minor awards.
A Minor award is commonly referred to as a module - but also as a component certificate or a certificate of unit credit.
These single 'modules' may be completed and certificated individually. All minor awards are linked to a major award that allows learners to collect and build their minor awards and work towards gaining a major award.
Applications for all part-time programmes should be made online - via the Kerry College website or www.fetchcourses.ie
FETCH COURSES is the national application system for all FET course applications.
All new applicants must set up a free account on www.fetchcourses.ie. You must use this to apply for all further education and training progarmmes anywhere in Ireland.
For existing Fetch Courses account holders, login and apply as before.
You can reset your password using your email or mobile phone. When you do, make sure you keep it for future reference.
Bear in mind, FETCH uses your PPS number to identify you - so although you might be able to set up a second account - it won't work properly.
If you're still stuck, contact our Admissions team on 066-714 96 96
No, aside from the DEASP Fee Waiver, all part-time courses are fee-paying.