Wilderness Awareness Skills Institute Adult Workshops

Adult Workshops and Certifications
Adult Workshops We offer workshops in small farm production, hide tanning, hunting skills, Hunter Education, friction fire, wilderness crafts, archery, rappelling,and more.
Instructor Training and Certifications Learn skills to take back to your classroom or your camp. Level 1 Basic Archery Instructor Certification Course: Dates: Saturday April 30 Cost: $125 Registration: Click Here The NAA Level 1 - Basic Instructor Certification Course is designed for camp, youth organizations or other short-term program instructors. Brian King can specifically gear the instruction and materials for the needs of summer camp personnel, 4-H leaders, BSA, GSA, JOAD Instructors, or school teachers. This course is a 12-hour courses all materials and quality equipment is provided. You do not have to be an archer to take this course you must be 15 years of age or older. Areas of instruction include: Safety and Limiting Risk Exposure, Learning to Shoot a Bow and Arrow, Equipment Differences, How to Teach Archery, and How to Set-up and Run an Archery Programs. There is a nice mix of lecture, group discussion, and hands on. Level 2 Intermediate Archery Instructor Certification Courses: Dates: Friday April 29 Through Sunday May 1 Cost:$250 Registration: Click Here The NAA Level 2 - Instructor Certification Course is designed for preparing instructors and directors of archery programs including ACA camps, Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD), 4-H and other archery club programs. This is 30 hour certification course the students must have held a Level 1 Certification for at least a year, be 18 years of age or older, and be a member of NAA or NFAA (can enroll in either at time of instruction). This certification will allow for the certification of your own Level 1 staff. This course provides an in-depth training in archery instruction including but not limited to: Risk Management; Purchasing, Troubleshooting and Tuning Equipment; Making Arrows and Bow Strings; Troubleshooting Errors in Form, Fine-Tuning Your Own Skills as an Archer and as an Instructor; How to teach a Basic Instructors Class. There is a nice mix of lecture, group discussion, and hands on.
Rappelling and Ascending Workshops Rappelling is the controlled descent down a rope; we use this technique when a cliff or slope is too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection. Ascending is going up the rope. Yes rappelling and ascending can be great fun but it also opens up areas of investigation that could not otherwise be accessible. Recreation, industrial, and arborous techniques will be covered.
Hide Tanning Workshops We offer fur on or off, brain and vegetable tanning workshops both at our sites or at yours. The Basic Steps in Brain Tanning are on our web site in the following link. Please be advised that it starts from the skinning of an animal and may be disturbing to some viewers. Basic Brain Tanning
Tanning Bee May: Tentative Location: TBA Like the Quilting Bees of the past we get together on regular basis (when the sun is out and the air is dry) to help each other brain tan hides. This is not a class but an informal gathering. This is not about going from start to finish on a hide over a weekend but progressing with were you are with a hide that you have not finished. It is a whole lot more fun to stretch hides together then to work alone or you may not have the tools to work on your hides. We will have fleshing beams and knifes and cables for the participants use. We set up for smoking skins but please bring punky fur if you are planning on smoking. If you are ready to brain the hide please bring some brains or 1doz eggs. If you want come and just hang out that is also cool, bring something for the pot luck and guitar, drums, etc to make this a festive event. If you can host one of these events please contact us
Archery Traditional, hunting, and Olympic target techniques will be covered, as well as bow tuning, string making and arrow making will be covered. please check back for details and dates.


California Fish and Game Hunter Education Training This is the official California Hunter's Education class needed to obtain a hunting license. We volunteer to teach these classes and are offered at no cost other then a minimal material fee. Click here for more information.