Training & coaching


You wish to learn, refresh or deepen your techniques of progression and safety in canyoning? You dream to explore the world or an international professional career in canyoning?
Join us then train and become “autonomous” or “expert” in canyoning! Prepare yourself to become a professional, refresh your teaching skills, or broaden your skills to the world of exploration?
You simply wish to discover, during a stay or a weekend trip, some of the most beautiful canyons of the world?
Our Centre and our network of partners will offer you canyoning courses all over Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Madeira, Balearic Islands, Scotland, Monte Negro) and everywhere else.

Welcome to our canyoning training center, labeled by U.C.A (Universal Canyoning Academy).

Teaching and training canyoning are our specialty and our passion!

You will be comfortably welcomed during your canyoning training course in our Training Centre in Niaux. You will receive in digital version, your online courses, your Canyoning Manual (Initiation, Autonomous or Expert), your canyoning card, and the guidebook of the most beautiful canyons of Ariege, as a complement to your training course.

Rod Sturm is a French DEJEPS certified and International canyoning Trainer witch gives him a high level of training in the fields of technique, pedagogy and psychology.

But his experience of teaching in France and abroad give him an other level of knowledge, during his career, he taught more than:

  • 5 Canyoning Trainers
  • 20 Canyoning Instructors
  • 50 Canyoning Assistants
  • 100 Canyoneers autonomous
  • 35000 Canyoneers beginner

(in France, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Monte Negro, UK, USA, Canada, Nepal, India, Indonesia…)

Get in touch with us, between dream and reality, there is just one step, we call it “action”.

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