This is your chance!

Equal rights and opportunities for all is a great value in our thinking and actions. This has inspired us to take a closer look at paddle sports and to find out what is necessary so that they can be practised equally by people with disabilities. Thanks to many years of experience in disabled sports and wheelchair sports, physiotherapeutic background knowledge and a wide range of adaptation material, our offer is also accessible for guests with special needs. For us, it is an honour to share our passion with anyone who is interested, no matter what preconditions someone brings with them. Paddle sports are particularly suitable for this target group because they can be practised with pleasure at so many different sporting levels.

Throughout Switzerland, paddle sports for people with disabilities is still something new. In other countries near and far, however, this sport has long since established itself, to the extent that adapted paddling was an official discipline of the Paralympic Games for the first time in Rio 2016 under the name Paracanoe. We think “Hop Switzerland” and would like to make our contribution.

If you have any questions about kayaking in this area, we can best be reached via e-mail (oli@hightide.ch).

We are looking forward to taking you out on the water and experiencing new possibilities together.

For us, independence and self-determination are values that we like to live by and, above all, let people live by. Thanks to the various adaptation options of the paddlesport equipment, this is also possible for people with different physical and mental conditions. Find more detailed information and examples of the adaptation possibilities here.

Guests with mental, psychological or physical disabilities actually use the normal paddlesport equipment with us. Some of the equipment we use is professional and specially made for this purpose, but often we simply try to use a lot of creativity to construct something individually adapted from what is already available.