PRIVATE COACHING
Take Control of Your Packrafting Journey
You’re not just looking for another guided trip - you want real skills, true confidence, and the ability to make the right decisions while packrafting. Whether you're new to packrafting, refining your technique, advancing in whitewater, planning a remote expedition, or paddling with family, Packraft Academy doesn’t just teach—we empower you with expert coaching and hands-on experience, so you leave not just with memories, but with the skills and knowledge to navigate your own adventures and take your packrafting to the next level.
Exclusive, Private Training and Guiding
Once you book a day (or multiple days), it’s reserved just for you. This ensures personalized attention, direct feedback, and tailored instruction helping you develop skills faster and with more confidence in every session.
- Solo bookings = private, one-on-one coaching.
- Group bookings = exclusive training for your group (groups larger than 4 upon request)
- Flexible Locations = Train on our local rivers—or yours. Whether you want to explore our favourite whitewater gems or invite us to guide and train you on your own dream river, we’re ready to meet you there. We work across Europe (and beyond), bringing world-class instruction to the wild places you want to paddle.
Half Day Pricing (4 hours)
- 1 person: €260
- 2 people: €380
- 3 people: €500
- 4 people: €600
- 5 or more people: Contact us
Full Day & Multiday Pricing
- 1 person: €390 per day
- 2 people: €570 per day
- 3 people: €750 per day
- 4 people: €900 per day
- 5 or more people: Contact us
Every booking includes private coaching, planning support, and access to essential gear if needed (packraft, paddle, helmet, etc.). For remote or international locations, travel costs will be discussed and agreed upon in advance. All instruction is provided in English.
Bookings are made directly via email or phone—no automated checkout. Every training is custom-planned to your needs.
Fully Customizable Training
Your Skills, Your Goals. We design your training around YOU! Whether you want to:
- Develop whitewater paddling techniques, river reading or learn to roll.
- Prepare for a multi-day or remote expeditions.
- Learn whitewater safety & rescue techniques and how to handle emergencies.
- Learn self-rescue, risk management & essential safety strategies to minimize risk whether packrafting in a group or solo.
- Learn how to paddle safely with your kids & family.
- Combine packrafting with bikepacking, skitouring or endurance racing.
- Train & paddle in World-Class Packrafting Destinations.
- Learn and develop your wilderness and survival skills.
- Push Your Limits in a low risk, Controlled setting.
- Learn the latest and most up to date in paddling techniques and training.
Learn from One of Europe’s Top Packrafting Trainers
Your instructor, Seon Crockford-Laserer, isn’t just an experienced paddler, he’s a leading expert in expedition packrafting, whitewater paddling, rescue, safety, and outdoor leadership. With decades of outdoor guiding experience, he has trained paddlers of all levels using field-tested techniques proven in real packrafting conditions—not just theory, but skills that work when it matters most.
- Expedition packrafting in some of the most challenging environments
- Whitewater Safety & Rescue – Certified at the highest professional levels.
- Tailored Coaching Methods – Built on Decades of Outdoor Leadership.
CERTIFICATIONS:
- Rescue 3 Europe, Whitewater Rescue Technician Instructor
- IRF Raft Guide Level 3
- IRF Safety Kayaker Instructor Level 3
- IRF Whitewater Guide Instructor level 3
- NOLS Wilderness First Responder (Advanced First Aid & Medical Training)
100% Skill Progress Guarantee
We are committed to your success. If you don’t feel you’ve gained real, practical skills by the end of your training, we’ll offer a partial refund. Your progress is our priority
Packraft Academy is a custom, high-level training experience. Bookings are made directly—no automated checkout.
To book your private training:
- Email: training@packrafteurope.com | Subject Line: Packraft Academy
- Phone/WhatsApp: +43 681 1056 8682
We’ll schedule a short consultation to define your goals, pick your location, and confirm your dates. It’s that simple.
Let’s design your ultimate packrafting experience. Get in touch today!
TESTIMONIALS
Surendra - Switzerland
In preparation for our two-month Packraft trip to Alaska, where we mainly want to explore the vaste country by boat, and since we have no previous Packraft experience, we wanted to get into this new sport by doing a short, but intense expedition preparation course. For reference: We do have a lot of experience being outside, but had not much contact with water up-to-now. Since we anyway had planned to buy an alpacka packraft, we reached out to Seon.
From the first telephone contact, we were convinced by his great knowledge, his empathetic nature and his professionalism. And he was really honest in his opinion, that we have a lot of work ahead to get safe trough our adventure in Alaska and that we need an early start. Thus, we agreed to meet beginning in February in Austria for a short, but intense three day course, where we would get an introduction not only in packrafting but also have the chance to test a few boats.
The course was fully packed, intense, fun, challenging and Seon - beyond the technical skills and the deep understanding of river dynamics - showed great leadership and character that set him apart from the usual 08/15 guides. He pulled a three-day course out of the hat, that was exactly tailored made for our needs and with a lot of patience and encouragement he shared his immense knowledge not only about packrafting but also about expeditions. And some crucial part of this was, the exchange on different set-ups that have proven to work under extreme conditions.
Seon has transformed the river into a classroom, teaching us not only how to paddle and read the water but also how to listen to the rhythm of nature, to understand its power, and to appreciate its untamed beauty. In sometimes challenging situations, it’s not just about the paddling—it is about the camaraderie, the trust and he shared sense of adventure.
We cannot enough emphasize, how much we were able to learn in this very, very short amount of time from Seon in so many different ways. But also after the course, during our preparation time, he is always there for open questions and continues to share know-how, input, experience and advice.
Whether you are new to packrafting, need support in preparing for an expedition or want to deepen your knowledge of packrafting, Seon can teach you more than a thing or two in a very empathetic, thoughtful, calm way.