Tobogã Team

The Tobogã Team (TT) is a team composed by Tobogã company canyoning guides. It is a group with a very high spirit of unity and focus on excellence and professionalism. For this group, guiding is a philosofy!

DIVERSITY

It is a team made by staff from various areas, having in its composition canyoning guides of Canyoning International Commission (CIC), technicians of Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA), trainers of International Adventure Park Association (IAPA), climbing trainers and rescue technicians from Fire Department and other Rescue Teams.

Although the origin of all these guides is diverse, regarding to canyoning the homogeneity is a constant always present.

TRAINING

To be eligible to join this team, is one of the prerequisites to the canyoneer to frequent and be approved in all modules of the "Course of Canyoning Techniques" that are taught by CIC Canyoning Guides.

It is an intensive training that requires a prior field of this sport and is exclusively geared for groups driving in canyoning routes. This is the first step of forming a guide TT.

To access the second phase of training, also intensive, it is necessary to accumulate experience in practice of canyoning in the context of groups conducting.

In practical terms, these formations are reflected in various aspects such as minimization of dead time in the river, the dynamic of procedures and foremost, the prevention. This team is empowered not only to give immediate response to almost all incidents and accidents that may occur but above all, to anticipate them!

Outside these courses once a year, the team gathers in formal training to update procedures or techniques, as they are constantly evolving.

Is also regular participation in formations of other areas (rescue, whitewater activities, weather, etc.) in order to meet other perspectives and other realities.

FUN

In addition to the formal training times, there are other times where learning is a constant, the canyoning in sport context.

Are activities whose primary purpose is the fun and are the only time of year where we can make a extreme practice, something we do not do when driving groups.

We never circumscribe these activities to Tobogã Team, and we accept other participants, but only autonomous canyoning  practitioners.

Some of these activities are represented in the following video:

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First of the year!!

We've all complained about the "dehydration" of the wetsuits and although the conditions were not the best, we organized in February the first Canyoning of 2013, held by some elements of the Toboga Team and the new members of the "family".

The route selected was the Frades Inforior in Arouca, which is a Canyoning where you can, if you like, descent all watterfalls only by water jumps! 

You can see it on he next two videos, whose the second was performed by Marco Silva, one of the newest canyonner on this "family"!