UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps
Recreational Sports Facility (RSF) Field House, 2301 Bancroft Way room 145, Berkeley, CA 94720
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UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps offers activities that include developmental sports, outdoor learning, exploratory science, arts and crafts, science, skateboarding, martial arts, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, shoreline exploration, hands-on outdoor activities, rock climbing, and sailing. Campers can also take part in sit-on-top kayaking, paddleboarding, sea kayaking, windsurfing, and a nationally recognized Skateboarding Camp that uses a unique skatepark environment with ramps and street obstacles. Adventures Youth Camps focus on new adventures, getting outside, moving, and exploring the Bay Area’s natural wonders, and the Adventures Teen Leadership Program includes the Rock Climbing Leadership program with belay skills, knot-tying, top-rope climbing, and equipment care, as well as leadership training, job-related skills, volunteer opportunities, and hands-on responsibilities with children and camp activities.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Marina Explorers is described as a half-day, beginner-friendly outdoor camp that includes kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, shoreline exploration, and hands-on outdoor activities. Sailing activities include rigging, tacking, gybing, capsizing, docking, and knots, while windsurfing activities include balance, steering, and self-rescues, and sea kayaking includes safety procedures and rescue skills. Junior Counselors (ages 16–17) are paid junior staff who gain hands-on experience with children and camp activities along with mentorship. UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps has been making summers fun for campers and easy for families for more than 60 years. The UC Martial Arts Program, which is part of the camp offerings, was started in 1969 and is described as an expanding, dynamic organization that preserves the philosophy, techniques, and traditions of martial arts and develops a scientific understanding of the physical and spiritual implications of human performance.
Instruction in UCMAP clubs is carried out by high-ranking instructors in their particular martial arts, under the leadership of Dr. Russell Ahn, Director of the UC Martial Arts Program, and Dr. Ken Min, founder of the first major university-based martial arts program in the nation in 1969. The UC Martial Arts Program is described as unique in its mix of athleticism and scholarship, vision and history, innovation and tradition, and it provides martial arts instruction to Cal students and residents of Berkeley and neighboring communities, organizes and hosts instructional seminars, symposiums, and martial art camps, and furthers the presence of martial arts in collegiate, national, and world competitions. The program has produced Olympic hopefuls, has partnerships with Yongin University and Korean National Sport University, and received a one-million-dollar endowment in 1995 from the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Korea and the World Taekwondo Federation, establishing the Ken Min Endowed Directorship for Taekwondo and the Martial Arts. The Universal Locker Room at the RSF is described as an award-winning facility, and the UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps web page notes “4 Stars on Yelp!”
Last updated June 19, 2026.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Marina Explorers is described as a half-day, beginner-friendly outdoor camp that includes kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, shoreline exploration, and hands-on outdoor activities. Sailing activities include rigging, tacking, gybing, capsizing, docking, and knots, while windsurfing activities include balance, steering, and self-rescues, and sea kayaking includes safety procedures and rescue skills. Junior Counselors (ages 16–17) are paid junior staff who gain hands-on experience with children and camp activities along with mentorship. UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps has been making summers fun for campers and easy for families for more than 60 years. The UC Martial Arts Program, which is part of the camp offerings, was started in 1969 and is described as an expanding, dynamic organization that preserves the philosophy, techniques, and traditions of martial arts and develops a scientific understanding of the physical and spiritual implications of human performance.
Instruction in UCMAP clubs is carried out by high-ranking instructors in their particular martial arts, under the leadership of Dr. Russell Ahn, Director of the UC Martial Arts Program, and Dr. Ken Min, founder of the first major university-based martial arts program in the nation in 1969. The UC Martial Arts Program is described as unique in its mix of athleticism and scholarship, vision and history, innovation and tradition, and it provides martial arts instruction to Cal students and residents of Berkeley and neighboring communities, organizes and hosts instructional seminars, symposiums, and martial art camps, and furthers the presence of martial arts in collegiate, national, and world competitions. The program has produced Olympic hopefuls, has partnerships with Yongin University and Korean National Sport University, and received a one-million-dollar endowment in 1995 from the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Korea and the World Taekwondo Federation, establishing the Ken Min Endowed Directorship for Taekwondo and the Martial Arts. The Universal Locker Room at the RSF is described as an award-winning facility, and the UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps web page notes “4 Stars on Yelp!”
Last updated June 19, 2026.
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