Conservative Winning Strategies
Here is a great interview of Laser grand master sailor, and former world champion, Peter Shope. Yes you can be somewhat conservative and still win -- at least in Master fleets!
Posts
World Sailing Strategizes
On the heels of its London meeting blunder, that brought up « mixed single handed dinghy » to the 2024 Olympics (nobody knows what it means yet), World Sailing is coming up with a strategy for 2018-2022. The strategy is four-pronged: a) Inspiration and Participation b) Membership and Governance c) Sport Integrity d) Leadership in sport. These are all aspects of the sport that it would be hard to disagree with. Each so called pillar provides implementation strategies. According to reporting by Sailing Illustrated, a key topic of informal conversations at the recent World Sailing meeting in London was the financial issues faced by World Sailing, which is expected to run out of funds in 2019, unless borrowing against future revenues. See Sailing Illustrated interview with Paul Henderson, former President of IYRU, the predecessor of World Sailing, which discusses the financial situation of World Sailing, including the costly and highly questionable move of its head...
Mental Training and the Performance Cycle
"Mental skills are not the elements to work on last. They are the pieces of the puzzle that fit in every step of the way! Mental skills that I commonly work on with athletes include the “Dirty Dozen”: 1) Knowing your Values 2) Understanding your Motivation 3) Engaging SMART Process focused goal-setting 4) Building Self-Talk Habits 5) Developing Routines for Mindful Attention 6) Utilizing Mental Imagery 7) Practicing Self-Attunement 8) Hanging in there with Anxiety Tolerance 9) Getting your needs met through Assertive Communication 10) Channeling your (negative) Emotions into positive effort 11) Staying the course with Energy Management 12) Using Anxiety Reduction (because you can, not because you have to)" Check the full article by Tim Herzog http://ussailing.blog/mental-training/
Developing an Annual Training Plan
This is an excellent contribution about planning one’s season for success, through an Annual Training Plan (ATP), by Justin Norton. « At the core of the ATP we are looking at the events that matter the most. This could be the Olympics or a club championship and requires some thought when determining what your most important regatta is. We will refer to these as “A” events, and we can only realistically select two of these in a season. The reason for this is because they require a high level o f freshness as well as a build and taper period leading into them. Typically the events will be spaced within 1-2 months of each other. » https://internationalsailingacademy.com/2017/09/creating-annual-training-plan/ NOTE: the Canadian Optimist class has not really integrated that into their thinking. They are expecting the top sailors to participate in both the Canadian championships and the Worlds, which are just about 1-2 DAYS apart (if you exclude travel time) and are … 10 ...