The 2007 and 2008 Laser World Champion Tom Slingsby talks about the technique that makes him so devastatingly quick upwind in the breeze (approx 2 minutes)...
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Matt Wearn is one of the fastest Laser sailors in the world in 2015, not least at Delta Lloyd Regatta in the short, sharp chop of Medemblik in Holland. The extraordinary photo of Matt with the tiller extension up around his ear looks all wrong (although full marks for commitment to hiking!). But of course a photo doesn't mean much without context. So we asked Matt what he was up to, and why it seems to work...
Coach to Tom Slingsby, Michael Blackburn is a great sailor in his own right. Blackburn has won an Olympic bronze medal in the Laser, and won the Laser World Championships aged 35. Even as he approaches middle age, Aussie is as fit as a butcher's dog, and a good man to ask about how to hike the Laser...
