Roles and responsibilities within the boat may be clearly divided or may change ownership during a race. Olympic gold medal winning coach Jon Emmett explains why it is well worth regularly reviewing how the responsibilities are divided. Both sit down and make a list of all the things you need to do before doing a tack/gybe/bear away/head up etc and compare notes.
One of the enduring themes of all our conversations with top sailors is their ‘Never Say Die’ (NSD) attitude. No matter how bad things get, you just do whatever it takes to get the job done. Because you never know how things might work out. The America’s Cup World Series racing in Bermuda saw Artemis Racing deliver a perfect example of NSD.
Video: Top 470 sailor, Santiago Masseroni, reckons people are too ready to use luck as an excuse for their own failures, or other sailors' successes. Deep, philosophical stuff, but all the more interesting for it...
After retiring from 49er racing in 2004, Paul Brotherton went on to coach Sarah Ayton's crew to gold in the Yngling at the 2008 Olympics. Here, Paul reveals the single most important ingredient that he took away from the Ayton campaign and which he has since applied to everything he has done since, both as a championship sailor and a world-class coach...
The Melges class is so tough, the demands on team work and good communication are very high. Justin Chisholm made some radical recommendations to improve his team's performance, and luckily he wasn't thrown overboard...
What if you could listen in to the chit-chat on your sailing heroes’ boats? What would you hear, what would you learn? If you’ve sailed with a number of different people, you’ll know how different the on-board patter can be, and how different the results are...
Part 2 of our look at the power of incurable optimism, and also the power of incurable pessimism. If you don’t think you can cross that starboard-tacker, you probably won’t...
Britain’s Olympic Sailors have a fearsome reputation, and one of their great skills is their ability to focus on the stuff that matters, and cast aside the worries and distractions that bother most sailors. Here are the Six Things that the RYA Olympic coaches get their sailors to work on. Everything else that comes your way, it's just a matter of the right attitude...
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then maybe your name is Russell Coutts. If it’s not, then read what the three-time America’s Cup winner has to say about keeping calm in a crisis.....
Paige Railey has won the Laser Radial Europeans 2009. This victory means a lot to the American who spent a year of soul-searching, asking some hard questions of herself after losing the US Olympic Trials to Anna Tunnicliffe. Railey is incredibly frank and honest about the changes she has gone through to get back to the top of her game...
Santiago Lange has represented Argentina in five Olympic Games, but it wasn't until his last two outings in 2004 and 2008 that he finally won medals, two bronzes in the Tornado. Maybe this had something to do with his crew, Carlos Espinola, who had already won two windsurfing medals at previous Olympic Regattas. Nothing like having someone there who's been there and done it before. Santiago talks about how some sailors thrive on pressure while others buckle under it, and shares his advice on what young sailors with high hopes should do as they find their way in the sport.
One of the enduring themes of all our conversations with top sailors is their ‘Never Say Die’ (NSD) attitude. No matter how bad things get, you just do whatever it takes to get the job done. Because you never know how things might work out. The America’s Cup World Series racing in Bermuda saw Artemis Racing deliver a perfect example of NSD.
How cool are you under pressure? It's not until you hear yourself on play-back that you really realise what you're like!
What if you could listen in to the chit-chat on your sailing heroes’ boats? What would you hear, what would you learn? If you’ve sailed with a number of different people, you’ll know how different the on-board patter can be, and how different the results are...
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then maybe your name is Russell Coutts. If it’s not, then read what the three-time America’s Cup winner has to say about keeping calm in a crisis.....
Paige Railey has won the Laser Radial Europeans 2009. This victory means a lot to the American who spent a year of soul-searching, asking some hard questions of herself after losing the US Olympic Trials to Anna Tunnicliffe. Railey is incredibly frank and honest about the changes she has gone through to get back to the top of her game...
Santiago Lange has represented Argentina in five Olympic Games, but it wasn't until his last two outings in 2004 and 2008 that he finally won medals, two bronzes in the Tornado. Maybe this had something to do with his crew, Carlos Espinola, who had already won two windsurfing medals at previous Olympic Regattas. Nothing like having someone there who's been there and done it before. Santiago talks about how some sailors thrive on pressure while others buckle under it, and shares his advice on what young sailors with high hopes should do as they find their way in the sport.