Have you set any goals for your sailing this year? If you have, then well done, you are on the right track. Of all the things that full-time, professional sailors do compared with the rest of us, the weekend warriors, disciplined goal-setting is perhaps one of the key distinguishing factors. Former Olympic sailors Ian Barker and Cathy Foster spell out the importance of S.M.A.R.T....
Mat Belcher and Will Ryan should have been disappointed with third place at the 470 European Championships in Monaco recently, you might think. Not at all for the usually all-conquering Aussies though. For the Olympic medallists, this was a 'process' regatta, not an 'outcome' regatta, to use the parlance of top athletes....
Audio (07:45 min): Three-time 470 Women's World Champion and Olympic silver medallist Marcelien de Koning says goal-setting is such a massive part of her life that she hasn't been able to stop - even after the Olympics...
Dave Hughes, winning crew in the 2015 edition of the 470 Europeans, talks about getting your priorities right and how to identify blind alleys before you drive down them and waste valuable training time...