Tactical Intelligence: Manage Your Thought Process
Successful sailors know how to manage their thought process during the race. In The Sailing Cycle, we described Zack Clayton’s […]
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Racing Strategy & Tactics
This category develops your ability to sail smart, focusing on racing strategy and tactics. Subcategories include strategy principles, tactical principles, and specific strategies and tactics for starting, upwind, downwind, reaching, marks and finishes.
Bad Start? Four Recovery Options
Bad starts happen. As we showed in Starting Performance Observations, it’s common to see half or more of the fleet
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Using a Line Sight to Give you Confidence on the Starting Line
Always, always use a line sight. Dave Dellenbaugh, in Speed and Smarts (Issue 128) Are you skeptical about the value
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Cross, Tack, or Duck? Ask the Right Questions
Crossing situations force you to evaluate options, sometimes rather quickly. Asking the right questions will help you make a better
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Wind Shifts While Starting: Impacts and Tips
Ever had your carefully planned approach ruined by last-minute wind shifts while starting? Wind shifts affect your time and distance
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Downwind Strategy Mistakes Part 2: More Ways to Get Passed
In a previous post, we described four downwind strategy mistakes that cause sailors to lose places quickly. We had seen
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Downwind Tactics for Youth with Roble / Shea Sailing
In this week’s episode, Olympic qualifiers Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea discuss downwind tactics for youth. Need a better way
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Line Sag: Illusions and Opportunities
Would it surprise you that the picture above showing line sag is from high level competition on the world stage?
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Starting Mentality: Learn to Be Aggressive
Are you getting bad starts because you’re not being aggressive? If so, what’s holding you back? This post is designed
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Upwind Tactics for Youth with Roble / Shea Sailing
This video about upwind tactics for youth sailors. Do you know what to focus on in each part of the
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Downwind Tactics with Roble / Shea Sailing
In this week’s episode, Olympic Sailing Team members Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea reveal their downwind tactics secrets. There’s plenty
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Upwind Tactics With Roble / Shea Sailing
Expert upwind tactics webinar from 2021 Olympic Sailors Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea. Part of the ILYA Fast Forward webinar series.
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Starting Strategy and Tactics for Youth: ILYA Seminar
2021 Olympic Sailing Team members Steph Roble and Maggie Shea cover all aspects of starting and gave us several good
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Wind and Racing Strategy for Youth: ILYA Seminar
The ILYA, Roble/Shea Sailing, and SailZing, LLC are partnering to develop a series of videos for youth sailors with insights
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Starting: ILYA Fast Forward Seminar
The ILYA, Roble-Shea Sailing, and SailZing, LLC are partnering to bring you a series of videos with insights from ILYA’s
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Racing Strategy: ILYA Fast Forward Seminar
The ILYA, Roble/Shea Sailing, and SailZing, LLC are partnering to bring you a series of video webinars with ILYA’s Olympic
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