Would it surprise you that the picture above showing line sag is from high level competition on the world stage? In the ILYA Fast Forward webinars, we learned from Roble/Shea sailing that line sag is common even at the top…
Starting Strategy & Tactics
This category covers starting strategy and tactics, including where to start, approaching the line, creating a gap, judging the line, accelerating, and priorities immediately after the start.
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Are you getting bad starts because you’re not being aggressive? If so, what’s holding you back? This post is designed to help you identify and eliminate barriers to an aggressive starting mentality. Even if you don’t have all the skills,…
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2021 Olympic Sailing Team members Steph Roble and Maggie Shea cover all aspects of starting and gave us several good tips to get that front row start. The youth sailors also had lots of good questions. The ILYA, Roble/Shea Sailing,…
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The ILYA, Roble-Shea Sailing, and SailZing, LLC are partnering to bring you a series of videos with insights from ILYA’s Olympic qualifiers, Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea. The videos are edited recordings of live webinars conducted in Spring 2020. This…
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Given the importance of a good start, you’d think that everyone would work very hard to master the techniques. But how many of us actually have good starting performance? We studied SailZing’s drone video of one MC Scow race and…
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SailZing is presenting a series of “Tactical IQ” sessions to help you think through common race situations. For this session, we put six starting tactics scenarios in front of a group of scow sailors with SailZing’s model boats and recorded…