Sailing is a costly sport in time. Drive out, rig up, two hours afloat, de-rig, drive home – two hours of training swallows five. Add whole months when frost and ice stop everything. And for children, every session depends on a parent with a car. Do the arithmetic once. A young sailor training once a […]
Individual tools work immediately: a breathing sequence or a start ritual is something you can try on the water the next day. Before a change holds and survives a bad day, it takes longer. A typical mental training project runs between three and twenty-four months. Three months when a specific occasion lies ahead of you. […]
Mental training is an independent part of professional training, not an add-on. Like technique, tactics and fitness, it needs time, seriousness and regularity to work. It is also a question of attitude: treat it as a side dish and you will experience it as one. Between sessions there is practice, reliably and in small doses. […]
The other way round. Calm is not a renunciation of ambition, it is the condition for your ambition arriving. The same calm that lets you win lets you enjoy it.
Children learn complex technique best between roughly nine and thirteen; mental methods take hold from about ten to twelve. With younger ones we work playfully, through the boat and through self-efficacy, not through method.
No. People returning after twenty years away, and people who fulfil the dream of their own boat at sixty, are among the most rewarding briefs there are.
Then we tell you, and we stop at that point. We are mental trainers, not therapists. We help you find the right place, and the door stays open for when you want to carry on out on the water.
Yes, and with no back door. What is discussed in a session stays there. One single person has authority over that confidentiality, and it is the person being trained. Not us, not whoever pays, not whoever made the introduction. That holds when parents book, when a club commissions us, and when a crew trains together. […]
Because the phrase puts many people off and runs empty quickly on a website. We say it just as readily as: head work, mental seamanship, learning composure, building assurance. And we often say it through the benefit: groundwork for enjoyment, groundwork for performance, groundwork for success.
Both. Individual work, crew and team training, workshops at clubs and schools, evening talks. With a team you are not buying the individual head, you are buying what happens between the heads.