That is in fact the real value. Calm under pressure, focus, dealing with mistakes: the same technique that steadies your child on the water steadies them in a school test. You are paying for sailing, and your child is learning for life.
There are five reasons. Your child is alone in the boat and makes their own decisions in seconds. They learn to handle the uncontrollable, because wind and weather do not permit a standardised pitch. It demands head and body at the same time. It teaches respect for nature. And it combines individual responsibility with community. […]
It is a bundle of competences in real time: tactical like chess, physical like athletics, technical like a craft, scientific like applied physics, social like a small community. What your child learns there, they will learn nowhere else all at once.
We talk about your races, your starts, your mistakes. What you feel comes up, but it is a means to an end, not the programme.
Then right now is the moment. Maybe the boat was never the problem.
Only if you want them to. You decide that, nobody else. Not even if your parents are paying, and not even if your club brought us in. We tell them that we are working. What you tell us belongs to you. If you want your parents or your coach to know something, you tell us […]
More people do than you think, and hardly any of them say so. It is not a sign of weakness either, it is your body getting ready. You can learn to turn that around.
That is a subject in its own right, and a common one. We work on where your attention goes when you know somebody is watching. And sometimes we talk to the parents too.
Because you want your child to improve, and because we do not achieve that through pressure or through yet more physical training, but through self-regulation. The result is the same: safer, more focused, more capable. Only the route is different.
In your class everyone sails the same boat. Above a certain level everyone sails at the same speed, and then the head decides. The head is the last boat you can still make faster. There is more to it: you train once a week, when parents, weather and water all cooperate. Mental training you can […]