At your level everyone knows the same adjustments: rake, sail tension, trim, the start line, shifts, laylines, manoeuvres in your sleep. One adjustment stays almost untouched. You know every screw on your boat. When did you last turn the one in your head?
Four typical doors: Injury or an enforced break. Your body is out; your head does not have to be. We bring you back stronger. A lean spell. Maybe the boat was never the problem. The race that counts, whether a championship, a qualifier or an offshore race. So your head is as ready on the […]
No. This is not an extra block, it is a layer that runs on top of what you are doing anyway. It works above all where nothing stood before: in winter, on bad-weather days, in the week between two regattas. Your rivals are ashore in winter too. It is decided on the water – but […]
Yes, that is the core of the idea. The mental methods of elite athletes do not belong to squad athletes alone.
Mid season, yes. Just before it, we have to be honest. If there are still weeks between the first conversation and the start, there is work to be done: on the competition routine, on handling expectation, on the plan for the bad day. If it is only days, nothing can be built. Mental abilities come […]
No. Your coach works on the boat and the technique, we work on the head. If you want us to speak to them, we will; otherwise we won’t.
They don’t need to. We name no names and no classes.
We agree the measures together when taking a fix; see A22. In racing you often end up with things like the quality of your starts, consistency across a series, how much a mistake still costs you, and how you are holding up on the third day of racing. Which of those apply to you is […]