Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:50:04 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://training.sailing.org.za/images/logo.gif http://training.sailing.org.za/ enquiries@inetimagery.co.za http://training.sailing.org.za/Article27.phtml SRSA and Lotto Application Thank you to all the clubs and sailing schools who handed in their budgets for consideration for SRSA and Lotto funding. The applications were submitted last week. I’ll keep you updated on developments but please bear in mind that it will take a few months before we get a response from them.  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:50:04 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article26.phtml NEVIN SAYRE – FLIPPING JUNIOR SAILING UPSIDE DOWN Taken from Scuttlebutt 2516y Lynn Fitzpatrick (January 21, 2008) It’s been decades since Nevin Sayre spent time training in Miami as a member of the US Boardsailing Team. Nowadays, whether it be sailing, windsurfing, or kiteboarding, speedster Sayre knows how to have fun, and he is focused on bringing that attitude down to junior sailing. Nevin and his entourage were in town to host the O'Pen BIC Midwinters, and they put on a spectacle at sailing’s fun zone - Shake-a-Leg Miami - this past weekend. Nearly forty junior sailors from Key Biscayne, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce, Clearwater, and New Orleans elevated Nevin’s and O’Pen Bic’s rule number one - Have Fun - to a new level. Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:28:18 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article25.phtml South African Sailing Academy will be conducting 3 courses in the Northvaal region during June and July 2007. 1) Assistant Club Coaches. One day training for adults on how to coach. Saturday 16 June at PSC 8.45am This course is for any adult who would like to learn how to train both adults and children in sailing at beginner and intermediate sailors. Fri, 25 May 2007 14:39:13 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article24.phtml Affiliated Clubs, Do you have any members who are registered with a SETA as Assessors, Moderators or Facilitators? The South African Sailing Academy needs more people to help speed up the process of accrediting our sailing coaches with THETA. Any sailor who has obtained a qualification of this nature through business will be able to use this to benefit sailing. Please ask such members to send their information to Evelyn Osborne of the SA Sailing Academy at mail@sailing.org.za. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:06:54 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article23.phtml “Hike Hard,” cries the skipper, tactician or fellow crew. Unless you are a solo dinghy racer, when your inner voice is pushing you to hold the planed out position a bit longer; this is request that is rarely met with a grin. The quads, abdominal muscles and surely a few other muscles are all crying out if you are a dinghy racer. The keelboat racer who rides the rail feels a slightly different pain or none (this is not a good thing). Hiking the rail, hanging over a lifeline (which is hopefully padded!) for long periods of time applies pressure to the lower pelvis and posterior thigh muscles. The pain associated with this is the effect of nerve communication and circulation to lower body being disrupted and the body trying to communicate a problem to the head. - Read the complete article on how to better handle your crying muscles in the SailTrim September newsletter: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:53:04 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article22.phtml We welcome you all to the South African Sailing Academy - here is the first of our regular newsletters to keep us all in touch with developments and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on coaching. Developments There has been a positive development in the Academy. As coaches, the SAS EXCO have accepted us fully, and have combined two standing committees, in order to streamline the activities, to enable us all to grow and develop Sailing in our regions. The two separate committees of Community and Development and High Performance, are now under one umbrella,” The South African Sailing Academy.” This is a positive step, as there is a natural flow of expertise from grass roots to high performance. Ronnie Baer will handle this portfolio at SAS level, together with a team of SASA personnel who will keep the wheels turning, according to the principles laid out in the documentation of the Academy. Thank you Ronnie. Over and above the key personnel of the Academy, who will ensure that the documentation of the Academy is acceptable to SAS, THETA and ISAF, there will be a reliable Academy person on each regional EXCO to handle the portfolio of development and liason with the clubs. This is a critical link in the Academy. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:47:03 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article21.phtml By Evelyn Osbourne These courses will be held in each region, with each coach that has attended the coach courses. The course will be combined with the assessments of all coaches, at each venue. Coaches will receive assessment forms, prior to assessments, which, when complete, will be returned to Evelyn at evelyno@telkomsa.net. Each coach who attended the course, has paid for assessment, there will be a small charge for other coaches who wish to be assessed. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:37:29 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article20.phtml (Following are some excerpts from a story by Dan Dickison posted on the Sailnet website.) Being in good physical condition is an imperative at the top levels of our sport, just witness any Volvo Ocean Race or America's Cup camp and you'll see that. And being in reasonable condition should be a priority for almost every sailor—racer, cruiser, or daysailor. Imagine suffering a hernia as you try to get the staysail out of the lazarette 100 miles offshore en route to Panama. That's a scenario we'd all do a lot to avoid, or at least we like to think we'd do a lot to avoid it. Ideally you want a regimen that allows you to work with equal measure on strength, power, endurance, and flexibility. Tou want to create a training regimen that allows you to work on all four areas with equal emphasis. Here's a quick digest to get you started: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:28:55 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article19.phtml With new regatta formats there are always drawbacks and kinks in the beginning. The new format used recently at the 2006 470 Europeans is a variance, or interpretation of the new Olympic top ten final race format. It consists of 5 days of qualifying followed by one day of finals. Fleets are not split into: gold, silver, bronze, emerald, until the last day. Additionally, the gold fleet is only the top ten. Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:05:30 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article18.phtml By Chris Upton for Scuttlebutt In preparation for the Bermuda Race, we spent a Sunday afternoon sailing around a life jacket in 4 knots of breeze. It took 20+ attempts for a crew of eight. I decided to see what it would be like to be in the Gulf Stream. The closest thing in Newport is the YMCA pool. The test tried to take into account as many realities of being in the water as possible. I tried to replicate being tired and worn out from boat handling. Dressed in full foulies, sea boots, a life jacket, a t-shirt and shorts, I jumped in the pool. Thu, 18 May 2006 18:37:00 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article17.phtml How To Tackle The First Beat The first beat is not a place to be greedy or take big risks. Assuming you have negotiated the start in good shape, your all consuming task up the first beat is to get to the windward mark first or at least ahead of your principal rivals if it's an important championship. Thu, 04 May 2006 14:44:33 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article16.phtml by David Dellenbaugh The 720 rule is a great alternative to retiring from the race, but it also requires that you make a quicker decision about what to do. With the 720, you can't take a lot of time to think about whether your were right or wrong. You have a short window of opportunity right after the incident, and then the 720 option is no longer available. Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:48:42 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article15.phtml For those enthusiastic sailors who have not heard of the South African Sailing Academy, read on, to find more detail on the developments in South African Sailing. The Vision is: One accredited organisation, developing sailors in all communities. The Mission is: Create an infrastructure for training coaches and sailors. The Purpose is: Grow and uplift the sport to international standards. After the successful launch of the South African Sailing Academy, we are currently giving coach courses to new and existing coaches to impart knowledge of the standardised coaching levels and to encourage the use of the new coaching documentation.  The course content is most exciting and will provide coaches with the necessary skills to coach sailors, initially up to level 3, Intermediate Sailing, as per the Academy’s sailing skills curriculum. After this, all coaches who wish to join the college of coaches are requested to apply for acceptance as a coach, through the recognition of prior learning process, up to the level of National coach and High performance coach. Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:32:24 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article14.phtml Adam Malcom, a graduate student in the University of Virginia's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program, was awarded the $5,000 grand prize in the first Innovations in Life Jacket Design Competition sponsored by the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and the Personal Flotation Device Manufacturers Association (PFDMA). Competition criteria included wearability; reliability; cost; and innovation. What was notably absent from this list was the need to adhere to any of the established life jacket design regulations. Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:17:59 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article13.phtml After the launch of the Academy, we are now in the next phase - the Coach Education programmes. I have heard positive comments on the Academy, and it is with this support that we will be able to improve sailing coaching through the country.Please advertise as widely as possible. Scout groups in each area are very interested, please ensure that they receive these forms. Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:26:22 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article12.phtml The following article was taken from the Scuttlebutt news letter. Readers are invited to comment on this article by using the comments link below the article. HOW TO MAKE SAILING BETTER, RIGHT NOW! -- Philippe Kahn Here are some thought about what we can learn from the success of golf (I am not a golfer!) 1. Introduce Sailing handicaps in regattas like golf handicaps: In golf a beginner can play against Tiger on the same course at the same time and have a real competition. The handicap system works wonders and makes any game a real challenge. Why not do the same in a regatta. A beginner in the Star fleet would get for example 125 points from Torben Grael in a 9 race event encompassing 40 boats, and so on. Then we'd post the corrected results in the rating computer and after a little while this would make the handicaps as good and interesting as they are in golf. Now we get to race against everyone at all levels, and the competition is meaningful. They play 18 holes in golf, we race 9 races over a weekend. Same principle. Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:56:50 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article11.phtml Team ABN Amro chef and food consultant, Gordon Ramsay gave these tips to their Volvo Ocean Race crews: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:29:48 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article10.phtml The S.A. Sailing Academy is a new structure within S.A. Sailing. It will set up coaching structures to teach Sailing at introductory, beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, in co-operation with sailing clubs running sail training courses. Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:21:01 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article9.phtml The subject of sportsmanship in sailing is a frequent topic at post race discussions these days. There has also been a lot written about sportsmanship problems recently. Sailors are concerned about illegal kinetics, lying, unfair tactics and unprotested infractions, to name a few. I agree that there are some problems. But instead of focusing on the negatives, I'd rather look at what we can do about the situation. So I have made a list of actions that any sailor can take to make our sport a little more pleasant for us all. Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:20:33 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article8.phtml You are invited to the launch of the South African Sailing Academy (SASA) Our sport needs more sailors and teaching novices of all ages how to sail has been identified as a priority for getting more people on the water. Coaching does already happen at many clubs but there is a need to formalise a curriculum, create a common standard and make it possible for coaches to become accredited (and potentially pursue a career in sailing). Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:21:38 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article7.phtml (Russell Coutts talks about sail shape in a posting on his website, which is now available in English, French, German and Italian.) On Lexus (the TP52) we did a lot of work with the sails and improved our boatspeed enormously during the year. By the end I believe our sails were amongst the best in the fleet yet this will no doubt still be an area of future development. The downwind sails are quite different because the speeds of the boats are faster than what we have all become accustomed to having been forced to sail under IMS and other crazy lead fuelled rules for years! Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:00:23 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article6.phtml (Following an excerpt from a story just posted on the UK's Daily Sail subscription website.) All sailors are aware that a little effort in the gym can reap rewards on the race course - be it being able to hike harder, pull harder, last longer or be the optimum weight. It is the domain of the Olympic sailor where this area of the sport is being taken to new heights of professionalism. The RYA has long been involved in the sports science of sailing and we spoke to Pete Cunningham, their Senior Sports Science Officer, about current programmes being implemented for Olympic and near-Olympic level sailors. Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:26:31 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article5.phtml To read more about this and the answers pertaining to these calls click the link below:- Rule 11 On the same tack, Overlapped Rule C7.2 All Penalties Rule C7.3(d) Penalty limitations Rule C8.3 Penalties Initiated By Umpires To download the Adobe document relating to this news item [Click Here] Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:42:55 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article4.phtml In 1993 and 1994, the Training and Development Committee conducted two major surveys of all Member National Authorities (MNA's). As a result, some very revealing facts were brought to our attention, principally: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:25:36 +0200 http://training.sailing.org.za/Article3.phtml Report on work done at two day training seminar held at Pretoria Sailing Club, Friday 26th & Saturday 27th November 2004. Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:36:21 +0200