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What The Authors Say About Be Your Own Sailing Coach
If you want to win races you need to get organised! This unique guide shows you how to set your overall sailing goals, and breaks them down into manageable – yet stretching – mini-goals.
Jon Emmett breaks racing down into 20 key skills (such as speed to windward and tactics) and, with detailed analysis of key techniques, uses a step-by-step guide to explain how to highlight your own strengths and weaknesses, and how you can improve each skill.
This book will help you get to the front of the fleet, whether your goal is to win at club, open, national or international level. You will get tips from Olympic racers, and learn their approaches to each key skill; improve you sailing technique in manageable stages; and discover how to set goals and create the action plans to achieve them.
Along the way you will find advice from Olympic sailors and exercises to turn you into a winner, with contributions from Paul Goodison, Simon Hiscocks and Joe Glanfield.
A version of this title specifically for iPad/tablet devices is also available. Please see Be Your Own Sailing Coach (For Tablet Devices).
From the Back Cover
Become your own sailing coach and learn the 20 goals for racing success.
Be Your Own Sailing Coach is unique: it shows you how to set your own overall sailing goals, and breaks them down into manageable – yet stretching – mini-goals.
Jon Emmett breaks racing down into 20 key topics and explains how you can highlight your own strengths and weaknesses for each. It is written so you can dip in and out of the chapters, each containing useful exercises, so you can spend time on those relevant to your needs.
Use Be Your Own Sailing Coach to get to the front of the fleet, whether your goal is to win at club, open, national or international level.
- Get tips from successful Olympic racers and their approach to each key skill.
- Improve your sailing technique in manageable stages.
- Discover how to set goals and create the action plans to achieve them.
- Detailed analysis of key techniques with a step-by-step guide to how you can improve each skill according to your own objectives.
What we thought of Be Your Own Sailing Coach
A great book – very comprehensive and full of fantastic tips for improving your sailing.
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