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    Team Racing Companion
    Team Racing Companion
    Team Racing Companion
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    Team Racing Companion

    By Chris Atkins

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    Team racing is great for fast, fun and different sailboat racing. It helps develop some key skills for future racing success. This handy companion tells you everything a sailor and coach need to know to enjoy, improve and win at team racing. It describes the most useful moves around the race course, and the key rules that govern such moves. There are sections on how to slow & overtake; how to win the start & control the final beat; the best routines for practising; how to develop as a team & the team roles. One page gives all the winning & losing combinations for 2-, 3- and 4-boat team racing, highlighting the tactics for every combination, with simple tips for making strategy easy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFernhurst Books Limited
    Release dateMay 2, 2014
    ISBN9781909911314
    Team Racing Companion
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    Chris Atkins

    Chris Atkins has won the UK Team Racing National Championships 3 times and the Wilson Trophy twice. He coached Team GBR to gold at the first ISAF World Team Racing Championships and has twice been chief umpire at the World Championships. He was Chairman of Selectors for the GBR Olympic sailing team for Beijing and London. He is an international judge and ISAF Umpire Instructor. He coaches and umpires team racing, running coaching sessions for the Optimist Class throughout the world. He was a Vice President of World Sailing / the International Sailing Federation (ISAF).

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      Team Racing Companion - Chris Atkins

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      WHY GO TEAM RACING?

      Team Racing is great for fast, fun and different sailboat racing.

      In addition team racing really helps develop some key skills essential for future fleet racing success:

      • Starting

      • Boat control in close manoeuvres

      • Boat handling – tacks and gybes in particular

      • Boat-on-boat, and the ability to stay ahead of or overtake an opponent

      Team racing uses the same rules as standard fleet racing, but makes knowledge of them essential for success. Combined with the use of umpires and on-the-water rules decisions, this means it is perfect training for medal races and other umpired racing.

      Team racing also adds the dimension of practising and then racing as part of a team. There is no I in team! The more you work with your team-mates, the faster you will learn and the more successful you will become. And as with all sport, effective time on the practice ground is essential if you want to be confident you will perform on the day.

      For club racers, team racing provides a fun alternative to normal fleet racing.

      For young sailors, team racing will accelerate the journey to becoming a future champion. It should always be used as part of a sailor development programme, rather than as an end in itself. This then gives it a value and importance greater than simply the results at the end of the competition.

      Team racing is one of sailing’s most sociable disciplines, generating life-long friendships. Within your team and with opponents; within your club and with members of other clubs; and within your country and with nationals of other countries. Enjoy some great competition on the water, and a great social ashore afterwards!

      This concise guide is written to help all sailors, coaches, umpires and race organisers enjoy and get fuller benefit from team racing. It is based on the author’s 40 years experience as competitor, coach and umpire.

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      FORMATS

      2-BOAT TEAM RACING

      • The simplest variant requiring fewest resources – just 4 boats, 2 per team.

      • Scoring is simple: the team with last boat loses the race.

      • Particularly good for clubs with a small number of matched keelboats.

      • Also

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