Course #7: Goals, Mindset and Race preparation

The preparation for an event begins the moment you decide to participate. In the interim period, there are a number of things you CAN, COULD or SHOULD work on depending on priorities, wishes and ambitions.

In this lesson, we look at the long-term preparation, focusing on condition and understanding of the equipment, crew and planning. We also look at the short-term planning: wind statistics, gear and race-day preparation, pre-race schedule, sails selection and checklists are reviewed.

We will also dive into sport psychology of sailing. You will learn about working with different types of goals, each vastly different with separate purposes. And you will be presented to a set of mentale tools that can help you at various stages in a learning process, sailing campaign or an important regatta

The following quote is quite descriptive of this course:

“We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

(William Durant, (not Aristotle))

The course is divided into chapters, total about 1h10 runtime