Be Your Own Sailing Coach

By Jon Emmet

Published by Wiley Nautical, March 08

This unique book shows you how to set your overall sailing goals and then break them down into manageable (yet stretching) mini-goals – a truly essential guide to the mental, physical and technical skills needed to win races.

The author details how to break racing down into 20 key topics and how to highlight your own strengths and weaknesses for each. For example, starting the race well is vital and can be practised alone, with a buoy and a stopwatch, yet few sailors bother to do this. The same is true for buoy rounding, upwind speed and so on. Tips such as this are written in a way that allows you to dip in and out of the chapters (which each contain useful exercises) so you can spend time on those most relevant to your needs.

In short, Be Your Own Sailing Coach can used to get you to the front of the fleet, whether your goal is to win at club, national or international level by:

·         Providing helpful comments from ace racers describing how they approached the topic.

·         Detailing how to improve your sailing technique in manageable stages.

·         Showing you how to set goals and create action plans to achieve them.

·         Giving analysis of key techniques with a step-by-step to how you can improve each skill according to your own objectives.

About The Author

Jon Emmett is a successful Laser Radial sailor.  He coaches professionally, particularly in single-handed boats.

ISBN: 978-0-470-31929-1:  Hardback:  £14.99 / €22.50

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