Be Your Own Sailing Coach: 20 Goals for Racing Success (Wiley Nautical) [Paperback]

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"This is a very comprehensive, well-designed book that covers pretty much everything you need to know to go out and win."

The ultimate self–learning guide to sailboat racing

In this practical self–coaching guide for the serious racing buff, veteran sailing coach Jon Emmett explains how anyone can improve his or her sailing technique in manageable stages. By breaking down racing into 20 key topics, Emmett shows how aspiring yacht and dinghy racers can learn to measure their own strengths and weaknesses and improve key skills step by step. The book also includes practical tips and wisdom from Olympic champions including Paul Goodison and Joe Glanfield.

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.
  

Jon Emmett is a successful Laser Radial sailor, representing the UK internationally for over 15 years. He has ranked number one in the UK for nine years, won the Europa cup series and European Springs, and twice finished top five in the World Championships. He is currently embarking on his third Olympic campaign.

Jon has been a professional coach since 2000 and has coached up to Olympic level, specialising in single–handed boats and team racing. He is also the training officer for the UK Laser class association.