Like many professional sailors, Paul Cayard is obsessive about getting everything right. It's about the small details all adding up to an improved performance which spells the difference between winning and losing, right? Well, yes, a lot of the time. But what about when you've got two equal choices to make? What then? A great lesson in sailing here, and a great lesson in life...
Don't let the pecking order grind you down! That's the message from Sir Ben Ainslie and Iain Percy in Part 2 of ‘How to get good quick'. There's a fine balance between learning from the best in a new class, without making them the heroes you look up to, and therefore can never beat. Ben says: "I tend to look at the fast people's boats and the way they set them up. But you can't copy everything, you've just got to try to form your own style by taking the best of what other people do and trying a few new things of your own......"
