Starting & Tactics

Start Gun at the Rolex Middle Sea Race

You know what it's like! Get a good start, even just a few centimetres better than the boats around you and before you know it those centimetres turn into metres and then hundreds of metres. Get it wrong by a few centimetres, and you're out the back door. Playing catch-up. Tactics is the game of cat-and-mouse that you play with and against your competitors. If you're winning, you're thinking in defensive mode. If you had a horrible start and you're in catch-up mode, then you need to move your tactics on to the offensive. Let's take a deeper look at that here...

 

 

Four Great Starting Strategies
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Quick Tips from Saskia Clark
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Planning & Executing the Start, with Scott Nixon
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Calling the perfect start WITHOUT a transit
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Nik Pearson talks through his favourite technique for getting accurate transits and great starts
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MP3: Tactics with Paul Goodison
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Tactician Bucky Smith talks about winning the Etchells Worlds in Melbourne
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MP3: Pre-start Preparation in sportsboats - Justin Chisholm counts down to a great start
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MP3: James Spithill on how to get yourself out of a fine mess
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