Where to get Race Coaching for Adults

 

I think you are missing the point  somewhat.  the aim for the   racing training scheme is not about badges or carrots  it's about getting meaningful hours on the water  and  the opportunity to do lots of purposeful activity -  it doiesn;t matter   about conditions although a mix across the time you spend on the course  is useful  - also by doing the  the 22  race training / boat handling exercises that  used to appear in the dinghy coaching handbook  you  have  defined outcomes to work towards you can do dozens of of starts , mark rounding  etc in a short  period of time  as well as  improving  boat handling techniques 

it will depend on your students  - level 2  has never tried to produce fast  or technically good  sailors ,'just' safe sailors who can sail indepdently  in moderate condtions . 

that's the starting point you have to assume for new racers 

as another poster has pointed out   it is relatively straightforward to get the level 2  coach training  if you have suitably  experienced  sailors who wish to do it  and for  'Start racing'  and 'intermediate ' levles  if you have  among your trainers  people with a good regional record and/'or  some national tinware  the  'extra' level of skill and knowledge is probably there  and alot will hinge on their  teaching / coaching / mentoring abilities 

at the 'advanced'  ( youth blue badge of old) and 'beyond advanced' (what  youth did/ does at 'winter training / Squad selection' is where  wanting the  truely fast ferrets of the world  on the coaching team comes into it;s own  as the  those who take and develop the skills taught at this levle are the ones who will be looking  to  the tinware locally / regionally and putting in decent perofrmances at  the national level - the key factor really being how much time  they  are prepared to put in )

there is  at present  a structure  which supports  staged  race training  for both youth and adult sailors 

this is an improvement over the position of the not so distant past ( although this more a point for the  'what have the RYA ever done for us'  thread)  where there wasn;t  a great deal of adult  race training activity between G4 scheme  level 4 and  'elite' 

 to a greater or lesser degree until you are are the 'intermediate'  level  WRT race training  bringing  in an external  big name is  possibly  excessive ( but  if you cvan afford  it why the hell not) ,  in the deep dark past of my  experience of race training  as a youth  i'm quite sure my intermediate / white badge   course would have been just as useful without  the presence of JERS  but it was  nice to have the input of the king ferret ...

the presence of the bigger names  was useful at Winter training  - but at that point   credibiliy  = tinware = credibility  ( virtuous circle) 

there's three aspects to good race training 

1. make the boat go fast 
2. put the boat in the right place 
3. integration of 1+2 above 

I've deliberately  put it in that order  as  significant parts of 1  come first 
if you  boat is not set up to a reasonable 'norm'  of base settings  for the crew mass  it takes an exceptional level of 2 and 3 to perform 

as a not officially an AI because they didn't  exist  at the time , I could generally out pace  99% of learners even level 2 to 3 improvers in a topper despite being ' over weight ' for a topper - because i'd hads thousands of hours on the water by that point  across maybe a dozen different classes ( but significant hours in topper, raser ladial and standard  rig laser) and could sail by 'feel' -  the unconciously competent  stage of the 4 stage  model of skills .


i should also point out at this point i hold an NQF level  6 teaching and assessing award  and have been involved in teaching and assessing  in a variety of 'workplace' settings including  emergency care , acute hospitals and the logistics  industry