Race training

Forget coaching, most club dinghy racers don't even practice!

Launch just in time for the 5 minute fun, finish the race and come straight in for a pint.

Exactly my point and who's to say that's a bad thing.

Originally posted by Do Different I cannot see anything especially difficult about organising dinghy coaching. It all comes down to demand, if the demand was there it would happen no question. Riders regularly trail horses to visit coaches at all levels from local instructors, through national competitors and even up to international level. Also many golfers sign up to regular coaching at no small cost. It would take very little for groups to travel to the home club of a "celeb" competitor or arrange for their own club RIB to be available to carry a coach. The fact the people are finding it difficult to get private adult coaching simply shows that the majority are not interested.

I wouldn't like to comment on the expectations or dedication of others.

Edited by Do Different - 16 Nov 19 at 10:07am

Originally posted by Rupert Most tennis coaches aren't Roger Federer, or football coaches Maradona. I think people understand that at club level you get club coaches. But, as someone pointed out earlier, if we don't even practice solo or in pairs or in groups, what chances for someone being hired to run something and people showing up? My most successful coaching sessions are for Sailability members and volunteers for an hour at the end of our Wednesday sessions, sailing Hansa 303s. But then I have a captive audience. The difference has been noted both at Hansa events and at Laser club racing at a different club. Coaching, even by someone who has no gold medals, can work...

Indeed and there  is enough of a pool out there of people  who do have 'lesser'  but still isgnificant achievements who can coach effectively. 

but   with the absence of  the squad system in the past  and the current antipathy  displayed towards it  here  it's perhaps surprising ...   

taking an example from Dance , there are a lot of teachers who were 'vocationally' trained  (and got the exact same  training and education as the Darcey Bussells, Wayne Sleep or Carlos Acostas of this world )  but  either they realised their talent  was going to  run at  corps/ coryphee / junior soloist levle or they  struggled to cope with company life - so  they  settle down for a more stable life  teaching and coaching,  and maybe doing the odd bit of jobbing work ... 

Equally  there are  practitioners who have performed at the highest level  who enjoy teaching class for randon recreational dancers , because  of the different pressure  recreational dancers put on themselves vs  other pros....