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Speed Week Exclusive

Starting from
$2,700
per person · charter included
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DatesApril 6, 2026 – April 11, 2026
Duration6 Days
CoachPaul Swan, PhD
Group Size5
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About This Clinic

Work with Coach Paul Swan, PhD, in this rare opportunity to take your boatspeed to the next level over six consecutive days of training in paradise. Please note there is limited availability for this clinic. Enjoy the epic conditions of La Cruz, Mexico with one of the best ILCA coaches in the world.

Paul has been utilizing his PhD in learning systems to constantly put ISA’s coaching program through the gears, ensuring maximum learning progression. As a resident coach, he has sailed in nearly every ISA clinic held since 2013 and has meticulously analyzed each coach’s content, delivery, and effectiveness firsthand. After years of clinic evolution through his own coaching, he’s distilled everything into a rock-solid program of his own creation: Speed Week.

This exclusive clinic focuses on the three skills that make up the majority of an ILCA race and have the most potential to improve your race results: Starting, Upwind Speed, and Downwind Speed. Using world champions and gold medalists as our models, we’ll analyze their techniques and turn them into efficient and effective instruction that enables you to incorporate those techniques into your own racing. In addition, Coach Swan will introduce key mental-game techniques from sports psychology. These techniques, combined with improvements in the key categories above, will make you virtually unbeatable!

About Your Coach
Coach Paul Swan, PhD
Paul Swan, PhD
PhD in Learning Systems · ILCA Coach

Paul Swan, PhD has meshed his PhD in Learning Systems with 10 years of studying the best ILCA coaches and sailors in the world, synthesizing a custom program that produces some of the fastest progression we have seen. He advises ISA on instructional material and, as a resident coach, has sailed in nearly every ISA clinic held since 2013.

Boatspeed SpecialistISA Resident Coach

What You'll Learn

  • Starting Technique
  • Acceleration
  • Upwind Speed
  • Downwind Speed
  • World champion and gold medalist technique models
  • Mental game techniques from sports psychology

Daily Schedule

Day 1
Acceleration, Upwind Speed
Day 2
Downspeed Maneuvers and Boathandling
Day 3
Upwind Speed & Downwind Speed
Day 4
Mark Roundings
Day 5
Starting
Day 6
Racing Integration

What's Included

  • 6 days of on-water coaching with Paul Swan, PhD
  • ILCA charter boat: hull, blades, spars, and deck hardware
  • Daily video review and performance feedback
  • 1 Month Access to Virtual Coaching for New Subscribers
  • Maximum 5 Sailors per Clinic

Not Included

  • Meals and Accommodations
  • Sail, battens, control lines, tiller & extension
Gallery
Paul Swan, PhD coaching during Speed Week Exclusive
ILCA training on Banderas Bay
Paul Swan, PhD Speed Week training on Banderas Bay
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Prerequisites: Limited availability: 5 sailors.