Improving your Results with Deliberate Practice

In conditions where boat speed is faster than wave speed, we’re often looking for opportunities to overtaking waves. Here are 3 useful methods to execute this: In most conditions sailing by the lee gives us a lot of speed, depth, and options. Once it’s possible for overtaking waves we want to find the lower spots […]

Train with Nick Thompson in Vilamoura, Portugal for the ISA Master’s Laser Sailing Clinic Nick Thompson is a world-class laser sailor and coach. He is a 2-time Laser World Champion and Olympian with 6 years of coaching experience at the highest levels of sailing. At this point in his career, he says, it’s increasingly about […]

There is much skill-based, tactical, and strength-based importance to Laser Sailing. And while not exclusively an endurance sport, on a moderate or windy day especially, greater cardiovascular exercise will enhance a sailor’s performance significantly. There’s an unlimited demand for a Laser Sailors cardiovascular exercise overall due to short, medium and long term recovery demands of […]

Train with Nick Thompson in Vilamoura, Portugal for the ISA Master’s Laser Sailing Clinic Training for a master’s event? Hoping to improve your scores over your last event? Nick Thompson shares his laser sailing tips on how to develop a winning approach to the master’s sailing. As a Laser World Champion and Olympian with 6 […]

In the right conditions, use a lee to lee jibe to stay in clear air and keep your options open on the downwind. We cover gybes like this and their appropriate tactical and strategical applications in our Performance Clinics. Watch the video on the tactical lee to lee jibe to learn more about it.   […]

Train with Nick Thompson in Vilamoura, Portugal for the ISA Master’s Laser Sailing Clinic Nick Thompson is a world-class laser sailor and coach. He is a 2-time Laser World Champion and Olympian with 6 years of coaching experience at the highest levels of sailing. At this point in his career, he says, it’s increasingly about […]

Train with Nick Thompson in Vilamoura, Portugal for the ISA Master’s Laser Sailing Clinic Training for a master’s event? Hoping to improve your scores over your last event? Nick Thompson shares his laser sailing tips on how to develop a winning approach to the master’s sailing. As a Laser World Champion and Olympian with 6 […]