Hey Team,
Welcome to Long Beach! I'm looking forward to a great week of training and I can't wait to hit the water with all of you. My goal this week is to make sure that all three teams walk away with some valuable video, data, and feedback from the week, so at any point this week, please let me know if there is anything specifically that you'd like to focus on, or anything that I can help with and I'll do my best to work it into our training schedule. I thought I'd take this opportunity to lay out my thoughts on the week, so that we're all on the same page and can hit the ground running.
I've chatted briefly with representatives from each team about your goals for the week and right now the feedback that I've gotten has been largely that starting and boat handling are big priorities. I'd like to start each day with 10 minutes of straight line tune ups just to get the rigs right, but we will quickly transition into boat handling and starting drills, leveraging the 3 boats to keep the intensity high.
I've posted a preliminary schedule at www.mcbrideracing.com/lb49er, and will try to keep this updated each day as we make tweaks. We have one double session on the schedule, but for the most part, I'd like to prioritize good video debriefs this week, so I'm thinking that we'll use the mornings for that most days. As such, the daily schedule will be breakfast for those who are interested, followed by a video debrief on the Janov boat, and then sailing in the afternoon. Lately the max wind has been around 4pm, and I'd love to try to sail through the building breeze most days, so we'll try to adjust our launch times to catch the build and then sail in the breeze if possible. After sailing, I like to debrief for 15-30 min after sailing each day just to chat about what was important that day, but we'll save the majority of the discussion for a time when everyone is dry and rested. I'll try to send out all of the day's video each evening for you to review if you'd like before the next day's debrief.
I have GoPros for each boat, but if you guys have your own, let's chat about how to upload the video each night so that we can include it in our debriefs if it's relevant. All of the video that I collect this week will end up on an "unlisted" Youtube playlist that is embedded at the bottom of the training block webpage, here. I also have GPS watches for each team if you'd like to use them, so that we can compare tracks each day. Ultimately, my goal with 3 teams on the water is to document the week as well as possible to facilitate better discussions in debriefs, and help put interesting data in front of you at the end of each day.
Finally, Quinn Wilson will be coming out to shoot photos and video on Monday the 17th I believe. If there are any shots that you want to get for sponsors or anything, I'm sure he'd be happy to help, but think about what that might be ahead of time so that we can put him to work!
Looking forward to a great week of sailing with you all!
Best,
Willie