Women's training and coaching
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Pia Hattersley reports:
Over the past few months DBSC held a series of four Women’s Regatta laser training and coaching sessions.
The sessions were conducted by DBSC member, the suitably qualified and fabulous Sylvie Stannage. Sessions covered general boat handling, upwind, downwind and race starts, across a range of wind speeds on various Saturday mornings during winter, including Saturday just past at the onset of this vile weather we are experiencing. One participant had even driven with her laser from the Central Coast to join this particularly soggy, but fun, training session!
The training is part of DBSC’s ongoing initiative to support women in sailing and aimed to improve racing technique and confidence for female sailors. The sessions were extremely well received, with participants commenting that they learnt so much from Sylvie and valued the opportunity to then practice these skills in a small group. As well as being a valuable learning opportunity, the sessions were of course a lot of fun and left everyone wanting to know when we could do it again.
A big thank you from DBSC to Sylvie for taking the time to participate and share her knowledge with us and thank you to all participants for joining us. Let’s do it again!
The level of commitment and enthusiasm demonstrated by the participants in this event demonstrates the importance of the club’s program of events culminating in the Women’s Regatta.
The Women’s Regatta will be returning to DBSC later this year (watch this space for dates) and we will be conducting more women’s training in the lead up to this regatta. In the meantime, sign up for more information here.