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Team Race Curriculum

Generalizations

Look for opportunities to get to the course right of an advantaged opponent

Shout out a play call every quarter leg, every time you round a mark, and every time a position change happens

If you hear a play call, yell it back to let everyone know you heard it

Constantly practice your down speed boat handling

Understand your wind shadow on both the upwind and downwind

Know what each boats role is on each play

Be able to recognize ladder rungs while racing

Do whats best for the team

Ask for help, the quicker everyone realizes you are in trouble the better for the team

Sail your attacker toward your teammates

Starting

When to push/pull

Roles of each boat

Boat

Be able to lead/control to the right side of the course at Go

Last to enter the box

Middle

Think fleet race start

Look for an opportunity to put an opposing boat in your zone

2nd to enter the box

Be able to lead/control to the left side of the course at Go

1st to enter the box

Above all else make sure you are even, full speed, and on the line at Go

even if you destroy your pair off the line, if you are behind everyone else, it is not a good start

First Beat

Off the line look for opportunities to put someone in your zone

After someone is in your zone or you cant, the goal is to fleet race to the mark.

If you are an edge boat, make sure you are leading the opponent to the edge and covering them to the middle

Extend on the favored/lifted tack for a few seconds after a pair tacks ( even if that means letting them out of your zone)

Mark 1

Think 3 steps ahead on approach, ask if another boat on starboard can get to you, it is ok to overstand the port tack layline to give yourself room to duck

Never set a Mark 1 mark trap

Understand how to break a mark 1 mark trap

Windward Offset/Mark 2

Understand how to set and break a mark 2 mark trap

Downwind

Understand how to set up your play around mark 2 based on your combination

Know when to balance

Proper balancing is throwing jabs, not going for the knockout blow

Know how to attack from behind

pass backs

double teams

high-low

Mark 3

Understand how to set and break mark 3 mark traps

This is where communication and awareness are the most important

Leeward Offset/Mark 4

Understand how to set and break a mark 4 mark trap

Second Beat

Understand how to set up your play around mark 4 based on your combo

If there is an opponent to be covered, mark sure they are in someones zone

Control the edges

Extend in the lifted/favored tacks and towards the finish line

Know when and how to balance upwind

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