[Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?

[JBeckey at hidglobal.com]

Sounds good to me.  Presto is in.



From:
"Ernest Brody" <epbrody at earthlink.net>
To:
<martyfossen at yahoo.com>, <sonar at lists.wyc.org>
Date:
06/27/2009 07:14 PM
Subject:
Re: [Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?
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I?m in.  I?ll go on a boat or provide Sesame Street.
 
Ernest
 
From: sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org [mailto:sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On 
Behalf Of martyfossen at yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:03 PM
To: sonar at lists.wyc.org
Subject: [Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?
 

Hey,

Since there's no fleet races that night, who wants to work on this team 
racing stuff with me that evening?   Of course, six boats make an actual 
team race, but with anywhere from 1 to 5 boats, we can still work for 
various drills that would allow us to work on the team racing moves.

5:30 leave the dock.  The practice area will be just a few hundred yards 
into the bay. 
We'd borrow 3 to 5 buoys. If starts were in the mix, somebody on one of 
our boats will blow the 3-minute whistle sequence.

Please let me know 
  who of you is in for this, 
  who of you will bring a boat, 
  and who you'll bring with you.

If weather/wind doesn't cooperate, we could still do some kind of seminar.

The drills include:
1 boat:  boat handling related to team racing, such as 
    full-speed roll tacks and roll jibes
    down-speed roll tacks and roll jibes
    parking for a long time, then accelerating.
    mark-rounding nuances
    360s, 720s

2 boats: 
   mark traps
   ducks, lee bows, slam-dunks, and related offense and defense
   match-racing-like starts, i.e. dial-up, circling, and other tactical 
maneuvers to gain 
                                             advantage at the start

3 boats:
   "piggy in the middle" which is where you pretend the middle boat is on 
the opposing 
    team and the front boat tries to block and/or slow that middle boat to 
pull his third place 
    team mate up.  As soon as the positions change, the drill continues 
with the new 
    middle boat as the "piggy in the middle".  This drill can happen in 
open water or can 
    include marks which then allows mark trap practice as well as the open 
water 
    pass-backs.

4 boats:
   The winner of a 2 on 2 team race is the team that does NOT have the 
boat in last place.
   i.e.  1-4 loses to 2-3 even though the total points are the same.

5 boats: 
    There's an imaginary 5th place boat.  I need to get clarification on 
the mechanics of this 
    scheme from Blake, but it allows work on team racing tactics and 
    maneuvers.

6 boats:
   Obviously an actual team race is an option, but perhaps we'd start with 
two 3-boat "piggy 
   in the middle" drills to warm up since that drill is especially 
fruitful in learning the moves.

More than 6 boats?   Could it happen?  If so, we'll figure something out.

Thanks,
MF
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