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Marketing with Australian Sailing: SheSails

SheSails is designed to recognise all the amazing female contributors to our sport, and to encourage women of all ages to get involved in the sport of sailing through organised activities at their local sailing club.

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Thu 01 Dec 2022

ASC and SIA partner to help community sport build safer environments

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) have come together to launch a free online safeguarding module to support community sporting clubs to keep their environments safe.

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Wed 23 Nov 2022

Coaching and instructing those with an Intellectual Disability

Following on from last month’s article where we looked at autism we are now focusing on sailors and participants who might have an Intellectual disability and what coaching and instruction techniques will help you in teaching someone with an intellectual disability.

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Tue 22 Nov 2022

Advanced Fleet Coaching

Are you a Coach delivering Advanced-fleet programs at your club, or with your class Association? Australian Sailing has a range of resources available to assist you with preparing sailors in any class of boat or board for State and National championships.

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Mon 21 Nov 2022

Top Tips for Keelboat Instructors – Nickie Jones

In each Training in Focus edition, we will provide some bite-sized, practical, easy to implement ‘Top-Tips’ from experienced instructors and coaches from around the country, that you can incorporate into your session planning and delivery throughout the season.  In this edition, is Nickie Jones’s Top-Tips for Keel Boat instructors!

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Mon 21 Nov 2022

Tackers - Why games are important

Why bring games and play into learning? We often think of play as something children do outside of the formal learning environment, just for fun. However, the use of games in learning to sail, is a valuable activity, children of all ages have better engagement, better retention, and learn quicker.

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Mon 21 Nov 2022

Reflection and Self-Evaluation

We all want to be the best coaches we can, and in turn, create the best environments and opportunities for the development of the sailors we coach.

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Mon 21 Nov 2022

Marketing with Australian Sailing: Promotional Videos

Promotional videos are an incredible tool to market the sport of sailing to members and potential members alike.

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Mon 14 Nov 2022

Reflecting your Local Community ONLINE Webinar - Tuesday 29th November 7.00 pm – 8.30pm

The demographic of the communities in which sailing operates in Australia has changed dramatically in recent times. Today, 27% of Australia’s population is born overseas, almost 50% have one parent born in other countries, 260 languages are spoken, over 50% are women or girls, and more than one in five, or 4.3 million people, identify as having a disability.

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Tue 08 Nov 2022

Sports Community Webinar Series

The new Sports Community series is commencing in roughly 2 weeks time - that means it's time to start promoting the series to your clubs so more of your volunteers are feeling supported in their role!

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Thu 03 Nov 2022

Expected standards of behaviour

The Member Protection Policy sets out the standards of behaviour expected of people involved in sailing and ensures everyone is aware of their rights and responsibilities.

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Tue 25 Oct 2022

Foundation Coach Course Released

Australian Sailing is proud to release the Foundation Coach qualification. The Foundation Coach course is a free online education tool for qualified instructors and is available now.

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Fri 14 Oct 2022

Developing instructors and coaches at your club

Instructing and coaching is a huge role that requires a diverse and complex range of skills which are built upon over years of practice.

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Thu 13 Oct 2022

Marketing with Australian Sailing: Tackers and OutThere Sailing

Australian Sailing has created a host of marketing resources to assist clubs in promoting Tackers or OutThere Sailing programs. Read on to find out what is available and how to utilise them this Spring/Summer season.

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Thu 13 Oct 2022

Club Participation Program – Curriculums

Australian Sailing is committed to providing programs that are fun, inclusive, safe, and develop life-long sailors for strong club membership and growth.

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Mon 19 Sep 2022

Welcoming New Parents to your Club

Sailing is one of the few activities that can be done as a family together reaping many benefits for both children and parents.

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Fri 16 Sep 2022

Marketing with Australian Sailing: Discover Sailing Day

Discover Sailing Day is an important component of the Discover Sailing Program. Designed to attract participants to your club on the day, and to send a strong message to your local community that your club is open and welcomes new participants!

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Fri 16 Sep 2022

2022 Australian Sports Foundation Active Kids Grant - Apply Now!

Active Kids Grants are available for volunteer-run community clubs and organisations with members aged 20 or younger. Grants will be awarded in the form of free sports equipment and on-field or training uniforms, to be supplied by ASF partners HART Sport and ISC.

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Tue 13 Sep 2022