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Instructor, Coach, Offical Development Strategy - UPDATE

Following the launch of the Instructor, Coach, Official Development Strategy, we are pleased to share an update on recent developments.

Training Instructor Coach

Fri 15 Mar 2024

Essential Skills - Group control for instructors

Good group control starts with a good briefing ashore, without that, group control afloat is near impossible. Prepare, plan, and adapt.

Training Instructor

Thu 14 Mar 2024

Jana Sonter’s Top Tips for Windsurfing Instructors!

Jana Sonter is the current Australian Sailing Deputy Chief Windsurf Instructor. With over 20 years of extensive experience teaching windsurfing, sailing, and powerboating across Europe and a Master’s degree in sport science, specializing in windsurfing.

Training Instructor

Thu 14 Mar 2024

Drills for Skills- Rabbit Starts

This is a gate start without the fuss. The Rabbit or ‘Pathfinder’ sets off at a preset time (either using repeated whistles when they start their run or after a timed sequence.

Training

Thu 14 Mar 2024

Coaching Girls - Strategies to get and keep girls engaged in sailing

Strategies to get and keep girls engaged in sailing

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Fri 01 Dec 2023

Alignment of accreditation dates for multi-qualification holders

We recently changed how we recognise and support instructors and coaches who hold multiple accreditations. We hope the change described below reduces barriers cited by many instructors and coaches to remaining accredited in multiple sailing disciplines. The change enables a simpler process to reaccreditation and saves you time and costs associated in the 5 yearly reaccreditation process.

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Fri 01 Dec 2023

Understanding Participation Programs

12 months ago, Australian Sailing released the Participation Programs which provide clubs and class associations with the coaching frameworks and tools to deliver programs across the 3 levels of; Green, Intermediate and Advanced, assisting with developing members skills and knowledge beyond their initial learn to sail activities.

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Fri 10 Nov 2023

Foiling Safety – For coaches & club support personnel

Foiling is rapidly growing at clubs across the country, and many coaches are beginning to deliver sessions at their clubs with various foiling classes, with this growth comes extra safety precautions you need to be aware of when supporting sailors, especially when operating near the equipment or in rescue situations.

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Mon 30 Oct 2023

Professional Development Continues for Coaches at Zhik Lake Mac Youth Sail NSW

Developing coaches is a key priority for Australian Sailing and a key factor in the ongoing growth of sailing nationally. During this year’s Zhik Lake Mac Youth Sail NSW the team of nine coaches gathered at the end of each day to de-brief the day’s activities, successes, and areas for improvement.

National Training Coach NSW

Fri 29 Sep 2023

Making your own drill

As a coach having the ability to make your own drill can greatly improve your ability to provide versatile and engaging sailing experiences for your participants. Yes, there are plenty of amazing drills if you want to go searching for them.

Training Participation and Growth

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Delivering Quality Experiences to Convert participants to members as part of the role of an instructor

As the first point of contact for most of the public, part of the role as an instructor is to get the public excited about the sport of sailing through great quality experiences at your club. They can then become a larger part of your sailing community by joining your club as a member therefore contributing to your club and the love of sailing in general.

Training Instructor

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Top Tips for Powerboat Instructors – Craig Ferris

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.

Training Instructors

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Bluey’s episode- Adaptability through a changing environment

Whether you have heard of the Kids TV program “Bluey’s” or not the lesson to be taken away from the 7 minute episode released in June called “Cricket” can actually be seen from a coaches perspective in a very practical way and from sailing community in general as a way to look at the sport as a whole.

Training Coach Instructor

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Become an Australian Sailing Wing instructor!

Australian Sailing has recently launched The Learn to Wing Program, a new program for Discover Sailing Centres (DSCs), designed to introduce participants to the exciting discipline of wing-surfing.

Training Instructor

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Drills for skills- rudderless sailing/tethered sailing

A variation on rudderless sailing, using elastic to maintain a neutral helm.

Training

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Basic Splicing for Instructors and coaches- Brummel splice

As a coach, it can often be a good idea to dedicate some session time to boat maintenance and upkeep and one skill that can be handy to have is splicing.

Training

Fri 22 Sep 2023

Coach For All - Free Online Course

‘Coach for All’ is a free education program consisting of four-modules, that provides inclusivity training for Coaches for all levels – from grassroots to professional sport. 

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Fri 19 May 2023

Tips to support people with vision loss plus Sailing Session Guide

A representative from vision Australia visited the State Sailing Centre in Victoria on the 14th of April, the following week the instructors ran a session for a group with a variety of levels of vison loss. Before producing a customised sailing session in hansa dinghies and Pacers at albert park lake the instructors attended a theory session in which they were able to use technology and materials to better understand the perspective of the participants.

Training

Fri 19 May 2023