Fast Learners
Andy Rice | February 13, 2009
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Ben Ainslie and Iain Percy may not have won the Louis Vuitton Pacific Cup, in fact they didn’t even come close. But they and the rest of Team Origin acquitted themselves pretty well all the same. There’s no doubt the top teams will be taking them seriously.
Ben and Percy have shown an incredible talent for picking up new skills quickly, something they both did in 2002 when respectively they won the Finn and Star Worlds at their first attempt.
Percy’s advice for getting to grips with a new class is this:
- “The first stage is to learn the basic boat handling – get used to tacking consistently, gybing well, and make sure you can sail the boat without capsizing.
- “The second stage is to get out on the circuit and start learning from others – do a load of events, a lot of competitions, and hoover up as much knowledge as you can. If somebody goes straight past you downwind, make a mental note of what they are doing.
- “The third stage is to start applying knowledge from other sailing you have done and try these out in your new class.”
To read the rest of my interview with Ben and Percy, click on the link below:
http://www.sailjuice.com/articles/good-quick-1
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