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CISA Clinic Applications are OPEN at www.CISASailing.org
January 6th, 2012 in Training, General.
One of my projects the last couple years has been directing the CISA Advanced Racing Clinic for young sailors ages 13-19 who are serious about improving to the top level of junior sailing. The clinic has a tradition of outstanding coaching and an intensive learning environment. It’s a four day clinic consisting of workouts each morning with Annapolis Sailing Fitness trainer Harry Legum followed by a full day usually with two sailing sessions off Long Beach, California, briefings held at the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and evening programs bringing the likes of America’s Cup, Volvo Ocean Race and Olympic veterans to make presentations to the sailors. The final day of the clinic is a one-day regatta where the sailors test their new skills against one another under the careful eye of world class coaching.
This year we’re stepping CISA Clinic up another notch and bringing in top-level talent to tune, train, and race alongside the youth sailors during the clinic portion. The sailors will get the chance to test against and see first hand how the top sailors at the Olympic level train and practice. I’m very excited about this new development as CISA continues to lead the field in youth sailing training. I encourage sailors to take this opportunity and run with it. Get your applications going and in by the end of the month. Whether you are looking to make the jump onto the US Sailing Team or to make a run at your regional championships, this clinic will make a difference in your not only your sailing but in how you approach the game altogether.
We offer six classes, FJ, Club 420, International 420, 29er, Laser and Laser Radial.
The clinic runs April 12-15, 2012.
Applications can be found here.
Deadline is 5pm California time February 1, 2012 – No exceptions.
Doublehanded teams must apply together. If a sailor would like to be considered in multiple classes they must fill out multiple applications.
If you have questions please email: Danielle@odmsail.com
Star Trianing in Fremantle
December 4th, 2011 in Training.
Rumbling upwind off the Fremantle Docklands on “Leighton Course.” Photo: Jacqueline Campbell
The heat wave continues in Fremantle. The Doctor hasn’t really managed to live up to its reputation the last few days and it looks like it may hold off a few more while half of the Olympic classes start their world championships this week. In Star-land, we have a week to go until our regatta starts so we’re in the final stages of making sure our equipment will cut the muster. We’ve had early-morning dock-off times the last couple of days to make the most of the morning offshore breezes and avoid the midday light air and afternoon heat (well into the 90s the last couple days). While I think most of us will welcome the steadier Doctor’s seabreeze, it has been good to see what havoc the offshore breeze can bring in terms of squirrely, puffy and shifty stuff. The seabreeze is legendary here though and we’ll have to beware cursing its absence, lest it come back with a vengeance. Ian and I will spend the week getting some good training in, taking some preemptive rest days and trying to keep up to weight as best we can.
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Perth Training in Full Swing & America’s Cup WS San Diego Photos
November 28th, 2011 in Travel, Training.
Ian and I have been running around between the local venues before we move into the Royal Perth Yacht Club Annex today. We’ve had a great week of sailing down here. Breezy some days, really breezy on others! The water is warmer than we suspected and the wind is generally relentless. It’s cooled off some after the boiler we had upon first arrival, but the heat will be back on before the weekend. The town is starting to get set up for the regatta, which starts for half the fleets first thing next week.
Jackie’s put up her photos from America’s Cup World Series in San Diego last week. They look great. Click here to check them out: jacquelinecampbellphotography.com/blog
Here’s a preview:
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October Training Update: Mid-Atlantic Fall has Come and is Going Quickly
October 26th, 2011 in Training.
Its hard to believe that October has already come and gone. After September’s wide-ranging domestic travel schedule, October has been a more local contrast. Ian and I have been able to put our heads down and work in the early mid-atlantic fall breeze with some local sailing in Annapolis.
We were in Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center for four days of heavy lifting, testing and seminars about fitness, nutrition and logistics for the upcoming winter events. The time since has been spent on the bike, in the gym and on the water at Ian’s home club the Annapolis Yacht Club about 45 minutes drive from DC. Local legend Kevin McNeil graciously offered his new Mader for us to use before it heads south his winter season. Three weeks have provided us with a great platform to start our training in Perth. We’ve been able to keep sharp, look at some sail options and put some new concepts up for testing.
The training hasn’t been without adventure. We have had a bunch of days with breeze well into the 20 knot range. A couple classic Chesapeake southwesterlies are enough to put fear into any sailor. Blasting around in the heavy weather will hopefully help us bring some good gumption for the forecasted breezes in Fremantle. One afternoon we ran downwind across the bay in a 18-22 knot westerly. The wave action near the Eastern Shore of Maryland was super-fun and probably more like what we’ll see in Oz than the shifty flatwater closer to the Annapolis shore. We decided to make a short upwind and go back for more. Upon turning to windward again we slapped into a couple pieces of chop and promptly broke the forestay under the deck. (more…)
4th in new ISAF World Star Rankings
October 5th, 2011 in Training, General.
Psyched to have moved up in the new world rankings this week to 4th, a personal high for me and Ian. Now we have to back it up with at the Worlds in Perth in December! Click here for full ISAF Rankings
We’ve got a Physical Training Camp with just the US Sailing Team Alphagraphics members this weekend at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs to kick-start our Fall training. Camp starts tomorrow.
Updates at www.CampbellSailing.com and twitter.com/@campbellsailing
In Ireland standing by for Training ahead of Europeans
August 29th, 2011 in Travel, Training.
I’ve made it to Dun Loaghaire (pronounced dun leery) and the Royal St. Georges Yacht Club and will spend the next five days tuning and training in preparation for the Europeans. Please keep up to date here at www.CampbellSailing.com and I’ve been uploading photos from the trip so far on my twitter feed: @campbellsailing
Princes and Senators, Ireland Upcoming
August 24th, 2011 in Training, Regattas.
Photo by Karen Ryan
After racing along side the Prince of Spain last week, we raced against Senator Kerry from Massachusetts this past weekend at the Nantucket Race Week Celebrity Pro-Am. The regatta was a charity event supporting Nantucket Community Sailing which promotes the sport to local kids who wouldn’t otherwise have sailing on the island. The foundation apparently provides over a thousand scholarships for kids to take lessons each year. The event was quite a scene with 14 top US professionals donating their time to be auctioned off as guest tacticians for 14 local and invited amateur groups racing in the local fleet of International One Designs. The boats are classics, not unlike our fleet of PCs in San Diego. They are gorgeous to watch race, but are tough little boats to figure out. I had some experience from racing the same class at the Bermuda Gold Cup a couple years ago. I’m not sure the experience did us any good, but racing was really fun against some of the top brains in the sport from the US. I was lucky enough to race with Jim Richardson and some of his regular Barking Mad crew while they were between Farr events. Even though our starts were some of the best of the fleet, we couldn’t manage to get the boat rumbling like we would have liked. It was a hard fought battle for points in the middle of the pack. Wherever you look you see tacticians eyeballing you waiting for you to make a mistake so they can get their team an advantage. All in all it was a unique experience and certainly an enjoyable one. The hospitality of the Nantucket YC and Great Harbor YC was outstanding and the racing was intense while still being quite fun, and all for a worthy cause. If the access to sailing provided by this fundraiser can make a fraction of a difference in the kids’ lives that it has in the lives of me and my competitors, then the event was a great success.
The other pros at the event were: Chuck Allen, Sally Barkow, Dave Dellenbaugh, Robbie Doyle, Kevin Farrar, Peter Holmberg, Gary Jobson, Mark Reynolds, Dawn Riley, Dee Smith, Chris Snow, Mike Toppa, and Dave Ullman. Here’s the handout.
Next on the docket is one day of racing on the Log Canoes out on the Eastern Shore (Hurricane-dependent), and then getting back into the Star at our Europeans in Ireland on Sunday.
Back from Spain, Stars on the Horizon
August 8th, 2011 in Travel, Training, Regattas.
I just finished up racing this past week in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in the Copa del Rey as a fill-in tactician for the Yasha Samauri Melges 32 team. While good results were tough to come by, we improved significantly through the week as the team is on the upswing of their progression towards the M32 Worlds in Palma in September. I joked with some of my teammates that I had only been to Palma in March and April for the Princesa Sofia regatta, and what a difference a few months makes. Palma is a fantastic place to race spring or summer, but let me tell you its warmer in the summer. We were a few boats down from the Prince racing on the TP52 Hispano at the dock, so the scene at the Real Club Nautico de Palma was a little bit different from my years racing off the gritty beach down at C’an Pastilla as well! It truly was a race for the King’s Cup when he and the Queen hand out the awards.
The next month will be spent preparing for our next Star event in Dublin Ireland during the first week of September. The Pre-Olympic Test Event is going on in Weymouth right now, so I’m motivated to get my program back up and running after a well enjoyed month off. What an amazing amount of sailing and now Ian and I can get back to Star sailing refreshed and ready.
Jackie’s put an update on her website with some great photos she took at Weymouth in June to give you an idea of what the sailors are looking at this week at the test event:
JacquelineCampbellPhotography.com
CISA Clinic 2011
April 22nd, 2011 in Training, General.
In the break between the Spanish and French World Cup events in the Star, I headed to Long Beach for the four-day annual CISA Clinic. CISA sets the standard for youth clinics in the US with more than 100 elite junior sailors and 15+ coaches. Six classes are filled by resume: 29er, I420, C420, FJ, Laser Radial, and Laser. We try to set a standard for fitness having Harry Legum from Annapolis Sailing Fitness working with the sailors (and some of the coaches) each morning. Then we are off the races for three days of training focused on Boatspeed, Boathandling and Tactics, culminating with a regatta on the final day of the clinic for the sailors to test their skills. The general focus is on personal responsibility as the young athletes are spending time out from under their parents’ wing and making improvements in their sailing on their own terms. More about the Clinic and the CISA Foundation can be found at CISASailing.org. I couldn’t have succeeded as director this year without the outstanding support of 15 great coaches, the One Design Management Staff, and the volunteers from ABYC and the other southern California clubs. I’ve been lucky enough to direct the clinic each of the last three years and look forward to continuing my involvement. Here are some of the photos from the week, thanks to JacquelineCampbellPhotography.com
Harry working on the fitness field:
Coach Brett Davis with the Lasers:
Local Brother/Sister Team: the Kirks in the I420:
Coach David Wright with the Radials:
To Europe
March 29th, 2011 in Training.
We’re on the road again. It’s already been 10 days, starting with a four-day physical training camp at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Meetings, lectures, workouts and more workouts were gapped with good food in the cafeteria and the Pan Am Games Boxing Trials going on while we were there.
After CO Springs Ian headed back to Annapolis and I went further west to sail in Long Beach Yacht Club’s Match Race Grade 1 at the Congressional Cup. Having done the event last year I wouldn’t give up the chance to do it again, this year with Dave Perry and a team of mostly local Long Beach sailors (Steve Flam, John Busch, Mike Pentecost, and Charlie Bevin). We managed to have some great races and some heartbreaks ultimately falling one win short of making the semi-finals. I’ll put it in the “great experience” column. LBYC sets the standard for hospitality and put on a great show again this year. While we managed to avoid hitting the pier in any pre-starts I did go for an unplanned swim in the final race of the event, luckily it didn’t cost us anything but a bruised ego on my part! I must also mention my great hosts for the regatta: the Satatinos, and congratulate them for a successful regatta under their watch as event chairs.
After ConCup I packed up and flew from LAX through Newark and on to Barcelona. The starboat made it to the shipping facility (which was ironically a paper import/export company filled to the brim with newspaper and cardboard except for three stars and a couple Finns). After picking up the boat and finding the car after a grand gesture from Jackie’s parents, we headed to the ferry dock for the second red-eye in as many days overnight on the slow boat to Palma. Sure enough the logistics are a wild set of circumstances but are coming together quite well to get sailing asap in Mallorca.
Racing for Trofeo Princesa Sofia starts first thing next week.
Stay tuned at www.CampbellSailing.com