Day 5 - Opening ceremony 16.07.
8:30 morningsport at the pool. 9:30 breakfest. Today the deal with the Team was, to go early as possible on the water, make 150 tacks, 50 jybes and 10 rounding marks...that means maximum 1 hour on the water. Why like this? Becouse this year we don't have the practice race, and i didn't want to give them 2 free days of sailing. I wanted that they trim the sail for sailing, sit in the boat, but without the pressure, what they need to do...and they all agree with the plan, without discussion!!! I love my Team!!!😘
So, 12:00 we went out to sail, we had 6-8 knots...we start with the taks, but after the first part of them, I noticed, that if we will do all, they will maybe be tired next day, so I reduced the tacks on 80 and jybes on 25...
As we scheduled earlier, 13:10 we were back in the marina! We went than for a pizza and back to the hotel to rest one hour, becouse at 18:00 we had the opening ceremony. How it was, you can check in the galery...
Tomorrow we start to kick some as.......khm, khm....sailors!!!😊😅😉
Day 4 - measurment day 15.07.
Today was an easy day for the Team. They deserve it...no morningsport today, and no sailing, just measurment...
We start the day at 9:30 breakfast. At 11:00 we went to the club, we prepare the boats for measurment, and then the Team went for a swimm. At 14:00 we went for lunch in a nice restaurant with the Slovenian Team.
16:00 we start with the measurment. At the end, everything was ok, we just needed to wait few minutes for the boats to get dry, becouse we wash them before the measurment.
Than dinner and socializing!!! A nice Lay day for the Team, to recharge the batteries! Today was also the arival day of the championship, so today we start with our dress code for the dinner, as you can see boys white, girls red!
We start the day at 9:30 breakfast. At 11:00 we went to the club, we prepare the boats for measurment, and then the Team went for a swimm. At 14:00 we went for lunch in a nice restaurant with the Slovenian Team.
16:00 we start with the measurment. At the end, everything was ok, we just needed to wait few minutes for the boats to get dry, becouse we wash them before the measurment.
Than dinner and socializing!!! A nice Lay day for the Team, to recharge the batteries! Today was also the arival day of the championship, so today we start with our dress code for the dinner, as you can see boys white, girls red!
Day 3 - third training day 14.07.
8:30 morningsport at the pool!
Someone was late...don't worry, just 50 push-ups, but I turn the had after 25...🤐
9:30 breakfast...than there was a change of schedule of the bus, by some coach, without informing the others, so we needed to wait for the bus more than half hour...but we didn't, we took our "BUS"!!!😱😊😇
9:30 breakfast...than there was a change of schedule of the bus, by some coach, without informing the others, so we needed to wait for the bus more than half hour...but we didn't, we took our "BUS"!!!😱😊😇
And off we go!!! Parents, don't worry, it was just for 4 km, with the maximum speed of 48 km/h...You see, they are all happy!
In the club we made our ritual: a swimm on the Beach and a "Gelato"!!! Before that Julie went with Jonas to buy new lenses becouse two days before he looses one in the pool, he tried to use one from Marie, but they where not the same, so he was for one day like "Pirate of the Swiss", the "One-eye Koreaner"!!!
13:30 we went on the water. We start with 10 knots termical wind, but in our 3 hour session the wind went two times on the left for 20-25 degrees with the same speed. We where happy that this happened becouse we tried different wind directions, that is good for our preparation of the regata!
Today, after training, again pool, but also some football, becouse we have a lot of football fields in the hotel...off course that there was some blood...Jonas scratch his knee, but everithing is ok and under control...(maybe the lens where not good?!😜). Tomorrow again Pharmacy...for some "Hansaplast"!
The Team is enjoying every day here, although is really hot!
People, be ready to cheer for my Team, in two days we start, and they are ready!!!
In the club we made our ritual: a swimm on the Beach and a "Gelato"!!! Before that Julie went with Jonas to buy new lenses becouse two days before he looses one in the pool, he tried to use one from Marie, but they where not the same, so he was for one day like "Pirate of the Swiss", the "One-eye Koreaner"!!!
13:30 we went on the water. We start with 10 knots termical wind, but in our 3 hour session the wind went two times on the left for 20-25 degrees with the same speed. We where happy that this happened becouse we tried different wind directions, that is good for our preparation of the regata!
Today, after training, again pool, but also some football, becouse we have a lot of football fields in the hotel...off course that there was some blood...Jonas scratch his knee, but everithing is ok and under control...(maybe the lens where not good?!😜). Tomorrow again Pharmacy...for some "Hansaplast"!
The Team is enjoying every day here, although is really hot!
People, be ready to cheer for my Team, in two days we start, and they are ready!!!
Day 2 - second training day 13.07.
Today we start our day in the office like this:
Yes, morning sport at 8:30 in the swimming pool, like in Vodice...we don't change the thing that is working!!!
9:30 breakfast, and off we go, in the club for an other training day here in Crotone. In the morning was really hot, to much, no wind, so again the Team went for a swim on the beach near the marina. Yes, You guess really good...after the swim, "Gelato" time!!!
The wind start to come in around 13 hours, so we decided to go earlier on the water...but when we came out of the marina, the wind dropped on 2 knots, and i saw a big disappointment on the faces of the Team. So what we did to lift the atmosphere on the higher level?!?!🤔 It was party time!!!🎉🎼📻
We put our bimini out, to make a shadow (it's hot as hell!!!), we tied all the optis back in one line, i took all the Team in the motorboat, we put our speakerphone out, we put some music and enjoy a slow towing...a small Swissoptis Party on the open sea!!!
After a 45 minutes delay, becouse of a Party,😱 we start our training. Similar conditions as yesterday, 8-11 knots of termical wind...we continue with our plan to film well the racing area and to be fast, so the training was the same as yesterday. Than we made a short briefing on the water, about the conditions and we sailed a long downwind back to the marina.
After in the hotel was again swimming pool time, 19:30 diner. After diner, what is really nice to see, and I'm proud of my Team becouse of this, thay socialize alot in the lobby with Spanish and Monaco Team. Today also our friends from Greece arived, so you can imagine, our "old", young, small friend from Palamos, Anastasis, jumped imediatly in the Team, and made some mess!!! (Off course, the positive one)
Hope that every day will be like today...
The Team is ready!
9:30 breakfast, and off we go, in the club for an other training day here in Crotone. In the morning was really hot, to much, no wind, so again the Team went for a swim on the beach near the marina. Yes, You guess really good...after the swim, "Gelato" time!!!
The wind start to come in around 13 hours, so we decided to go earlier on the water...but when we came out of the marina, the wind dropped on 2 knots, and i saw a big disappointment on the faces of the Team. So what we did to lift the atmosphere on the higher level?!?!🤔 It was party time!!!🎉🎼📻
We put our bimini out, to make a shadow (it's hot as hell!!!), we tied all the optis back in one line, i took all the Team in the motorboat, we put our speakerphone out, we put some music and enjoy a slow towing...a small Swissoptis Party on the open sea!!!
After a 45 minutes delay, becouse of a Party,😱 we start our training. Similar conditions as yesterday, 8-11 knots of termical wind...we continue with our plan to film well the racing area and to be fast, so the training was the same as yesterday. Than we made a short briefing on the water, about the conditions and we sailed a long downwind back to the marina.
After in the hotel was again swimming pool time, 19:30 diner. After diner, what is really nice to see, and I'm proud of my Team becouse of this, thay socialize alot in the lobby with Spanish and Monaco Team. Today also our friends from Greece arived, so you can imagine, our "old", young, small friend from Palamos, Anastasis, jumped imediatly in the Team, and made some mess!!! (Off course, the positive one)
Hope that every day will be like today...
The Team is ready!
Day 1 - first training day 12.07.
Today, lay day if we talk about morning sport...the trip was enough hard for the Team. 9:30 we went for breakfast, some of the teams were already there (Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Malta, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Singapore...)
After breakfast we went to the club to unload the trailer, prepare the boats for a short afternoon training session. Here is really hot, 32-35 degrees!!! Hopefully the organization is delivering cold water all the time so the Team is safe.
After we finish with the work on the boats, we went for a short swimm on the beach close to the marina, to refresh our minds, to be ready for the training session. Off course that after the swimm we took a "Gelato"!!!😱😇 It's really hot...
After the lunch and a short briefing about what we will do, we went on the water (15:00). As we said short training session, where we tried the racing area, and some speed, becouse we have some new sails in the Team.
10-12 knots termical wind, dropping later...
I will just tell You...the Team is ready!!!
After breakfast we went to the club to unload the trailer, prepare the boats for a short afternoon training session. Here is really hot, 32-35 degrees!!! Hopefully the organization is delivering cold water all the time so the Team is safe.
After we finish with the work on the boats, we went for a short swimm on the beach close to the marina, to refresh our minds, to be ready for the training session. Off course that after the swimm we took a "Gelato"!!!😱😇 It's really hot...
After the lunch and a short briefing about what we will do, we went on the water (15:00). As we said short training session, where we tried the racing area, and some speed, becouse we have some new sails in the Team.
10-12 knots termical wind, dropping later...
I will just tell You...the Team is ready!!!
Arival day
Meeting point Zürich airport at 17 hours! All the Team was early 10-15 minutes, all nervous and ready to go...
Our arival time in Lamezia airport was at midnight , half hour late, and that would not be a problem if we didn't have still 1 and a half hours of driving to Crotone. At the end we arrived around 1:30 a.m. in the hotel, the Team was a little bit tired and went imediatly to sleep. 🙃💤
Our arival time in Lamezia airport was at midnight , half hour late, and that would not be a problem if we didn't have still 1 and a half hours of driving to Crotone. At the end we arrived around 1:30 a.m. in the hotel, the Team was a little bit tired and went imediatly to sleep. 🙃💤
Day Four 29.07.2016.
Can You guess our schedule?? Yes, You're right...8 o'clock swimming pool!!!
Today we went on the water at 11:30. Again perfect sailing conditions, 10-15 knots of Mistral. Today the Team react good. the final results in the finish were not always good, but our communication and understanding what is good and what is bad is almost equal.
To make You a pictures, today often at least 5-7 Team members where on the same side of the racing cours, trying to do the same thing, amazing for me as a coach! Again a long working day on the water, we returned at 17:00.
Today i'm a little bit sad because i need to leave. My father came to make the last two days some Team Race, to be ready also for Ledro, Europeans Team Race.
After this half week with my Team, i feel really confident for the upcoming European championship. With a little bit of luck we can make big things in Crotone! Stay tuned with us on this page and cheer for us...LET'S GO SWISS!!!
Today we went on the water at 11:30. Again perfect sailing conditions, 10-15 knots of Mistral. Today the Team react good. the final results in the finish were not always good, but our communication and understanding what is good and what is bad is almost equal.
To make You a pictures, today often at least 5-7 Team members where on the same side of the racing cours, trying to do the same thing, amazing for me as a coach! Again a long working day on the water, we returned at 17:00.
Today i'm a little bit sad because i need to leave. My father came to make the last two days some Team Race, to be ready also for Ledro, Europeans Team Race.
After this half week with my Team, i feel really confident for the upcoming European championship. With a little bit of luck we can make big things in Crotone! Stay tuned with us on this page and cheer for us...LET'S GO SWISS!!!
Day Three 28.07.2016.
8 o'clock, swimming pool...we decide today to go earlier on the water because the weather forecast was strong wind all day, and we want to give more free time to the Team in the afternoon. So 10:30 we went on the water.
Perfect conditions, 18-22 knots north wind - BURA, blowing from the land, that means very shifty and very gusty conditions. And we get also some current, strong current, so we can prepare good for Crotone, where we expect some current.
At the beginning the Team was not used on the current, some of them where still tired, but how we where coming to the end of the day, they where better and better. Again a long day on the water, 6 hours, but wrilly good spent.
We have still some confusion in the head, but we start to progress in the right way, so LET'S GO SWISS!!!
Tomorrow is another hard working day!
Perfect conditions, 18-22 knots north wind - BURA, blowing from the land, that means very shifty and very gusty conditions. And we get also some current, strong current, so we can prepare good for Crotone, where we expect some current.
At the beginning the Team was not used on the current, some of them where still tired, but how we where coming to the end of the day, they where better and better. Again a long day on the water, 6 hours, but wrilly good spent.
We have still some confusion in the head, but we start to progress in the right way, so LET'S GO SWISS!!!
Tomorrow is another hard working day!
Day Two 27.07.2016.
Today the schedule was the same...8 o'clock morning sport at the pool! Today our friends arrive, sparing partners...EM National Team of Slovenia, Y.C. Adriaco from Triest ITA (2 ITA national team members) and Y.C. Cupa Sistiana ITA (1 ITA national team member). Today we start with hard work on the water. 13 hours we went on the water. Again perfect sailing conditions, 10-14 knots of Mistral, sunny and hot. From today our focus was on tactic, positioning in the fleet, but specially on the communication between me and the Team. Now here in Vodice we have a big fleet of 33 optimist, perfect to work on our planing before the races, communication before and in-between the races and off course check some speed with the others.
Today the Team was present but not perfect, a lot of mistakes, no concentration...i think that they where under stress of the school tests, as is the end of it, so when they arrived here they took a big relax. Again we spend 5 hours on the water...after the Team went to swim and play on the air city, on the beach infront of the hotel. tomorrow same time same place!!! Good night.
Today the Team was present but not perfect, a lot of mistakes, no concentration...i think that they where under stress of the school tests, as is the end of it, so when they arrived here they took a big relax. Again we spend 5 hours on the water...after the Team went to swim and play on the air city, on the beach infront of the hotel. tomorrow same time same place!!! Good night.
Day One 26.07.2016.
Today we start at 8 o'clock with the morningsport. But this time we made something new...Swimming pool!!! 20 minutes of swimming, running and diving in the water. Then breakfast and rigging...around 12:30 we went on the water. We had perfect sailing conditions, 8-12 knots of termical wind - mistral, sunny and really hot.
Today we had an easy training session, long upwinds with some tacks and a long downwind, to wake up the hands, after a longer school, no sailing period.
We stop on a small island in front of Vodice for the lunch break and a swimm. Nice and quiet...we return back around 17:30.
Around the hotel we have a lot of things to do, on the beach (boats on pedals, sandolins, sup, air city on the water ecc.). But today, just a swimm. Tomorrow we are expecting some friends - sparing partners!
Today we had an easy training session, long upwinds with some tacks and a long downwind, to wake up the hands, after a longer school, no sailing period.
We stop on a small island in front of Vodice for the lunch break and a swimm. Nice and quiet...we return back around 17:30.
Around the hotel we have a lot of things to do, on the beach (boats on pedals, sandolins, sup, air city on the water ecc.). But today, just a swimm. Tomorrow we are expecting some friends - sparing partners!