Sunday 4 September 2011

FW Worlds JYM Day 5

On the last day of the event wind wasn't very good: it blowed very shortly - for about 2 hours and was about 10 knots strong.
I expexted to have some good races as I really like such wind.
First race - first disaster:
Unfortunately in the first upwind I caught weed on my fin, but I have realized it just on the last downwind leg. All the time I was thinking why I am so slow, why it is so hard to plane out for me. So I finally finished in 8th position.
Second start - second disaster:
When there was about 25 seconds left to the start I started pumping and planned out, but then I went into some strange hole and stopped. Afterwards I pumped out again, but I got covered by other guys. Later I fought back some places, but the jury decided to cancel the race.
We had small break and then most of the guys went put on the water for fun race - masters and youth were racing together. I took my dads 12 to try it out, but it wasn't tunned really good so I didn't liked it. From the start to the upwind mark there was about 7 knots, but then it started going down so I decided to go back to the beach.
Today there were a lot of people looking around on the beach. Unfortunately the wind didn't come back so they didn't see any more action.
Winners:
Youth - Sebastian Kornum, Mateos Isac, Jordy Vonk
Masters - Andrea Cucchi, Bryan Rogild...
Congratulations.
What about myself? Well, I hopped.for better result but many factors were against me this time. First of all I am feeling really really tired after three weeks of non stop competition marathon. Secondly in this championship we mainly had winds above 14 knots, just three races were sailed in lower winds.
What have I learned in this event? Firstly that you have to plan your season and don't get into such marathons of racing. Just think about getting up each morning with pain in most of the muscle - three weeks in a row. ;-)
I am going to learn more muscle tensioning excersices and I will do them more often, because thats really helps.
And finally I am going to train more for high wind formula sailing. Each time when I will go to the lake and see some slalom conditions, I will go out for a short blast with formula - doesn't mathers of the wind will ne 16 knots or 30 knots.
And final advice for eeryone who failed in some competition and lost their motivation - never give up, no mather how bad you feel. Just try to look to the bright side and try to find your areas of weakness.
P.S
7 out of Top 10 sailors in youth are sponsored by some equipment brands.

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