Sunday, August 3, 2008
Cal Cup supports youth Windsurfing development
The June 21 Cal Cup (a northern California windsurfing regatta series) featured a combination of the St. FYC's techno windsurfers and interested youth racers. Bryan McDonald and Paul Heineken presented on youth windsurfing to a variety of kids who are interested in Windsurfing and were in town preparing for the upcoming US Sailing youth championship at SFYC. One of the youth was Cody Shevitz, who qualified to represent the US in the ISAF Youth World Championship.
St. Francis YC buys a new fleet of Windsurfers
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/archived_Detail.asp?key=3949
* From Paul Heineken, Chair, StFYC Junior Program: (edited to the 250-word limit) The St. FYC recently purchased a new fleet of Techno 293 windsurfers for our junior sailing program. So far kids have been thrilled with the boards. Due to recent advances in windsurfing that promotes teaching on wide boards and small sails, our juniors are all learning how to windsurf as part of our learn to sail camps. Even experienced dinghy sailors are gaining a new feel for the wind and the water due to windsurfing’s direct access and feel for the elements. The fact that windsurfers are so close to the water also removes much of the fear of capsizing. This has the added benefit of relaxing juniors in boats when a boat capsize occurs--a regular event on the Bay. Our club is working to have the first ever 2010 combined junior world windsurfing championship for both the Techno 293 (for the younger kids) and the Olympic RSX.
Southern California was the birth place of windsurfing and the site of the first Olympic games that included windsurfing (1984 LA games where the American Scott Steele won the Silver Medal). While many believe the hottest junior sailors come from Southern California, it’s unfortunate that this region trails the rest of the nation (if not the world) in developing windsurfers. It would be tremendous if we could encourage some of the greats from the sport of windsurfing (Olympian Peter Wells, John Jackman, Annie Nelson, Eric Krebs) to rally and create a CISA junior clinic similar to what Pete Melvin has done with multihulls.
* From Paul Heineken, Chair, StFYC Junior Program: (edited to the 250-word limit) The St. FYC recently purchased a new fleet of Techno 293 windsurfers for our junior sailing program. So far kids have been thrilled with the boards. Due to recent advances in windsurfing that promotes teaching on wide boards and small sails, our juniors are all learning how to windsurf as part of our learn to sail camps. Even experienced dinghy sailors are gaining a new feel for the wind and the water due to windsurfing’s direct access and feel for the elements. The fact that windsurfers are so close to the water also removes much of the fear of capsizing. This has the added benefit of relaxing juniors in boats when a boat capsize occurs--a regular event on the Bay. Our club is working to have the first ever 2010 combined junior world windsurfing championship for both the Techno 293 (for the younger kids) and the Olympic RSX.
Southern California was the birth place of windsurfing and the site of the first Olympic games that included windsurfing (1984 LA games where the American Scott Steele won the Silver Medal). While many believe the hottest junior sailors come from Southern California, it’s unfortunate that this region trails the rest of the nation (if not the world) in developing windsurfers. It would be tremendous if we could encourage some of the greats from the sport of windsurfing (Olympian Peter Wells, John Jackman, Annie Nelson, Eric Krebs) to rally and create a CISA junior clinic similar to what Pete Melvin has done with multihulls.
The origins of the Windsurfing Task Force
Over a year ago, US Sailing created a slate of sailing vessels that it recommended to ISAF for future Olympic events. Windsurfing and multihulls did not make the cut. This surprised many people, including Nevin Sayre (who was at the US Sailing meeting when this sudden announcement was made). While I was not at the US Sailing meeting, the announcement prompted me to write Jim Capron, the president of US Sailing, in this regard (Jim and I used to work together on the US Sailing Appeals Committee before Jim left the committee to become the president of US Sailing).
On March 25, 2007, Jim Capron asked "How can we make Olympic Windsurfing a USA strength?"
In March of 2008, Nevin Sayre, Dan Weiss and I presented to the Board of Directors (BOD) of US Sailing. Our presentation was on how Windsurfing can help US Sailing and how US Sailing can help Windsurfing. We provided a thorough background of the state of windsurfing in the US and the world as well as the many advantages to supporting youth development and windsurfing in general in yacht clubs. Jumping to the punch line (if you are interested in the full preso, you are welcome to drop me a line) and conclusion of the presentation: We requested US Sailing support the creation of a Windsurfing Task Force that focused, basically, answering Jim's question above. Our strategy was simple: focus on developing youth windsurfing that included:
- the formation of the Windsurfing Task Force to include key BOD and OSC members
- a budget to send juniors and coach to 2009 and 2010 junior events
- task US Sailing staff to eliminate road blocks for JSPs to include windsurfing (insurance & outdated certification)
The presentation was very well received, US Sailing approved the formation of the task force and a key BOD member, Susan Epstein joined our the initial task force.
Here is a press release:
http://www.ussailing.org/News/2008/windsurfingtaskforce.asp
Windsurfing Magazine has done a terrific job following the WIndsurfing Task Force:
http://forums.windsurfingmag.com/showthread.php?t=357
Scuttlebutt has published some cool Windsurfing Task Force updates too:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/archived_Detail.asp?key=3942
* US SAILING's newly formed Windsurfing Task Force has just announced new grant funding received from the United States Sailing Foundation (USSF). The Windsurfing Task Force was established at US SAILING's Spring Meeting last March to foster youth development in windsurfing with long term goals of the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. The grants will be used to organize a clinic at the East Coast Junior Windsurfing Championships (held July 17-18 at Vineyard Haven Yacht Club (MA). In addition, the grants will help to create a video to promote competitive junior windsurfing. -- Read on: http://www.ussailing.org/News/2008/windsurfingtaskforce.asp
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/archived_Detail.asp?key=3946
* From Bryan McDonald: Regarding the Bic Techno 293 Windsurfer,
1) The Techno 293 One Design is affordable, durable and sailable windsurfer
for ages 5 to 77.
2) In almost every country now, the Techno 293 One Design is the designated
Youth Development board for ages 5-17.
3) In the last three years, over 40 U.S. Junior Sailing Programs have
included fleets of Techno 293s into their programs with popular success.
4) For the price of 3 Optimists (or 1.5 420s), a junior program can have a fleet of 8 T293 windsurfers and 14 complete rigs that cover all size sailors and all age groups.
5) The East Coast Junior Windsurfing Championships (July 16-18 at Vineyard Haven YC (http://www.vhyc.org) will have junior windsurfers from as far as California racing on the Techno 293.
6) The St. Francis YC in San Francisco, CA recently purchased a new fleet of Techno 293's for their junior sailing program.
The U.S. is behind the rest of the World's continents in the area of competitive Windsurfing infrastructure (for example, over 300 kids under 17 competed in the 2007 Techno 293 Windsurfing Championship in France), though the recent formation of US SAILING's Windsurfing Task Force (affectionately, known as WTF) plans to narrow the gap.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xirq4uZ5Z6A
More info at http://www.BicSportNA.com/Techno293
From the RS:X class website:
http://rsxclass.com/blog/?p=165
On March 25, 2007, Jim Capron asked "How can we make Olympic Windsurfing a USA strength?"
In March of 2008, Nevin Sayre, Dan Weiss and I presented to the Board of Directors (BOD) of US Sailing. Our presentation was on how Windsurfing can help US Sailing and how US Sailing can help Windsurfing. We provided a thorough background of the state of windsurfing in the US and the world as well as the many advantages to supporting youth development and windsurfing in general in yacht clubs. Jumping to the punch line (if you are interested in the full preso, you are welcome to drop me a line) and conclusion of the presentation: We requested US Sailing support the creation of a Windsurfing Task Force that focused, basically, answering Jim's question above. Our strategy was simple: focus on developing youth windsurfing that included:
- the formation of the Windsurfing Task Force to include key BOD and OSC members
- a budget to send juniors and coach to 2009 and 2010 junior events
- task US Sailing staff to eliminate road blocks for JSPs to include windsurfing (insurance & outdated certification)
The presentation was very well received, US Sailing approved the formation of the task force and a key BOD member, Susan Epstein joined our the initial task force.
Here is a press release:
http://www.ussailing.org/News/2008/windsurfingtaskforce.asp
Windsurfing Magazine has done a terrific job following the WIndsurfing Task Force:
http://forums.windsurfingmag.com/showthread.php?t=357
Scuttlebutt has published some cool Windsurfing Task Force updates too:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/archived_Detail.asp?key=3942
* US SAILING's newly formed Windsurfing Task Force has just announced new grant funding received from the United States Sailing Foundation (USSF). The Windsurfing Task Force was established at US SAILING's Spring Meeting last March to foster youth development in windsurfing with long term goals of the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. The grants will be used to organize a clinic at the East Coast Junior Windsurfing Championships (held July 17-18 at Vineyard Haven Yacht Club (MA). In addition, the grants will help to create a video to promote competitive junior windsurfing. -- Read on: http://www.ussailing.org/News/2008/windsurfingtaskforce.asp
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/archived_Detail.asp?key=3946
* From Bryan McDonald: Regarding the Bic Techno 293 Windsurfer,
1) The Techno 293 One Design is affordable, durable and sailable windsurfer
for ages 5 to 77.
2) In almost every country now, the Techno 293 One Design is the designated
Youth Development board for ages 5-17.
3) In the last three years, over 40 U.S. Junior Sailing Programs have
included fleets of Techno 293s into their programs with popular success.
4) For the price of 3 Optimists (or 1.5 420s), a junior program can have a fleet of 8 T293 windsurfers and 14 complete rigs that cover all size sailors and all age groups.
5) The East Coast Junior Windsurfing Championships (July 16-18 at Vineyard Haven YC (http://www.vhyc.org) will have junior windsurfers from as far as California racing on the Techno 293.
6) The St. Francis YC in San Francisco, CA recently purchased a new fleet of Techno 293's for their junior sailing program.
The U.S. is behind the rest of the World's continents in the area of competitive Windsurfing infrastructure (for example, over 300 kids under 17 competed in the 2007 Techno 293 Windsurfing Championship in France), though the recent formation of US SAILING's Windsurfing Task Force (affectionately, known as WTF) plans to narrow the gap.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xirq4uZ5Z6A
More info at http://www.BicSportNA.com/Techno293
From the RS:X class website:
http://rsxclass.com/blog/?p=165
Saturday, August 2, 2008
faith breakthrough
Above clip from Sam Ireland's "Pro Secrets" video"
there are breakthrough periods for any athlete. for windsurfing, sailing away without falling is a breakthrough. planing for the first time is a breakthrough. full planing gybes are another...
when one first learns to windsurf, there comes a time where one needs to take a leap of faith and lean over the water in order to apply enough leverage to accelerate and plane away. i remember in the early 80's reading a wonderful book on how to windsurf that had pictures of ken winner windsurfing throughout. there was a particular passage in the book where it instructed you to de-power the sail in order to fall towards the water, then sheet in and have the sail act as a parachute to catch you before falling in. it was a non-intuitive move that took faith that the sail really would act as a parachute and save you from getting wet. i remember reading the passage over and over again thinking that this was a very cool concept and totally foreign from other dinghy or multihull sailing i'd done earlier in my life. i remember doing it for the first time on a windsurfer and fearing that i'd plop right into the water. the first time i pulled off this move, i giggled and felt a surge of achievement that i'd done something special, something important, something unique...a breakthrough.
my last session i gybed 180 times...170 gybes were full planing gybes...relaxed full planing gybes...this was a breakthrough. i've always seen the pro's gybe effortlessly and wished i could gybe that way too...but i lacked faith...faith that i would fall into the water. faith that the sail and wind would not prevent me from falling in. the exact same faith i lacked when i was first learning to windsurf.
wojtek, in sam ireland's pro-secrets DVD, says it takes more energy to do a slow gybe than it does to do an aggressive fast full planing gybe. wojtek is an amazing sailor so i did not really know how to interpret what he said. was this really for real? or does this only apply to sailors at the same level as wojtek? does it really take less energy to do a fast gybe than a slow gybe? that, on many levels, makes no sense. no sense until you actually do it.
i usually sail for about an hour...and get pretty pooped after about 20 mins and then need to take a break...full planing gybes actually allowed me to sail for 90 mins flat out, gybing every thirty seconds...that's a break through...
Sunday, February 3, 2008
perceived as a weapon
So I'm at a mexican restaraunt about to eat dinner. I have my clubs tucked in my back belt and some kids see them. They say 'Hey juggleman, can you juggle for us?'. I say sure and start juggling in a mellow very controlled pattern respectful that I'm in a restaurant and there are people around. The kids are loving it and a very attractive woman blurts out 'Ooooooh, check it out!...he's juggling!'. The head waitress comes by and says I have to stop immediately since I'm doing something 'extremely dangerous'!
Extremely dangerous? Say what? Last time I checked, NONE of the hijackers on 9/11 had a juggling club. Juggling clubs are NOT used by any police force in the world to help keep law and order. Neither the cripts nor the bloods carry juggling clubs to street fights. Not a single martial art uses juggling clubs as a weapon in their combat techiques. The CIA, KGB nor any terrorist cell teach agents anything about juggling clubs for good reason...they are NOT dangerous. In fact, with their soft rubber knobs and flexible plastic shells, they are actually quite forgiving...even if they hit you by accident. In our super tight security check points of our post 9/11 era, one can even carry on juggling clubs to an airport...yep, it's true...done it many times...PX3's fly through without even a flinch by TSA agents...and juggling clubs are NOT listed on the TSA's official prohibited items list.
As I was leaving the mexican food restaraunt, I was juggling by a pack of hot babes standing outside the door. They were giggling at each other and started to talk juggling. Generally it's entertaining to listen to hot babes talk about pretty much anything but juggling is definitely a special treat. As I was walking past with my decorated renegades glittering as they spun against the street lights, the babes said "You know what would be really cool? If he lit those on fire, that would be really cool". I thought to myself that technically they'd be hot, not cool. And even if I could light my renegade clubs on fire, they'd probably stink of burning plastic...yuck! The babes continued "swords would be cool too". I was tempted to get my torches and machetes out of my car and put on a show but the babes were smoking...I hate cigarettes!
so i'm walking into disneyland with my kids. we've packed our camera, water and of course some px3 juggling clubs to make the long lines more entertaining for others as well as sliding in some quality practice time for ourselves (some of those lines are LONG). at the gate the disney security people are going through people's personal items to make sure another 9-11 terrorist attack does not occur at the happiest place in the world.
at the entrance, one of the security people pulls out a juggling club as asks why I'm carrying around juggling 'pins'. I tell them the truth, that I'm a juggler, my kids are aspiring jugglers and we wanted an entertaining way to kill the time (ok, maybe 'kill' was not a good word to use here). the security agent says she'll have to ask her supervisor if the 'pins' can come in with mickey. the supervisor looks at the club, studies it closely, waves it around a bit and in all seriousness says I won't be able to bring it in since the club could be 'perceived as a weapon'.
give me a break! disneyland sells a veritable cornucopia of things that not only can be 'perceived as weapons', they ARE weapons!!! from star wars blasters of all sizes and shapes to pirates of the Caribbean swords, daggers, to frontier land rifles to maces available by the haunted mansion to antique murderers (that's what old seamen called hand guns, for obvious reasons (this term's etymology stems from what pirates would do with these little weapons if boarded by surprise by hostiles (i.e. they would be used to murder the invaders))). the national rifle association imposes no waiting period for the purchase of any of these weapons to the public.
i wanted to juggle at a neil young concert in mountain view california. my wife assured me this should be no problem since it was in an outside amphitheater, there was plenty of space and people would probably be doing all sorts of activities. she said if a security person had an issue with my clubs, just pull them out and juggle for them and they should be swayed to let me in. as my wife, baby daughter and I were walking into the event, the security people were going through people's bags. again the guard said i was not able to bring my clubs in. i asked to see the 'head' guard. the 'head' guard looked at the clubs and said that someone could get hurt if the club was thrown.
there is a bit of an inconsistency here. the same security people would let in my nikon 10x70 binouculars which weigh close to 10 lbs and are made of steel and glass. concert goers had glass bottles of beer and the vendors were selling beer and bottled water to the masses. if one were to throw one of those objects, people could get hurt 5000 times more easily than if i dropped a club on someone. here is why:
the NRA and UL measure how much energy a projectile has (be it a toy or bullet) by kinetic energy. kinetic energy is usually expressed as 1/2mv^2. but juggling clubs usually have a bit more energy since we spin them when we throw them. this spinning component adds to the total kinetic energy of the club (to a small degree). so if we assume a normal juggler throws a club, say three feet, and one spin occurs with the club, that means the club is spinning roughly 10 radians/second. the kinetic energy of the spin = Iw^2 where w = radians/sec. what is I? that is a great philosophical question that i could expound on for hours but for this conversation it's the moment of inertia. for a club spinning around it's center, it's roughly ml^2/12 where m is the mass of the club and l is the length (and I'm sure some people are going to get all technical on me and insist i integrate the profile of the club in question but I'm just approximating things here at the moment). the mass of a px3 = 0.22Kg = m. l = 0.514 meters. thus if you do the math, mgh + Iw^2 = 1.97 + 0.48. for my nikon binoculars, mass = 4.54Kg, l = 0.2m. now if the guard is concerned about someone throwing something, i'm guessing if someone wanted to take out neil young on stage, they are probably not going to be able to get closer than 10 meters before security tags him. thus mgh for the binoculars at 10 meters would be 1162 and the rotational kinetic energy will be 1.5 (compare that with 1.97 and 0.48 for the px3). if you compare these two figures, you get that the nikons are going to be able to impart about 4750 times more kinetic energy than a px3.
in other words, if you are concerned about someone getting hurt if something is thrown, leave the jugglers alone!
Extremely dangerous? Say what? Last time I checked, NONE of the hijackers on 9/11 had a juggling club. Juggling clubs are NOT used by any police force in the world to help keep law and order. Neither the cripts nor the bloods carry juggling clubs to street fights. Not a single martial art uses juggling clubs as a weapon in their combat techiques. The CIA, KGB nor any terrorist cell teach agents anything about juggling clubs for good reason...they are NOT dangerous. In fact, with their soft rubber knobs and flexible plastic shells, they are actually quite forgiving...even if they hit you by accident. In our super tight security check points of our post 9/11 era, one can even carry on juggling clubs to an airport...yep, it's true...done it many times...PX3's fly through without even a flinch by TSA agents...and juggling clubs are NOT listed on the TSA's official prohibited items list.
As I was leaving the mexican food restaraunt, I was juggling by a pack of hot babes standing outside the door. They were giggling at each other and started to talk juggling. Generally it's entertaining to listen to hot babes talk about pretty much anything but juggling is definitely a special treat. As I was walking past with my decorated renegades glittering as they spun against the street lights, the babes said "You know what would be really cool? If he lit those on fire, that would be really cool". I thought to myself that technically they'd be hot, not cool. And even if I could light my renegade clubs on fire, they'd probably stink of burning plastic...yuck! The babes continued "swords would be cool too". I was tempted to get my torches and machetes out of my car and put on a show but the babes were smoking...I hate cigarettes!
so i'm walking into disneyland with my kids. we've packed our camera, water and of course some px3 juggling clubs to make the long lines more entertaining for others as well as sliding in some quality practice time for ourselves (some of those lines are LONG). at the gate the disney security people are going through people's personal items to make sure another 9-11 terrorist attack does not occur at the happiest place in the world.
at the entrance, one of the security people pulls out a juggling club as asks why I'm carrying around juggling 'pins'. I tell them the truth, that I'm a juggler, my kids are aspiring jugglers and we wanted an entertaining way to kill the time (ok, maybe 'kill' was not a good word to use here). the security agent says she'll have to ask her supervisor if the 'pins' can come in with mickey. the supervisor looks at the club, studies it closely, waves it around a bit and in all seriousness says I won't be able to bring it in since the club could be 'perceived as a weapon'.
give me a break! disneyland sells a veritable cornucopia of things that not only can be 'perceived as weapons', they ARE weapons!!! from star wars blasters of all sizes and shapes to pirates of the Caribbean swords, daggers, to frontier land rifles to maces available by the haunted mansion to antique murderers (that's what old seamen called hand guns, for obvious reasons (this term's etymology stems from what pirates would do with these little weapons if boarded by surprise by hostiles (i.e. they would be used to murder the invaders))). the national rifle association imposes no waiting period for the purchase of any of these weapons to the public.
i wanted to juggle at a neil young concert in mountain view california. my wife assured me this should be no problem since it was in an outside amphitheater, there was plenty of space and people would probably be doing all sorts of activities. she said if a security person had an issue with my clubs, just pull them out and juggle for them and they should be swayed to let me in. as my wife, baby daughter and I were walking into the event, the security people were going through people's bags. again the guard said i was not able to bring my clubs in. i asked to see the 'head' guard. the 'head' guard looked at the clubs and said that someone could get hurt if the club was thrown.
there is a bit of an inconsistency here. the same security people would let in my nikon 10x70 binouculars which weigh close to 10 lbs and are made of steel and glass. concert goers had glass bottles of beer and the vendors were selling beer and bottled water to the masses. if one were to throw one of those objects, people could get hurt 5000 times more easily than if i dropped a club on someone. here is why:
the NRA and UL measure how much energy a projectile has (be it a toy or bullet) by kinetic energy. kinetic energy is usually expressed as 1/2mv^2. but juggling clubs usually have a bit more energy since we spin them when we throw them. this spinning component adds to the total kinetic energy of the club (to a small degree). so if we assume a normal juggler throws a club, say three feet, and one spin occurs with the club, that means the club is spinning roughly 10 radians/second. the kinetic energy of the spin = Iw^2 where w = radians/sec. what is I? that is a great philosophical question that i could expound on for hours but for this conversation it's the moment of inertia. for a club spinning around it's center, it's roughly ml^2/12 where m is the mass of the club and l is the length (and I'm sure some people are going to get all technical on me and insist i integrate the profile of the club in question but I'm just approximating things here at the moment). the mass of a px3 = 0.22Kg = m. l = 0.514 meters. thus if you do the math, mgh + Iw^2 = 1.97 + 0.48. for my nikon binoculars, mass = 4.54Kg, l = 0.2m. now if the guard is concerned about someone throwing something, i'm guessing if someone wanted to take out neil young on stage, they are probably not going to be able to get closer than 10 meters before security tags him. thus mgh for the binoculars at 10 meters would be 1162 and the rotational kinetic energy will be 1.5 (compare that with 1.97 and 0.48 for the px3). if you compare these two figures, you get that the nikons are going to be able to impart about 4750 times more kinetic energy than a px3.
in other words, if you are concerned about someone getting hurt if something is thrown, leave the jugglers alone!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
10th anniversary
it's been a bit more than 10 years that i've been animating sailing rules and team racing scenarios. below are some examples from 10 years ago that I worked on with a guy named Jay who used to be the webmaster for the ICSA. The boats were orginally modeled in ashlar vellum (a CAD package) to figure out the basic physics of the motion. I then imported into director, animated there and exported as picts. The picts were then dragged into gif animator for the animation (I used GIFs since shockwave was still not workin on all browsers). Back then there was no flash, director ruled the animation world, few people knew what antialiasing was and animated GIFs seemed to be the most standard delivery medium for animation (though it had some pretty significant limitations). Click on the below links to see the animations:
an odd boat that disobeyed physics and a very nice mark
a very tight fit but NO contact!!!
if you look at other entries in this blog you'll see we've come a long way in 10 years...
Sunday, October 21, 2007
US Team Racing Championship 2007
Congratulations to NYYC Silver Panda for winning the 2007 US Team Racing Championship. Reportedly the deepest US Team Racing Championship ever and with a historic number of teams. Tim Wadlow gave an emotional speech at the awards ceremony and pointed out that this is the first time in history a team has completed a grand slam by Panda winning the US Championship, World Championship AND the Wilson Trophy in a row.
Gracious host Seawahnaka Yacht Club, located near Long Island New York, put on a spectacular event. The weather was wet the first day but we had awesome breeze for the entire event (except for a postponement on Sunday to wait for some awesome conditions for the semifinals and finals (which culminated in yet another historic showdown between Whishbone and Silver Panda).Below are podcasts from Saturday and Sunday talking to many of the key players of team racing. Special focus on the very recent Olympic Trials since many of the winners were competing in the event. Learn from the champions what it takes to win the trials and tips on how to win on the water. Also is the INSIDE scoop as to why West Kirby was not able to host the 2007 World Team Racing Championship. A very poignant interview from Gay Lynn Award winner Francis Charles (who has done a terrific amount to grow not only the sport of team racing but sailing in general). The worlds best umpire, Chris Atkins, joined the fun and absolutely made the event a better one...listen to his podcast to learn key insights from THE MAN. Ever ponder the mathematics and algorithms that allow the largest US Team Racing Championship to run without a hitch? Listen to Sandra Atkins give a 'Big Dummies Guide' to the Swiss League format.
NEW! High Definition Video Podcasts of the event (caution, big one is close to 1GB in size. May take a while to load). Video footage by Gavin O'Hare shot on a new Sanyo Xacti HD Camcorder. Audio captured with a Griffin iMic on an Apple iPod. Movie is close to 2 hours long (popcorn not included), packed with hot moves from some of the world's best team racers and has been nominated for an emmy, grammy and nobel peace prize:
Below are audio podcasts from the event:
Welcome from Commodore Al Constance
2005 Hinman Champion Brad Funk
Amanda interviews Bryan McDonald
Scoring whiz kid Sandra Atkins
Gay Lynn Award Winner Francis Charles
The TRUE story why West Kirby did not host 2007 worlds
Olympian Stu McNay and Team Molly
Team Racing Tools and intro movie
Amazing Roll Tacks from Panda and Whishbone
8 year old Emmett McDonald setting the Rave class speed record for San Francisco Bay
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