Goal Setting

Designed by two-time Olympic 49er sailor Marcus Baur, this skeleton Goalscape template gives you the basis of a great campaign planner for your sailing. Combine this with some of the ideas in the Goal Setting section of Articles in SailJuice and start building your comprehensive plan for the next phase of your sailing.

An Olympic silver medallist from Barcelona 1992, Morgan Reeser coached Luke Patience and Stu Bithell to their own Olympic silver medal in the 470 20 years later in Weymouth. Here, Coach Morgan explains why you should never look at the scoreboard during a regatta...

In part 2 of our look at advanced goal-setting software, Emmett Lazich joins Goalscape's Marcus Baur and SailJuice's Andy Rice to explain how he uses goal-setting technology to help him coach teams to world championship winning success. Lazich has coached Nathan Outteridge to Olympic glory in London 2012 and numerous 49er World Championships, and also coached the Finland 49er team to Olympic gold in Sydney 2000.

There are plenty of reasons and excuses we can come up with not to start setting goals. So break the habit and start laying out those targets right now. Identify your major weaknesses, give yourself a score out of 10, and have the courage and determination to keep on working on these weaknesses until you minimise or even eradicate them....

In part one of our look at advanced goal-setting techniques, Goalscape's Marcus Baur (double 49er European Champion) and Richard Parslow (former Fireball World Champion and 49er coach) explain why they invented this advanced goal-setting technology and what it can do for helping point any sailing campaign on the right path to success.

Multiple champion and America's Cup finallist Terry Hutchinson talks about setting goals for a regatta or for the whole season. Sometimes you need a kick in the teeth before you realise what it is that needs working on. The worst thing you can do is tell yourself: 'I'm crap at starting' and never to do anything about it....