STARTLINE

The Higher and Faster team are back! This time focusing on the most complex skill in sailboat racing: the start. The aim of this DVD is to teach skills and techniques that will help sailors of all abilities to master the start line.


Using Lasers and SB3 keelboats, Startline brings together the UK’s most talented sailors to provide an incredible insight into how to take pole position on the line. Just like previous Higher & Faster titles (Smack Down Under; Higher & Faster) Startline combines in depth coaching points from elite coach Harvey Hillary with stunning on the water footage.

Harvey and the Startline Sailing Team use specific coaching tutorials to introduce the 4 zones of optimal starting:

• The Line : Activate your own personal GPS so you can identify bias, slippage and time & distance to the line.
  
  
• Positioning : How to execute your 1 st beat strategy & gain a tactical advantage over other boats.
  
  
• Boat Handling : How to refine the 5 Key manoeuvres in the pre-start so that you can gain an advantage over other boats and reposition effectively.
  
  
• The Usual Suspects : The Startline Sailing Team take on explaining the complexities of the rules during the pre-start. This tutorial aims to identify who are the right of way and keep clear boats and the definition of keeping clear.

The Startline Sailing Team:
Harvey Hillary and Ian Clingan (Team GBR Coaches), Kevin Sproul (European Melges and Mum 30 Champion), Lizzie Vickers, Andrea Brewster, Kier Clarke and James Grant

Higher & Faster DVD

With stunning close up footage, shore based demonstrations and instructive commentry, this film unlocks the secrets of sailing today's breed of high performance sail boat.

Top 49er duo Alistair Richardson and Peter Greenhalgh are joined by performance coach Harvey Hillary to give a step by step guide on how to optimise speed and improve boat handling.

Using the RS800, 29er and 49er, they demonstrate routines in the boat that can be applied to all asymetric dinghies, mainsheet off the boom or on the floor, twin wire or single!

Whatever your ability Higher and Faster is the perfect learning tool to help you get the most out of your sailing.

Produced by Iain May of Solent Video and distributed by Holt, the dvd is available now from leading chandlers, RRP £24.95 inc VAT.