TIMECODED QUESTIONS

00:00 Intro

02:13 America’s Cup chat

15:05 Hamish, you’re putting yourself at the bottom of the Road To Gold again with your new pursuit of wing foiling. Tell us what wing foiling is like, why you’re doing it, and what it’s like being a beginner again.

16:34 You described boat handling as a ‘tick off’, something that doesn’t require any special talent, even to world-class level. It’s just something you apply yourself to, and anybody can learn those boat handling skills. Why is that so many of us don’t get to that high level in our boat handling if it’s that straightforward to do it?

24:39 What advice do you have for those that are struggling to put together a squad? How do you pull together those people to find that common purpose?

28:42 When you have such superstars like Burling & Tuke, who will likely always be the ones that go to represent the country at the Games, how do you manage the squad group training altogether for good?

32:54 Do you have standard de-brief questions (or a process) at the end of practice to identify and capture learnings? [bonus PDF download below]

35:17 How much daily training time on the water do you think is the best quality practice?

40:59 Maelle Frascari: We are trying to train a sort of "resistance" to pain when and if we hit the boat during the downwinds with big waves. What's the moment to stop? What's the moment to keep going and stay with the pain, always trying to sail as if we were in a race? 

49:20 Regarding coaching tools, I struggle to use video regularly (in Cadet coaching) because it requires a lot of post-processing for de-briefing. And during recording on the water, I tend to have less time for direct feedback to the sailors. How can I ideally manage a good balance between real-time coaching and post-coaching video?

51:58 How important is training aimed at performing boat handling under pressure (e.g. several boats going around the same mark at speed), already tired and with wrongly set up equipment? In contrast to perfectly executed manoeuvres? 

53:35 What do you recommend eating and drinking after a hard sailing effort and how much should be consumed?

57:18 About the equipment list: How often do you update it? Is it an everyday task or do you have a system to make sure you are tracking the sailing hours?

59:04 Would worse manoeuvres at the end of a training session lead to some bad muscle memory over night?

1:03:15 In your teaser about 'boat speed' at end of Chapter 3, you mentioned to 1) record notes (by day, by event), 2) index them, and 3) whittle down to a cheat sheet. I have been creating similar lists over the years. Letting each boat and each race help refine my general checklists, including development of a boat speed/trim loop checklist.  a. Do you have a sample(s) of this 'cheat sheet' that you can share with us? b. What is your method of creating these 'cheat sheets'?

1:08:39 How often do you watch tracking analysis of other boats to understand them better? Starting routines, etc

This PDF debrief sheet below includes the same questions Hamish uses with Pete Burling & Blair Tuke after each training session and event. You can either complete it in the PDF directly or print it out.