Need help starting?  We all do!  This 25 minute starting lesson is a favorite among Steve’s students and explores four sweet starting moves you can use to increase your starting percentage, along with helping you create more space on the line to accelerate and launch off the line.

The lesson details how to:

• Half Tack
• Double Tack
• Slide
• Reverse
• High Build

and more!  

Steve’s explains a powerful mindset of seeking out open space on the line, using the above moves to help position your boat in the space and using the moves to open up your leeward gap on the final approach to launch off the starting line!  He also details acceleration tips to beat those around you and get bow out on your competition.  

In addition to launching off the line Steve and Victor Diaz de Leon explain how to determine where to start, which way to go upwind, and how to make decisions on the first beat.  This lesson is a must for the serious racer!

This is an excerpt from the lesson: