How to approach physical training in sailing (EN) - VTS Plus - Marathon - Webinar (2023)

In this topic I would like to give a deep dive into the coaching methods that I think ensures good skills developement and the personal developement of my athletes. Important keypoints for this topic is structured experimenting, how sailing spesific skills, physical skills and mental skills are connected, structured work with partial goals and full goals, targeted and comprehensive work with the skills that a required from the boat/board class, adversity management, the importance of the athlete/team/training group having faith in what they are doing, to have trust in the process and sporting joy (that the athletes´motivation shoud come from within).

Docent: Borresen Celia

My name is Celia Chisholm Valeur Børresen. I´m 23 years old and educated a level 3 high performance sailing coach trough the Norwegian Sailing Federation and Olympiatoppen(NOC). I am also currently (january 2023- June 2024) in an educational skills developing program for young talented coaches at Olympiatoppen. In june 2023 I will also be educated a nurse at the Western Norway University of Applied Siences. I used to be a sailor myself, but after an accident during the World Sailing Youth Wolrds in 2017, I had to quit my career due to a long lasting injury.

My coaching career started in 2016, and I am really passionate about it. I put all of my pride into my coachwork, and my coaching philosophy is “Trough process oriented coachwork and a focus on skills development, I´m making my athletes as good and fast as they want to and can become”. I am always focused on working towards the long term goals of my athletes, and trough enough respect for sailing as a sport and coacing as a profession, I create a safe arena for my athletes that facilitates learning, performing, skills development and personal development. My coaching style is based on working on my athletes´ ability to self-reflect, and trough this develop the skills that are needed to perform on a steady, good level in the high- leveled international international fleets.