2. There are two types of optimist
sailors
Artists and Scientist
What is the difference?
What is the difference?
• The country
• The educational system
• The temperature of the place that they are training
• The family
• The character
• Religion
• Habits
3. The scientists
• They want to prove
everything before they
try
• The keep record of
everything they do
• The measure everything
• They keep files
• They train less than the
artists
• They are more
independent whey they
are racing or training
4. The artists
• They feel more
• They train more
• They don’t like to have
a long plan
• They enjoy more the
water sessions than the
classroom
• They train harder
• They are more
emotional
• They depend a lot on
5. In the optimist class the last years
the artists improve faster
This is because
•The feel is the key to fast performance in the
optimist class
•It takes longer to the scientists to develop their
skills
•Its easier to teach feel than physics and
mathematics to the kids
•The body type of the scientists is bigger than
the artists
6. Later on in their sailing career
the scientists strike back
• In the other classes when they move on, or at their last
year in optimist if they manage to keep their weight in
a reasonable number of kilos they start to be better.
• It is because they have built a strong base on their
knowledge.
• When they move on with their school they have more
time to train in warmer places and develop their feel.
• Its easier to learn how to feel your boat when you are
17 years old than to admit that you have to know
about physics and start keeping record in what you do.
7. So the problem with the artists,
comes after the optimist
• When they cant understand why the feel is
not working in the 420ies or lasers so much
and you have to develop other skills.
• Then they train more and more and they start
loosing their self confidence
8. No one is 100% scientist or
artist
In life there is not only white or black
The ideal is to be 60% of your nature and 40% of
the opposite
The Singaporeans are scientists by nature and
they have a great artist as a coach
