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Il mondo della Vela in immagini
Serata foto giovedi 5 Marzo 2009 ore 19.00 Palazzo Congressi Muralto
In collaborazione con la Federazione Ticinese della Vela e banca SYZ&CO organizziamo una serata foto con le più spettacolari immagini di vela internazionale come:
-Maxi Catamarani
-Monaco Classic Week
-Barcelona World Race
-Tour de France a la Voile
-Giochi Olympici di Qingdao
-Voile des St. Tropez
-Volvo Ocean Race Singapore 08/09
-Louis Vuitton Pacific Series Auckland 09
Entrata e libera
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World Yacht Racing Forum
A milestone in the world yacht racing industry
The first time in the history of sailing many of the key stakeholders of our industry found the way to Monaco to jointly discuss the future our industry. It never appeared to me clear that we are all part of big family and that we are all working in the same industry independent of the countries organizations or teams we belong.
Interesting session with great speakers talking about sponsorship, event management, and key elements driving the world yacht racing industry.
The sailing community is used to meet and come together for events but this is the first time all focused on exchanging ideas and discussion approaches how to improve our industry, networking without having a race to be sailed or organized.
The session about the future of the America’s cup didn’t brought any new hope for a fast resolution of the conflict between Alinghi and BMW Oracle. Paul Cayard Cleary outlined the more fundamental problem of the current situation. The Americas cup moved up to a new level in the last few editions and current management concept as described in the deed of gift does not allow a fast resolution of conflicts. Will and independent body improve this situation and how can this be put in place.
The economy slow down is not only a headline on the news but also having an impact on the founding of the events, teams etc. are this challenging times an opportunity to strengthen the world yacht racing industry. What is the value of an event investment, how can this be properly measured to what is the return of the investment and how is the industry positioned within other industries. It became clear that if well managed the sailing industry is capable of delivering a much higher return as mostly any other sport.
This was certainly the first step in to the right direction and I hope more of this will follow. There is one point who remain addressed only partially, out of the discussions became clear that in the eye of many large event organizers such as OC Events ISAF with his democratic approach is not able to fulfill their requirements.
What is going to happen, will the forum be an important platform for ISAF to better understand the needs of many professionals in this sailing marked or will it be even possible to contribute and cooperate on a different level.
Future will tell
Juerg
Posted in Olympic Games, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, America's Cup, ishares cup, Olympic Games
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On the waterline
Last weekend I have been in Valencia for the Desafio Annual Regatta. For some a really important event such as Alinghi and Desafio, some others like BMWOracle guess not so interested in it. For me it was a great opportunity to try out a new camera system and this with nothing less as the Americas cup boats.
Since 1 year was thinking how to realize this kind of image, specially as I like to work from the water surface and with the wide angle lenses. The perspective is different and amazing, with underwater housing I can finally combine this two in to one image without damaging the camera and even go a bit under the surface.
It’s really motivating to explore and learning this technology. As sailing photographer you always take images from sailing boats, and in the mean time we did almost every possible angle and corner of the boats and this is finally something new and give us new options.
Posted in Yachting
Also tagged Alinghi, America's Cup, innovation, photo, secret, underwater, underwater photography, valencia
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my first swiss sailing calendar
Click on the image to find out more of the calendar
When I came back from the Olympic games I found that it was quite a hard and intensive job to take images at the games but even harder is to choose 13 of the 9000 for a calendar. I don’t know how many times I did a new selection for this calendar but with some help from friends and also another sailing photographer Amory Ross now It’s done and I’m very happy with the outcome.
On the cover we find Nathalie Brugger, she fully deserves to be on the cover of the 2009 calendar.
For every calendar we sell we will pay 5 CHF to the youth development of Swiss Sailing, I like the idea to involve the youth in this project and with the calendars who are sold by the clubs even more money can be collected for our youth.
Like every project there are a few person who are key. Have to admit without the persistence of Daniel Wälti the chief redactor of Swiss Boat Yachting I would not have even started to seriously consider such a project. The calendar shows 13 images from all our Swiss sailors at the Olympic games, this is only possible thanks to Swiss Olympic who helped us with the authorization of IOC.
Enjoy it
Jürg
Xie Xie China
Xie Xie in mandarino significa grazie e si pronuncia “cie cie”, hanno dato tutto quello che potevano per trasformare queste Olimpiadi in una bella festa. Non per parlarne della cerimonia di chiusura che no ho vissuto in prima persona.
Sono sul viaggio di ritorno e mi sono fermato 2 giorni a Shanghai per vedere un po di China al di fuori dal villaggio Olimpico e di Qingdao. Sfortunatamente piove fortemente e cosi sono in albergo e scrivo un po.
Gli ultimi giorni a Qingdao erano particolarmente intensi, incominciando con la medal race di Flavio ed Enrico sulla Star: buona partenza, terzi alla boa di bolina, “ultimi” alla boa di poppa ed un recupero da eroi nella prossima bolina fino al secondo posto e poi finire sul scondo posto. La medaglia non ci e stata, gli punti persi nelle prime prove pesavano troppo pero bella prestazione. Bravi!!!
Il giorno della partenza da Qingdao era anche un po particolare. Dopo che gli Chinesi del centro stampa hanno scoperto che il mio volo era solo alle 23.00 non cera mezzo per evitare la cerminonia di chiusura di Qingdao, non so come mai ma dovevo scattare delle foto a tutti costi. Non mi dispiaceva perché gli unici fotografi rimasti era Carlo Borlenghi ed io cosi l’ho fatto assieme a Carlo.
Fino qui tutto bene, hanno organizzato tutta una serie di trasporti per fare in modo che la partenza dallo stadio, caricare le borse in albergo e poi portarmi in aeroporto doveva funzionare alla perfezione. Non fu cosi, l’ultimo trasporto era in ritardo e cosi ho perso la prima volta l’aereo. Per la manager (donna) del centro stampa era un disastro si e scusata in tutti modi possibili e quasi non osava più a guardarmi dalla vergogna. Pero quello che ne e uscito dopo era geniale.
Mi sono trovato in un vero KTV Chinese (Karaoke TV) con un gruppo di volontari del centro stampa e nel fra tempo mi hanno organizzato il nuovo volo, trasporto ed albergo per la notte.
Consequnza ho giocato una specie di indianata Chinese di birra con dei dadi tutta la notte con Chinesi nel KTV dove le ragezza del centro stampa continuavano a cantare in Chinese ed io bere Qingdao birra perche chairmente gli Chinesi erano piu bravi. Ogni tre po caraciavano la canzone “I am sailing I am sailing” per fare cantare pure me.
Per fortuna la nostra costituzione sopporta meglio l’ alcool dei Chinesi cosi ce l’ho fatta a sopravvivere più o meno bene la notte.
Il giorno dopo cioè un paio di ore dopo chiaramente mi hanno accompagnato in aereoporto. Stranamente mi hanno portato dritto all check in della first class, il resto si spiega da solo, peccato che il volo e durato poco meno di 2 ore.
Domani torno a casa per un fine settimana tranquillo perché il lunedì dopo si va a St. Moritz per il match race.
Saluti da Shangahi
Jürg
PS: Qui a Shanghai ho trovato un bar che si chiama “Locarno” ed ha il caffe “Chiocco d’oro” e gli spagetti carbonara sono mica male.
Posted in Olympic Games, Travel, Yachting
Also tagged Imaging, Olympic Games, Travelling
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Ben Ainslie di qua Ben Ainslie di la….
© Juerg Kaufmann - www.go4image.com
Questo nome tra un pò no lo posso piu sentire, tutti ne parlano e tutto gira attorno questo personaggio, sembra che sia il nuovo Paul Elvström. Per il momento però è Torben e Paul che hanno 5 medaglie e non Ben.
Oggi era in programma la medalrace degli Yngling e prima quella dei Finn, visto che devo scattare un po di foto di Sofia che è attualment terza e corre per difendere il suo titolo Olympico ero gia sull acqua prima, e mi sono vissutto tutta questa euforia di Ben Ainslie…..non ne posso più.
Per farla breve anche oggi il vento e mancato e la regta dei Finn e stata annullata dopo una lotteria che anche noi conosciamo bene sui nostri dai laghi, conseqenza: Sofia non ha corso e mi tocca rifare la stessa riscendere in campo domani.
Magari mi sto stancando un po da questi olympiadi. Mi alzo presto ogni mattina e scatto tutti giorni attorno alle 800 – 1000 foto e poi alla fine vado a letto quasi senza cena e sento in ogni frase almeno tre Ben Ainslie…..
Ieri invice era quasi una bella giornata, ero sul campo con le star, tutti non si aspettavano altro viso che corre il nostro equipaggio svizzero, speranza per una medaglia.
La meteo annunciava 10 – 12 nodi da nord con il vento che gira da 10 – 20 gradi a sinistra. Dopo un po di ritardi per il vento finalmente la partenza, bel vento, belle foto cielo blu i nostri in mezzo ai piu bravi. Un gruppo vira e va a destra, anche i nostri….Ahi, mi dico forse sinistra e meglio. Ma non erano soli cera anche Hemish Pettper, Robert Seidt etc. Invece Il Polacco e il tedesco Pickel che la sera prima era ancora in discoteca stanno a sinistra.
Alla boa e tutto chiaro la sinistra pagava talmente che devono poggiare sulla boa ed i nostri lontano dai primi nel secondo gruppo……altro sogno svizzero svanito? Non troppo presto.. infatti recuperano di brutto, la barca è semplicemente più veloce delle altre…bellissimo, alla fine sono dentro le medal race per il momento.
Adesso sono qui in un ristorante Chinese con degli amici Danesi e ci rendiamo conto che metà delle Olimpiadi è già trascorsa. Per fortuna, perchè ho già 30 GB di foto sul disco e il sito bello pieno di belle foto…almneo penso, e poi tra un pò non so più cosa inventarmi.
Dalla perte del “Rules Advisor” invece non ho molto da fare per il momento, però può cambiare molto velocemente se Marazzi entra nei primi.
L’altro giorno ho incontrato Ewan, ervamo tutti e due in discussione come rules advisor per i Chinesi, ovviamente ho prefertito prendere i nostri. Lui ha avuto 3 proteste e le ha perse tutte fino ad ora, non era molto felice.
Penso che posso essere contento con il mio OCS perso, tanto é poco probabile che alle Olimpiadi i giudici consierano una richiesta di riparatzione per un OCS uccidendo la credibilità del race officer.
Da domini in avati vorrei incominciare a diventare un pò creativo con le immagini, tanto la parte formale é fatta..vediamo cosa ne uscirà… sperando che non ci siano troppe proteste!
Prima di salutare volevo ancora scrivere dei “Kinder Bueno”, ne abbiamo ricevuti talmete tanti che non riusciamo a mangirli tutti da soli, così tutte le mattine porto un cartone o due al centro stampa. Consequenza: tutti giornalisti e fotografi mangiano Kinder Bueno e uno dei manager del centro stampa é un pò nervoso perché chiaramente la Ferrero non é un sponsor o fornitore ufficiale….
Ora pago il conto in questo ristorante chinese e poi vado a dormire
Jürg
Palma is over next step is China
The days here in Palma where special, Coppa el Rey is a amazing event with a high level competitors. Every time I’m sailing in this event I’m learning a lot this year was about Farr 40 sailing specially the mainsail trim on this boat.
On our race course we also had the two VOR 70 TELEFONICA racing and getting ready for the Volovo Ocean Race, amazin the speed of the canting keel yachts.
Another phenomena here in Palma is how late it get every evening, it almost seems a mission impossible to go for dinner before 9 and forget being out of the restaurant before 12. So it’s hard to be back home before 2 am but guess what I’m not half as tiered if I would do this at home.
Some say that the island Ibiza and Palma have a special energy…must be.
Yesterday when we left the harbor I finally managed to take a picture I was thinking of for quite some time. I like here lines if you look at it from the bow..
Posted in Olympic Games, Travel, Yachting
Also tagged coppa del rey, Imaging, Olympic Games, olympics, Palma, volvo ocean race
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how much can you improve teamwork
Teambuilding for match race teams
Maybe you wonder why I’m writing about teambuilding for match racing teams. Probably the correct title would be: how much more can you improve teamwork.
Since we all saw the Alinghi team working as one perfect team during the America’s Cup, at least in the 2003 Cup, everybody knows that you require a high level of teamwork to perform in a boat.
Imagine now you get engaged by two top match race teams to improve their teamwork. As an example a normal good crew on a 30 foot boat takes about 15 -20 seconds to hoist the spinnaker, those guys sailing in the top 50 and 30 of the world ranking list do it in less than 12 seconds and they are not happy.
Therefore it is quite a challenge to support these 2 teams, what kind of advice would you give them, how do you advise them on areas to improve without compromising the already high level of teamwork?
The main area for improvement that I helped them to apply was communication between the team and the decision making processes. This can be applied on an overall tactical level but also in, for example, the hectic pre-start period.
The learning curve is never over and there is always room to improve, which is clear after such a training session.
We divided the training into 3 main steps:
- Assessment: Know your strengths and weaknesses
- Agreement: Of the strengths and weaknesses
- Improvement: Apply this new knowledge
At the end the spinnaker came up in less than 10 seconds which was an improvement but the major change was in the communication between the team, there was almost no shouting on board, they all knew what they had to do and how to talk to each other.
You may ask yourselves why is communication so important? Imagine you are sitting in a meeting with 20 knots of wind and big waves crashing over the table. How do you make joint decisions in no time often without clear communication channels, but be working seamlessly and instinctively as a team with the same goals and desired outcomes? That’s where teamwork comes into play.
Sailing, like many team sports, can be an excellent tool for focusing attention on teamwork. If there is a misunderstanding about roles and responsibilities you find out within seconds, not days, weeks or even possibly months later as often demonstrated in the business world.
Posted in Outdoor
Also tagged Coaching, communication, how to, improve teamwork, improvement, motivation, performance, performance improvement, team, teamwork, teamwork improvement
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40 feet catamaranes sailing in Lugano
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I know today is the 1st of April and it’s my birthday. Allmost 40 years of jokes I have been told in this day every year.
Now there is a story to tell, End of May from Friday 30.5 until Sunday 1st of June the world best extreme 40 sailing teams will sail against Alinghi and Team Origin is part of the event to.
To get a feeling of what will happen in Lugano in these days look at the video
Posted in Outdoor
Also tagged AC, Alinghi, America's Cup, ishares cup, Lugano, multihull, OC events, Oracle, racemanagement, regatta, spectacular, switzerland, Tessin, Ticino, volvo ocean race
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On the way to the olympic games
Sometimes there are days you get up and you think it will be another boring day in the office doing the paperwork as usual if I’m not out sailing and taking pictures.
Today seemed to be such a day until I got the phone call from Swiss Olympic asking me if I still can go to China taking pictures at the games. I couldn’t believe my ears, what kind of a question…sure I want to go it’s something I’m dreaming and hoping since long time.
Now it’s time for a short break to enjoy this moment and then I guess we have to start to fill in a few forms…details about all this later.
Take care and enjoy the day
Jürg
Coaching Sailing Rules
Today I will join the Swiss Sailing Team in Magglingen and we will spend a 2 days and talk about rules. After several discussions with sailors involved in the Olympic selection, Swiss and some of other Nationalities we realized the knowledge of the medal race details (Addendum Q) is quite poor even among some the top world class sailors aspiring for a medals at the games.
Interesting fact considering that federations and sailors invest a lot of recourses to get sailors to the medal race, and once they are there the hardly understand the rules of the game. Some months ago I was involved with a similar session for another Olympic sailing team, we did the ISAF medal race Quiz which contains about 20 questions. Most of the sailors got right from 7 to 13…..
Normal racing rules will also be discussed and for sure will also talk about rule 42, I think it’s becoming a bit of an emotional issue. The rule 42 is clearly described however there is still some room for interpretation and some judges go harder on the subject as others which may create a bit confusion.
It’s a great way to work with sailors and learn more about their concerns and point of view , will be really curious what will be the key lesson learned for them and me.
Jürg
Posted in Outdoor
Also tagged coacing rules, games, hearing, improvement, medal race, olympic, olympics, performance, rules advisor
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America's Cup: There is no winner
Photo courtesy of (c) Martin Gilles-Raget
33rd America’s Cup just entered in the startbox
What a situation, we just had the most interesting cup since ever with great races and since months two big guys of our sailing world are demonstrating their power.
Saturday GGYC came up with a new press release telling that Alinghi is not quite open to find a amicable settlement…
Sunday Alinghi came up saying we want to find a solution, we are ready to meet monday morning in New York….
Hard to belive, who is right who is wrong, that’s up to the judge of the New York court to decide, but I have a strong feeling that one of these two teams will come out as a looser. Is it SNG or GGYC?
Wee will se…
Probably the 33rd cup just entered the start box and the boats instead of a nice and calm dial up they just crossed each other with contact.
Now the question is did yellow (Alinghi) altered the course and infringe rule 16 or did blue failed to keep clear by rule 10….this time it’s not an umpire call but the court of New York.
Must be a quite hopeless task to go back to the team a say, guys we lost in court but now we go a win on the water….lets hope that the cup itseleve will not be the looser.
Good luck
Jürg
I'm in love
She is tall, has class, a speechless beauty born almost a century ago, here name is Mariquita.
Last weekend I had a special sailing experience, no it’s not about match racing no particular move just normal sailing but on a very special boat. Was in the jury for the Monaco Classic Week and as on-board observer you have plenty of opportunities to take good shots and enjoy the seamless class of this boats. On the first day I was on Wayward an typical schooner and the last day I spend on Mariquita, a real treasure.
To see more of here, click on the picture
Jürg
