Now then, a coach once told me back in the late '90's that his son (an Olympic hopeful at the time) could actually sit on the start line (well a boat length or two behid it) in the last two minutes before the start and position his body weight / sail / daggerboard / rudder in such a way that he could marginally squeeze "up" towards the starboard end thus creating space to accelerate into 5 seconds before the gun and leaving opponents to windward with no space to do this. The result of this is he could actually "roll" them straight after the start leaving himself with completely unmessed up air!
Does anyone know how to pull this off, think it's only possible in flat water and medium air, if you do please enlighten me as my coach couldn't describe it although he looked like he could visualise it!
Does anyone know how to pull this off, think it's only possible in flat water and medium air, if you do please enlighten me as my coach couldn't describe it although he looked like he could visualise it!