Discover the magic of Prasonisi in Rhodes by grabbing one of the last remaining places on Simon’s windsurfing coaching week 10-17 September 2022. Perfect for intermediate and flat-water advanced skills. Treat yourself to a fun getaway with like-minded people and boost your windsurfing skills in warm water and reliable wind!

Prasonisi Clinic 10-17 September

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Here is Simon’s recommended reading list related to teaching, coaching, learning and performance. Simon references these works during instructor training and talks.

• Bounce: Matthew Syed
  • Outstanding and accessible introduction to success in sport
  • Ex-british number 1 table tennis player debunks the myth of talent
  • Champions the power of purposeful practice
  • Shows how 10,000 hours or 10 years of purposeful and dedicated practice are required to be world-class

• The Art of Resilience (strategies for an unbreakable mind and body): Ross Edgley
  • Brilliantly written book about The Great British Swim where Ross swam 1780 miles around the UK coastline in 157 days
  • Discusses resilience, stoicism, strength and stamina
  • Advocates controlling the controllables and accepting the uncontrollables

• Mindset: Dr Carol S. Dweck
  • The seminal guide to discovering the mindset for achieving success
  • Encourages growth mindsets over fixed mindsets
  • Explains why spending time learning is better than spending time ‘proving you are smart’
  • Unlocks success, failure, change and growth

• Practice Perfect (42 rules for getting better at getting better): Doug Lemnov, Erica Woolway & Katie Yezzi
  • 3 educational experts show how practice makes ‘permanent’, not ‘perfect’
  • Describes how practice should be designed and how we should focus on solutions, not problems
  • Shows how aiming at creative goals is better than remaining in a comfort zone

• Black Box Thinking (the surprising truth about success): Matthew Syed
  • Inspiring book showing how significant learning and progress can be derived from failure
  • Highlights differences in attitudes and responses to failure in medicine and the airline industry
  • Illuminates how failure drives innovation and gains in performance

• #NOW (the surprising truth about the power of now): Dr Max McKeown
  • How to nurture a nowist mindset
  • Shows how there is little need to get every smallest part worked out: ‘computations may know the sums of everything and the meaning of nothing’
  • Highlights how you can only directly think, do or change anything at the point of now
  • References Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological motivation
  • Suggests how feeling confident and powerful makes you more likely to take positive action

• The Chimp Paradox: Prof Steve Peters
  • Explains how your limbic brain (‘Chimp’) interprets info with feelings and impressions, then uses emotional thinking to put things together and form a plan of action
  • Compares this to your human (frontal brain) and how it interprets info searching for facts and establishing truths then uses logical thinking to put things together and form a plan of action
  • The Chimp (like a voice in your head) can draw on your valuable energy resources by drawing you into negativity, anger, disappointment, anxiety and failure
  • It can also give you a chance to succeed by positively interpreting failure

• The Natural Health Service (what the great outdoors can do for your mind): Isabel Hardman
  • A warm and clear look at how being outdoors and participating in outdoor pursuits can be good for general and mental health and provide useful benefits against anxiety and depression
  • Champions the restorative power of the great outdoors including being in and around water

From 25 June 2021

https://www.otc-blog.com/post/simon-winkley-rising-to-the-top

Windsurfing clinics in Portland Harbour at The Official Test Centre (OTC) run from April-November.

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A big article all about windsurfing masts! Click the image to access the free 12-page PDF. Click here to check out WSUK.

2023 dates coming soon! To book a windsurfing clinic in Lanzarote, Sotavento or Prasonisi please call Sportif on 01273 844919. To book a UK windsurfing clinic in Weymouth or a 1:1/1:2 at Queen Mary (for windsurf, windfoil, WINGsurf or WINGfoil) – or to ask a question – please contact Simon directly by web message.

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