![]() Co-sponsors include The Pizza Company, Apollo (Thailand), Thai Airways, and True Corporation. This event has been supported by strategic partners include Pattaya City, the Sports Authority of Thailand, and the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. The 2017 Optimist World Championships is organized by the Royal Varuna Yacht Club with the endorsement of the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand and the Junior Sailing Squadron of Thailand under the International Optimist Dinghy Association. On July 12, the regatta will officially be declared open, with individual racing to begin the next day. Tom Whitcraft, President of the Organising Committee said, “It has been wonderful welcoming so many sailors to Pattaya and I am impressed with the speed those here early have adjusted to the Thai wind and sea conditions.” The forecast suggests there should be stronger winds later this week, as well as a few rainstorms.įifty-one countries, over 80% of the record-breaking 62 countries registered for the event, arrived early to train. Over the past four days, most days have been sunny, with wind averaging 10-15 knots the first few days, then dropping to 6-9 knots yesterday and even lighter on the last day of pre-event training. game dedicated to vendor training, written in Java, Javascript and VRML. We still have a little more to learn.”Ībdul Aziz Al Shidi of Oman said his team has spent the last week getting accustomed to not just the current, but also the humidity, the occasional rainstorm, which is rare in Oman, and the different food. The IODA NetLogo extension provides users of NetLogo with many features of the. We have to focus on these things that are uncommon for us. “In the Adriatic Sea, there is one-third the current here and, at home in Hungary, only lakes with smaller waves and no shifty winds. “We are glad we came early to adapt to the temperature, the current, and the wind,” said Hungary’s coach Bence Szalontai. In our home, there is no current or light wind like this.” Monaco’s coach Margaux Meslin similarly admitted needing time to adjust to local conditions. We do not have the same kind of conditions where we come from, specifically strong currents and tide and low wind with big waves." “There is a lot of chop coming in many directions and strong current.”īaltics coach Rene Abner had one word for local conditions. “It is going to be a very technical course,” he said. It was an insightful week for Ireland coach Javier Figueroa, who got his team on the water off Pattaya's host venue, the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, five days early. Keep an eye on SOFREP in the near future for more information about the Q-Course as it continues to evolve.Team Oman – Lighter moments after a hard days work on waterĪs pre-event training at the Optimist World Championship 2017 in Thailand draws to a close, we spoke with several coaches who arrived early and are very glad they did. SUT still teaches basic tactics but now also includes Close Quarter Battle and Counter-Insurgency Training. The Special Forces instructor assigned to each IODA handles the paperwork, gets his men laid on for parachute jumps, and helps instruct the students when they attend the Small Unit Tactics portion of their training. Today, when students show up in the Q-Course, they are assigned to an IODA (Instruction Operational Detachment Alpha if I am not mistaken) where their ODA leader is a Special Forces member assigned as an instructor to the Special Warfare Center (SWC) whose job is to coach, teach, and mentor the students until they graduate. Over the last 15 years IODA has built a reputation throughout the UK and into the International Arena for quality training delivery, strategic consultation. Think you can learn a language like Arabic with the classes split up and all over the place like that? That’s right, neither could we. ![]() This is how it would work: You would have a two week block of instruction in your language, then go to WLC/BNOC for a couple weeks, have another two week language block, then go to Small Unit Tactics training for seven weeks, have a two week language block, then three weeks of SERE, and…well, you get the idea. When I attended the course, the language training was split up into modules. In my opinion, these changes have been for the better. The Special Forces Qualification Course has changed quite a bit from when I graduated in 2007. ![]()
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