Ein Bericht von Maxim Titarenko:

Four days of training on the RS Aero with Arkady and Ausra made one thing very clear — I had seriously overestimated my sailing knowledge.
Before this clinic, I thought I knew how a sail works. After the first lecture, I realized that even simple definitions which I was sure of are not so obvious. By day two, I began to suspect I’d been living in a fantasy world — wrong heel, wrong sail shape, and legs that were far from straight.
Turns out, sailing isn’t just “guess the direction of the wind and make a good start”. It’s waterborne quantum physics — explained so clear that even my little kids began to understand such definitions as VMG, resultant force of the sail and frontal aerodynamic drag of the sail. Arkady broke down tactical cause-and-effect so precisely, I started blushing just thinking about my past race starts.
And Ausra. She is a set of sailing life hacks and can teach you how to sit properly, trim the sheet at the right second, roll with the rudder, and somehow manage your boat, body, and it seems even soul.
Physically, these were days of physical challenge for the body. Sometimes I couldn’t feel my legs, but every time I wanted to give up and drift off to the leeward shore, Arkady’s voice echoed across the water:
“This is your discomfort zone. Straighten your legs and give me zero heel!” (with some passionate additions in his native language — which only I understood, and will tactfully refrain from repeating).
So I did. I kept going. I pushed through. And I think… it actually worked.
By sunset on day four, sitting on the dock with muscles that had officially broken up with me, I had no doubt: all those hacks, all that theory, all the “straighten it out” and “pull the kicker!” moments — they’ll definitely level up our skills and racing instincts in the long run.
If you’ve been dreaming of a clinic that fills your brain with knowledge and blows away your illusions — this is it.
Arkady and Ausra don’t just train sailors.
They really want to make them.
Sometimes… in spite of themselves.