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Lanzarote Clinic – 16/21 February 2021

When: 16 – 21 February 2021
Where: Lanzarote – Canary Islands. Real Club Nautico Arrecife.

Coaches: Simone Ricci , Jonas de la Cruz.
Coach mobile: Simone Ricci  +39 3403506427 Jonas de la Cruz +34 690221549
Program:  6 days of training  to improve all sailing  and racing skills in perfect weather conditions and warm temperatures!
Big Waves, currents, and all kind of winds make Lanzarote one of the best sailing spots in the World. All the best World Class sailors in Optimist and Olympic Classes choose Lanzarote in the past years to prepare their seasons.
4-5 hours sailing per day. The daily program will be flexible in base to weather conditions. Briefing and debriefings could be open air to respect Covid 19 restrictions.
Costs : Coaching 90,00€ per day.
Charter boat :  60,00€ per day.  Fully equipped except sail, wind indicator, mast lock, 4 loops block.20% discount on coaching for brothers.* all prices are VAT 7% excluded
*we understand the difficult period and travelling problems so we don’t ask anticipated payment. Payment at the beginning of the Clinic.

Accommodation : NOT PROVIDED but text us for any informations.

Food: Not provided. Each Sailor will come with his own lunch bag to bring on the RIB.

Contact: info@atlantis-academy.com

HOW TO REGISTER : Fill the Form on the website.

Covid 19 Security Protocol: We must follow Club rules that will be noticed bit before the Clinic following the advertisements by Local Government and Authorities. 
* You can choose to sail also less days than planned here. Fill it in the Entry form.

Aecio Clinic & Race – 20/29 December 2020

When: 20 – 26 December Training Days ( STOP ON 25 DECEMBER) + 27 – 29 December Racing Days AECIO TROPHY.
Where: Real Club Nautico de Gran Canaria – Las Palmas – GRAN CANARIA
Race event website: Website
Coaches : Angel Zubiria Medina (Coach of the Bronze Medal Sailor Optimist World Championship 2019) , Jonas de la Cruz
Coach mobile: Jonas de la Cruz +34 690221549
Program:  6 days of training and 3 of racing to improve all sailing  and racing skills in perfect weather conditions and warm temperatures!
Big Waves, currents, and all kind of winds make Gran Canaria one of the best sailing spots in the World. This is our 4th edition of Clinic and Race in this fabulous Club and all the best sailors in the World came here to train these past years!
4-5 hours sailing per day. The daily program will be flexible in base to weather conditions. Briefing and debriefings could be open air to respect Covid 19 restrictions.
Costs: Coaching 80,00€ per day.
Charter boat 60,00€ per day.* all prices are VAT 7% excluded
*we understand the difficult period and travelling problems so we don’t ask anticipated payment. Payment at the beginning of the Clinic.
Registration for the race: not included. Remind to register to the race and show appriopriate documents and insurance.

Accommodation : NOT PROVIDED but text us for any informations.

Food: Not provided. Each Sailor will come with his own lunch bag to bring on the RIB.

Contact :info@atlantis-academy.com

HOW TO REGISTER : Fill the Form on the website.

Covid 19 Security Protocol: We must follow Club rules that will be noticed bit before the Clinic following the advertisements by Local Government and Authorities. 
* You can choose to sail also less days than planned here. Fill it in the Entry form.

Clinic Lanzarote – 4/8 December 2020

When: 4 – 8 December 2020 (5 days)

Where : Playa de las Cucharas – Costa Teguise – LANZAROTE

Maps:https://goo.gl/maps/jrWhYTjraAGJN2Lj9

Coach : Jonas De la Cruz Coach mobile : +34 690221549
Program:  5 days to improve all sailing  and racing skills in perfect weather conditions and warm temperatures! 
4 5 hours sailing per day. The daily program will be flexible in base to weather conditions. Average Wind is 14 17 knts from NE.Briefing and debriefings will be open air to respect Covid 19 restrictions.

Costs : Coaching + Charter boats 600,00 €, Only coaching 350,00 €.*

We understand the difficult period and travelling problems so we don’t ask anticipated payment. Payment at the beginning of the Clinic.

Accommodation : NOT PROVIDED but text us for any informations.

Food: Not provided. Each Sailor will come with his own lunch bag to bring on the RIB.

Contact: info@atlantis-academy.com

HOW TO REGISTER : Fill the Form on the website.
Covid 19 Security Protocol: we must follow simple rules that will be noticed bit before the Clinic following the advertisements by Local Government and Authorities.

Garda Meeting Clinic

Where: Fraglia Vela Riva. Riva del Garda – Italy
https://www.fragliavelariva.it/
When: 15 – 19 /2020 August Clinic.
20 – 23 August / 2020 Meeting Garda Races.
Coaches: Simone Ricci (3x World Champion and European Champion) is the Head coach.
Charter boats: available on request by Fraglia Vela Riva.

ONLY MEDIUM TO HIGH LEVEL AND BORN BETWEEN 2005 AND 2009.

Program: 4-5 hours sailing per day. Daily program will be flexible in base to the sailing conditions. North wind in the morning and South wind in the afternoon use to be always good in the sailing machine. Briefing
and debriefing everyday on open air according to Covid19 restrictions and all videos and multimedia materials will be sent to the sailors.
Learn to sail your Optimist at 100% and understand all tricks of one of the most important sailing venues in the world.
How to book a place: write to info@atlantis-academy.com
You can choose to take part from and until the day you prefer: Clinic+Race. Only Clinic. Only Race

For any doubt write to info@atlantis-academy.com
We don’t ask anticipate payment.
We understand the problems about travels in this Covid 19 period so you can pay directly at the moment of the start of the Clinic and Race.

COSTS
Coaching: 80,00 € per day.
Charter boat: 40,00 € per day (only one day 50,00 €).
Entry fee for the race not included.

Accommodation: we don’t provide accommodation. Riva del Garda is full of hotels, apartments and campings for an high quality service.
Food and drinks: not included. Special prices for sailors at Fraglia Vela Riva Bar and Restaurant.
Covid 19 security protocol: The Club will follow simple but important rules that will be attached with a
notice to all participants closer to the beginning of the Clinic and Race.
The respect of the rules will be mandatory otherwise sailors and parents can be excluded from the Club and activities.

La Graciosa Island: Optimist trainings in July

Dear Sailor,

Long time no sailing, but the best is yet to come, we have good news for you because this year we have 3 weeks of sailing at Isla de la Graciosa, Spain.

Probably you saw at the news that this Island is free of COVID 19, and they are glad to receive us.  We are adapted to the new rules!

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Two wonderful weeks in Lanzarote

Here we are… just finished the 2 clinics in Lanzarote from 18 until 29 of February. More than 30 different kids join our trainings in this fantastic island. First of all we want to thank and congratulate to all of them for their behaviour and the passion and effort they put everyday in water and ashore. Lot of respect, friendship and smiles made the perfect ambient to develop an high level and quality clinic. Thanks to parents because without you your kids were not there to play the most beautiful sport in the world with the best coaches. Thanks to all people who got involved in the organization helping coaches, kids and parents!

On 10 scheduled days of training we had the possibility to go in water 9 times with never less than 12 knots. On 2 days of race scheduled we miss one but we did 4 incredible races with wind and waves! Perfection doesn’t exist and we took 2 days of sandstorm from Sahara, the biggest of lasts 20 years…something is changing and we must learn to respect and love what we have.  Temperature was always perfect around 20 24 degrees and this make sailing a real pleasure. We work and discussed upon many things of sailing, technique, strategy and tactic, trim, rules, mentality, feelings, intensity, priorities, risk management and so on…we hope to have stimolate and add something new to all of these sailors!

We suggest to always play another sport or physical preparation because to be strong, resistant and health will make you take more clear decisions and will make you sail faster! Sailing has been great and we are so excited about these days! Our congrats also to their respective coaches at their clubs because these kids are well prepared and focus!

Now it’s time to work on lasts things and arrive prepared for trials in your countries. We wish and suggest to sail and race always having fun and at the same time with consistency… let’s dream! We hope to see you all at Worlds and European but if not we hope you will work hard again always because sailors are made to never give up! Get ready for next activities this summer in Canary Islands, Rome and Garda! And don’t forget that winter in Canary Islands doesn’t exist so from October we hope to have you all again sailing in the ocean!

We are ready for a new year of goals!

Just finished 2019, a super year for Optimist Class and for Atlantis Academy that give us strenght and push us to new goals.
Marco Gradoni with his new record of 3 world championship winning and winner of the World Sailor of the Year push to the top the  level of this beautiful Class.
Our head coach Simone Ricci with Jonas de la Cruz, will train all sailors with the same method he used these years with Marco and his strong athletes, trying to inspire them and their coaches… yes coaches joined our clinics with their athletes and we are happy to share with them!


We have just finish the 3rd Clinic of the season in Gran Canaria and we are very satisfied of how many good sailors and young sailors joined our activities trying to learn and have fun at the same time. The race AECIO TROPHY  has been completed with all 9 races scheduled and it has been so beautiful to assist to the fight until the last race for the gold medal between 6 sailors. At the end the local Jayme Ayarza (3rd at the World) win followed by two of his team mate but the European Champion Girl Federica Contardi was very close to win the overall event, followed by 2 very strong Italian Sailors.

Canary Islands are effectively a very perfect place to train and race cause of the weather conditions. All days scheduled till now have been sailed. Hours of sailing that are important for the winter prep.

Only in the last Clinic of  5 days training and 3 racing the guys sailed 40 hours, more theory lessons with videos.
New exercises, intensity, materials to test, ideas, exchange of opinions and new friends are at the base of the winning process we are trying to teach during our trainings. We look forward to the firsts Spanish Events like Torrevieja and Palamos before to start with other 2 trainings in Lanzarote from 18 until 29 of February.

We are happy to know that so many sailors are coming to prepare with us before to move to Garda for the World Championship training and event.

Who will be the next World Champion?? So many countries are pushing to achieve this goal and we really love the passion and the hard work these young athletes do to achieve their dream.

La Graciosa, a paradise for training

During the month of July we have held a days of optimist technical clinic with sailors from Baleares Islands, Andalusia and the Canary Islands on the wonderful Island of La Graciosa.

It has been seven days with excellent conditions for navigation where children have not only enjoyed a technical days given by the coaches Ramón Aixemeno and Jonás de De LaCruz, but they have also been able to enjoy the framework unmatched that this eighth island provides its visitors. We thank the parents for the trust they have placed in us and Líneas Romero the invaluable help they make for the benefit of the island and this beautiful sport. We sincerely hope that these days, here in La Graciosa, will become a topic everyyear, because we believe that in few places on the planet we can combine the wind and landscape conditions that we have here.

OptiWorlds, we are there!

Past winter during our Christmas Clinic in Gran Canaria and Lanzarote Clinic in February we have had the top Elite Sailors in Europe!!!

First of all, congratulations to Federica Contardi (ITA) that won the European Championship 2019!!! Very good performance of Nora Garcia (ESP) that finalize 4, and Sophie Fontanesi (ITA) 7 in the Girls group. In the boys group 4th place for the Young Niccolò Pulito (ITA).

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