NEVIN SAYRE WANTS YOU!

You don’t have to be an expert instructor or even an average windsurfer to volunteer to help teach at the Kid’s Camp. All you need is to have a love for the sport and to be great with Kids. Attitude is everything!

Each volunteer teacher will be matched with one Windglider and two kids. We find it best if you are not matched with your own kids.

If you’ve never windsurfed or really don’t feel up to teaching, volunteer anyways. Just let me know that you aren’t up to teaching in your e-mail. We certainly aren’t turning away great attitudes, and there are things to help out with from kayak safety patrol to dishing out ice cream.

We strongly suggest you bring a picnic lunch. With Windfest and King of the Cape, it will be a great weekend of windsurfing for the whole family.

Please send a quick e-mail to Nevin Sayre at Nsayre@aol.com to volunteer for the Kid’s Camp. Let me know which session(s) you can volunteer for:

Saturday, June 5 (8AM-12PM)

Sunday, June 6 (8AM-12PM).

Many volunteer for both sessions.

IMPORTANT: Please, please, if at all possible, also let me know in your e-mail that you can help out for at least an hour at the “Rig the Wingliders” party Friday afternoon, June 4. Without your help at this important party, the show can’t go on.

 

What you need to know to help teach at the Nevin Sayre Kid’s Camp:

1. Above all, having a positive fun attitude is the single most important contributor to the success of this event.

2. We will keep it fast paced- almost to a point of frenzy- so that if nothing else we will be active. We want this event to more closely resemble a Gospel Revival than your 7th grade chemistry monologue. Keep the kids involved and attentive even if that means enlisting three kids to carry one rig down to the water.

3. Be sure to arrive at least 45 minutes before the session. At that time we will have a meeting of volunteer instructors and some words of wisdom on teaching and organization.

4. When out on the water, it is best if you sit on the Windglider, straddling the mast, facing aft, with your legs on either side of the mast. One kid is sailing while the other is sitting on the back of the Windglider. That way, weight is balanced and you can use one hand to control the mast, if necessary. You can also talk to the kid face to face with calm simple words. Since you are facing backward, keep watching out where you’re going!

5. Always try to minimize words (especially hollering) by using simple terms Kids can understand. For instance, instead of "sheet in" or "sheet out", I like to use the terms "open the door" or "close the door". Instead of "lean the rig toward the nose" or "lean the rig toward the tail", I like to use "dip the sail to the front" or "dip the sail to the back". Kid's will best learn by mimic, repetition, and feel- rather than processing words and translation- so keep words to a minimum.

6. For parents who have their kids in the clinic, I will suggest you have some other instructor helping your kids. Have your kids show off to you what they accomplished at the end of the clinic.

7. There will be some experienced kids who will be assigned to a special group of instructors who will work on more advanced techniques.

8. One of the main goals of the Kid's Camp is to have kids inspired by seeing other kids learning how to windsurf.

9. Above all, if all the kids have fun, even if they don't windsurf more than the length of their board, we have all achieved our goal. I’d just love to see those smiles when a first-timer sheets in and collects the wind for their very first time.

Here’s the intended schedule per session as far as teaching goes. We reserve the right to wing it!

Let's hope for great weather and thanks again for your help.