Use Sailgroove as a platform to be more involved, educated and just understand everything about sailing. If you are a sailor or another site you can use us to make your sailing experience better. Use our content to enhance your sailing understanding and to stay on beat with what is happening in the sailing universe. IF you're a site and want to add to your content, feel free to use ours! If you are a sailor and want to add to the ever-expanding sailing library feel free to organize and store your videos in the "my videos" section. Here, you and your coaches, parents and fans can access, keep organized, and share videos on everything from your regattas to the van ride home or just something random like the many ways Cole can eat a banana.
You will be able to fine tune your message to the sailing community by managing your own page, where you can upload videos, photos, descriptions, and links at anytime, and anywhere you have access to the internet. In turn, the tens of thousands of sailing athletes and teams that come to our site daily will be able to interact with you by watching your videos, commenting, and even becoming fans of your product.
Coverage
Sailgroove travels around the US and the world covering some of the biggest events in sailing, along with smaller local events, trying to bring sailing lovers the coverage that they normally wouldn't be able to get. We pride ourselves in our ability to seemingly be everywhere at once. We interview coaches and athletes and whenever possible, record all the races and events for your viewing pleasure. We also allow users to create their own coverage pages. We can help with the technical support. The first time is the most difficult but it gets easier as you go.Teams
The core to any sailing program is having the right tools to help you improve. We provide (for free!!!!) ways to store and manage your practice logs. In fact, our online "Team" system is a great organizational tool for coaches and teams that give value to your team members, parents, alumni and fans. To date we have the top universities and high schools in the nation using our online team tools. Plus you can also organize all your sailing videos when you get on here.Interviews
Perhaps at the heart and soul of our site are our one-on-ones with the greatest athletes of the sport. We are very interested in hearing how they became great and what the rising stars think and feel regarding their sport. We love to share their thoughts with all of you in the hopes that you become better. Check out our speakers page with hundreds of speakers and thousands of videos and see who we've interviewed and hear/see what they have to say.Articles, Blogs & News
We have a team of writers and bloggers (who are awesome!!!) who bring you interesting news and articles covering a myriad range of sailing issues and perspectives.Sailgroove Dashboard
We provide a safe and fun environment for networking with your peers and other sailing enthusiasts. Users can share photos, videos, sailing races, workouts. Make friends with people in your community, from your school or work and start learning from other people's videos. Here you can easily start to organize the crazy amount of content on Sailgroove.User Videos
Upload your videos and share them with the rest of the sailing community. You can easily store them in "my videos" in any file format, in your Sailgroove account. We are dedicated to sailing and all our videos are relevant ("rate my dining hall" videos are extremely relevant). Search for races, interviews, highlights, and much much more and share your videos with the community.Photo Galleries
We have an ever-growing database of photos by Sailgroove and other photographers from around the world. Search through the regattas of yesteryear and be sure to upload your own!Advertising
An important part of your product and brand is the interactive and personal relationship that it can establish with the sailing community on a regional and national level over a long period of time. We also support IAB standard for banner Ads to get your message across. To learn more please visit our adveritising page.You will be able to fine tune your message to the sailing community by managing your own page, where you can upload videos, photos, descriptions, and links at anytime, and anywhere you have access to the internet. In turn, the tens of thousands of sailing athletes and teams that come to our site daily will be able to interact with you by watching your videos, commenting, and even becoming fans of your product.
October 6, 2008
Do you have the bug? I've had it for a long time, but I didn't realize it until fairly recently. The bug, in case you don't know, is an undetectable virus that you can catch from sailing. It makes you do seemingly foolish things. Examples include: spending more time per week sailing than sleeping; traveling 8 hours to sail 6 races and calling it a good weekend; wrapping yourself in a $600 plastic suit so you can sail in the snow; etc. If any of this sounds familiar, then chances are you've got it too.
Well, the bug can affect people in many different ways, but for me, it led me to quit my job and spend all my time videotaping sailing to make this website. I love sailing, and I know a lot of people who love it just as much as I do. This is why I started sailgroove. You see, this is how the bug survives. Once infected, the host is compelled by the bug to support the infection of others by encouraging the behavior that keeps the bug going.
Here's how it works: I'm going to provide you with the most current, interesting and entertaining video from the most important faces and places in sailing. Every day I'll be putting up new videos about regattas, team racing, team practices, training, coaching, advice, rules and lots of other stuff that's just plain interesting. I want you to use the site to learn, improve, and hear from the top minds in sailing, even if you live a 1000 miles away from them. I want you to experience regattas at every level, as if you are there. And if you are one of the few sailors I do get to interview or watch race, I want to give you the attention you deserve. I know there are a lot of affected individuals just like me who are craving this kind of thing, but can't get it elsewhere.
In these first few weeks, I'm focusing a lot on college sailing. It's fast, it's fun, it's competitive and it's where the next olympians and professional sailors will come from. As the season progresses, I will be moving to other areas of sailing as well. Soon Jr. sailing, high school, one-design, pro sailing and eventually ocean racing and international sailing events will be featured.
Until then, if there's something you want to see, let me know. Or better yet, do it yourself! If you have some compelling sailing content you want the sailing community to see, put it on the site. Every user can post video, pictures and blog entries of whatever they want. This means there's no limit to the amount of coverage on sailgroove! If your high school team is competing or your yacht club is having Tuesday night beer can races, or if you are on vacation chartering a 50 foot catamaran, let us know. We love this stuff.
This site is for you. Sailors. Supporters and fans of sailing. I want this site to improve your game and bring you places you might never get to see otherwise. Please, enjoy it, share it, and get involved in it yourself.
See you on the racecourse,
Chris Love
Do you have the bug? I've had it for a long time, but I didn't realize it until fairly recently. The bug, in case you don't know, is an undetectable virus that you can catch from sailing. It makes you do seemingly foolish things. Examples include: spending more time per week sailing than sleeping; traveling 8 hours to sail 6 races and calling it a good weekend; wrapping yourself in a $600 plastic suit so you can sail in the snow; etc. If any of this sounds familiar, then chances are you've got it too.
Well, the bug can affect people in many different ways, but for me, it led me to quit my job and spend all my time videotaping sailing to make this website. I love sailing, and I know a lot of people who love it just as much as I do. This is why I started sailgroove. You see, this is how the bug survives. Once infected, the host is compelled by the bug to support the infection of others by encouraging the behavior that keeps the bug going.
Here's how it works: I'm going to provide you with the most current, interesting and entertaining video from the most important faces and places in sailing. Every day I'll be putting up new videos about regattas, team racing, team practices, training, coaching, advice, rules and lots of other stuff that's just plain interesting. I want you to use the site to learn, improve, and hear from the top minds in sailing, even if you live a 1000 miles away from them. I want you to experience regattas at every level, as if you are there. And if you are one of the few sailors I do get to interview or watch race, I want to give you the attention you deserve. I know there are a lot of affected individuals just like me who are craving this kind of thing, but can't get it elsewhere.
In these first few weeks, I'm focusing a lot on college sailing. It's fast, it's fun, it's competitive and it's where the next olympians and professional sailors will come from. As the season progresses, I will be moving to other areas of sailing as well. Soon Jr. sailing, high school, one-design, pro sailing and eventually ocean racing and international sailing events will be featured.
Until then, if there's something you want to see, let me know. Or better yet, do it yourself! If you have some compelling sailing content you want the sailing community to see, put it on the site. Every user can post video, pictures and blog entries of whatever they want. This means there's no limit to the amount of coverage on sailgroove! If your high school team is competing or your yacht club is having Tuesday night beer can races, or if you are on vacation chartering a 50 foot catamaran, let us know. We love this stuff.
This site is for you. Sailors. Supporters and fans of sailing. I want this site to improve your game and bring you places you might never get to see otherwise. Please, enjoy it, share it, and get involved in it yourself.
See you on the racecourse,
Chris Love
