Suecrafer@compuserve.com
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"Sue
Crafers Life History"
Sue Crafer M.C.S.P.,
S.R.P.,M.A.P.A.
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Sue Crafer has been advising and consulting a number of countries
on the technical aspects of the biomechanics in sailing, the sport
specific conditions encountered and how to avoid them becoming a
performance limiting factor since 1992. Sport specific education
& awareness has been presented at various clinics, workshops, seminars
and conferences around the world.
| She supported the Australian Olympic Sailing Team from
1994 by the means of event regatta cover, Sports Medicine
professional network strategy and sports specific educational
workshops. She attended the 1996 Olympic Games as Australian
Sailing Team Physio. |
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Sue has just completed a two year contract with the Royal Yachting
Association. From the Sydney Test Event in September 1998 until
the end of the Sydney 2000 Olympics she firstly established and
then progressively developed the role of Sports Medicine / Physiotherapy
& Massage Services Coordinator for Team GBR Sailing and the British
Olympic Sailing Team. During that period an extensive programme
of regatta and training support cover, Sailing Specific Musculoskeletal
Screening and a national Sailing Network of Physiotherapists was
set up. Inter-professional communication with Sports Doctors, Exercise
Physiologists, Personal Trainers, Sports Massage Therapists, Psychologists
and technical coaching management, network professional education
& awareness programmes and Youth & Junior service provision were
incorporated into Team GBR's Olympic 2000 and onwards preparation.
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Sue is now involved as a member of the International Sailing
Federation's Medical Commission as Sailing Physiotherapist
and advises internationally on injuries in sailing. She continues
to present "Functional Analysis of the Biomechanics of Sailing"
workshops at various locations such as the Spa Olympic Classes
Regatta this year on behalf of ISAF and also independently.
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Sue herself has been extensively involved in the sport of sailing
at the technical level. An appreciation of the sport itself has
been effective in educating both sailors and support professionals
in combining an understanding of 'boat mechanics' with a knowledge
of 'bio-mechanics' and vice versa.
| Sue's professional sailing CV includes the '93/4 Whitbread
Round the World Race, five Sydney Hobarts, two Fastnets, a
Santa Cruz 70 Transpac (3rd), Gotland Runt (1st), 2nd in the
2001 Cowes Farr 40 Worlds this September and arriving first
in the 2000 Vic-Maui race last July, slicing 17 hours off
the record! She has also competed professionally in various
other regattas in the international racing circuit including
the Hong Kong South China Seas Regatta, San Franciso Big Boat,
Key West Regatta, Whitbread 60 Trans-Atlantic qualifier, 80
foot maxi Round Europe circuits, etc. etc. The analogies that
Sue will be introducing have been brought into existence through
a direct result of her professional sailing career. |
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…………''A properly
'tuned' boat is faster, more efficient, sails function as
they were designed, the boat will sail at equal angles to
the wind, equipment should last longer and should be wearing
the same on both sides''………… |
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Sue uses many boat/body similes in her work and would like to introduce
you to some of these ''sailing analogies'' which many medal-winning
sailors have selected as being particularly appropriate. |
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