The Sport Cruise by Going e The Blue Skin sets the new autumn dates: the cruise with mental coaches and Olympic and Paralympic athletes sets sail on October 25th from GenoVa aboard MSC Fantasia to set sail on Spain and return on October 30, 2023.
Six days and 5 nights of mindset training to get to know each other, reach the maximum of one's abilities, learning that a winning athlete, whatever his level, does not only rely on physical preparation and a correct metabolism, but focuses on the mind, emotions and soft skills. «These skills weigh from 40 to 85% on the final result of a race – he argues Sara Haeuptli, co-founder of the non-profit organization La Pelle Azzurra and relationship counselor and professional coach -: the management of emotions, as well as the preparation of the mentality for competition constitute three-quarters of the work."
Product line design Going4Cruise, Sport Cruise is a thematic cruise aimed at those who want to improve their approach to achieving goals in the sporting, professional, amateur and competitive fields, but also in management and during a study course.
In fact, this format starting next October has aroused the interest of some companies for the purpose of team building.
The program includes the participation of a large list of professional athletes, involved during the classroom lessons. For example, Katia Aire, fifty-year-old Paralympic swimming and handbike athlete, bronze at Tokyo 2020: «When we talk about sporting performance we automatically tend to think of mere "physical" performance – he explains -; however, body, mind and emotions are inextricably linked parts to the point of making the former accelerators of results or insurmountable obstacles. We will learn to use them to our advantage."
Overall, the classroom training will last two days: 26 and 29 October plus the evening full immersion on the day of departure (25 October). During the Edutainment Night the energy of reflection will be triggered in the participants. Explains Alessandro Melchionna, also co-founder of La Pelle Azzurra where he brings his skills as a trainer in the implementation of quality system models and analysis of customer satisfaction and evaluation: «The driving force of every project is emotion and having a dream is a powerful driving force: we will start from here to let the desires settle, finally define the ways to fulfill them during the classroom lessons, and therefore grasp the dream». For Going, the Sport Cruise represents a project in line with the strategy of enriching the contents for each trip Teleconferencing of "adventures" of knowledge.
The athletes present during the cruise, except for national competitions for which they are required:
- Katia Aere, bronze Tokyo 2020 and Handbike World Championships
- Ivan Territo, Italian Paraduathlon champion
- Fabrizio Pagani, 6 world records in dynamic freediving for disabled people
- Giada Andreutti, national team Beijing 2022 Olympics in single and double bob
- Veronica Frosi, Paralympic athlete, Italian handbike time trial vice champion and the youngest handbiker in Europe; first race with the blue jersey and podium in the 2023 Paracycling World Cup
- Sara Brogiato, Piedmontese marathon runner with some appearances in the national team for the races: European Cross, World Half Marathon, 10 European Cup
- Annalisa Cozzarini, Italian National Team Coastalrowing title rower
- Cristina Nuti, triathlete, first woman in the world with multiple sclerosis to complete an Ironman
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