Today I bring you a subject to reflect and which has been discussed on many occasions. Our country has excellent health with regard to the children's class, we have a multitude of races, a multitude of sportsmen and many people turned over in the children's sailing. But then what?

I have personally checked as even in classes that they were flourishing in terms of athletes referred to as the Laser 4.7 and that the Copas and Championships of Spain had to be separated from their older brothers the Radio and the Standard due to the large number of participants and today even these have fallen in number of participants dramatically.

The statistics are to be discouraged, as the vast majority of these young athletes are lost after the Optimist. Lack of follow-up, disenchantment with sport? We're going to try to bleed for all the reasons for what this is about.

If we want to have a large fleet of young people and later opponents of the Olympic classes, it is time to put in place real solutions to this problem.

What happens after the Optimist?

1. School and study complications are increasing.
2. Age and hormones. A real illusion has not been created for the sport to be
compatible with the fun needed at these ages.
3. Parents also lose part of the push, interest, they are no longer small.
4.- Most clubs lack infrastructure to have children and young people.
5. The economic one.

In my view these are the five main reasons for failure, an eye without being just the only ones that any of you will surely be able to add any more.

How would you like to start attacking at last and all? Perhaps by organizing working days to seek opinions and solutions?

For example, there are synergies between small clubs in the same area or a permanent follow-up commission or how to enjoy the kids with their favorite sport that make so many friends who don't want to leave. Sometimes we make these little ones work so hard and so hard that when they're older they rebel. I had a technician training my children that even though it required them a lot of work and seriousness in the water, then it encouraged fellowship and going out together of leisure. The result is that even today and although each then optimistic now each sails in different things or places, each time they can still stay to go out a day of barbecue and / or party is not great?.

I know it's an old subject, I know it's been talked about a thousand times the same, but we're still the same, a lot of talking and little doing. We must also learn to listen. Shall we try this time again for real? Well, what are we waiting for?

We're still for bingo.

Paco Coro