Education
Born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York, Walker attended school in suburban Hartsdale and Bronxville, college at Middlebury College, and medical school at New York University.
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The Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Norton Nautical Books) by Stuart H. Walker M.D. (1991-12-17)
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Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing by Stuart H. Walker M.D. (1992-01-17)
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition by Stuart H. Walker (1980-11-27)
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(Winning: The Psychology of Competition) Author: Stuart H. Walker published on (March, 1986)
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By Stuart H. Walker M.D. - Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing (1992-02-01) Hardcover
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Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing
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Stuart Walker, a world champion celebrated for his books and columns on racing in Sailing World magazine, here takes his readers step by step through the elements that determine racing factors: wind direction, velocity, temperature, stability, current strength, and direction. These racing factors, Dr. Walker explains, translate into boat speed, psychology, and tactics.Wind strength and wave formation, in turn, determine sail rig and fin trim, as well as the psychological approach needed to win. He demonstrates for both the new racer and the seasoned expert precisely how to collect and understand these elements, how to use them in the formulation of strategy, and, finally, how to formulate moment-by-moment tactics. This is a masterful guide to winning.
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THE TACTICS OF SMALL BOAT RACING. Illustrated by Carol H. Little.
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A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactics of winning for the experienced sailor. Written by one of the world's leading small boat racers.
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition
( This book is designed to explain why winners win, why l...)
This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose―and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time. Addressing the competitor―whether in sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, or other sport―Stuart H. Walker demonstrates that what competition means to the competitor is the main determinant of success and failure, and that what it means to you can be turned to your advantage. Dr. Walker writes, “Competence leads to courage, creativity, and fun. Lack of understanding and lack of control lead to fear, depressions, and incompetence―and no fun. Competition is too good to waste.” For the paperback edition, Dr. Walker has written a new chapter, “Cheating,” in which he discusses why cheating seems to be on the increase, what it signifies, and what should be done about it.
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Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing by Stuart H. Walker (1992-01-14)
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Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Revised) Walker, Stuart H. ( Author ) { Paperback } 1991
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Advanced Racing Tactics (Norton Nautical Books)
( "Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written....)
"Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written." ―Ted Jones, Dolphin Book Club News Today far more sailors than ever before have reached a superior level of competitive ability, and the few individuals who remain at the head of the competitive classes year and after year must constantly improve their skills. This book will help the sailor analyze for himself the determinants of tactical success. One of the foremost theoreticians of the art of yacht racing, Stuart H. Walker is also an outstanding practicing racer. For eight years Dr. Walker kept a complete record of the factors that determined the outcome of every race in which he competed. The recommendations he offers in Advanced Racing Tactics are based upon the analysis of these races―the mistakes and the successes. He sets forth basic principles of starting, beating, reaching, and mark rounding that should be practiced every time, and he underlines what mattered, what consistently provided an advantage. The advanced racing skipper, Dr. Walker writes, must look around, examine his own mistakes and successes, record them, review them, remember them. When he recognizes from this own experience the validity of the principles presented here, they will become useful to him. When he has incorporated them into his regular racing patterns, he will have made a five- or ten-year leap forward.
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Wind and Strategy Walker, Stuart ( Author ) { Paperback } 1973
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Tactics of Small Boat Racing by Stuart H. Walker (1966-05-03)
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Positioning - The Logic of Sailboat Racing
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Advanced Racing Tactics
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The Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Norton Nautical Books)
( A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactic...)
A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactics of winning for the experienced sailor―by one of the world's leading small boat racers. The author of "A Manual of Sail Trim" has designed a guide for the competitive racing dinghy sailor that explains the art of maneuvering. The object of the text is to provide instructions on keeping a dinghy in relation to its competitors so that it finishes the race in the lead.
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Wind and Strategy
( A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its ch...)
A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy--by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers. A world authority and champion sailor has written the definitive book on one of the most important, and least understood, factors in winning: the wind, its changes, and its effects on racing strategy. Races are lost by a failure to understand and predict changes in wind. This book is the first and only one of its kind to deal with the character of the wind as it applies specifically to the racer. It shows how surface wind is affected by season, time of day, temperature disparities, clouds and geography. It supplies the meteorology needed to understand surface winds, and it shows how to predict the many kinds of wind shifts. Above all it shows how to take advantage of this special knowledge. The book includes a wide range of illustrations in a section called "Winds of the World," showing how the wind behaves in many of the world's major racing areas. There are numerous examples of application of wind prediction to the planning of a race. The author includes a cross index which makes readily available all the factors needed to make wind predictions: the effects of season, time of day, origin of the wind, the weather system extant, cloud cover, wind velocity, origins of shifts, etc. This book is essential equipment for every racing sailor, whether competing in small boats or in the cruising classes.
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The Code of Competition
(Stu Walker delivers a long-awaited tenth book that is fil...)
Stu Walker delivers a long-awaited tenth book that is filled with surprises. Using anecdotes from golf, tennis, football, sailing, running, and many other sports, Walker shows how competitors are impelled by their genes to follow an altruistic Code of Competition. Yet they must find the courage to violate this Code to achieve their egoistic purposes. He demonstrates that success in competition comes most importantly from resisting the Code. Competitors must resist the Code that creates pressure, pecking orders, blowing it, resentment, and guilt. And they must resist the Code s assumptions that outcomes should be based on deservedness and that victory and hubris require atonement.
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Stuart Walker
Edit ProfileCareer
They have two daughters Susan (1946) and Lee (1950). After Francis death in 2012 Stuart remarried with Patricia in spring 2013. Walker was assigned in 1946 as a medical officer to the Army of Occupation of Japan ( United States Army 11th Airborne Division (Paratroops)).
After reassignment from the army, he started an pediatric practice in Annapolis in 1953.
Stuart became a full-time Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1961 and was Chief of Pediatrics at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore until his retirement in 1984. He is the author of ten books on sailboat racing, sail trim, competitive behavior, and low level wind flow, and is a lecturer and contributor to sailing magazines.
He was the primary force in the founding of the Severn Sailing Association. Walker was President of the International Soling Class from 1991 through 1994.
In this role he successfully campaigned to keep the Soling in the 1996 Olympics and to continue the fleet/match format.
He also established a strong, well organized Technical Committee that included the major builders and which has been successful in openly recognizing and solving problems before they become significant. He travels on a yearly basis to Europe to compete in Soling regattas, where he regularly wins championships.
Achievements
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He has competed as a sailor at the Olympic Games. Won many national and international championships in different classes. And published ten books He and Frances lived in Western Australia for three periods, two of them of six months each: once in 1981-1982, while on sabbatical leave, studying water balance in aboriginal children, and once as a reporter for several United States. publications during the 1988 America"s Cup at Fremantle. Walker was a member of every American team in international matches between 1961 and 1971 and was, in 1963, the first American to win Bermuda"s Princess Elizabeth Trophy and, in 1964, England"s Prince of Wales Cup.
Works
book
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Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing
( Stuart Walker, a world champion celebrated for his book...)
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The Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Norton Nautical Books)
( A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactic...)
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Wind and Strategy
( A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its ch...)
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition
( This book is designed to explain why winners win, why l...)
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THE TACTICS OF SMALL BOAT RACING. Illustrated by Carol H. Little.
(A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactics ...)
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The Code of Competition
(Stu Walker delivers a long-awaited tenth book that is fil...)
- Wind and Strategy Walker, Stuart ( Author ) { Paperback } 1973
- Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Revised) Walker, Stuart H. ( Author ) { Paperback } 1991
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Advanced Racing Tactics (Norton Nautical Books)
( "Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written....)
- Winning, the Psychology of Competition
- The Tactics of Small Boat Racing (Norton Nautical Books) by Stuart H. Walker M.D. (1991-12-17)
- Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing by Stuart H. Walker M.D. (1992-01-17)
- Winning: The Psychology of Competition by Stuart H. Walker (1980-11-27)
- (Winning: The Psychology of Competition) Author: Stuart H. Walker published on (March, 1986)
- By Stuart H. Walker M.D. - Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing (1992-02-01) Hardcover
- Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing by Stuart H. Walker (1992-01-14)
- Tactics of Small Boat Racing by Stuart H. Walker (1966-05-03)
- Positioning - The Logic of Sailboat Racing
- Advanced Racing Tactics
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Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing
Membership
He was a member of the American Olympic Team, sailing a 5.5 Meter at the 1968 Games and the Pan-American Games, and a Soling in the 1979 Pan-American Games and the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games.
