Mountain bike skills instruction
Mountain bike skills instruction offers several benefits:
Improved Safety: Proper training helps riders understand and handle technical terrain, reducing the risk of accidents.
Enhanced Performance: Instruction can help riders master techniques such as cornering, braking, and climbing, leading to more efficient and enjoyable riding.
Increased Confidence: With improved skills, riders often feel more confident tackling challenging trails and obstacles.
Customized Learning: Professional instructors can tailor their teaching to individual skill levels and goals, ensuring more effective learning.
Proper Technique: Learning the correct form and technique helps in preventing injuries and makes riding more comfortable.
Overall, skills instruction can make mountain biking a more enjoyable and rewarding experience no matter your age or ability level!
Learn and practice the essentials of mountain biking skills in a controlled environment as you focus on the importance of body position, braking, shifting, steering and other important skills that make mountain biking safer and more fun!
This clinic briefly covers Bike Set Up, assisting you with adjusting your bike for the best possible ride. On bike education includes learning to maintain balance through intentional body positioning, how to stop and start with confidence on low angle terrain, shifting gears effectively, how to change direction at slower speeds and other valuable tips for newer riders.
Duration: 2 hours
Setting: Open terrain with some on trail training
Pre-requisites: Riders should be able to balance and pedal a bicycle
All clinics include bike safety check, initial skills assessment after check-in, and inlcude instructor demonstrations and hands (or bikes) on learning. All clinics are limited to a maximum of 6 students to maximize learning time. Pre-registration is required.
Take your riding to the next level, with proven teaching methods. Learn to navigate switchbacks and flat corners at higher speeds, tackle tougher climbs, steeper descents and a range of small features.
This clinic builds off of everything covered in MTB Essential Skills (body positioning, braking, shifting and steering) and focuses on progressive cornering technique, efficient climbing skills, safe descending practices and intermediate terrain features.
Duration: 3 hours
Setting: Open terrain with some on trail training
Pre-requisites: Riders should have mastered the skills covered in MTB Essential Skills before attending this clinic.
All clinics include bike safety check, initial skills assessment after check-in, and inlcude instructor demonstrations and hands (or bikes) on learning. All clinics are limited to a maximum of 6 students to maximize learning time.
Learn to navigate technical trails with rocks, roots and other obstacles as well as more challenging corners. This clinic covers advanced braking technique, stopping and restarting on steep terrain, and navigating rock gardens and drops.
Duration: 6 hours
Setting: Mostly on trail training with climbing required to reach trailheads and session features
Pre-requisites: Riders should have mastered the skills covered in MTB Fundamental Skills before attending this clinic.
All clinics include bike safety check, initial skills assessment after check-in, and inlcude instructor demonstrations and hands (or bikes) on learning. All clinics are limited to a maximum of 6 students to maximize learning time.
Learn to glide down any flow trail with style and ease. This clinic focuses on descending with control, cornering on berms, pumping rollers and jumping technique.
Duration: 6 hours
Setting: Mostly on trail training with climbing required to reach trailheads and session features
Pre-requisites: Riders should have mastered the skills covered in MTB Fundamental Skills before attending this clinic.
All clinics include bike safety check, initial skills assessment after check-in, and inlcude instructor demonstrations and hands (or bikes) on learning. All clinics are limited to a maximum of 6 students to maximize learning time.