Lucaz and his 10yr old son Artur arrived for coaching wanting to get better at judging speed and to get over their mental block of gap jumps.
What a session it turned into as as soon as I had corrected their set ups and physical skills errors it all clicked. Gaps to 13ft, 14ft tabletops and linking gaps and jumps together, drops, style, berms, wall rides you name it. They even started jumping over each other!
Darren and his son Tom came to me via recommendation. They wanted to polish their riding and move it on with understanding what to do and why on their mountain bikes.
I worked on their physical skills sets as well as the head game and before you knew it, they were riding smooth and faster than before.
Drops, steeps, corners, pumping, riding over obstacles, jumps and gaps were all demonstrated and they followed suit.
I coached Will today (see what I did there?) and he wanted to understand what he was doing and why when hitting jumps and drops. I isolated his skills set and showed him what needed working on.
I also worked on the head game too as we moved through lots of applications for the techniques I teach.
Louis came to me after reading about my sessions on a mountain bike forum. He had a back ground in motor cross and wanted to understand what he was doing on a bike and get to grips with jumping again.
I broke his riding right down and rebuilt it, piece by piece and the difference
was incredible. Drops, tabletop and gap jumps, cornering, steeps, wall rides and linking trail sections smoothly were all simple and efficient.
Jo and Andrew have been to me for mountain bike skills coaching a couple of times before but today was after a two year gap. I worked on Andrew’s weaker right hand turns and on Jo’s positioning in turns. We then moved to linking gap jumps, drops and adding style too. An amazing end to a great week of coaching.
The pics tell a great story of the session
