I coached Peter two years ago and he wanted to return as he’d lost confidence in his singletrack riding in the local woods. I spent time working on his mental skills and applying the simple techniques to sections of trail and linking them up and flowing.
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Singletrack Skills Public Session 10/6/19
Today was a wet and overcast day but that didn’t dampen the riders as they all rode features commonly found in singletrack riding from corners to steep drop offs to pumping trails. Below are some pictures from the session.
Andrea Finds His Flow
Andrea wanted to gain control of his trail riding and learn how to flow through trails more. I discovered he was weaker in his right hand turns and also that he gave away positioning when descending too.
I focused on footwork and body positioning and we applied the corrected skills to the techniques required. Steeps, drops, riding over obstacles, flat, bermed and off camber corners and pumping were all worked on . A brilliant session unfolded as Andrea embedded his new riding skills.
Bryan And Ross
I coached Ross two years ago and he return with riding buddy Bryan to move his riding on but also iron out some errors he felt in his riding.
I adjusted their set up and worked on positioning and the all important looking. Foot position on flat pedals made a huge difference too. I think the pictures tell the tale better than I can.
Xc Race Coaching
Dan races nps xc races and wanted to get better technically and understand what he needed to do on a mountain bike. I explained the physical skills and isolated body positioning and looking needed correcting and some very small adjustments made huge differences.
I worked hard with Dan on gaining speed and not trying to be fast. It was apparent that it felt slow to him but he knew it was faster as a by product.
We worked on applying a simple skills set to lots of different environments and linked them together.
For over 6hrs , Dan worked hard on linking his new skills set together. Linking steeps to corners, turning through drop offs, gap jumps, drops, corners, controlling air time and distance, switchbacks and riding over obstacles to name just a few..
I really enjoyed being part of this session as it wasn’t just airtime but was about simple techniques.
Mark’s 2nd Session
Mark returned for another session of the year and wanted to work on steeper stuff and getting over obstacles whilst climbing too. I worked on his weaker left hand turns too and we then pieced together both sessions learning.
Using a section of trail, I worked on him becoming faster with technique and he shaved lots of time through 3 sections by linking them effectively.
I’m looking forward to his next session.
It’s Not About The Bike
Alex and Tom ride an e-bike and standard bike respectively and wanted to share a private mountain bike skills coaching session with myself. I explained that their is no skills difference between either bike and that it is themselves that have the greatest effect.
They wanted to learn to get air and perhaps clear a tabletop but the session gave so much more.
