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Thanks Andy! Your MTB Coaching gets Some Amazing Feedback!

Maybe I should just let our certified coaches do all the coaching! I did my best to only invite riders who I felt were friendly, patient and good communicators to go through our certification process but they all continue to impress me with comments from their students. Checkout these two comments on facebook from Andy's camp last weekend: ... The camp far exceeded my expectations. Learned so much. Time to practice. ... Andy, thanks so much! Me, my dad, Cole, and Chase had so much fun! I'm so much more ready to tackle the race season and put all my new techniques to use on the courses up here! Defiantly the best coach I've ever had in any sport and the most I've ever learned in 3 days.

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04/09/2012

Gene

Articles, BetterRide Students, Mountain biking

coaching, cornering mountain bikes, Danny Hart, how to descend on a mountain bike, how to mountain bike, mountain bike camps, mountain bike racing, mountain bike skills, mountain bike tips, mountain biking tips, mtb tips, mtb training, Ross Schnell

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Have Your MTB Upgrades Made it Less Safe and Less Fun?

MTB upgrades and components such as pedals, shoes, handlebars, tires, stem and wheel set can have a huge positive or negative effect on your riding! Choose the components and equipment for you, the conditions and your purpose that day. On a technically easy course like the 24 hours of old Pueblo a racer will be concerned more about rolling resistance than control so she runs a semi-slick tire front and rear. The same racer on a more technical course would likely run a knobbier tire that rolled a little slower but gave her more control. Some things to look out for: 1. Light weight components, light bars, light wheel sets, light tires, light cranks etc.. Our obsession with shaving weight off our bikes needs to end. Yes, given the exact same performance I would rather have a 22 pound bike than a 32 pound mountain bike but right now that doesn't exist.

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04/03/2012

Gene

Articles, MTB Setup

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A Frustrating Thing That Often Holds Us Back on the MTB Trail! (video)

Is this frustrating thing (that we all experience) holding you back on the mtb trail? Are you letting failure hold you back?! Or worse yet, fear of failure? Dan Millman (World Champion Gymnast, Coach and Author) said, “Failure is natural and necessary part of the learning process.” He is not recommending failing for the sake [...]

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03/06/2012

Gene

Mental Skills, Mountain Bike Skills tips

coaching, cornering mountain bikes, how to descend on a mountain bike, how to mountain bike, mental training, mountain bike clinic, mountain bike skills, mountain bike tips, mountain bike training, mountain biking tips, mtb tips, mtb training

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Mountain Bikes = Passion, Adventure and Challenge!

Here's to the passionate ones! Those of you like Jackie and Dante Harmony who gladly live out of a van and occasional hotel room for half the year so you can challenge yourself and chase you dreams of World Cup glory. Whether you are a surfer chasing good swells around the world, a snowboarder living on ramen noodles and caffeine as you chase your dream of making the US Team, a climber living down by the river in your Subaru wagon so you can wake up and scale a tougher wall or a parent (also a lawyer/ and volunteer soccer coach) who still sleeps in a tent on non-soccer weekends so you can ride one more day in Moab you are a friend of mine. Life is so much better with passion and challenge than simply trying to get by. We (mountain bikers) are fortunate to have found something that we love so much that we will give up the “necessities” that so many people can’t do without to chase our passion. Next to spending quality time with my family and loved ones the happiest, most rewarding and most fun times of my life have been spent out there, often on the edge, not in front of a TV set.

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01/10/2012

Gene

mountain bike photos, Mountain Bike Travel, Mountain biking

Erica Knight Tingey, Jackie Harmony, Lynda Wallenfels, mountain bike, mountain bike tips, Mountain biking, mountain biking destinations, mountain biking tips, mtb tips, Ross Schnell, Sarah Kaufman

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