What to expect from a BetterRide coaching session:

My goal is to teach you the core skills of mountain biking* and give you drills for each skill so you can continue to fine tune the skills long after the camp.

With this goal in mind I have designed a structured Three Day Skills Progression to teach you the “core skills”* of mountain biking. In addition to these core mountain bike skills I teach the mental side of mountain biking throughout the camp to help you over come fear and barriers to improvement and get you riding confidently.

Each day will start at 9:45 am with 3-4 hours of skills instruction and drills (in a local park) followed by 2-3 hours of on trail practice and riding on trail. A typical day runs from 9:45 am until 4:00 to 5:00 pm

Day 1

• Quick overview of camp
• How to ride in Balance, in Control and efficiently. Learn correct body position (as opposed to the common and incorrect “myths” passed down from rider to rider), balance and weight placement for climbing and descending
• How to set-up your bike for optimal riding: tire pressure, tire type, stem length, bar height, seat height, brake level reach/adjustment, suspension set up to riders weight and riding style
• How to look ahead correctly- Everyone one knows to look ahead but few actually do it! I will teach you where and how to look ahead, how this effects your riding and how to improve your vision skills.
• How to wheelie over small obstacles, up and down, two efficient wheelies relying on technique, not upper body strength and how to use them over different obstacles
• How to fall safer
• Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
• Wrap up and reveiw of the days skills

Day 2

• Review of day 1, questions?
• How bikes corner, how to corner in balance, using vision to corner faster, easier with more control
• Advanced cornering with drills
• How to brake effectively (no skidding!), how to use your brakes to go faster
• How to start/restart on an uphill
• Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
• Wrap up and reveiw

Day 3

• Review of both days and questions, review drills
• How to balance on a bike, how to improve your balance, how to trackstand
• How to do switch backs (up and down) in balance and in control with my 100% technique (as opposed to the popular momentum method that works well 50-60% of the time)
• How to clear larger obstacles, lift your rear wheel correctly and easily (not yanking up with your cleats), cleaning logs/log piles, doing drop offs safely and smoothly
• Campers’ choice, skills the campers want further work on
• Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
• Wrap up and reveiw

Sign up for a camp today and start riding to your potential (and beating your friends)!

*They may be core skills but unless someone taught them to you it is unlikely that would know and understand them, this is why pros like Chris Van Dine (Pro downhill racer for Cannondale), Amanda Riley (Pro xc racer for Titus, Hayes, Kenda) Ben Craner (2007, 2008 Utah Pro downhill champion), Lynda Wallenfels (Great Britain National Champ xc racer and coach), Joey Schusler (2008 Colorado Champion) and the Go-Ride pro team take camps from me, which means these camps are great for pro racers as well as advanced beginners. Few riders know these skills and even fewer can do them well (I didn’t learn many of these skills until my sixth through tenth seasons as a pro racer and only then through asking European and Australian coaches and racers a lot of questions).