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MTB Skills: How to Progress Faster

MTB Skills: How to Progress Faster

Sep 4, 2022 | Downhill, Mental Skills, Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Skills Videos

There has been an amazing amount written about MTB skills and even more how-to videos on Youtube (of various quality). These are all great ways to increase your knowledge of MTB skills. However, knowledge is worthless if you can’t put that knowledge into action on...
MTB Training Devices or “Just let off the brakes you wuss!”

MTB Training Devices or “Just let off the brakes you wuss!”

Jan 9, 2022 | MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice

There are many MTB training devices on the market right now. I keep seeing an ad for a “Brake Trainer” that tells you when and where during your ride you used the brakes and how hard you applied them. I applaud the designers for trying to create something to help...
29ers just aren’t that much fun!

29ers just aren’t that much fun!

Aug 29, 2019 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Training Tips

6 Years ago, I wrote an article with the title, “I was wrong! 29ers just aren’t as much fun!” (click here to read the article) and I caught A LOT of flack for it. Which is funny because at the time it was true. After 6-7 months of testing a bike I thought was going to...
The Space Between.

The Space Between.

Aug 15, 2019 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Training Tips

I believe Myles Davis said something to the effect of, “the beauty in music is the space between the notes”. I have realized it is the same in Mountain Biking.I stopped enjoying Whistler Bike years ago but I keep coming back. Hoping, I guess, that the...
Technique: Bermed Corners vs. Flat Corners

Technique: Bermed Corners vs. Flat Corners

Aug 12, 2019 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Training Tips

A question I get all the time is some version of, “how is my technique different in a bermed (banked) corner than in a flat corner?” As I explain in my courses: a bermed corner (banked) is still a corner. That means everything depends on traction, speed and your goal....
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