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....
Jun 19, 2019 | Mountain Bike Skills tips, Mountain biking, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Training Tips, Your body
Life takes work, lots of work! I used to train so I could race well, then I stopped racing and stopped training, mostly due to nagging back problems. When your body hurts, it hurts to train and a downward spiral happens. You stop training which feels better but you...
Apr 10, 2019 | BetterRide Students, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice
Inspiring Mountain Biking Students from 20 Years of Coaching, Part 1 As you can imagine in my 20 years of coaching mountain bike skills I have had a lot of interesting and inspiring people take my camps. Some of these people have gone on to become famous racers, some...
Feb 26, 2019 | Mental Skills, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Videos
Challenging Mountain Bike Trails Should be Ridden with Skills, Not Balls Sorry for the use of the term “Balls” but this a common comment on some of my riding videos and I wanted to address this comment (that is often thought or said as a compliment). I...
Apr 12, 2018 | BetterRide Students, Mountain Bike Skills tips, MTB Skills Articles, Tips & Advice, MTB Training Tips
MTB, What I Have Learned from Working with Greg Minnaar That Can Help You I have been fortunate to do a number of skills camps with three time World Champion Greg Minnaar over the last 12 years and I have learned a lot from him. You can benefit greatly by doing some...
