Beginners Courses
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Get Started – Mountain Bike Skills Courses
This course is perfect for anyone who has just started mountain biking and wants to gain more confidence riding, learn new skills and negotiate all terrains for a fun day out. This course will be predominantly aimed at having fun on mountain bikes while teaching you the basic skills to gain confidence on the bike.
Which bike?
Once you are ready to move on and have demonstrated confident riding with good technique on the flat ground we will then move onto the blue. We will all negotiate the trail together stopping at certain sections/features to break down the technique and work on gaining confidence. The trail will be simple with nothing to challenge, it will be a blue run so will consist mainly of flat ground with corners and slight gradients.
You will leave this course loving mountain biking and feeling confident to go out and successfully ride blue trails.
We cover the following on your Mountain Bike Skills Course
Bike Set Up
Suspension
Seats
Posture
Flat Ground Training to start
Corners
Gradients
Why it’s important to get your Mountain Bike set up right with a focus on understanding
Making the right tyres choice and running the correct tyre pressure.
Getting your suspension set up for you and why tuning your suspension to the trail will enable you to ride trails with more confidence.
Optimising brake lever set up to improve the way you ride and develop confidence on your bike.
Improving your skills and confidence on the bike including understanding
Taking control of your mental game.
Your course will cover all or a selection of the following
Descending
Climbing
Cornering
Roots
Adverse camber
Pumping (Energy Management)
Costs
Groups of up 5 £20 per person for 2 hour session
One to One £30 per hour
Alternative arrangements to be negotiated
The importance of how your Body Position, Footwork, Looking and Speed Control effect how you ride the trail.
The composition of the trail and the importance of why the Entry, Section and Exit and how trails are linked and layered are so important.
The importance of Energy Management (Pumping) by introducing you to how you can make the bike work with you and gain free energy and speed from the trail.
The importance of ‘performance cues’ and how to ensure they don’t effect how you ride.
An introduction to the psychology of mountain biking. Including the importance of focusing on the right things at the right time and taking control of your mental game.
Your course will cover all or a selection of the following:
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