Invest in yourself
Taking the first step
When you book a lesson, you are taking the first steps towards investing in yourself as a mountain biker. You might have a specific goal such as riding a challenging trail cleanly or learning to corner with increased confidence. Perhaps you are just looking to have more fun on your bike! Whatever your goals, we'll provide a comfortable environment for you to learn in and progress at your own pace.
When you book a lesson, you are taking the first steps towards investing in yourself as a mountain biker. You might have a specific goal such as riding a challenging trail cleanly or learning to corner with increased confidence. Perhaps you are just looking to have more fun on your bike! Whatever your goals, we'll provide a comfortable environment for you to learn in and progress at your own pace.
Private Lessons
For 2023, we are only doing private lessons - but you can add up to 3 friends to your booking. We've never been a fan of large groups trying to learn any practical skill, that's why we limit group size to 4 students. There is still enough instructor to go around a small group and group members will be able to see not only the instructor demonstrating a skill, but also fellow students attempting a skill or drill.
For 2023, we are only doing private lessons - but you can add up to 3 friends to your booking. We've never been a fan of large groups trying to learn any practical skill, that's why we limit group size to 4 students. There is still enough instructor to go around a small group and group members will be able to see not only the instructor demonstrating a skill, but also fellow students attempting a skill or drill.
What's better than a small group? How about an even smaller group of one? With 100% of the instructor's focus on you, you'll achieve your goals sooner. We'll get to know your riding and learning style and provide you with the tools you need to be a safer and more technically adept rider.
Skill levels
From beginner to intermediate to advanced riders, we adapt to your riding level. For now, we're not concerned with where someone thinks they fit in the skill spectrum since we are dealing with only private lessons. Later, we might offer lessons on more of a drop in basis and then we'll break down what we consider to be adequate skill level categories to match riders up accordingly.
From beginner to intermediate to advanced riders, we adapt to your riding level. For now, we're not concerned with where someone thinks they fit in the skill spectrum since we are dealing with only private lessons. Later, we might offer lessons on more of a drop in basis and then we'll break down what we consider to be adequate skill level categories to match riders up accordingly.
How a lesson works
A mountain bike lesson goes something like this: we'll meet up at a trailhead or other designated site, ensure the waivers and medical consent forms are signed off (boring I know), and then we'll get to know more about you, what type of rider you are and what your goals are for the session. As we get to know you, and follow you briefly to our training area, we will formulate my teaching goals based on what we've heard and seen. We'll also check your equipment before we start riding.
No matter how experienced of a rider you are, we will always start off by reviewing the core fundamentals (E.g. body position and braking). We'll always dial down the terrain for these reviews and for the drills that follow to reinforce the fundamentals before taking it to the trail. By keeping the terrain minimized, we can learn, experiment and achieve the heralded 3Cs - consistent, comfortable and correct.
Once our fundamentals and drills are complete, we'll take it to the trail and we'll find features on the trail to work on and we'll change up the difficulty in accordance with your progress. We're looking to thrive on the trails rather than simply survive.
We'll be providing feedback from start to finish, and as I understand what type of learner you are, we'll adapt our teaching technique to accommodate your learning style. We believe in providing accurate and respectful feedback to our students. You'll often hear us say something like "Why don't we trying adding more hip flex next time". We believe that being non-judgmental and respectful (while still being accurate) with feedback creates a relaxing atmosphere in which to learn. Being comfortable with each other makes it easy to communicate how comfortable we are with the drills and how we manage risk during the course of a lesson.
A mountain bike lesson goes something like this: we'll meet up at a trailhead or other designated site, ensure the waivers and medical consent forms are signed off (boring I know), and then we'll get to know more about you, what type of rider you are and what your goals are for the session. As we get to know you, and follow you briefly to our training area, we will formulate my teaching goals based on what we've heard and seen. We'll also check your equipment before we start riding.
No matter how experienced of a rider you are, we will always start off by reviewing the core fundamentals (E.g. body position and braking). We'll always dial down the terrain for these reviews and for the drills that follow to reinforce the fundamentals before taking it to the trail. By keeping the terrain minimized, we can learn, experiment and achieve the heralded 3Cs - consistent, comfortable and correct.
Once our fundamentals and drills are complete, we'll take it to the trail and we'll find features on the trail to work on and we'll change up the difficulty in accordance with your progress. We're looking to thrive on the trails rather than simply survive.
We'll be providing feedback from start to finish, and as I understand what type of learner you are, we'll adapt our teaching technique to accommodate your learning style. We believe in providing accurate and respectful feedback to our students. You'll often hear us say something like "Why don't we trying adding more hip flex next time". We believe that being non-judgmental and respectful (while still being accurate) with feedback creates a relaxing atmosphere in which to learn. Being comfortable with each other makes it easy to communicate how comfortable we are with the drills and how we manage risk during the course of a lesson.