Trail · Enduro · Freeride

MOUNTAIN BIKE

Technical skills coaching from trail basics to elite freeride, built around the world-class terrain of Whistler and BC. Cornering, jumps and drops through to slopestyle tricks - backflips, 360s, supermans, corks - written by a coach who taught them for a living.

Curriculum
32 lessons
Free Preview
9 lessons
Modules
8
Status
In production

Skills You Will Develop

Attack PositionBraking TechniqueFlat & Bermed CorneringDrop TechniqueJump ProgressionBike Park FlowSlopestyle TricksJump BuildingTrail Trauma Response

Who It Is For

beginnerNew to trails or coming from road cycling - build the foundations before your first guided trip.
intermediateConfident on blue trails, ready to progress to blacks, drops, jumps and steeper terrain.
advancedEnduro or downhill focused riders optimising race technique, fitness and bike setup.

Gear Covered

  • Full-sus vs hardtail: which and why
  • Helmet: full-face vs half shell vs convertible
  • Pads: knee, knee-shin, or the full park kit
  • Gloves: thin moto-style vs carbon-knuckle
  • Flats vs clips: when each wins
  • Dropper post
  • Hydration pack & trail first aid kit
  • Toolkit, spare tube & splint-friendly extras
Fifteen Years In

All 32 lessons below are written, and every one of them came out of riding this terrain rather than reading about it. Film is shot on the trips we run, so each lesson is captured where it is taught. Book a trip that runs this discipline and its full library comes with your booking.

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We run in-person coaching in your home town before your trip - a fraction of what a day costs once the flights, hire and lift passes have started. Groups on the same trip split the travel.

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Shared safety training

These lessons from other libraries apply here too. Complete one anywhere and it shows green across the whole platform - done once, counted everywhere.

Full Curriculum

Foundations
Body Position Fundamentals10 minRead freeBraking & Speed Control7 minRead freeLooking Ahead: Vision on Trail5 minRead freeGear Choices: Bike, Protection & Contact Points11 minRead freeTrail Trauma: First Response for Riders12 minRead free
Intermediate
Cornering: Rail Every Berm12 minFullFlat Corners: Weight & Lean9 minFullSmall Drops: Commitment & Timing11 minFullJump Progression: Pop & Shape13 minFull
Advanced
Drops & Jumps: Progressive Sizing14 minFullEnduro: Rocky & Rooty Terrain10 minFullSteep Chutes & Technical Descents11 minFull
Bike Park Craft
Bike Park 101: Lifts, Laps & Etiquette8 minRead freeFlow: Pumping, Carrying Speed & Linking Laps10 minFull
Freeride & Slopestyle
Freeride Foundations: Pop, Speed & the Progression Ladder10 minRead freeBuilding Jumps & Gaps: Shape, Dirt & the Test Run12 minFullDrops & Senders: Flat Drops, Hips & Stepdowns11 minFullBar & Body Tricks: Suicides, Nac Nacs & Can Cans12 minFullGrab School: Supermans & Superman Seat Grabs11 minFullSpinning: The 360, Dialled12 minFull360 Drops: Spinning Off the Edge11 minFullFlips: Backflip, Frontflip & Flipping Drops13 minFullCorks & Barrel Rolls: Off-Axis for Competition12 minFull
Setup & Fitness
Bike Setup for Trail & Enduro9 minFullSuspension Tuning Basics8 minFullTrail Fitness & Strength Training12 minFull
Race Craft
The Track Walk: Reading a Race Course on Foot10 minRead freeRace Lines: Braking Points, Exits and Where Time Is Actually Won13 minFullEnduro Race Day: Pacing a Whole Day of Stages13 minFullAdapting Mid-Race: Wet, Loose and Blown Out13 minFullRace Setup: Suspension, Tyres and Cockpit for Speed13 minFull
Rider Protection
Neck Braces: The Rise, the Retreat and the Honest Case13 minRead free

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These sports kill people. Not rarely, and not only the reckless - every season they kill riders who were experienced, fit, well equipped and doing everything properly. That is the honest starting position and everything else we do sits on top of it.

The mountain does not know who you are. Snow releases on people with twenty years in it. Machines roll on riders who have done that line a hundred times. Water, rock, trees and other people are indifferent to how good you have become. Every time you go out you are accepting a real chance that it goes wrong, and no amount of skill removes that chance - it only changes the odds.

What that looks like in these disciplines, plainly: avalanche burial and asphyxiation, being crushed under a machine, head and spinal injuries from falls and impacts, drowning, hypothermia, and collisions with trees, rocks and other riders.

We work in remote country, so distance is part of it. A serious injury usually means hours before a helicopter can reach you, and weather sometimes means no helicopter at all. Help being close is not a feature of any trip we run.

This is exactly why we prepare the way we do. Training before you ride, gear standards, minimum party sizes, people who know the ground, and a willingness to call a day off. All of it is about improving your odds and making the group capable of looking after itself. None of it makes anything safe, none of it makes anyone competent, and passing our training is not a qualification. Anybody who tells you they can make this safe is selling something.

Everyone out there is relying on everyone else having been honest about what they can actually do. If reading this has made you hesitate, that is worth listening to rather than talking yourself out of.

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