CAMPBELL COACHING BLOG

Ladies Core Skills Course

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:31:31 +0100

Wendy from Manchester and Jo from the Lakes came over for our Ladies Core Skills Course. We had great weather too. Both Ladies wanted to concentrate on getting over trail sections, technical climbs and just being more confident on the bike.

I started off by showing the girls the ‘M’ Check before heading to the Skills Area where we went through the Ready Position, Cone of Movement (moving around the bike), Pumping and Manualing giving Wendy and Jo video feedback along the way. Lunchtime I went through more video analysis and showed them Demo videos in slow motion.

After Lunch and coffee we went back to the Skills Area to go through manualing and using manuals to get up steps, next we covered cornering on flat ground. Once the girls had dialled this we headed into the woods to put everything into practise on the trails.

At the end of the day we headed back and looked at the videos whilst having tea and cake, whilst Bob kindly cleaned Wendy's and Jo's bikes! Top day with them and they both now have some solid skills to take out and practice on the trails.
Ally

Mike Rob & Nick get ‘Flowing’

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:14:53 +0100

Mike got in touch with us as he and a couple of friends wanted to develop their MTB skills. We put together a Private course for them looking at the key skills they wanted to develop and to help them progress their riding. They ride a lot locally here in North Wales Llandegla, Coed y Brenin and some of the more natural trails too.
We started off looking at the 'Core Skills' the essential building blocks for confident, fun riding.

Getting Radney in the air!

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:42:29 +0100

Radney has been on a couple of half day sessions with us so we have built his skills up nice and progressively. This time we developed his ability to 'push' down drops, a skills many people forget about but one that is actually vital once you start to look at some slightly bigger drops or you want to ride them faster on the trail.

Alpkit Big Shakeout 2012

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:37:29 +0100

The big Shakeout was another success this year with lots of people turning up to join in the fun and activities over the weekend.

Saturday was skills coaching for the kids.

Saturaday night lots of cool candles and fire diplays:

Also there was live music, talks, movies and slide shows. Sunday we where coaching the adults:

Great event can't wait for next year!
Ally

Developing Stuart & pete’s Drop Off Skills

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:48:35 +0100

Steve and Pete popped over to have a bit of private coaching from us focusing on their Jumps & Drops skills and also confidence. They are both pretty solid riders who do lots of natural riding as well as trail centre stuff so it was a case of making them more ‘aware’ of what they were actually doing and looking at some new ways of riding some trail features and polishing up some of the skills.

DH intro course

Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:57:57 +0100

Pete has got a DH bike to add to the ‘collection’ and wanted to develop his DH skills on steeper ground and bigger trail features. He has also had some coaching before at Oneplanet Adventure at Llandegla so we had a good foundation to work on with him. He is not really looking at getting in to racing just having lots of fun on all the more DH focused sites and parks that are opening up here in Wales like Antur Stinog, Revolution Bike Park and of course our base Onegiantleap in Llangollen, three fantastic venues if you fancy hanging out with a bit of ‘gravity’ and your bike!

Core skills in the sun!

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:18:12 +0100

Had a great day with everyone on the open Core Skills Course on Saturday, Rich, Ben, Andy and Jake joined us at Onegiant Leap to have a look at developing their skills. We started off with some session in the field to have a look at their skills and also get them used to feeling what they were doing before we looked at the Core Skills essential to good solid and confident riding. We covered moving about the bike, effective braking, pumping and manuals focusing on developing good footwork and looking skills in the first session.

Corporate weekend at Coed y Brenin

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:52:07 +0100

Chris from AMEC (AMEC is a focused supplier of consultancy, engineering and project management services to its customers in the world’s oil and gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, environment and infrastructure markets around the world) asked us to help run a staff MTB weekend for 18 people from around the UK.

We had a chat with Chris and organised a weekend at Coed y Brenin with a coaching day on the Saturday and a guided ride on the ace trails over there on Sunday. They all came up on the Friday and stayed in log cabins and the people who did not own bikes hired them from Beics Brenin for the weekend.

Saturday we split them into groups depending on ability, group one was with myself doing the Fundamentals, group 2 and 3 were focused on ‘Core Skills’ to more advance riders they went with Bob and Ed.

Sunday they had the choice of either going around the Cyflym Coch Red graded trail 12.6km or MBR Black graded trail 18.4km.

Halo BDS Llangollen, Running The Shoretrax!

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:48:27 +0100

Another year another round of people chucking themselves down the famous Onegiant Leap tracks. This time the race was down the New Squirrel Track. Denbighshire Council’s Leisure Services wanted to promote cycling to the spectators, locals and inspire the younger riders too.
They got us into run the Shoretrax portable bike track for them as we are the ‘on site’ coaches having our own private coaching skills area there. The Track was opened for the both days with lots of people turning up to see the race and then popping over to the Shoretrax with excited youngster in tow!

A couple of BMX’s were provided by Marsh Track in Rhyl and we brought down the Transition Bikes Demo Fleet too. The track went down really well with the spectators getting involved and lots of locals turned up to have a go on their own bikes or borrowing the bikes we supplied after seeing the action on the tracks!

Ages ranged from 4 year olds to Adults mostly the kids aged 5-6 where showing up everyone future downhillers in the making! Big thanks to Pete Stevens from PSP for the photos, check out his site here:

Ally

Ladies Gravity Camp 2012

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:41:12 +0100

After having lots of girls asking for a Ladies only Uplift at Onegiant Leap we decided to run a weekend of coaching and Uplift for those girls that wanted to develop their skills with a gravity theme. We also got Pro riders Helen Gaskell and Sarah Newman involved to come along and help out with the coaching.

Friday evening there was camping for those travelling from afar and who wanted to start the weekend early and meet everyone.

Saturday was a choice of 1/2 day Skills coaching sessions. In the morning they had the choice of Cornering, Bunny hops, Intro to Drops. After lunch they there were more sessions this time on Bigger drops, Intro to steep ground and Advanced cornering.

Saturday evening we had a BBQ, beers and cake chilling out and chatting in the event tents.

Sunday was ‘uplift day’ we all headed up to the Downhill trails on the uplift service provided By Martin the farmer in the back of his ace uplift trailer, (no bikes touch each other so no annoying or expensive scratched or damage!) all pulled by a big green John Deer of course!

Ally

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