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ABOUT US
We offer mountain bike skills coaching and coached rides. We're based in Afan South Wales, where have our own 'private' coaching venue designed especially to progress our clients’ skills.
To ensure you develop your skills and confidence efficiently and quickly we use a modern formula of ignition, (thats your desire to improve) Master coaching (thats our bit!) Deep practice (some of this will be on the course but most of it will follow the course when you’re out riding) this all leads to enhanced skills and confidence in the shortest time possible.
Due to our depth of knowledge and experience we also carry out Instructor/Leader CPD training for other instructors wanting to 'up skill' either their riding or coaching/instruction ability.
Our coaching style is professional but always friendly & relaxed. We keep ratios small for high quality Skills coaching and we also use video analysis on our sessions to make sure you get the most out of it.
Coached rides we take you out on the trails to focus on specific parts and not only look after you on the bike but we show you the local area and points of interest too.
Trail Management: We are also accredited Association of Trail Builders providers.
Female Specific Coaching why we offer it:
From a coaching perspective women learn differently from men and while joint sex coaching is achievable there is still a need for women only coaching sessions delivered in a female specific way that allows women to develop skills and confidence, it also enables women to talk about how the menstrual cycle and menopause can effect performance etc.
Whether you are male or female we can deliver the right course and coach for your session. Get in touch and see what we can do for you . . .
ALLY CAMPBELL
Ally has been coaching and guiding in outdoor sports for more than 25 years, with the last 20 spent mainly on MTB skills coaching, guiding and trail management courses. She has a confident, fun coaching style and a calm way of breaking things down so they make sense. Her depth of knowledge, and ability to spot and explain the key points, helps riders quickly build their understanding and ride trails of all grades, including jumps and drops, with more confidence and control.
Away from Mountain biking coaching, Ally has a long background in racing, with years of experience in Megavalanche, Maxiavalanche, downhill endurance events and UK Gravity Enduros through the 2000s. Travelling across Europe to race these formats has given her a fairly unique female perspective on this style of riding and what it takes to enjoy it, not just survive it.
Before focusing fully on bikes, Ally spent years travelling and working around the world on the water, from Iran to South America and many places in between. Most of that time was spent in a kayak or canoe, coaching, working safety, rafting and guiding on grade 5 rivers, alongside MTB coaching, guiding and racing across Europe, Asia and Scandinavia.
All of that experience feeds back into how she coaches today: real-world, practical and focused on helping you ride better, not just faster.
Biking Qualifications:
Association of Trail Builders (ATB) Tutor
Dirtt Tutor
International Trail Rating System (ITRS) Certified Trail Rater
B1KE Skills Instructor
B1KE Jumps & Drops Instructor
CTC Urban Skills Instructor & Tutor
CTC Trainee Leader Tutor
CTC Jumps & Drops Instructor
National Standards Bikeability Instructor
REC First Aider + Forestry
NPTC Chainsaw maintenance and cross-cutting
NPTC Felling Small Trees up to 380mm
CTC Trainee Skills Tutor & Trainee Jumps & Drops Tutor
CTC Skills Instructor
CTC Technical Trail Leader
MIAS Level 2 Trail Leader
Cytech Technical 2 mechanic
Trail Builder and Designer
Cycling Scotland Go MTB Instructor
Member of Institute of Outdoor Learning
British Cycling Intro2Coaching
VIDEO ANALYSIS USING COACHES EYE
We've been using video analysis on all our coaching sessions since we started coaching MTB over 15 years, which was rare in many companies. Now a lot has changed since then and we have kept up and moved with the times as riding styles, trails and bikes have changed. We have adapted our coaching keeping it fresh, we've always focused on these key ingredients video analysis, fun environment and flexible content.
