Why You’ll Love This Course
This course is for Intermediate to Strong Intermediate riders. Participants should be comfortable on easy blues and sometimes get challenged on some sections of harder blues. You should be wanting to explore or have some experience on black trails.
Skills & Fitness Level Required
- Participants should have taken mountain bike lessons in the past 2 years
- Rider must be comfortable on all blue trails & ready to do some black trails
- Participants should be comfortable with the following trails: Logging Leftovers, Stimulus, TNT, Man Quads
- Trails that you can ride but get challenge by some section: Lower Boondocker, Home Run
- Your bike should have disc brakes, in good working condition that were serviced within the past year, and ideally dual suspension.
Strong Intermediate
You have taken lessons before and can ride almost anywhere. All green and blue trails are ridden with a high level of confidence and you feel comfortable riding some black runs. You are familiar and at ease on a variety of terrain including roots, rocks, and technical trail features. You are looking to up your game and improve your style, getting more comfortable with steeper trails, doing jumps and drops, high speed cornering. Skills you want to learn: Wheelies, Jumps, Drops, Speed, Steeper Terrain
Example of trails you can ride: 727, Family guys, Race of Spade, Prospector, Kloosifier, Blue Trails on Mountain Shadows, Flowdown, Loggin Leftovers, Fifty Six Twenty, Tantrum south
Example of trails that will take your skills up a notch: Jean Guy on the Rock, No homers, Terminator, Rock the Flume, LSD, 3K, Cliff Side, Super Happy Fun, Sex on The Beach, UFC, UpperBoondocker, Hula Girl
FITNESS LEVEL 5
- You are capable of riding for multiple days in a row at a moderate pace for an average of 2-3 hours of pedal time each day. You could handle adding a day requiring up to 4-hours of pedal time.
- You are confident climbing up to a total of 300 vertical metres (1,000 ft.) in a day.
- You exercise on average 6-7 hours per week.
- Your exercise regime includes a combination of endurance training like riding a bike and strength training.
What you will learn
Refresher of skills and personalized feedback on your riding:
Review of Basic Body Positions & roll down maneuverer
Pumping/ Pressure control
High Speed Cornering
Advance Braking
The Racing Aspect
How to do an inspection of course
How to prep for a race, food, equipment, etc.
Mental Preparation/ Visualization
How to analyze and understand different line options
Booking Information
- Must have read our booking information prior to booking our programs
- Must have Read & Agreed to our Waiver
- Cancellation policy: Read Cancellation Policy Here
- Written cancellation 14 days or more prior to the program will receive a full refund minus an administration fee of $85.
- Cancellation in writing less than 14 days prior to the program start date will not be refunded or credited.
Course Details
- Location: Revelstoke; MacPherson & Boulder trails
- Date: Saturday, August 24th with Robyn
- Length: 9:00am to 3:30pm with 45 minutes lunch break
- Include: afternoon shuttles
- Ratio: 6 riders per instructor
*We require a minimum of 4 participants to run a program.
Not sure if this program is for you? Questions?
Get in Touch Here*This course can be offered on customized dates for groups of 4+ who want to learn with their friends.
Testimonial
Would recommend it to anyone!
Fantastic Weekend! I learned so much. My confidence is higher. Super excited for DH this summer! Wish I could take another course right away! The instructors Becca and Audrey truly were amazing. Very encouraging and kind. They made you feel awesome and treated you as a friend. I loved it and can’t wait for another camp!