Skills Coaching
Regardless of skill level, all classes start the same and progress from there to the rider’s capacity. With exercises and drills designed to challenge the local trail rider & world cup pro, you will learn stability and control to vastly improve your riding.
Regardless of the rider’s ability, I start each foundational class with a bike setup- adjusting controls to be accessible, suspension to be balanced and set up to support the rider. I regularly hear “this feels like a different bike” after the adjustments. Sadly, most riders are on bikes that are not helping you like they are designed to.
Just like all good things in life, we start with foundation no matter if you are a World Cup level racer or a weekend warrior trying to improve your time on Strava. Off the bike, I walk you through how to stabilize your mass by loading your posterior chain (back of the body) and creating stability. Through a series of skill development drills, you then learn how to move that stability from the ground to your bike and create an offensive process- “power”. This is how everything you want to learn works, there are no tips/tricks or shortcuts.
Once your base foundation is formed and you have a new sense of stability, control and confidence, we can then begin further goal oriented work. Through this overreaching concept of loading the back of your body/bike to create stability, every technical obstacle, jump, fast corner and new challenge you will now face with the right set of tools.
FOUNDATIONAL
Joaquin Miller Park- Oakland, CA
All first classes are held in Oakland at Joaquin Miller Park.
-Bike and Suspension Set Up
-Individualized Skills Training
-Stability Exercises
4 hours
Includes in class snacks & take home gift
FOLLOW UP
Bay Area & Beyond
Follow up classes are designed to build upon foundational work & specific rider goals.
-Bike Set Up Check
-Individualized Skills Training
-Jump Parks/Trail & Section Work
2 hours
Travel Fee Applies
GROUPS
Bay Area & Beyond
Group classes are held by request of an organization, team or small group of riders. Public classes are not offered at this time. Please contact me to set up a group class.
“Ian has taught me most of the things I know about mountain bikes and has really helped me on my path to becoming a professional downhill racer. What’s cool about Ian is he has a deep understanding of the fundamentals and has the skills to communicate them to both beginners and skilled riders alike.”
-Brain C