just trying to compile a list of skills training for *cough* a friend.

any recomendations?

Stu Price at Dales Mountainbikes! Good courses at whatever level.

http://www.dalesmountainbiking.co.uk

A Quick Release

http://www.dirtschool.co.uk/

We do some

http://www.scottishmountainbikeguides.com/mountain-biking-skills-courses

Cheers,

Phil

http://www.forestfreeride.co.uk

2 day course, one to one if you prefer, stay in the bunkhouse…£110

1 day specific courses, £60 and feel free to use the bunkhouse.

Stuart

Steve at Chasing Trails http://www.chasingtrails.com

Spent some time with him last year great trainer.

Group skills course running 7th Feb, 1 to 1 anytime I’m free,
08 prices if you book before end of Jan, then they go up!

Steve at Chasing Trails.

try allbikedup

any more out there? yeah i’m greedy! 🙂

I did a skills course this weekend at Llandegla, through http://www.oneplanetadventure.co.uk with 4 others.

We can all ride OK, although there is one novice in our midst, but we wanted to do a course to give us all some more confidence.
And it was great – well worth it. It wasn’t anything that you didn’t know you should be doing anyway, but it taught it to you in a correct way and corrected quite a few ‘bad’ habits that some of us had picked up. You aren’t gonna become a trail riding god overnight, but if you practive what was taught on the course, it should get you well on the way. We did the Llandegla loop the day after including all the black bits and it did feel that I was more confident and able to read the trail better. I also felt that I had that little bit more ability to go over obstacles with some decent pace.

any one done one specifically for jumping? maybe nigel page.

Thanks for the plug, Muddy Fox – allbikedup.com can certainly help out if you’re around London/south. We go by the CTC/Ian Warby system which is the same as Llandegla and a few others.

Very happy to hear a plug for the Llandegla guys – top blokes. They do very good jumps and drops courses too. As do we for that matter. It’s the basics that you need to get right though – then you will find jumping much more straightforward.

Glen

the courses run from the hub at Glentress are very good – I found mine incredibly useful 🙂

Yeah……as mentioned by glenp, the chaps at Llandegla do a jumps/drops course. We passed on that one for the moment.

I should mention that the food at Llandegla was top-notch! I can highly recommend the chilli & chips, the one planet adventure burger and the coffee cake!! Apparently the ranch burger is also very tasty!