I've met Tony on a couple of the Swinley rides, and it's pretty obvious that he'd be a top class coach. I'll hopefully be sorting out a group before summer, with the added complication of a mix of skill sets between 6 month novice and DH mentalists 
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Why did I bother with Jedi’s UK Bike School training?
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Jedi, have you fixed a date(s) for some skills weeks in the Basque country yet?
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jimmy - Member
i'd pay someone to teach me to manual down a street. Money on completion...!
where do you live?
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vikingboy,
from the title I thought ho bu@@er having booked a 1-2-1 for the end of Mar, so pleased having read your report
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Thought this was going to a negative post, slagging of the Jedi, and saying how the chap had wasted his money.
Thankfully it wasnt, Jedi appears to walk on water, oh and mr Original poster, theres a job going at the Labour party for a PR guru, very well done though.
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Sounds really good, glad to see it wasnt a slag-off like I feared it might be!
I can't really afford a one-to-one but if anyone wants to get a small group together and chip in a bit each I'd do that
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Jedi, have you fixed a date(s) for some skills weeks in the Basque country yet?
I'll come!
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Jedi - I'm not on here much so not familiar with you - where are you based? Website? I'm hoping to get some schooling in the summer.........
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duurrgh, sorry I just looked at the top of the page
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Thought this was going to a negative post, slagging of the Jedi, and saying how the chap had wasted his money.
Thankfully it wasnt, Jedi appears to walk on water
LOL
He'll be parting the red sea next!
Seriously though, not done a skills course with him yet (would like to soon), but have met and ridden with him a few times in the past. The stuff you can pick up off him whilst just out riding is uncanny, to have 6 hours booked out specifically for him to coach your skills... If you don't learn loads you're either an arrogant tosser, or should be racing DH at World Cup level!
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I spent yesterday with a 1-on-1 with jedi, & I was about to post up a pretty much identical thread. What the OP's said is exactly my experience.
I'm certainly one of the "can't jump, won't jump" brigade. That thread from the other day is me to a tee. If Tony had shown me at the start of the day what he'd end up getting me riding i'd have laughed at him.
I've already booked a follow up session.
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blimey guys how long is this thread! :O
Mackem - Member
Jedi, have you fixed a date(s) for some skills weeks in the Basque country yet?
1st week in may is the basquemtb.com/ukbikeskills coaching week.
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Mboy - come with us on the 20th march!!
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I don't want to hijack Jedi's thread, especially when everyone's saying nice things, but... Mackem / Eck, the skills week is the 2nd to the 9th of May, there are some more details on my site: Jedi in a Basque?!
I'm just getting a banner ad together so you'll hopefully see that up there ^^^ sometime very soon.
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Darn it, I can only do school holiday times.
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i'm looking forward to spain. singletrack heaven
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Nice thread, though not surprised, ukbikeskills abroad also a top move.
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I am such a rubbish rider that I think I'd be too embarassed to be taught! Though I'd love to improve so that is the first mental hurdle I have to overcome lol
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mental skills can be harder won than physical ones
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Nice one.
Wholly agree with spending time/cash on your skills rather than shiny bitsPosted 2 years ago # -
I am such a rubbish rider that I think I'd be too embarassed to be taught! Though I'd love to improve so that is the first mental hurdle I have to overcome lol
LOL
As a qualified skills trainer myself (though sadly not mountain biking!) I can guarantee that the biggest hurdle to overcome is the belief that nothing is wrong, or you're good enough already.
To have the desire to improve is the single greatest attribute you can have... Your mind is a sponge. You'll not remember everything, but you'll remember a lot more if your mind is turned on to it!
Mboy - come with us on the 20th march!!
That a Saturday?
If so, and I can possibly catch/share a lift, then yeah I'm up for that...
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All that is cool MaverickBoy, problem is that when I start hitting trees, slow down on the flat cause i think i am going to fast as it is and manage to grind my big chainring on every bump on the trail, I will just turn red and be too embarassed to pedal one more time lol
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Yeah - its a saturday. I'll mail you otherwise I might hijack this thread!
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mackem, sickie?
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Tempting, but i'd never get away with it.
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Having just come back from a skills course with Tony at Glentress I'd have to say the first/original post is bang on the money.
He diagnosed my main problem from a blurry, distorted photo and unsurprisingly was 100% right. We started on this from the car park!
He's a nice guy on and off the bike and certainly has some interesting ideas (roots don't exist, tyre choice don't matter and trails are living things with energy for starters: scarily it all made sense at the time). And it wasn't me who was drinking Hoeegarten neither.
He quietly deconstructed my knocking on 20 years of mountain biking and rebuilt it from the ground up without fuss. Also surprising was his eagerness to adapt/integrate my own ideas about things since my learning style is 'maximum kinetic': yup another Tonyism.
However I am bitterly disappointed that I didn't get to huck any 25 footers or road gaps. And my crash (on the blue ffs!) proves that I haven't transmogrified into a trail god. On second thoughts I've been ripped off and I want my money back...
Skills courses are definitely worth doing in my opinion (and I'm sure it doesn't have to be Tony). Thanks again Tony, I'm looking forward to my Steve Peat/Crested Butte moment once again.
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are those pictures from woburn?
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which pictures?
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So Tony, you got to teach the dust-spewing legend that is glupton today - was he showing you how it was done?
(just kidding, George is a nice guy and he was raving about it to me earlier)
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yeah, todays group session was cool
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