I'm wondering about doing a skills course. Are they worth it? Will I gain anything from it? Are some better than others? All questions I don't know the answer to!
Now don't get me wrong, I'm no pro but I'm not a complete beginner either. I mainly ride trail centres and have ridden natural singletrack in the alps as well as racing gravity enduros. Will a skills course improve me I ask myself?
If so, please recommend me one. I live in Bristol but happy to travel to make a weekend of it. Wales, etc are no problems if its worth travelling for.
Advice please? Should I just keep my money or will I get a decent return by doing a course?
Jedi to the forum! Try uk bikeskills, top notch coaching although you might have to wait for a slot
I have done the trail leaders course, while not a skill course as such I found it very useful. Going to do the MBL course when I get the chance.
[url= http://www.campbellcoaching.eu/Campbell_Coaching/Campbell_Coaching.html ]Campbell Coaching[/url]
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pro ride guides will defanitly be worth it, joe and alez rafferty who you will have noticed are there or there abouts on the enduro seen\, there trailer is worth a watch\, not seen many with better flow than them
Encouraged a couple of mates of mine to see Jedi recently.
[url= http://ukbikeskills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/paul-and-chris-come-down-from-nottingham.html?m=1 ]one of them wrote this.[/url]
Looks like I need to give it a go then. Thanks for the recommendations. I think UK Bikeskills or campbell coaching are the closets of the recommended ones to me. Proride guides looks a bit too far north.
Thanks again.
UK Bike Skills every time
Great bloke, great course.
Best 'bike-related' money I ever spent.
[url= http://www.great-rock.co.uk/ ]Chin Up[/url]
This was what I wrote after the first one
[i]You could buy a new stem, some new tyres etc etc or you could spend £80 on a day with Ed. The kit may make your bike look better, the day with Ed will make you ride better.
As others have said, I rode a section towards the end of the day that I know I’d have bottled previously. I will definitely be back for more in the new year.
In the words of the man himself ‘don’t sit like you’re having a poo, keep your chin up, open your legs and relax hard’
Now that kind of wisdom is worth £80 of anyone’s money!!!!![/i]
Seriously, Ed has a great 'style' of coaching, passionate, good sense of humour etc. I still meet up with some of the people that were on the course with me.
154 - can't get your link to work?
As a closer option, anybody know of anything closer to Bristol thats worth doing?
It's worth the drive to see Tony (ukbikeskills). We travel down from Nottingham for it.
Think you'd be about twenty minutes further away.
Should work now mate
Jedi.
Uk bike skills - Tony will improve your riding beyond belief. Legend!!
Jedi
As mentioned above Joe and Alex Rafferty (Pro Ride Guides) are official coaches for the Mega Avalanche Enduro Series and very very good (from 1st hand experience). Just depends whether you are prepared to travel.
I've seen positive results from friends off Ed Oxley courses as well.
Lots of people on here recommend UK Bike Skills/Jedi, which speaks for itself.
I expect any of these will move your skills onto the next level.
+1 for Jedi - unless that means you might take a slot I want for my next trip to Herts 😉
@wavejumper - we could almost treat your post as a troll !
In my view the money I spent with UK Bikeskills for a private 1-1 session is by far the most effective use of cash I have ever spent on biking, by some considerable margin.
Another +1 for Jedi/Tony.
Money well spent.
If you don't want to travel Bristol Mountain Bike Club run courses in Bristol every so often. I might not be best person to ask, though, as apparently I was the first person to fail Jedi's course 😳
Thanks for the advice.
I ain't no troll by the way!
Jedi is excellent.
Did a morning with Sam from http://www.pedalprogression.com/ last week. Bristol based...
Very good.
I agree with all these guys in the thread - Getting some coaching is the best thing you'll ever do... you'll not regret it.
I can really recommend Tom Dowie. He's brought my riding on sooooo much. Having coaching with Tom is the best money I've ever spent.
Here's a couple of videos of proof of what he's done for my riding...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B-M0oQ7jMg
I definitely recommend giving him a go!