[Closed] Training with JEDI

To anyone looking for skills coaching on a mountain bike.
THE DISEASE
I am nearly 42 and only took up MTB properly about two and a half years ago. I have never been an adrenaline junky but I REALLY love the feeling I get every time I ride my bike.

I seriously lacked confidence in my inbuilt ability and honestly was scared of every trail feature.
LIKE ALOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE I knew little about bike set-up and spent a good year or more getting my shiny new bike to suit me. I listened to loads of people who I thought were experts, but in the end had to use my engineering skills and, what Tony later identified as my kinetic way of learning to work it all out for myself. Now it feels great.

THE TREATMENT

I SAY TREATMENT BECAUSE I AM NOT CURED YET. LIke many other people have said, you don't become Sam hill after an afternoon with ANY skills coach.

The really important thing that Tony does is know you. He has an amazing ability to get inside your head. He identified fears and attitudes in me that I have kept hidden all my life.
Never did he make me feel like the big wuss I thought I was, he just gently lead me where I was desperate to go and would never have dared by myself.

It sounds unreal but he truly tailored the whole time to my individual needs and kept my fear far from my head with every word. He never let me over analyse anything and once I got the current section we moved quickly to the next before I had time to worry about it.
I was amazed how much we got in in the time we had, but I never felt rushed. Just exhausted at the end.

The culmination of the afternoon had me clearing a 6 foot table top and my inner child has not stopped laughing since. WE missed out the 3 foot drop because Tony knew it was bothering me, yet I did the table and a much scarier drop on his training trail later on.
It seems not to make any sense but when you have been there you will get it. The whole process was a testament to the skills and understanding of a great coach.

I left knowing I had made a friend and that he got as much of a thrill out of my success as I did. Just as importantly I have the physical and mental skills to improve my riding by myself. And the whole point, to really enjoy it.

What ever level you are at, whatever you think you can or can not do, you will never regret getting a Jedi mind trick.

Thanks Tony, for the post training beer and laughs too. I will definitely be back for more.

Mark