- Safety and trail etiquette
- Shifting, braking and speed control
- Position and Balance for climbing and descending
- Cornering - introduction
- Terrain Awareness: trail scanning, line choice, maneuvering over/around obstacles
Master the bike. Maximize your fun!
We have a number of clinics, lessons and coaching options available for a wide variety of riders and skills levels.
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Join us for our Adult Beginner course conducted over 4, 2-hour sessions. May 4, 11, 18, 25, 7 pm - 9 pm This is the perfect mountain bike clinic for a tune-up course if you're just starting to enjoy the local trails on your mountain bike or you want to focus on establishing a strong base for your skills in order to progress to the next level of fun!
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Adult Intermediate Mountain Biking Join us for 4, 2-hour sessions of serious progression. June 8, 15, 22, & 29 This is the course to elevate your skills to the next level. Maybe you have been riding for a while and are looking for a new challenge or some critical improvement. Maybe you did our Fundamentals course and are now looking to further improve your riding and your confidence.
- Optimized body position for stability
- Braking techniques - gradual, consistent, modulate
- Cornering: berms vs. flat corners
- Terrain awareness and line selection (intermediate)
- Steep and/or technical climbing & descending including roll-downs
- Basic manoeuvres (i.e. front and rear wheel lifts)
- Intro to pressure control (pumping and lifting)
- Intro to wheels off the ground (jumps & drops)
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Join us for one or more clinics. These 3 hour sessions focus on a single theme and can be combined to create your own adventure! Technical Riding: Ups & Downs Skill Level 3, Fitness Level 3
- Get more confident in terrain requiring greater stability while making solid line choices going up and down. Think rooty, rocky and/or steep.
- Races are won (or lost) in the corners. For the rest of us, advanced skill in the corners leads to greater traction and thus, more control in both flat and bermed corners. This is the MOST overlooked skill in most mountain bikers’ progression.
- While drops are similar to jumps, they are a distinct skill. Keen to get your wheels off the ground? This is a great place to start and will set you up to be more confident in your everyday riding and ready to move into advanced drops or intro to jumps.
- There’s a little jump on one of your favourite trails and you keep saying you’re going to hit it, right? This intro to jumps clinic will get you set up to progress to your immediate jumping goals and ready to consider bigger things in the future.
- So you’re comfortable with small drops and rolls or maybe you took the Intro to Drops already? Let’s take it to the next level and look at not simply bigger drops but also drops of different shapes at different speeds.
- Are you consistently cleaning the small jumps? Or maybe you already took the Intro to Jumps clinic? This is the clinic to build your skill and confidence on the bigger jumps (4 - 6 feet), including small gaps. Like the advanced drops, we’ll look at not only bigger jumps but also some different shapes and speeds.
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Looking forward to working with you on May 3! We'll be working on an introduction to drops in the morning (3 hours) and then tech terrain and riding (3 hours) for the afternoon. Unless otherwise decided prior to May 3, we'll start at the Hinton Bike Park at 9 am Please select the custom clinic below to complete your registration. HMBA Members are eligible for a 10% discount. Use the coupon code HMBA-2026. I would prefer that you simply tick "e-transfer" and I will invoice you, but feel free to pay with a credit card. Thank you again for choosing to ride with Rocky Mountain Ride Guides.
