Beginner – Get Started – Mountain Bike Skills Courses

Beginner MTB Courses

Get Started Mountain Bike Skills & Bikepark Essentials

Firecrest Mountain Biking knows how to get you started on the right track, our Beginner – Get Started – Courses cover the Bikepark Essentials and draw on over 35 years of Mountain Bike Experience and 26 years of Mountain Bike Skills Instruction and Coaching to give you the Confidence and Skills you need when starting out on a Mountain Bike.

Our Courses cover all the essentials and are underpinned by the Firecrest Mountain Bike Skills Training System – ‘The System’ that we use on all of our Mountain Bike Skills Courses gives you an insight into the ‘Why to’ of mountain biking and it enables you to learn quickly and put into practice the right techniques right from the start.

Our Mountain Bike Skills Courses can be arranged any day of the week at Rushmere. Country Park or Northampton Bike Park from 9.30am – 12.30pm or 1.30pm – 4.30pm or at a time to suit you.

You'll learn the Bikepark Essentials

You’ve read the ‘how to’ MTB skills articles, you’ve watched the ‘how to’ MTB Skills video’s on Youtube. But yet you can’t seem to put things together on your bike! To fast track your Skills book a MTB Skills Course with Firecrest Mountain Biking and see how quickly you will develop your Mountain Bike Skills with our ‘why to’ approach. You’ll be riding your Mountain Bike with more confidence, speed and having a lot of fun on the trails in no time!

The following will be covered on your Beginner Mountain Bike Skills Course:

Why it’s important to get your MTB set up right with a focus on understanding:

Making the right tyres choice and running the correct tyre pressure.
Getting your suspension set up for you and why tuning your suspension to the trail will enable you to ride trails with more confidence.
Optimising brake lever set up to improve the way you ride and develop confidence on your bike.

Improving your skills and confidence on the bike including understanding:

The importance of how your Body Position, Footwork, Looking and Speed Control effect how you ride the trail.
The composition of the trail and the importance of why the Entry, Section and Exit and how trails are linked and layered are so important.
The importance of Energy Management (Pumping) by introducing you to how you can make the bike work with you and gain free energy and speed from the trail (yes even on an E-MTB).
The importance of ‘performance cues’ and how to ensure they don’t effect how you ride.
An introduction to the psychology of mountain biking. Including the importance of focusing on the right things at the right time and taking control of your mental game.

A selection of the following techniques:

Descending
Climbing
Cornering
Roots
Adverse camber
Pumping (Energy Management)

Course Duration and Pricing

We have a simple pricing structure for our 1-2-1 Courses: –

1-2-1 – 3 hours MTB Skills Coaching – ~~£150.00~~ – Special Offer only £125.00

Dates and Times – You have the choice of a three hour course from 9:30am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm – 4.30pm 7 days a week (subject to availability).

Booking a course is easy. Click Here>>> which will take you to our Timetable of courses. From there choose the date that you’d like to book your course. You’ll book the course as a one-to-one session and then we can tailor it to cover the skills that you would like to work on.

We tailor the course to you and can cover everything you need to get started. From Corners, Technical Singletrack to Jumps and Drops, Downhill, Enduro, Cross-Country etc tailoring the course content to build your skills and confidence.,

If you’d like to add more participants that’s great, please contact us when you book and they can easily be added when we confirm your course. You can add up to 5 people at £25.00pp on a 3hr course.

Alternatively if you are looking to book a group course of 6+ riders please contact us and we’ll be in touch to discuss your requirements and tailor a course to your group.