Tom and Alice came to me prior to them going to the alps and
getting married. I had previously coached them separately but now they wanted
to share the session. I could see they had worked hard on parts of their skill
set but they needed work on body positioning in corners and their mental skills
needed enhancing too. Drops were the first technique we went through and then
onto linking drops into corners. Their new body positioning really helped their
confidence at speed in corners too. The 6ft tabletop and gap jump was next and
they wasted no time in riding them and I worked on their speed judgement there
and that was a theme for later in the session too.
Next up was riding
steeper terrain and drop offs using a variety of techniques which they applied
their skills sets too. Soon they were riding a whole new trail with steeps,
pumping, jumps, corners and drop offs
dotted along it .
A short break and we
resumed with alpine switchbacks which Tom rode and Alice used her mental skills
to decide against riding them .
I moved them onto the pump and jump trail and demonstrated
pumping, manuals and jumping in various sections on this trail and they linked
in the 2 berms at the end too. I could see that they were tiring but I knew
they had a bit more so we worked on judgement of speed and effort when heading
to a 15ft tabletop and the effect of body position in take off.
Amazing session!
High5
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