Sharon's one to one session

 Sharon turned up as arranged with husband Chris whom I have coached before. He joined in every now and then but the session was Sharon's. The skills check showed me that Sharon needed work on looking and body positioning and that I had to give her control.
We began as ever with drops and she amazed herself by riding all three drops with ease, using her new mental skills. We worked on braking control and that really changed how she controlled her environment and that made a massive difference to her riding.
 We worked on carrying speed through linked berms and later on we linked the lower half of the skills trail together using line choice and braking areas to link a fly out jump, steps, corners and drops. Sharon , by her own admission was knackered but we still had time to work on jumping tabletops before she called an end to the session with a massive smile on her face.
High5 Sharon and Chris!

Steve and the gang stir their skills up.

 Steve has been to see me a couple of years ago and wanted to develop his riding and share the session with his riding buddy's Helen, Jon and Hugh. The skills check showed me the missing and also the present skills and a set up change or two helped .
 We started with the drop technique and applied their new skills , both mental and physical to this technique and it soon became easier and easier. We moved on to cornering and carrying speed though berms and also linking them and their new body positioning, looking and footwork really paid off. We moved to the trail and broke it down into bite sized chunks before linking the whole trail together, faster and smoother than previously possible. Flat, bermed, off camber and switchback turns were linked to drops,steps, pumping, rock gardens and fly out jumps. Now they were buzzing but tiring so we moved to jumping tabletops and they wee soon in the air and clearing it, bar Helen who by this time was shattered and tired from the efforts of the session so far. Jon and Steve rode the gap jump a good few times too with massive grins as they landed too. I moved to the pump and jump trail that ends with  2 berms and a 7ft ladder gap jump and by the end of the session they were flowing nicely down the trail choosing what to jump or pump and both Steve followed by Jon rode the 7ft gap to finish the session. Awesome session although baking hot.
High5!