Intro to MTB
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: Kalamunda Skills Loop
Cost: $60 per person
Prerequisite courses: None
Are you starting to find your flow and are excited to learn more skills to allow you to progress and try the challenges of new features. But want to ensure you do so with the right habits and skills?
Our course looks to do just that. With a high focus on body position, braking and a few key tricks to keep you safe, it is the foundation to all the skills and techniques to come.
Course description:
This course is designed to be a mix of drills and on trail learning that develops key foundation skills and habits to empower women to start tackling more trails safely.
Starting with exploring the components of correct body position, we use drills and feedback to tweak your position to be centred and strong. We then explore key bike body separation drills allowing you to start to understand how to take control of your bike and work with it to conquer new trails. Finally, to ensure we stay safe with our new skills and speed we dive into braking and how we can use this to control our rides and build confidence to explore in control.
This course is aimed at confident Green trail riders. Recommend for riders with 6 months or more experience or having never done coaching before. Held on a green trails and led by one of Huck Its experienced Coaches it focuses on building strong foundations and good habits with the goal to build confidence safely.
Not sure if this course is right for you? Send us an email and we will get in touch to ensure you attend the course best suited to you.
*Must be 16yrs of age to attend | *Must supply your own bike
MTB Fundamentals
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: Mount Gunjin Carpark
Cost: $100 per person
Prerequisite courses: None
This course is a key component of Huck It’s course structure. Acting as a requirement for all our higher level courses to ensure you have the right tools in your tool box to start exploring corners, technical riding and air time.
The MTB Fundamentals is designed to push riders to the next level. Building skills and control on the bike, setting you up to tackle old trails or new features with more speed and power than before.
Course description:
This course is an on trail session designed to connect you with your bike and give you the power to move with it through new terrain. Starting by cementing in the requirements of body position and empowering riders to maintain this on trail.
We then look to explore the 2 ways we can separate ourselves from the bike and use this to give us balance and control as we move into new features. Adding in the fundamentals of cornering, riders build technique to increase traction and confidence.
As we find new confidence we look at how braking and dismount can keep us safe in new environments. Finishing with riders being able to apply skills trail riding and gain instant feedback.
This course is aimed at confident Green trail riders or those new to coaching. Recommend for riders achieving top to bottoms on green trails or those looking to join the higher level courses. Held on a green trails and led by one of Huck Its experienced Coaches it focuses on cementing the key skills needed to progress your riding to the next level.
Not sure if this course is right for you? Send us an email and we will get in touch to ensure you attend the course best suited to you.
*Must be 16yrs of age to attend | *Must supply your own bike
Intermediate Trail Skills
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: The Dell Carpark
Cost: $100 per person
Prerequisite courses: MTB Fundamentals
You must have completed the MTB Fundamentals to attend this course.
Ready to hit the Intermediate trails and start adding in the dynamic challenges of rock, root and corner features?
Our Intermediate Trail Skills course is aimed at intermediate riders wanting to push themselves to more advanced terrain. With a focus on bike body separation and staying centred, we will explore terrain awareness, new ways to tackle tricky terrain (up and down) and rolls with maximum traction and control. Allowing you to get the most out of each trail.
Course description:
This course looks to build on the fundamentals using a range of drills and on trail experience, to set riders up with the skills to conquer intermediate trails and features.
Starting by building on the key skill of terrain awareness, developing our body position to give us power uphill and then practicing specific drills and skills that transfer to the new terrain blue trails throw at us.
We take it to the trails exploring how we apply these new skills on features and start to discuss the importance of a full tool box, which allows us to draw on a range of skills to attack features.
This course is aimed at confident Green/Blue trail riders. Recommend for riders with 12 months or more experience. Held on a blue trail and led by one of Huck Its experienced Coaches it focuses on developing the skills required to hit blue trails safely and sets up riders for the skills specific courses.
Not sure if this course is right for you? Send us an email and we will get in touch to ensure you attend the course best suited to you.
*Must be 16yrs of age to attend | *Must supply your own bike
