Intermediate / Advanced Cornering Clinic Blacksburg

Location

Blacksburg, Virginia

Group Size

6 people per guide

Duration

3 hours

Intermediate / Advanced Cornering Clinic 

Master one of the most complicated things we do on a mountain bike

Do you get hung up, lose speed, or lose control in corners? Maybe you’d like to figure out how to carry more exit speed? This clinic takes a deep dive into the skills needed for flat corners, berms, and even off-camber turns.

We’ll cover the following skills: body position & weight distribution, braking, and line choice. We’ll start by separating each one out to introduce and practice by themselves before putting them back together. We’ll also investigate the skills of inclination (leaning), angulation (bike/body separation), and rotation and how to treat those like “dimmer switches” to turn up or down depending on the shape, size, and speed of each corner.

Cost: $44 per person. This clinic is sponsored and subsidized by the New River Land Trust, the Town of Blacksburg, and the New River Valley Bicycle Association to keep the cost less than a 1/3 of normal pricing. Consider signing up for a few clinics! 

Who should take this clinic:

• This clinic is appropriate for all level riders who are already comfortable riding intermediate level (blue rated) trails and want to improve their cornering skills!

• Riders who feel static and fixed with their body position while cornering and want to work on being intentionally more mobile and dynamic

• Riders who want to carry more speed, more efficiently, specifically exit speed.

• Riders who always feel like they are doing something wrong in corners and want to achieve more flow.

• Racers who want free speed without more effort

What to expect:

• We’ll start with an intro to listen to your previous experience and goals, then set expectations and a plan for the clinic

• Then, we’ll move into a skills assessment and move through an introduction to body position, braking, and line choice while sessioning some corners to put it into practice

• We’ll spend time in an open area with some cones investigating inclination, angulation, and rotation 

• Expect a little practice time in an open area with cones, and lots of trail time sessioning corners and berms

• We’ll endeavor to offer lots of individual feedback and video analysis.