Cornering Clinic at Santos

Location

Ocala, Florida

Group Size

10 people per guide

Duration

3 hours

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.

 

Who should take this clinic:

 

• This clinic is appropriate for all level riders who are already comfortable riding Green 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

Who are the instructors?

• Josh Whitmore - GSMBC Level 4 + Head Coach

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 before putting that together on some longer stretches of trail to practice.

• We’ll spend time in an open area with some cones investigating inclination, angulation, and rotation before putting those into practice on trails

• Expect a little practice time in an open area with cones, and lots of time on trail!

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