Intro to Jumping Clinic at Chestnut Mountain (Berm Park)

Take Flight with Intentional Skills: Have you been eyeing the great jumps at Berm Park and wonder: How do you even start doing that? Rather than just launching down the trail and hoping for the best, wouldn’t be awesome if you had a plan and understanding of the elemental skills needed to jump in control?

Maybe you are already hitting the jump lines but are having inconsistent outcomes. Sometimes it goes fine, but other times it feels weird and out of control.

This intro to jumping clinic is designed to teach you the skills needed to evaluate the size and shape of any jump and understand how to tweak your skill application based on your speed. “Press” and “Absorb” are the elemental skills. We’ll teach you how to do each one, when and how much to apply them. Let’s make YOU the driver in control of taking flight.

Weekend Schedule:

Saturday

• 9:30am Fundamentals Clinic w Whitney + Tiffany

• 10am FREE Intermediate Group Ride w Josh

• 1:30 “Buildable Skills” with Whitney and Tiffany

Sunday

• 9:30am Intro to Jumping w Josh and Tiffany

• 10am FREE Women’s Group Ride w Whitney

• 1:30pm Women’s Intro to Jumping w Whitney

• 1:30pm Intermediate/advanced Technical Trail Riding w Josh + Tiffany

• Who should take this clinic?

  • This clinic is for all genders. We also offer a women’s only version’s later in the day

  • This clinic is appropriate for all level riders wanting to learn to jump with more intention, control, and confidence.

  • Riders who have never had their wheels off the ground will learn proper technique to get started, get PLENTY of repeatable practice on the portable jump line, AND be able to ride the Green Rated jump lines at Berm Park.

  • Intermediate level jumpers will benefit from going back to basics, refining the essential fundamentals to jump with control.

• Who are the instructors?

  The Lead instructor for this clinic will be our Head Coach, Josh Whitmore, a certified Level 3 “AIR and TECH Instructor” through the PMBIA with over 25 years experience teaching mountain bike lessons. Read Josh’s full profile

• 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 the essential pre-requisite skills including Body Position / Balance and creating effective “Press and Absorb” technique down in the grass field area near the parking lot.

  • We’ll spend some time in the grass field working with our portable jumps, but aim to make the pedal up to the Berm Park zone to get lots of practice and feedback on the real jumps there. As always, we need to dial back the challenge of the terrain to be able to actually practice new things!

• Cost

  $150 per person

• Chestnut Mountain Nature Park

  Chestnut Mountain (Berm Park) is a free access trail system containing both the short lap trail zone of Berm Park and plenty of longer backcountry trails.

• What to bring

  Required for this lesson:

  • A bicycle in good working order. You can bring your own bike (regular mountain bike or eBike)

  • Helmets are required, full-face or half shell are acceptable

  • Water and food to last the duration of your lesson

  • Closed toe shoes (no sandals, flip-flops, or crocs)
    

  • Optional (but highly recommended) equipment:
    Knee Pads
    Gloves
    
    

Meeting Location:
Chestnut Mountain Nature Park (Berm Park)
2415 Asheville Hwy, Canton, NC 28716