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    2022 Balance Mountain Bike Course and Program Updates
    Mal
    • May 4
    • 6 min

    2022 Balance Mountain Bike Course and Program Updates

    2022 has been a busy year for me, but not because of mountain bike coaching. I had intended to do less coaching for the first half of...
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    Core Skills Program Updates - Mountain Bike Confidence
    Mal
    • Mar 13
    • 3 min

    Core Skills Program Updates - Mountain Bike Confidence

    Before I get into telling you about some course re-writes, I'm just going to say that I'd completely forgotten just how much goes into...
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    Balance MTB - Spring Coaching, Course and Ride Updates
    Mal
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 7 min

    Balance MTB - Spring Coaching, Course and Ride Updates

    Can you believe it's Spring already? The year just seems like it's flying past. The days are beginning to get longer and the weather a...
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    Balance MTB Winter Course Updates - Part 2: The Active & Healthy, Flow A and A X programs.
    Mal
    • Jul 19, 2021
    • 5 min

    Balance MTB Winter Course Updates - Part 2: The Active & Healthy, Flow A and A X programs.

    Well, as usual my adult job has kept me pretty busy of late. But I have managed to progress a few more things so I thought it might be...
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    Balance MTB Course Updates - Winter 2021
    Mal
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    Balance MTB Course Updates - Winter 2021

    Well, after a little bit of a break it's time to get back into helping people ride, surprise COVID lockdowns not withstanding! Winter is...
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    A Coach's Job
    Mal
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    A Coach's Job

    "How do you feel about your protege leaving?" my boss from my adult job asked me. He was referring to one of my managers with whom I'd...
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    Intro to Mountain Bike Riding Skills Course Update
    Mal
    • May 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    Intro to Mountain Bike Riding Skills Course Update

    When I wrote the original mountain bike skills programs I deliberately designed them to allow a rider to progress from never having...
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    The Art of Achieving Stretch Goals and Objectives
    Mal
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Art of Achieving Stretch Goals and Objectives

    I've been a bit quiet on the blog for a few weeks now and for good reason. Between my day job through the week and coaching both days on...
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    Weight Training - Fitness with an E-Bike
    Mal
    • Jun 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    Weight Training - Fitness with an E-Bike

    In recent times, I've been periodically heading out on Kerry's e-bike - a Merida eOne Sixty in its most basic form. In fact, some of you...
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    The Complexities of Cornering
    Mal
    • Sep 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Complexities of Cornering

    Of all the skills in mountain bike riding the one that I focus the most on is cornering. It is quite simply one of those skills that...
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    What Grade Are You In?
    Mal
    • Aug 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    What Grade Are You In?

    What is the Grading System? I'm not a fan of labels. Especially ones that categorise people into a specific box. But as people we're...
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    Where Are You Focused?
    Mal
    • Jul 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Where Are You Focused?

    This particular post was inspired by a conversation that came up during the last session of a Core Skills B-Line course.
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    Progressing Your Riding Skills - A Guide to Our Skills Development Programs
    Mal
    • May 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    Progressing Your Riding Skills - A Guide to Our Skills Development Programs

    From time to time we get asked if we'll be holding a single session Skills Clinic on how to jump. There is a large market of people that...
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    The Need for Speed Versus The Search for Flow
    Mal
    • May 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Need for Speed Versus The Search for Flow

    This particular post was originally inspired from a session I had a with a student several months ago. Despite having regular 1:1...
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