This question has been asked often, how did you guys come up with this stuff and why don’t more people know about it?   Well here goes...   Dodzy has been racing mountainbikes downhill for a long, long time and as he describes it “had to work” at winning, e.g, it didn’t come naturally to him. What this meant though was that he put a huge amount of think time into why and how it all works. In 2004 he was riding very regularly and began noticing patterns emerging in his riding, things he was doing on good days and obviously wasn’t on bad days. He started playing round with some very basic principles for the handling of a two wheeled bicycle. These proved to be very effective.   Later in the year he was approached by some junior racers to give them some coaching, the coaching was a success and more and more people asked for help. In late 2004 Dodzy and partner Gabby started up the MTB Skills Clinics offering skill based coaching to the wider public on a regular basis. The clinics have all stemmed from those basic handling principles and although they have refined and found better and better ways to explain and teach the concepts, those core skills are still true to the day they were thought up.   What this means for you...   You are being taught the most important skills needed to handle a bicycle which have been developed from riders who still race and take an interest in developing handling skills rather than a dude sitting behind a desk who has a qualification in coaching kiddies. These skills have also been developed in conjunction with bike frame improvements which have drastically changed the sport of mountainbiking. What was vaguely true in the ‘80’s is definitely not true now, yet 90% of the reading material out there is still dragging the chain. Here’s your chance to get up to date.