I’m no longer updating this Mountain Bike Geezer blog regularly because all my time, energy, and enthusiasm is going towards my MTB Practice Lab on Substack.
Below is a screenshot of all my posts there for 2023 in reverse chronological order. The items on the screenshot are not clickable, but you can easily get the clickable archive of posts here.
A dozen subscribers joined a month-long beta test of our first MTB online Practice Jam, which started on November 12 and ended on December 11. We used the Circle.so community platform to host the jam.
This small community of riders generated 90+ posts with hundreds of comments. Participants practiced various riding skills, but I didn’t do any skills coaching. The focus was on learning how to practice better, using the Elements of MTB Practice.
(See the rest of this post on the MTB Practice Lab newsletter website.)
For our recent Online Practice Jam (in which I practiced with everyone else), I filed the following Session #2 Activity Report during week #2.
I’m posting it here because it shows a practice regimen progression (not a riding skill progression) from a post I published in early November titled, What does putting chunking and proficiency-based goals into an MTB practice session look like?
Description:
I first warmed up with 5 minutes of fakies and skinnies. I then leaned against a different pole and did 10 static high manuals, getting 5 decent attemps of 10. I then did 5 butt buzzes, followed by 5 slow-speed low and short manuals. Examples of the latter:
Earlier this month, I published a post titled MTB sessioning: Why it’s good for your practice regimen and how to do it better.
I now have a microlearning course on sessioning that consists of 14 digital cards to help you better learn some of the essential elements in that post. The cards include short content blurbs, a poll, links to two videos, and three short quizzes.
Here’s a screenshot of the cards (deliberately unreadable):
(See the post in the MTB Practice Lab newsletter.)
