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Title: | Mountain Bike Leadership |
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Course Description: | Introduces students to the fundamentals of teaching and guiding beginning to intermediate mountain bikers. Leadership, group dynamics, and risk management themes are stressed as students improve their existing riding skills through a progression that will ready them to mentor novice and moderate riders. Bike styles, specifications, and components will be reviewed, and students will learn more advanced maintenance and repair skills required when teaching and guiding. |
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Min Credit: | 2 |
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Origin Notes: | CMC |
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Course Notes: | New course entered 12/5/13 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Identify appropriate bike setup
2. Summarize various mountain bike types, specifications, and components
3. Demonstrate intermediate to advanced mountain biking skills including balancing, pedaling, braking, shifting, cornering, lifts, hops, and drops
4. Identify pre- and post-ride ride inspection and preparation practices
5. Categorize the riding competence level of group members and select appropriate rides
6. Summarize general instruction techniques
7. Construct instructional skills clinics for mountain bikers
8. Identify commercial risk management practices
9. Explain and employ basic field repair techniques for tires, brakes, chains, and gears
10. Reproduce the attributes of a successful mountain biking guide
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to Mountain Bike Guiding
a. Credentialing and first aid training requirements
b. Risk management overview and assessing riding ability
c. Building confidence
II. Bicycle anatomy and maintenance
a. Anatomy, styles, components
b. Maintenance and repairs under field conditions
III. Bike selection
a. Appropriate style matched with ability
b. Getting a proper fit
c. Pre-ride inspection and set-up
IV. Teaching and guiding techniques
a. Skills progression development
b. Assessing rider ability
c. Constructive feedback delivery methods
V. Intermediate mountain biking skills
a. Pedaling
i. Seated, standing, sprinting
ii. Power Stroke (Ratcheting)
iii. Cadence
b. Shifting
i. Gearing for various terrain
ii. Timing the shift
iii. Range of shifters
c. Braking
i. Reasons to brake
ii. Bad reasons to brake
iii. Brake with power and control
iv. Where to brake
d. Cornering Confidently
i. Low center of gravity
ii. Lean your bike
e. Lifts, hops, and drops
i. Principles of force applied to biking
ii. Ride up/down ledges and over logs
VI. Practice drills
a. Range of motion and balance position
b. Mount and dismount
c. Abrupt and unplanned dismount techniques
d. Creating a skills clinic
VII. Trail selection and ethics
a. Choosing trails to match abilities
b. Creating a progression of riding skills
c. Riding within group ability
d. Trail etiquette
e. Leave No Trace for mountain biking
VIII. Risk management for guiding
a. Essential supplies for guides
b. Pre-ride briefing
c. Permits and permission
d. Emergency planning and documentation
e. Liability, insurance, and participant waivers
f. Participant medical forms
IX. General guiding and teaching principles
a. Instruction techniques
b. Professionalism
c. Pre- and post-ride briefings
d. Leading vs. sweeping
e. Coaching riders to improve
f. Group dynamics
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