Whistler Mountain Bike Performance Camp

Course dates:Jun 12 '10 to Jul 10 '10

Course Price: £3250

 

Whistler, Canada offers some of the best mountain biking terrain in the world...

Our camps...

You will experience the finest biking trails in the world in the Whistler Bike Park and surrounding area.  Our 4 week Whistler Mountain Bike Performance Camp gives you the  opportunity to improve your skills, riding 4 or 5 days a week (for a minumum of 20 hours) with Whistler Blackcomb's professional coaches. 

If you want to spend more than 4 weeks in Whistler, why not add on our Whistler Mountain Bike Instructor Development Camp, which starts at the end of the Performance Camp. A perfect way to improve and get qualified. Click for more info on our Whistler Mountain Bike Instructor Development Camp .  These courses are stand alone, you can choose to do one or the other, or do both and get the best of both worlds!

All of our Whistler Mountain Bike Camps include a full season lift pass so if you want to stay on after your camp is finished, you'll only need to find accomodation.  That way you can make the most of your flights and extend your stay for as long as you like!
 

 

Performance Camp outline

Come to the world mecca of mountain biking for 4 weeks of adrenaline fuelled performance improvement and take your riding to the next level. You will be coached for a minimum of 20 hours per week, by Whistler Blackcomb’s Pro instructors on all aspects of gravity led mountain biking, using video analysis and feed back to help you maximise your skills progression in the world famous Whistler Bike Park and surrounding area.

The course will cover core skills such as high speed cornering and braking, small jumps and drops.  Progressing to north shore skills, steeps and Slopestyle. Practise your jumping in the Air Dome or get your race head on, on the world cup downhill and 4X tracks.
As well as riding skills, we will improve your knowledge in our mountain bike maintenance, and suspension clinics to fine tuning your ride for the challenges that await!...................

Here is some of the crew in Whistler in 2009 in a short video. Check out the Whistler Mountain Bike Camp blog for more photos as well!


 

 

A day's lesson in the park

Photo Randy Lincks

Who is the Whistler Mountain Bike Performance Camp for?

This camp is designed for mountain bikers of all ages who want to take their gravity led riding to the next level. Whether you are just starting to tackle jumps and drops or are already confident on north shore and slopestyle courses, this Peak Leaders Camp has something for you. We recommend that you are confident on flowing singletrack to get the most out of your time in Whistler. With over 200kms of lift accessed, single track, downhill and freeride trails. As well as dirt parks, slopestyle and 4X courses and the famous Air Dome, the experience of a lifetime is waiting for you!

Sample Itinery;

WEEK 1

  • Welcome to the Whistler Bike Park, a tour of the area showing the possibilities.
  • Basic bike set up, daily checks
  • Green routes, single track, progressing to small jumps etc
  • Mtb maintenance clinic

WEEK 2

  • Trail progression, steeper faster etc
  • Basic north shore
  • Blue jump trails progressing to single black diamond
  • Suspension set up clinic

WEEK 3

  • Ride the whole mountain
  • Downhill and 4X
  • Slopestyle basics

WEEK 4

  • More technical north shore
  • Jumps and drops as you dare
  • Progressive slopestyle
  • Backcountry freeride trips

 

Verbier featured in Dirt Magazine as 1 of their top 50 riding spots!

Verbier has featured twice in issue 95 of Dirt Mountain Bike Magazine's top 50 riding spots in Europe! They say: "A superb place to Mountain Bike. Whether you prefer your holidays to be focussed on epic trail riding or out and out DH, Verbier has it all, and I don't know a single person who has been there and not had an awesome time..... Verbier is one of the greatest spots around, with amazing singletrack, from fast and flowing to steep and technical...... The setting is beautiful, the trails perfect and the town though a little expensive, has everything going on..... To get the very best out of your time here, I recommend you stay with a company that can offer you a decent guide as there is son much out there to ride." So that confirms what we've all known for ages, the secret is out!!  Book your place now before the rest of the world gets there first! http://www.peakleaders.com/instructor_courses/Verbier-Mountain-Bike-Technical-Leader-Course/20

Testimonial

2004

Hope you both had a good trip home. Thought you might like to know that day one of the gap olympics went well, a lot of outrageous and ridiculous outfits, that were caught on film that i'll forward to you. Thanks again for an amazing nine weeks and i hope i can do something this summer with you guys, I'll be in contact again soon.