Darragh here, Course Leader on Whistler Bike Park Academy just keeping you up to date on the goings on. And lets start off with the good news! Yes, we got a 100% pass rate for our crew on the IDP Level 1 … Epic riding, awesome result! What an epic week the trainees have had. I can’t even think where to start? Every aspect of the first week here […]
If you’re a Mountain Biker you’ll know that the Mecca for all gravity-fed biking is Whistler in Canada. Imagine what spending a summer riding the Whistler trails could do for your riding. Sounds expensive doesn’t it? Imagine if you were paid to ride the Whistler park and trails all day, every day, for 5 months of your life. Peak Leaders run a 3-week hiring/training […]
The second half of IDP L1 week is now complete after a few very exciting days riding the Whistler Bike Park on a record breaking opening weekend! For the IDP level 1 qualification the group spent most of their time learning the 6 green and 23 blue trails on the lower mountain and practicing guiding on them, with a few cheeky laps thrown in for […]
What an amazing course it’s been; our riding has been pushed and progressed beyond what any of the guys had even dreamt and now they can pass their new skills and knowledge on to others. Congratulations to everyone for passing all of the different components of the IDP level 1 and 2 and for generally being an awesome crew of people to hang-out with for […]
As they say in Whistler; “the guys have been given ‘er” over the last week. Taking-on the tougher trails in the park, and learning about how to progress their future clients down some very technical and intimidating sections. To start with we spent a couple of days working on line choices on both rock-rolls and in rooted, rocky and steep terrain. There was a lot of […]
