MT Alpha Annual Clinic

Our beginner level clinic is for riders totally new to the sport of mountain biking or those who have a season or two under their helmets, but are still nervous about getting out onto singletrack. Our coaches will focus on the most basic concepts of mountain biking: body position, braking and shifting, and trail scanning. Beginner participants need no prior experience, and the afternoon trail ride will center more around practicing skills and less on a physically taxing climb and long descent.

Beginner clinic full? Consider joining MT Alpha and coming to our free beginner clinics, offered intermittently throughout the summer.

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Our intermediate level clinic is designed for riders who have been riding for at least one season, feel generally comfortable on mostly green and a few blue level trails (local reference: most trails in the rattlesnake) but have experienced either a plateau or speed bump in their riding (walking switchbacks, struggling to gain speed going downhill, feeling out of control on more technical terrain etc). The intermediate clinic will return to and refine the basics of riding that riders continually use and rely upon. We’ll offer insights into feeling more in control and gaining speed, as well as taking steps to continue improving as a rider. Our trail ride will be more physical than our beginner rides, but we’ll have plenty of time for breaks on the climb and options to session sections of trail while descending.

Intermediate clinic full? Consider joining MT Alpha and taking part in our Third Thursday Intermediate Clinics.

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Our advanced clinic is for those with at least 3-4 seasons of riding logged, looking to increase their speed and style while riding. We’ll focus on further perfecting our foundational skills, and begin to introduce the mechanics of jumping and steep technical riding. This clinic is great for the rider looking to feel good on trails far beyond Missoula: at bike parks, on Moab or Sedona trips, or even up north in Canada. This clinic is also good for the race curious rider, looking to try enduro or downhill racing in the next couple seasons. Advanced clinic participants should be comfortable with longer days on the bike (2-3 hours with multiple climbs and descents), most blue, and some black trails (local reference: Hello Kitty, some sections of Bjorn Again, Orchard etc.).

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