Please see below - if you are an ACC member and interested in taking part in this skills session, please post here asap so that we can get in touch with them. Thanks, Sylvain
[quote]
Hello
I'm writing to you all to invite you to our next Mountain Bike Club Open Day. This is a free day of MTB coaching for senior members of South-East MTB clubs to give you an idea of what we do here at Astounding Adventures and also to help forge links between the various MTB groups in the South-East.
Astounding Adventures offer a wide range of mountain bike courses from beginners to advanced. We'd like to become your first choice when referring new (or old) club members for MTB skills training. The idea of the Open Days therefore is to give you the confidence that you are making a good referral that will result in a positive outcome for the rider.
Last weekend our first Open Day took place with riders from Diary of a Mountain Biker, Muddy Moles and Brighton MTB. Feedback so far has been very positive and therefore we'd like to run another on Saturday the 6th of March for Bucks MTB, Sussex Muddy Arse, Sussex MTB and Addiscombe Cycling Club.
Extremely positive reviews of the day are already live:
http://www.muddymoles.org.uk/2010/02/as ... eview.html
http://brightonmtb.org/2010/02/02/astou ... #more-2108
http://www.diaryofamountainbiker.com/this_week.php
The idea is that two senior members from each club take part in a Core Skills (FUNdamentals) course in the morning and in the afternoon, following lunch at a local pub, we will run a few sessions cherry picked from our other courses.
The course will start from the car park adjacent to Holmbury St Mary YHA at 9:30am.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safa ... 16&iwloc=A
Course programme
09:30-10:00 Introductions, equipment check and tea/coffee
10:00-13:00 Core skills (FUNdamentals) session
13:00-14:00 Lunch (at The Volunteer in Abinger)
14:00-16:30 Singletrack/advanced skills session
16:30-17:00 Feedback, next steps, tea/coffee, goodie bags
It will be an informal, social day with plenty of time to chat between yourselves, exchange information and, if last weekend was anything to go by, make ambitious plans for inter-club rides and expeditions.
Another item of interest for you is that we would like to offer your members a 10% discount across the board on all of our skills courses; mountain biking, hill walking and rock climbing.
Once again it would be great to have you along. Please let me know if you can make it or have any questions.
Cheers!
Danielle Sheridan
Senior Coach
D 0800 756 6999
F 0844 736 2801
M 0793 901 0211
Astounding Adventures HQ
2 Hall Cottages
Swanworth Lane
Mickleham
Dorking
Surrey RH5 6DY