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I would like to learn some drills etc to improve bike handling. A friend has been doing some skills training, which has been useful, but it tends to be a couple of hours at a time. From the betterride website it appears they have a lot of very focused drills and technical advice to help people improve.
It seems that many peoples attitude to MTB training is just to go and ride more, where as in most sports technical training is a huge part. Learning good skills to start with is much easier than correcting ingrained faults later on.
articles like http://betterride.net/blog/2010/mountain-bike-desending-body-position-101-video-demonstration/
Show the difference between the conventional wisdom on MTB technique and the potential better practice. What I have learned from other sports and the training sessions with Brent is that time spent working on technique rather than just riding is a good investment.