Mountain biking is the best sport ever invented, but improving your skills can sometimes feel like a solo uphill battle. One of the visions we have always had is that BrakeAce will help revolutionize MTB skills coaching by letting a coach understand how you ride without needing to be alongside the trail with you.
This help both riders and coaches by finally allowing coaches to reach more athletes!
Coaches have been doing remote fitness coaching for many years using power meters with great success, but the technology simply didn’t exist to be useful for mountain bikers who want to improve their skills and ride faster on their local Strava segments.
Enter remote skills coaching with BrakeAce, a game-changer for riders looking to ride smoother, faster and with more confidence at the races or on their local trails!
What is Remote MTB Coaching?
Remote coaching uses technology to connect riders with expert coaches, regardless of geographical location. With BrakeAce, riders can record their braking data, which is then analyzed by their coach to provide personalized feedback and training plans. This innovative approach means you can get professional coaching tailored to your needs without leaving your local trails.
Advantages of Remote Coaching with BrakeAce
1. Data-Driven Insights
The BrakeAce system provides detailed braking data, highlighting areas where you can improve. By analyzing this data, coaches can pinpoint specific techniques that need adjustment, such as braking with intention, looking ahead on the trail and maintaining control. However, the insights don’t stop at braking. Coaches use this data to understand your overall riding style and identify other aspects of your technique that need improvement. This could include cornering, body position, brake balance or line choice (amongst others!).
2. Flexibility and Convenience
One of the biggest advantages of remote coaching is flexibility. You can schedule your rides and training sessions around your personal and professional life. There's no need to coordinate with a coach's availability, making it easier to stick to your training plan and see consistent improvement.
3. Personalized Feedback
Using the data collected by BrakeAce, your coach provides tailored feedback based on your actual riding performance. This personalized approach ensures that the coaching you receive is relevant and actionable, helping you make real progress on the trails. Often, the improvements your coach recommends extend beyond just braking. They will give you specific sessions and drills designed to target the aspects of your riding that need the most attention.
4. Measuring Progress
Say bye-bye to measuring progress based on feelings or Starva times alone! Sometimes you can feel fast, but ride slow, and vice-versa. And when the trails are wet you roll slower. This means traditional quesstimations of improvement are not valid means to assess wehther you've gotten better or not. With BrakeAce, you can bencmark and measure your progress as you go - there's no argument with real perofrmance data. For coaches, this gives you proof in the pudding.
(P.S. it works in-person, too.)
How Remote MTB Coaching Works
Step 1: Record Your Ride
Mount the BrakeAce sensors on your bike and hit your favorite trails. The sensors will collect data on your braking patterns throughout your ride.
Step 2: Analyze the Data
Upload your ride data to the BrakeAce app, where it will be automatically analyzed to identify Key Opportunities for improvement. The app highlights areas your weakest sections of trail so you can focus your attention for improving.
Step 3: Receive Coaching
Your coach reviews the data and provides detailed feedback on your braking technique. This includes practical tips on how to adjust your braking, improve control, and increase your speed safely. Beyond braking, your coach will recommend specific sessions and drills tailored to your riding style and needs.
Step 4: Apply and Improve
Take the feedback from your coach and apply it during your next ride. The iterative process of recording, analyzing, and adjusting helps you steadily improve your skills.
Real Remote MTB Coaching Results
Riders who have used remote coaching with BrakeAce have seen significant improvements. For example, Nick, a rider from Rotorua, shaved 11 seconds off his best time on Lower Te Ruā. By focusing on precise data and expert feedback from Coach Jamie, he was able to make targeted adjustments to his riding that had a substantial impact on his performance.
Not only that - working with a coach gave him the confidence to work on the right things, rather than spending endless hourse watching average YouTube content that wasn't based on his individual needs.
Try Remote Coaching with BrakeAce
We’re excited to offer a special deal: three months of free remote coaching with expert coach Jamie Garrod when you purchase BrakeAce sensors from our website. Use the discount code coaching at checkout. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience the benefits of remote coaching and take your riding to the next level.
COACHES
Are you a coach interested in offering remote (or in-person!) coaching with BrakeAce? Contact the team: hello at brakeace dot com
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