Ready to conquer the infamous lines of Pisgah?
Introducing our newest clinic series: Women’s Pisgah Prep Skills! ⚡️
💥Whether you’re training for a big race or just want to feel more confident in the backcountry, we’re hitting all the local favorites in this 3 part series.
🔹April 12 | Middle + Lower Black
🔸May 9 | Avery Creek + SHUTTLE
🔹May 10 | Bennett Gap + SHUTTLE
You’ll be in great hands with L2 Coach Emily Cox. With 15 years of racing experience, she’s sharing the secrets to nailing events like PMBAR and the Pisgah 111, plus the skills to finally clear those dream lines.
Join for one or grab the whole series! Let’s rip. 🤘
🔗 Link in bio to secure your spot!
#pisgah #pisgahnationalforest #enduro #bikeskills #bikecoaching
The clocks have sprung forward, but have your skills? ☀️
Do these three quick drills starting now after your rides to start growing your skills faster than Lady Slipper Orchids lining our trails in WNC. 🌱 These progressions can all be done in a parking lot & only need 5-10 mins.
1️⃣ Wheel Lifts 🐰 The foundation to bunny hops. Make sure your legs are the powerhouse for all lifts: front, rear, and ‘hee-haws’ (front then back in quick succession). Can you do it slow, fast, or multiple times in a row?
Rear wheel lifts are the toughest: Press through your legs like the front lift, then on the way up, point your toes down and “scoop” the pedals back. Think of a donkey kicking back or scooping ice cream with your feet. 💬 Let us know: what analogy helped you break through with the rear wheel lift?
2️⃣ Track Stands ⚖️ Great for building balance, braking control, and slow-speed skills for rock gardens or steep rock rolls. ➡️ After mastering ratcheting in a figure 8, progress to a standstill by looking ahead and turning the front wheel to the side slightly. Use your hips to counterbalance, your front wheel to readjust, and light ‘feathering’ (pulsing) of the brakes to micro-adjust. 🎯 If you feel like you might lose it, just release the brakes, roll forward, and reset.
3️⃣ Flat Cornering: Ready position; elbows up. Imagine your arms as a bow and arrow: your inside hand points down, leaning the bike, while your outside elbow stays high. Focus on leaning the bike, NOT your body. Roll your hips to the outside and point your belly button toward the exit of the turn. You’ll really engage those edge knobs. Phew! Just add one technical adjustment each session. ‼️ We recommend recording yourself to analyze your movements or hollering our way for help decoding cornering IRL (and soon, remote!).
🔥 Ready for more drills? Check out our wheelie post.
Take advantage of that extra sunlight & make it your best bike season yet! ☀️
#mtbskills #mtb #mtbcoaching #mtbskillscoaching
With Josh’s achievement of earning the gold standard certification in mountain bike instruction, GSMBC @gsmountainbikecoaches Level 4, he now joins Kristian Jackson, making us the only U.S. based company with two Level 4 Instructors on staff.
Head Coach Josh’s certification marks the culmination of a 25-year journey of racing, riding, coaching, and “failing forward.” He dives into the lessons he learned along the way in his latest blog post on our website.
As Coach Whitney put it, “Josh’s phenomenal achievement is a testament to his diligence, passion, and unwavering commitment to the sport. He sets high goals and works tirelessly to achieve them. We could not be prouder or more excited about the wealth of knowledge and inspiration he brings to our community.” 🫶
This milestone reflects the dedication, craftsmanship, and heart our entire team brings to mentoring, teaching, and leading within the mountain biking community.
💙 We’re honored to keep raising the bar and sharing our passion for the sport with every rider we coach.
🔗 Read the full story on @pinkbike .
#MountainBikeLessons #AdventureAwaits
#mtbskills #mtbskillscoaching #mtbpictureoftheday #mountainbike #mtbskillscoach #mtbskillsclinics #mountainbikecoaching #wnc
We are gearing up for the WNC Bike Fest this weekend where we will be helping coordinate all the group rides going out during the festival. 💫
➡️ These group rides are led by various movers and shakers in the local bike community with all levels available; the are FREE but pre-registration is required.
This festival kicks off the event weekend for the new and exciting @pisgahareasorba Pisgah All Mountain Challenge. A new enduro taking place in PNF — routes are just now getting released and it’s going to be a burner of an event for sure 🔥.
Catch Coach Emily at the tent at Bike Fest on Saturday or on the trails racing the Enduro on Sunday. We love staying so involved with the community. Cheers to another great weekend ahead. ✨
Hope to see you all out there!⚡️
#enduro #PNF #getoutthere #adventureawaits
We had a BLAST at the @dirtskrrts Bike BASH !!
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Our coaches rocked 5 SOLD OUT skills clinics for a full day of progressing, sessioning, and lady lapping 🎀.
We are so proud to be a sponsor of such an amazing non-profit that makes this sport we love so much more accessible to many.
Thanks for having us @ride_kanuga , & thanks @dirtskrrts for letting us be a part of the fun; we can’t wait for next year. 🫶
➡️ If you didn’t already know, the Blue Ride Dirt Skrrts’ hosts monthly rides with levels of groups for ALL ride abilities + goals where they tour around all the best local trail systems. It’s one of the best communities to be a part of if you are a lady shredder, give them a follow & sign up for a group ride this year! 💫
Yay community! Yay bikes!
#ridelikeagirl #mountainbike #outdoorsforall #adventureawaits #mtbskills
🎥 Come along for a coaches’ ride: Josh & Emily rip Bennett.
Bennett Gap Trail is perhaps Pisgah’s most well-known and rowdy trail in the Forest. There are only a small handful of trails that are slightly more technical, but Bennett is a favorite for a reason.
⚡️It features fast sections of tech, chunky stair chutes, and a few tricky lines that take many folks a while to master, plus plenty of rock hops + quick corners to pump and play off of. It’s an advanced, playful backcountry lover’s dream.
Like many Pisgah trails, it’s not all downhill; it tests your leg endurance + mental fortitude as you traverse the ridgetops.
Near the pinnacle of the trail, you are rewarded with views of the infamous Looking Glass Rock, Black Mountain, and Avery Creek Valley. Don’t be surprised if you catch a rattler, they too love this trail! A day on Bennett is a guaranteed great adventure.
June and May is a prime time to enjoy this trail as the mountain laurel tunnels will be blooming and crowning the trails throughout. 🌸
📆 Our coach, Emily Cox, is breaking down lines + helping lady shredders ride Bennett Trail and another big Pisgah heavy hitter, Avery Creek Trail, with more confidence this weekend for our Women’s Pisgah Prep Series. Join her for both sessions or just one. Plus, we are shuttling the 3-mile gravel road climb to help give us even more energy for sessioning. Let’s get after it + shred Pisgah!
➡️May 9th | Avery Creek + Shuttle
➡️May 10th | Bennett Gap + Shuttle
Register from the link in our bio or our story!
#pisgah #guidedrides #pisgahnationalforest #blackdiamond #mountainbike
💌Company Update 💌
Owner and head coach, Josh Whitmore @iamjoshwhitmore , has touched down in Finale Ligure, Italy with his fiance, Taryn Hart @mtb.realtor , for their elopement wedding / mountain bike vacation / honeymoon trip and they have already started hitting the countless miles of trails above the costal city. It’s going to be a dream of a trip for these two. 🫶
Josh will be out of office until June, but we can still get anything scheduled with the rest of the team.
While away, we still have our full crew of amazing @gsmountainbikecoaches certified coaches to help reach your goals.
⚡️Coach Whitney: L2
⚡️Coach Emily: L2 + Certified Fitness Trainer
⚡️Coach Tiffany: L2 + Certified Fitness Trainer
⚡️Coach Kristian: L4
If you don’t see availability that works for you, reach out through email or our number, we want to make it happen!
📲 [email protected] | 828-222-0890
💙💙💙 Wish the happy couple congrats and happy shredding!
#mtbcouple #mtblove #mtblife
Ready to conquer the infamous lines of Pisgah? ⚡️
Introducing our newest clinic series: Women’s Pisgah Prep Skills!
Whether you’re training for a big race like the Pisgah 111, Swank, or PMBAR, or you just want to clear those ~dream lines~ with total confidence, we’re hitting the local favorites in this limited series with Coach Emily Cox.
With 15 years of racing experience, Emily is sharing the secrets to natural drops, rock gardens, and race day strategy.
🚐 We’re taking the SHUTTLE up Avery Creek rd to save your legs for the tech!
➡️ May 9 | Avery Creek + Shuttle: Master the drops and rock gardens. True backcountry flow right here.
➡️ May 10 | Bennett Gap: Tackle one of Pisgah’s toughest trails. We’ll break down the gnarly features and all the epic downhill chutes so you can ride with skill, not just luck. 🤘
⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Pisgah National Forest
Join us for one day or grab the bundle discount for both days!
Let’s dial in your skills and get you ready to rip.
🔗 Link in bio + story to secure your spot!
#mtb #mtbskills #pisgah #pisgahnationalforest #mtbcoaching
// Meet Our Team //
🌟Whitney Houck is a Certified Mountain Bike Instructor (@gsmountainbikecoaches and @pmbia.bike Level 2 “Advanced Coach - Air Instructor”) with over 7 years of experience coaching.
🇺🇸Whitney is a retired Coast Guard Veteran Commander who spent much of her career training soldiers and managing elite-level training centers. Teaching and mentoring others to be their best has always been at her core. 👈
She currently serves as the Board President for @dirtskrrts , a powerhouse nonprofit dedicated to making mountain biking more inclusive and welcoming. You’ll often find her leading their free monthly Intro to Biking/Foundation clinics!
Today, alongside her volunteering for Dirt Skrrts and coaching with us, she also teaches a mountain bike course at Brevard College!
Coach Whitney is the epitome of joy and encouragement. She loves working with riders of all levels and is ready to help you break down any challenge on the trail. 🫶
Catch her this weekend at the Dirt Skrrts Bike Bash, where she’ll be teaching clinics alongside our other amazing instructors—or book her for a private session!
We are so grateful to have her on our team. Give her some love in the comments! 🚲✨
#mtbskills #mountainbike #meetourteam #mtbskillscoach mtbskillscoaching
Join us THIS SATURDAY at Outdoor Business Alliance’s Get in Gear Fest at New Belgium Brewery. 🌟
🎊We will have a FREE hour mini-clinic, Intro to Jumping, at 1pm. Riders 10 & up are welcome!
Please register ahead on our website, so we can have a headcount :-)
We will also have plenty of mobile ramps to play on the whole fest 12-5pm, too.
There will be SO many cool local outdoor vendors. Come spend your Saturday with the greatest outdoor community out there. Support local and love where you live! 🫶
☀️Event is rain or shine. April showers bring May flowers!
We hope to see you out there.
#suppotlocal #localbusinesses #freeevent #lovewhereyoulive #outdoorsforall
// Meet Our Team //
Welcome our newest coach Emily Cox! ⚡️
Emily is a Level 2 Certified coach and brings with her nearly 10 years of mountain bike instruction and 15 years of racing all disciplines of bikes at a high national level. Plus, she is a certified personal fitness trainer. Big goals or small, she’s got you.🔥
She loves big days on the bike and helping riders conquer new features. Catch her at the Pisgah 111, Pisgah All Mountain Challenge, National Enduro Champs in ID, WV Enduro Series, and all the underground races in between.
💙 Coach Emily is ready to support beginner to advanced riders and especially loves working with athletes who are race prepping or riders wanting to ride with more confidence and control.
She’s already hit the ground running leading our new Pisgah Prep clinic series, gearing up for summer camps, coaching plenty of private lessons, and more.
We are stoked to have her energy and passion on our team. 🌟
Drop a warm welcome in the comments below! 👇
#mtbcoach #mtbcoaching #bikecoach #enduro #enduranceracing
