YOUTH
PROGRAMS

Okanagan Bike and Ski invites youth (ages 9-15) to participate in our Mountain Bike Clinics.

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Our Beginner clinic is for youth ready to pedal and descend green and blue trails that are close to town and civilization. Ride duration is around the 60-min mark and will have a couple hundred meters of climbing. Routes are designed to be fun and flowy, often riding green trails and occasionally tackling a blue. Focus for this clinic is skill development and learning important fundamentals required for trail riding.

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Our Intermediate clinics are for youth ready to pedal and descend blue and black trails, ride duration is around the 90-min mark and will have a minimum of 250 meters of climbing. Routes are designed to have technical blue features such as little drops, rocks and roots. Child is ready to embrace the challenge of a blue and soft black trails (ascending and descending), but not fully confident on steeps, slabs and bigger drops yet. The focus for this clinic is to refine and execute skills in higher consequence terrain.

 

Skills covered our beginner and intermediate clinics:

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•  Body Position

• Braking

• Cornering

• Berms vs Flat Cornering

• Climbing Position

• Ratcheting

• Manuals and Wheel Lifts 

• Track Stands

• Climbing technical trails

• Descending steeps and chunky terrain

• Reading Terrain

• Rolls and Drops

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