Course Details
Young Leader: MTB Skills
Key content
The course helps develop riding skills as well as personal atributes such as independence, technical skills, confidence, communication, teamwork and enthusiasm.
The Young Leader Award also initiates you into the world of leading groups. You may go on to help Leaders and their groups with leading rides, setting up games and building skills in others.
The Young Leader Award can be combined with a vocational or applied educational learning process such as ASDAN or individual schools programme to show that you can achieve a good level of ability in specific roles.
For mountain bike leaders, young leaders are invaluable. Helping manage the groups, deal with skills, maintenance and emergencies, the role of the Young Leader is wide, varied and resourceful. Many leaders search out good Young Leaders, as assistants are essential when taking out groups of young people.
Course Outcomes
Many of the people attending these courses are using it as part of extra curricular development, or internal school time where the focus is on gaining vocational qualifications.
What next
After this course you may be interested in going on to CTC's MTB Skills Instructor Urban course to become an instructor in the urban environment.
First you will need to:
- Be 18 or over
- Have at least one year's experience and have completed at least 50 rides or sessions
The Go MTB Leader and Instructor Orientation is your next step if you want to become a Go MTB leader.
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Bespoke
Duration:
8 hours over one day
Terrain:
The terrain limitations will vary according to your abilities and experience, from road, trail and technical terrain.
Assessment:
Combined training and assessment.
Essential
Before attending a Young Leader course, you should:
- Have at least three months experience of regular riding experience in at least trail terrain. This should be a minimum of 20 rides.
- Have an interest in mountain bike skills.
You may also find it useful to have completed one or more skill awards prior to your Young Leader course.