Mountain Bike Skills with Paul Howard of ZEP Techniques

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Paul Howard has been coaching mountain bikers all around the world for over 20 years now. He’s a co-founder of the Professional Mountain Bike Instructors Association (PMBIA) and is the owner and head coach at ZEP Mountain Bike Camps in Whistler.

In this episode, Paul shares the #1 skill mountain bikers actually need to work on, and how that’s often different from the skills they think need improvement. We talk about mountain bike skills myths, how mountain bike skills and fitness are related, and whether watching videos online can be a substitute for in-person skills coaching. Paul also fills us in on the PMBIA and its role in improving coaching in the mountain bike world.

Learn more about ZEP at zeptechniques.com.

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0:41.7	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Paul Howard.
0:48.7	So Paul has been coaching mountain bikers all around the world for over 20 years now. He's a co-founder of the
0:55.9	professional mountain bike instructors association and is the owner and head coach at Zep
1:02.3	Mountain Bike Camps in Whistler. Thanks for joining us, Paul. Thanks for having me. So how did you
1:08.0	get started teaching mountain biking in the late 1990s? Well, it was, we kind of
1:13.7	started like a lot of kids, you know, just grew up racing and riding in the UK and just with
1:20.3	friends in the woods. And then it was kind of in my gap year before university. I got a job as an
1:26.6	assistant teacher in Australia and took my
1:29.3	bike over and started just sort of helping the kids in Alice Springs, actually, in the middle of
1:35.0	Australia. It was a bit random. But yeah, I just started riding with the kids and kind of teaching
1:40.0	them a little bit. And that was sort of what initially sparked my interest was like oh this
1:45.7	is kind of I wonder if you could do this is a job this was good what were you teaching them though
1:50.0	I mean were you like what were they trying to do like they just wanted to I don't know like
1:54.5	jump ramps or were they like trying to get ready to compete no because I mean this was like
2:00.5	late 90s in the middle of Alice Springs.
2:02.4	So the mound bike network there was just coming around.
2:07.4	And there were some pretty cool trails, some really unique terrain.
2:11.3	And it was more just getting the kids into an activity and showing them the sport.
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