Saturday Freeride skills session

Once again the sunshine brought a good turn out, 8 of us went up to session heads roll.

Some (like me) stuck to the existing jumps where skills still need to be honed while Florian created something new and the brave amongst us rode it in a varied range of styles, slow fast, sketchy, smooth.... Matt had a close encounter with his top tube which raised his voice a few notches for a while. 

Gilles arrived without his Mojo- at least it was still riding up the hill some 2 miles behind him- and after a quick practice he reluctanly got dragged along with us over to Donnie Darko where we played on No. 1 drop with a few spectators and then most moved on to No 2 which needed a good approach speed to clear it. Florain, Hugh, Tom, Matt, Gilles and Simon all made that one but Chris and I decided it was not for us ...yet.

As that was going well and the trails were dry and fast a decision was made to go for No. 3 which Simon, Matt, Florian and Hugh all cleared. You have to ride with speed and pump the take off to clear the 14-15 foot gap here. We all looked on in awe as another young rider overcooked it a little but had no worries continuing on to absolutely fly off the No.4 gap so high in the air and easily clearing the 20foot gap between take off and landing. (Thankfully no-one went for it- although Hugh was tempted I feared!)

We scooted down Windy Willows and headed home. I might not hit the big gaps but I actually love the 3 log rolls/jumps at the end of Windy Willows- even better in the dry right now. 

So lots more acheivements for many from today's session. (Keep these dry trails coming)