Girls Got Skills – 1

Day one of the 2012 edition of the GGS Clinic, and we couldn’t have asked for better conditions.

After a short orientation and warmup, we got right into getting the ladies centered and primed for some skills tune-ups.

That’s Barb helping out there.  What a place to do skills sessions.  Lots of room, right on the lake!

After a full morning of intensive work, it was time for a trail session.  Here’s the van full of some ladies ready to rip.

I got sort of busy with the afternoon of the first day, and forgot to take more pics, but here’s a taster of a log riding session.

The first day of the 2 day format is always a bit humbling anyway, so I’ll just leave you with this pic of the post-ride cool down at lakeside.  Tomorrow we’ll build the girls back up and get them to their next level!

Sunset Whips

Tuesdays are youth rides at Freedom, and for once I was able to hit one up.

Wasn’t sure how the young guns were gonna fare around here.  Hopefully better than some of the wildlife.

Oh, looks like they’ll be just fine.  Although this in no way does this line justice, it’s a tough one.  Just having the crew even consider it is pretty good.

As we got towards the end, the sun started to go down and we had a bit of a session on the Redemption Compression. Dax got us going with the low flight line.

Didn’t take long for the kids to take it up a notch.

After a few passes on that one, we had another small sesh on the final berm hit into Tsweet Tsu.

Check out Sheldon on the full rigid.  Technically he has a suspension fork, but as it’s full of water it doesn’t actually move much.

Like any great ride, gotta have some bevvies in the parking lot after. 

Soft drinks…they’re SOFT drinks.  We’ve been enough of a bad influence on these guys already with getting them addicted to the bikes.