Michael O'Brien - Firecrest MTB

For the Trail Maintenance article in the new issue of IMB I needed a few photos of someone riding downhill up at Aston Hill. Ian at Firecrest MTB had a coaching session booked with young rider Michael O'Brien and said I was more than welcome to come along and get some snaps, so I did!

It's cool to watch a Firecrest coaching session, and see the improvements that can be made in just an hour or two! As well as a freelap timing system to get accurate times for marked sections, Ian uses an app on his iPad that allows him to instantly record, play-back and pause all the action to give improved feedback to the rider, which you can see in the photos.

 You can view more photos from the morning here.