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Upcoming Mountain Bike Coaching Courses:

Nelson Mountain Bike Coaching

Updated: 18/01/2025

Gravity Nelson is renowned for its high-quality mountain bike coaching, offering a wide range of programs for adults and kids. Whether you’re looking to refine your technique, improve confidence, or take your riding to the next level, our coaching sessions are designed to help you achieve your goals. This page is regularly updated with our latest courses and programs, so check back often!

For more details or to book a session, email info@gravitynelson.co.nz or call us at 03-545-8484.

Why Choose Gravity Nelson for Mountain Bike Coaching?

Our coaching programs are tailored to meet the needs of riders of all ages and abilities. Here are just a few reasons to choose us:

  • Skill Progression: Learn from experienced and qualified coaches.
  • Safety: Master proper techniques for safer riding.
  • Confidence Building: Tackle increasingly challenging trails.
  • Performance Enhancement: Improve race times and overall riding efficiency.
  • Social Interaction: Meet like-minded riders and make new riding buddies.
  • Independently Audited and Registered Safety Systems: Our Health and Safety systems are “best of class” and annually audited then registered with Worksafe.
  • Professional QUALIFIED and highly experience Mountain Bike Coaches: Gravity’s coaches have years of experience and current Wilderness First Aid and NZOIA coaching qualifications.

Kids Mountain Bike Coaching Programs

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Gravity Development Squad “After School” kids mountain bike coaching:

Our flagship after-school program is designed to progressively develop kids’ mountain biking skills. Whether your child aspires to race or just wants to ride safer, more confidently and have more fun, this program is ideal for skill-building in a fun and supportive environment.  With eight lessons per term significant progression is achieved each term.

Term One 2025: Sign-ups are now open. Lessons begin in the second week of term. Click here to book.

NOTE1: this booking link takes you to a PLACEHOLDER DATE (in this case April 17th) this is not the date of the course, this is just a placeholder so we can assign kids to groups, lessons start on the second week of term.

NOTE2: NO NIGHTLIGHTS REQUIRED IN TERM FOUR.

Gravity Skill Camps (School Holiday Program)

Our school holiday Gravity Skill Camps are held at the exclusive Field of Dreams, featuring:

  • Two airbags (flat and lander)
  • Mulch jump
  • 25+ progressive drops
  • 50+ jumps of varying styles and sizes

Kids can enjoy a full day of supervised coaching and progression, complete with a BBQ lunch and snacks. These sessions cater to riders of all ages and abilities, providing a “safer” environment to improve jumping, drops, cornering, and other essential skills.

Pricing:

  • Advanced Gravity Development Squad kids: $50/day (promo code required).
  • Repeat participants (3+ camps this year): $50/day (promo code required).
  • All others: $100/day.

Book your spot now and check out the highlights video from our last camp.

Check out videos from a previous “Gravity Skill Camps” sessions HERE.

“Gravity Skill Camps” sessions are for kids of all ages wanting to improve their jumping, drops, cornering and other mountain biking skills in a supervised/coached progressive and supportive environment, our “Field of Dreams”, more details here: https://gravitynelson.co.nz/mtb-coaching/mountain-bike-skills-park/

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Mentored Mondays (School Holiday Program)

During school holidays, kids can join our Mentored Mondays to explore harder trails under the guidance of our experienced coaches. These 3-4 hour sessions focus on safe progression, scouting, and sessioning challenging features. Suitable for Intermediate and Advanced riders looking to tackle the next level of trails.

Pricing: $60 per kid (minimum 4 participants).

Contact us at info@gravitynelson.co.nz to book a custom session or join a scheduled one (refer the calendar HERE for upcoming dates).

Kids will need to bring appropriate protective gear, bikes in good condition, snacks, water, and riding gear.

Alternatively email us on info@gravitynelson.co.nz to request a custom date.

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Gravity Enduro/DH Camps (School Holiday Program)

School Holiday Gravity Camps days are unique and special:

  • Improve speed, safety, and technique on Nelson’s challenging tracks
  • Shuttle-assisted coaching (9am-3pm)
  • Includes timing equipment and video analysis
  • Perfect for DH and Enduro event preparation

Options will include:

  • Cable Bay Enduro Race Training.
  • Fringe DH Race Training.
  • 629 area Enduro Race Training.
  • other areas by request.

Cost is $220/day

Minimum 4 kids needed to make it happen, spaces strictly limited!

 STRICTLY LIMITED SPOTS, DON’T MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Meet at the shop at 9am and take the shuttle up to the top of one of Nelson’s iconic DH or Enduro trails (629 or Gamble/Jurassic level) with our experienced coaches, one of our drivers will take you guys up and drop you to session your way down on your mountain bikes.  Then meet at the bottom after a bite to eat and head back up to do two or three shuttle runs, wrapping up at around 3 or 4pm. Aim is to focus on the froth around current Junior and Senior kiwis overseas racing at the international level and help these kids dream about getting to that level themselves and gaining an insight into some of the prep needed to really have a solid go of it overseas or at home over a sustained career like you have had. We also “incept” ideas around nutrition, stretching, off the bike working out, psychology etc from the “Pro’s: race experience and hide it under a solid layer of demos, line-choice, sessioning, video analysis etc.  Ideally some good instagram footage as well.  Plus some follow-me or follow-you gopro footage.

This is an amazing opportunity, don’t miss out.  MINIMUM FOUR, MAXIMUM EIGHT.

Check availability HERE.

 

Upcoming Private Adult Group Courses:

Please note that the following courses run with a four person minimum and a maximum of ten participants (with two coaches).  If you haven’t spotted anything that particularly appeals below then get in touch about our 3-hour, private, bespoke coaching clinics which can be scheduled anytime.  These sessions are $249 for one or two participants, and then $99 per additional participant.

For a full write-up of the different kinds of Adult Group Mountain Bike Coaching Courses we have held in the past please visit HERE.

You can also check out below a few videos of some other previous courses we have held here.

“Freelap” Timed Progression Session

Freelap® is a fully automated professional timing system designed for a wide variety of training scenarios for sports that involves speed training. This makes it perfect to use for mountain biking, we can repeat parts of the trail and use free lap to find where you can save the most time, and find out what works, and what doesn’t work for you. .  Feel free to get in contact with us to organise an ad hoc sessions with your mates anytime.

Riders must be comfortable riding Hotbox, E-bikers welcome.

$100 per person

You can check out a Freelap timing session with our Development Squad in the video below:

 

Flow Cornering 

A cornering session for more experienced riders wanting to ride more advanced corners with more speed and finesse, or to gain more control and confidence through steeper/tighter turns.

2.30-5.00pm // $100 per person 

Check out this video which shows some of the concepts we discuss during this Cornering course, introducing more advanced concepts like these and applying them to your specific skills will help you take your cornering to the next level:

Super Drops Progressions

Never quite got the hang of doing drops safely and comfortably on your mountain bike? Feel like a fish out of water every time you come to a drop on a trail? Then this course could be for you.  Nowhere else in the Top of the South has as extensive a range of progressive drop as we have at the Field of Dreams.  With drops from 10cm to 7m high and 30 progressions inbetween we can lock in your technique and help you progress your way up in size and complexity of the drops.

Check out this cool behind the scenes video of our Drops Progressions at the Field of Dreams:

 

 

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