Temtiwr Coaching
Please note: The event is open to women 16 years and older.
Here you will find information about ticketed coaching and other activities on offer at the 2018 Temtiwr event.
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- Weekend Timetable Saturday / Sunday
- Block A options (Sat 10.30am-12noon)
- Block B options (Sat 1pm-3pm)
- Block C options (Sat 3.30pm-5.30pm)
- Our Coaches and their courses: Yoga / MTB
Sunday workshop options that are included in the main ticket can be found listed HERE
Our 2018 Coaches are: Ally Campbell | Steve Beech | David Windebank | Ed Roberts | Al Seaton | Cheri Mills | Polly Clarke(yoga)
How it works
This year the event features a core of social components which include a film/talk, workshop and group social ride/picnic (food included) alongside other drop in advice stations. Coaching sessions and yoga are available from our coaching partners as additional tickets that may be purchased alongside the main entry ticket. Coaching at the event would not be possible without the support of our coaching partners who offer these sessions at these special event rates to help us promote and encourage women’s mountain biking. We hope that women will use the event for a taste of what coaching can offer. All our partner coaches websites can be reached on the links provided in their coaching bios below.
Please read browse the available course options, then we recommend you write down the courses you’d like to do for each session time (including their session code identifier) and if possible, choose backup options. Individual course participation numbers are very limited and places are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. If you don’t see your desired course option tickets available it may be because that course has already sold out.
Full information of where to meet for courses/session will be sent by email closer to the event.
Please remember that to join these coaching sessions you will also need to purchase the Tetiwr main event entry ticket.
For any questions please contact Dyfi Events Admin: mail@dyfievents.com
Weekend Timetable
For those not wanting to book paid coaching sessions or who do not wish to do all sessions there will be drop-in stations available to attend (no booking required) offering help and advice on things like bike care and bike set up. You’ll also find a fun MTB skills challenge for the chance to win a prize. Otherwise, this time can be used to explore Coed y Brenin’s way marked trails or skills area or just to relax and enjoy some down time.
Saturday 8th September
| TIME | SESSION |
| 08.30 – 09.30 | Registration |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Welcome |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | BLOCK A [view options] |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 15.00 | BLOCK B [view options] |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.30 | BLOCK C [view options] |
| From 17.30 -> | Burgers, Salad & Drinks served in Café (please pre book at registration on Saturday) |
| 18.30 -> | Film & Talk |
Sunday 9th September
| TIME | SESSION |
| 09.30 – 11.30 | Workshops/Talks (see below) |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Break |
| 12.00 -> | Temtiwr Big Ride – ride, relax & picnic (route options, min 18km ) |
Session options
Block A Session Options
Session time: Saturday 8th – 10.30 am to 12 noon.
| LEVEL | SESSION | COACH | PRICE | CODE |
| EASY | YOGA – A relaxing easy session suitable for all. | Polly Clarke | £8.00 | A/YO |
| Intermediate | Funky Pumping & Womanuals (Pumping & Manuals) | Ally Campbell | £15.00 | A/AC |
| Beginner | Flat Tyre Time – Everything you ever wanted to know about puncture repair. | Steve Beech | £15.00 | A/SB |
| Intermediate | MTB Flow – Ride smooth and build confidence. | David Windebank | £15.00 | A/DW |
| Intermediate | How to Manual, 3 easy steps. | Ed Roberts | £15.00 | A/ER |
| Beginner | Weight Shifting and Cornering | Al Seaton | £15.00 | A/AS |
| Beginner | Fundamentals (Beginner) | Cheri Mills | £15.00 | A/CM |
Block B Coaching Options
Session time: Saturday 8th – 1 pm to 3 pm.
| LEVEL | SESSION | COACH | PRICE | CODE |
| EXPERIENCED | YOGA – A more invigorating session for those with some experience. | Polly Clarke | £10.00 | B/YO |
| Intermediate | Intermediate Drop Off’s. | Ally Campbell | £15.00 | B/AC |
| Intermediate | Trailside Fixes – Tips and Tricks to keep you rolling. | Steve Beech | £15.00 | B/SB |
| Intermediate | MTB Progression | David Windebank | £15.00 | B/DW |
| Advanced | Making the most of the trails – work smarter not harder. | Ed Roberts | £15.00 | B/ER |
| Intermediate | Mind Games (get your MTB head together) | Al Seaton | £15.00 | B/AS |
| Intermediate | Flow | Cheri Mills | £15.00 | B/CM |
Block C Coaching Options
Session time: Saturday 8th – 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
| LEVEL | SESSION | COACH | PRICE | CODE |
| Intermediate | Intermediate Cornering. | Ally Campbell | £15.00 | C/AC |
| Intermediate | Rock Star – How to master the rocks. | Steve Beech | £15.00 | C/SB |
| Advanced | Alpine Adventures – How to handle switch backs | Ed Roberts | £15.00 | C/ER |
| Intermediate | Trail Buffet (improve and cultivate your rider flow) | Al Seaton | £15.00 | C/AS |
| Intermediate | Fundamentals (Intermediate) | Cheri Mills | £15.00 | C/CM |
Our coaches and their courses
Yoga
| Polly Clark | Mountain Yoga Breaks |
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Bio: Polly has found the perfect balance, bikes, adventure and yoga of which she is an experienced teacher in various forms including Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow. She regularly offers Yoga sessions here at Coed y Brenin. Through Mountain Yoga Breaks Polly helps others discover this unique combination of activities offering yoga, guided riding and bike adventure weekends at beautiful locations throughout Wales. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/YO | Course: Yoga (Easy)
Ability Level: Beginner to intermediate An easy yoga session to help those who are new to yoga or practice less often, stretch, unwind and relax their body ready for a busy weekend of riding. Price: £8 |
| B/YO | Course: Yoga (Active)
Ability Level: Experienced A more active and invigorating yoga session for those with more experience. Price: £10 |
Mountain Biking
| Ally Campbell | Campbell Coaching |
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Bio: Ally focusses on running Campbell Coaching’s Female sessions however she is often out hucking her bike about and coaching the guys too! She has a confident and fun style. Her depth of knowledge, and ability to identify and communicate key points enable her clients to quickly develop their understanding of the skills and to ride trails, jumps and drops with increased confidence and control. Ally has also a vast experience of Downhill Endurance Racing and UK Gravity Enduro coming 2nd in the 2011 series. So after travelling the past 5 years all around Europe to events giving her a fairly unique female view on this emerging style of riding. These skills were all built up from spending years travelling around the world doing expeditions to places like Iran, South America and a lot of places in between. Plus Coaching, river guiding and racing at a high standard all round Europe, Asia and Scandinavia. A couple of years ago Ally opted to change paddles to wheels as believe it or not, they cross over very well. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/AC | Course: Funky Pumping & Womanual’s (Pumping & Manuals)
Ability Level: Intermediate Developing pumping and manual skills, stripping it back to the basics and progressing through the session to confident trail riding. Price: £15 |
| B/AC | Course: Intermediate Drop Off’s
Ability Level: Intermediate Analysing your current drop off skills and providing progressive developments. Price: £15 |
| C/AC | Course: Intermediate Cornering
Ability Level: Intermediate Handling skills, line choices and speed control of flat and berms.# Price: £15 |
| Steve Beech | Wheelism |
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Bio: Steve from Wheelism offers all levels of MTB Skills coaching, Guided Riding and Bike Maintenance Courses in Southern Snowdonia. Steve knows the trails of Coed y Brenin like few others having worked as manager of Beics Brenin for 8 years but now dedicates his time to helping others advance their mountain biking. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/SB | Course: Flat Tyre Time – Everything you ever wanted to know about puncture repair!
Ability Level: Beginner/All We’ll look at why punctures happen and how to avoid them, how to fix them when they occur. A practical workshop based session where riders should bring their own bikes. Price: £15 |
| B/SB | Course: Trailside Fixes – Tricks and Tips to Keep You Rolling.
Ability Level: Intermediate We’ll ride out into the woods and discuss likely mechanical failures and useful trail-side repairs and techniques to get you home safely. We’ll also talk about what to carry, how to use it, and what to do when it all goes pear shaped! Some practical aspects will be included. Price: £15 |
| C/SB | Course: Rock Star – How to master the rocks.
Ability Level: Intermediate Coed y Brenin has some of the rockiest trails around. Learn how to master the rocks and ride with more speed, control, and flow. Riders should be happy on red/black graded trails (trail choice will vary depending on riders’ abilities). Price: £15 |
| David Windebank | Wye MTB |
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Bio: David Windebank aka Windy is an accomplished Outdoor Lecturer working at the forefront of the industry for the past 12 years as a Full Time Lecturer in Outdoor Education. Windy is a British cycling Mountain Bike Leadership tutor and has been involved in the Mountain bike Leadership program for over 10 years working with Scottish cycling, Welsh cycling and British Cycling. Windy holds a number of other Outdoor awards including Mountain Leader, Single Pitch Award, Canoe and Kayak Coach Level 3 as well as being a member of the Institute for Outdoor Learning holding his APIOL award. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/DW | Course: MTB Flow
Ability Level: Intermediate An excerpt on skills and techniques visited during our Wye MTB ‘Core skills’ course. The aim of this coaching session is to give riders confidence in handling red graded trails.. Price: £15 |
| B/DW | Course: MTB Progression
Ability Level: Intermediate Helping riders progress towards taking on a Jumps and Drops course in the future. This session aims to cement key skills that are the essential building blocks necessary for moving towards tackling tougher terrain. Price: £15 |
| Ed Roberts | Pedal MTB |
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Bio: A seasoned racer, Ed has travelled the world racing and riding bikes on all terrain. A love of two wheels began early for Ed, competing in the British and European motorbike trials series from a young age until university. Fast-forward a few years and for the past three years he has competed against the world’s best in the Enduro World Series and prestigious events like Megavalanche. Ed is passionate about passing on his knowledge of the sport to everyone who shares his passion for getting out on their bikes. An accredited British Cycling MTB coach, Ed also has a Degree in Sports Science and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology. This depth of knowledge has helped him to adjust his coaching style to fit all levels of learners, be it total beginners to the sport or seasoned racers who are looking to gain that extra bit of speed. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/ER | Course: How to manual 3 easy steps.
Ability Level: Intermediate/Advanced The skill that opens up a world of trail possibilities that so many find a real challenge to learn. We’ll show you the way in 3 easy steps. Learn weight shifting, pumping and the art of a good manual. Price: £15 |
| B/ER | Course: Making the most of the trail – work smarter not harder
Ability Level: Advanced Work with the trail and take everything it has to offer and you’ll travel faster and farther for less effort. Includes Trail Positioning, Pumping, Maintaining Speed, Pumping out of Turns, working trail features and pre-hopping. Price: £15 |
| C/ER | Course: Alpine Adventures – How to handle Switch Backs
Ability Level: Advanced Learn how to set up correctly for Switch Backs, when to turn and when to nose manual. Learn techniques for drifting tighter turns and nose manualing switch backs. Learn how to carry speed through tight corners. Price: £15 |
| Al Seaton | Pedal MTB |
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Bio: Al’s been delivering Mountain Bike Leadership courses since 2008 and has worked all over the world delivering training and providing consultancy advice to holiday and tour companies, in Kenya, Greece and Canada. In 2017, with the support of British Cycling he trained the first female mountain bike leaders in Nepal, delivering the training in the Annapurna region. A qualified Physical Education teacher and outdoor trainer, Al has a wealth of experience delivering, managing and developing training. A passionate trainer and coach, Al uses his experiences as an ex-International hockey player, NLP Master practitioner, and those gained as a trainer to deliver well balanced, open and honest training. [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/AS | Course: Weight Shifting and Cornering
Ability Level: Beginner Balance is everything. This session helps you to fine-tune your bike balance for effective control and turning. Learn weight shifting, body position, correct leaning for cornering and entry/exit point selection. Price: £15 |
| B/AS | Course: Mind Games
Ability Level: Intermediate What’s holding you back? Could it be your MTB head game needs some work? This session offers Tips and Tricks to help you manage your mental hurdles. Recognise your triggers and develop coping strategies. Learn how to adopt a growth mindset. Price: £15 |
| C/AS | Course: Trail Buffet
Ability Level: Intermediate Learn how to cultivate your rider flow so you don’t end up a car park hero. We’ll cover essential skills for bermed turns, rollable drops, corners and teach some useful braking technique. Price: £15 |
| Cheri Mills | One Planet Adventure |
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Bio: Cheri has been riding and racing for 25 years during which she has experienced everything from alpine guiding to teaching a 63 year old lady how to ride a bike for the first time. Cheri has been a professional coach at oneplanetadventure for the last 4 years, providing all their MTB skills from courses including Fundamentals, Flow and Jumps and Drops in both 1-2-1 and group sessions. Cheri’s focus is on helping riders lean and progress whilst they maintaining the most important skill of all, having FUN! [visit website] |
| CODE | TEMTIWR COURSES OFFERED |
| A/CM | Course: Fundamentals (Beginner)
Ability Level: Beginner This session will cover the essential building blocks for good mountain biking including body position, weight transfer, braking, intro cornering. A solid grounding in these essential bike handling components will help you progress in all aspects of the sport. Price: £15 |
| B/CM | Course: Flow
Ability Level: Intermediate This session covers essential progression skills that will help you make easier work of tougher terrain. The session explores skills including pumping, manual, rear wheel lift and the bunny hop. Price: £15 |
| C/CM | Course: Fundamentals (Intermediate)
Ability Level: Intermediate Progression at all levels requires a good solid grounding in bike handling so its important to have good fundamental skills in place. In this session we look at these essentials and their refinement for those looking to progress further. Exploring body position, weight shift, braking and cornering to build confidence and control, ready to take on new challenges. Price: £15 |
Sunday Training Workshops
These workshops on useful and interesting topics are included as part of the Main Event Entry ticket. On sign up you will be required to select one. The workshops are allocated on a first-come, first served basis and with very limited availability for most sessions it is wise to select a first choice and backup options in case your first choice is already fully booked.
| CODE | Workshop/Talk/Presentation |
| S1 | Riding from the womb
A journey from riding whilst pregnant to getting a 3 1/2 year old into riding with pedals for the first time. Ally Campbell shares the joy and pain of a riding life that includes little ones. Includes advice gained through Ally’s own experience including how to stay bike mobile with young children and how to get them riding when the time comes for them to take to two wheels. Ally Campbell |
| S2 | Gear adjustment and basic bike care
Removing some of the mystery in why your indexing isn’t quite right, a practical hands-on session where participants use their own bikes. Learn how your gears work and basic gear tuning techniques. The session will also cover basic bike care for drivetrain and cables including how to clean and lube your chain. Al Seaton |
| S3 | How to love your bike.
After 8 years as manager of Beics Brenin at Coed y Brenin, Steve has pretty much seen everything terrible that can be done to a bike. He’s learned exactly what to do and what not to do to keep a bike running well. In this session Steve will impart his wisdom, offer advice and share some top tips that will help love to flourish in the sometimes demanding relationship between rider and mountain bike. Steve Beech |
| S4 | How to fix a puncture
Even in this modern age of GPS and eBikes, punctures are still very much a cycling fact of life so at some point your going to need to know how to fix a flat. So to help you gain the confidence to tackle the inevitable we’ve harvested the most experienced flat-fixers of all, local bike shop mechanics, to share with you their knowledge, tips and tricks for a rapid resolution. The session will cover both tube and tubeless fixes, advice on pumps, tubes, repair kits and anything else you may need to carry. Beics Brenin |
| S6 | Emergency Trailside Repair
This is your MTB ‘Get out of Jail Free’ card, learn quick fixes and adjustments to solve commonly encountered mechanical issues. Save yourself a long walk home by being properly prepared for when the mechanical gremlins strike. A practical session with your own bike. Trainer: David Windebank |