I just had my newest article for Pinkbike.com posted today, be sure to check it out. It covers some great exercises and strategies for improving you ability to corner. If you have any questions or comments leave them there and I’ll get back to them ASAP. Click here to read the pinkbike.com article -James Wilson-

A trick to getting the most out of the time you have is to multi-task. We do it at work and home all the time but few riders realize that you can multi-task on the trail. By following a few simple tips you can get more fitness and skills work out of every ride. I [...]

I just spent the last 3 days working with my friend and colleague Gene Hamilton or Better Ride (www.betterride.net) to become a certified Better Ride skills coach. I took a camp with Gene a few years ago and it made a huge impact on not only my riding but how I look at creating training [...]

The last week has been a lot of fun and very enlightening. Getting to hang out with some of the fastest riders in the world as they prepare for the upcoming season has shown me a side of racing I had not seen before. The amount of preparation and planning needed to get these guys [...]

The last installment of this series brings us the musings of Gene Hamilton. Gene is a Silver and Bronze medalist at Masters World DH Championships and the founder of Better Ride Skills Camps (www.betterride.net). Gene is known for his boundless energy and enthusiasm for our sport and has helped hundreds of riders build their skills [...]

This week we have skills coach Joe Lawwill answering our questions about common things you may be doing to hold yourself back on the trail. Joe is a  former Masters World DH Champ and is currently a skills coach for Bike Skills (www.bikeskills.com). In case you missed it, I also did a podcast with Joe [...]

Here is the second installment of the skills coaches round table discussion on skills training for mountain biking. You can catch part one of the series by clicking on this link. Our second contributor is Katrina Strand. Katrina is a pro DH rider, strength coach, coach at Whistler’s Gravity Camps. She is also heavily involved [...]

A few weeks back I sent out a few questions to some of the mountain bike skills coaches I know. I was wondering what their answers would be to a couple of basic questions so my blog readers could get an idea of what to think about and work on when it comes to improving [...]

The track stand is one of the most basic, yet overlooked, skills in mountain biking. It was something that I thought every rider could do when I first started riding – I would spend hours in my driveway working on being able to balance without actually moving and I thought that this was how every [...]

After a post about the ergo-grips and how they may not be needed if you just set your cockpit up right I got a request to go over exactly how that is done. Here is a video I shot of my mechanic, James Flatten of Grassroots Cycles, going over how to set up your cockpit [...]