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I started coaching professional racers after graduating at The University of Birmingham in 2003. A simple advert placed in the Trials and Motocross News started my career in training British Motocross racers, and within a year I was training a number of top 10 British Championship racers and writing a monthly article for Dirt Bike Rider magazine. This developed to working with Motocross academies, Youth racers and GP racers.
Having been a Pro-Elite Downhill Mountain Bike racer at National level myself, I also then started to work with a number of mountain bike racers, and through this I met a young Danny Hart and started to coach him when he was 15. I was coaching Danny for a number of years through to him becoming Downhill World Champion in 2011.
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I am a consultant for The University of Birmingham’s Performance Sport department; liaising between practitioners and coaches to ensure the most effective delivery of performance support to athletes and teams.
I also deliver Lectures at The University of Coventry on their BCs and MSc Sports Science courses.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Other career highlights include:” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1606496246621{padding-top: 20px !important;}”]Coaching Manon Carpenter to her World Championship in 2014
Coaching Atherton Racing from 2013-2016 where Rachel was World Champion in 2013, 2015, 2016 and Gee was World Champion in 2014.
Coaching Joe Breeden to Junior World Silver Medal in 2017.
Delivering a winter testing and training camp to The Santa Cruz Syndicate – Greg Minnaar, Luca Shaw and Loris Vergier in 2019.
Strength and Conditioning coach to Greg Minnaar for his incredible 22nd World Cup win and 2nd place at Lousa, Portugal, 2020.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1570550434041{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50″][vc_custom_heading text=”Sponsors” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:30|text_align:center|color:%230a0a0a” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1570550499338{padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”1234″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.scott-sports.com”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”1233″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.troyleedesigns.com”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”1236″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.crankbrothers.com”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”1235″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.saddleback.co.uk”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”1343″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.saddleback.co.uk”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving” css=”.vc_custom_1434539542642{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-color: #587199 !important;}”][/vc_row]