Uro\u0161 and his son Jo\u0161t spend a lot of time on the BMX track in Ljubljana; Jo\u0161t is only seven years old and already a real master of BMX riding. He\u2019s a participant of the Rajd\u2019s cycling school, but he and his father also choose individual training classes with cycling teacher Tim. Take a look what Uro\u0161 thoughts on this are, how beneficial this is for Jo\u0161t and if this kind of training also works for you or your kid.<\/p>\n
RAJD: Why did you choose individual training classes for your son Jo\u0161t, he\u2019s already attending the cycling school?<\/strong> What was the goal of the one-on-one training sessions? Did you wanted to get better results or improve technique?<\/strong> Tim is not racing anymore, but he has a lot of experiences and knowledge. What is he like teacher?<\/strong> Can you notice the progress?<\/strong> How does an individual training looks like?<\/strong> You were also racing yourself (in mountain biking)\u2026 If you now look back at those times \u2013 how much would something like that help you at the time?<\/strong> Would you recommend individual training also to others?<\/strong> ###<\/p>\n Are you interested in individual MTB or BMX classes for yourself or your kids? <\/strong>Or would you like to enroll your kid\/s in our BMX and MTB schools? Send us an email and we\u2019ll get back to you quickly.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uro\u0161 and his son Jo\u0161t spend a lot of time on the BMX track in Ljubljana; Jo\u0161t is only seven years old and already a real master of BMX riding. He\u2019s a participant of the Rajd\u2019s cycling school, but he … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":7652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1038\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7652\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nURO\u0160:<\/strong> Jo\u0161t got his first real BMX bike in March 2017 and after that really started with this discipline. Until then we\u2019re considering everything, including training sessions with Rajd, just as a way to gain basic cycling skills. But with a BMX bike he was quickly flying across the whoops on the track, and start to aim higher. He started to work with Tim in August. Combination of determination and Tim\u2019s advices improved his riding style.<\/p>\n
\nBoth. Jo\u0161t was on his first B4X Inverted.si race in April. He\u2019s fifth, after that he\u2019s only doing better and better, and he also got bigger desire to be faster. He\u2019s in Rajd\u2019s cycling school, under the mentorship of Miha, but before the race in Ljubljana we asked Tim for some extra advices and so everything started. Tim and Jo\u0161t meet once in about every 10 days, after all Jo\u0161t is still just seven. If he\u2019ll want we\u2019ll increase the frequency.
\nI used to race with mountain bikes and I understand that I cannot be both father and a coach. Jo\u0161t and I are friends and have son-father relationship. I fix his bike, clean it and take care of the gear, but he shouldn\u2019t feel pressure from my side when he\u2019s on the bike. This would destroy our relationship and his love for cycling could change in hatred. I know for a lot of situations father\/coach \u2013 son\/racer that didn\u2019t end well.<\/p>\n
\nTim is phenomenal. He\u2019s relaxed, knows how to work with kids, excellent teacher. He\u2019s transferring knowledge from his racing times and, this is the most important part, can adjust to the needs of a kid. He evaluates the level of knowledge and works on slow upgrading. He\u2019s not hitting his head against the wall and listens to his student.<\/p>\n
\nMore you put in, more you get out. It\u2019s hard to me to talk about progress, everything is developing slowly and thought out. We\u2019re not going ahead of our selves and don\u2019t want to push him too much. We\u2019ll see how he\u2019ll do in this season, on the serious races and in the international competition. I believe that everything should be more of a game and not racing at this age and I don\u2019t want to put any results related pressure on Jo\u0161t. But at the same time we all know that there is a lot of rivalry in BMX \u2013 even at this age. I\u2019ll let my self to be surprised, I have 120% trust in Tim.<\/p>\n
\nTim and I decide on that on the go, and decide which elements to include in a practice. If Tim decides on basics like \u201cpumping\u201d or manual, then we go to pump-track in Be\u017eigrad. If we practice jumping then we go to BMX Park Ljubljana.
\nI sometimes also take Jo\u0161t to other pump tracks around Slovenia and just let him be. Most of the time I don\u2019t interfere with his riding, I let him have fun and do what he wants. He\u2019s mature enough that he know what speed he needs for a certain maneuver. On the next training with Tim they analyze what he was doing and how he can transfer those feelings to the track.<\/p>\n
\nI meet with mountain bike racing in 1989, in the early days of the sport when we only had \u201croad cycling\u201d mentorship available, nobody knew what was really going on in mountain bikes. We\u2019re learning the technique by our selves and somehow made it through. I must admit that BMX riding would help a lot.
\nIf I would have a chance to work with Miha and Tim and be part of some organized training I would aim higher for sure. But times are changing and I plan to support my son \u2013 as long as he\u2019ll want to do in and have fun doing it.<\/p>\n
\nIf a kid wants to do it, then absolutely. If they prefer to take it a little bit more easy and work with a group, then one-on-one system maybe isn\u2019t the best solution. Individual training is more intense that the one in the cycling school, there are more repetitions of the basic elements. A child also has to be fit enough for this kind of training, if not he\u2019ll have problems and the result could be negative.<\/p>\n