Unlock Your Full Potential: Multi-Sport Coaching Insights with Jeff Chandler & Simon Holden | Donuts and Bikes Podcast

In this episode of the Donuts and Bikes Mountain Bike Coaching Podcast, we’re joined by two giants in instructor training and coach education: Jeff Chandler, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors (CASI), and Simon Holden, GSMBC Mentor, CASI Evaluator, and all-around legend.

We explore how embracing multiple sports can accelerate skill progression, boost coaching effectiveness, and enhance rider development. If you’re a mountain biker, snowboarder, skier, coach, or multi-sport enthusiast, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

🎧 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why athletes and families often over-focus on a single sport
• The pitfalls of early specialization, especially for kids
• How snowboarding, skiing, and biking skills are interconnected
• Lessons we can learn as coaches from teaching different sports
• The mental, physical, and biomechanical benefits of multi-sport training
• Why or how does starting a new sport like long-boarding help you as an experienced mountain biker?
• How cross-training can elevate your main discipline
• Why instructor education and certification courses help bridge the gap
• And, of course… Simon’s Donut of the Day! 🍩

Whether you’re a new coach, seasoned instructor, or multi-sport athlete, this episode will inspire you to diversify your training, push your progressions, and have fun while doing it.

Quick note: sorry for the average sound on this one, we were on the road and didn't quite nail down the mics and recording room! 

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