{"id":172,"date":"2010-03-30T22:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-03-30T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:43:57","slug":"mbu-volunteers-at-the-advanced-skills-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2010\/03\/30\/mbu-volunteers-at-the-advanced-skills-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"MBU volunteers at the Advanced Skills Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0981.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177 alignleft\" title=\"IMG_0981\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0981-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><em>By Danusia Bennett-Taber<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On March 20 CORBA hosted a special session of our <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"CORBA'S Free Mountain Bike Skills Clinics\" href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/programs\/skills.shtml\" target=\"_self\">Mountain Bike Skills Clinic program.<\/a> CORBA president and skills clinic instructor <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Mark Langton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corbamtb.com\/corba\/corba-board.shtml\" target=\"_self\">Mark Langton<\/a> offered this session to <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Mountain Bike Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikeunit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Bike Unit<\/a> volunteers and class of 2010 recruits.<\/p>\n<p>The class was held in the beautiful setting of <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Malibu Creek State Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/default.asp?page_id=614\" target=\"_blank\">Malibu Creek State Park<\/a>. Sixteen MBUers participated. As at CORBA&#8217;s regularly scheduled <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"CORBA'S Free Mountain Bike Skills Clinics\" href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/programs\/skills.shtml\" target=\"_self\">Free Mountain Bike Skills Clinics<\/a> for the general public, Mark was assisted by Ezra, a member of MBU.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-182 alignright\" title=\"IMG_0985\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0985-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the four hour session the <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Mountain Bike Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikeunit.com\" target=\"_blank\">MBU<\/a> volunteers practiced riding over obstacles, climbing and descending steep hills, riding over rocks and ruts, and riding stairs. Finally, they had some fun learning how to do wheelies. <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Pictures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corbamtb.com\/Photos\/SkillsMBU2010-03\/_Page.html\" target=\"_self\">Check out the event pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first of two sessions offered by Mark Langton and CORBA to <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Mountain Bike Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikeunit.com\" target=\"_blank\">MBU<\/a>. If you are an <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Mountain Bike Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikeunit.com\" target=\"_blank\">MBU<\/a> member or class of 2010 recruit, mark your calendar:\u00a0 the next session is on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The next Free Mountain Bike Skills Clinic open to the general public is this coming Saturday, April 3 at 8:30 AM, also at Malibu Creek State Park. Check the <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"CORBA calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/Calendar\/index.shtml\" target=\"_self\">CORBA calendar<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20 CORBA hosted a special session of our Mountain Bike Skills Clinic program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,11,14],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}