After being at home for a day and a half after the Epic, I left for Durban for a week-long opportunity to learn from one of the greatest coaches in the world!  One may ask, “How do we have access to people of this caliber?”  Well, thanks to Roger Bouton of the Cycling South Africa [...]

Spook will be taking our team of junior mountain bikers over to Switzerland to race in 2 Swiss Cup events and 1 Austrian Cup event.  These events are national events for each of these countries.  We use these events to expose young riders to international racing.  The Swiss Cup events, in particular, are integral in [...]

Hmm, would have to admit that this year the routes were toughies!  Especially Day 2 up at Eselfontein.  I remember being there couple of years ago in preparation for my first Epic and we spent a morning on the single-tracks.  We rode for about 4 ½ hrs and only covered 45 km!  I was pretty [...]

After being invited into Team ABSA for 2010, I was assigned to ride with Riaan Manser, the Adventurer.  After being over-whelmed with getting his new book finished, Riaan couldn’t make it and I was teamed up with Andrew Paterson (who is also a good friend and past athlete of Daisyway).  I was quite stoked at [...]

After taking the ‘backseat’ for the past few Cape Epic’s where I only went through a few days to watch, I decided it was time to get back into business (the hard-work business that is… J).  Spook and I put a full support package together where we offered our riders a bike-wash and full service, [...]

After a recent successful training camp for Team ABSA prior to 2010 ABSA Cape Epic we have found that a multi-day mountain bike training camp is a great recipe for corporate companies – it is also quite a revelation to see just how many corporate mountain bikers are out there.
Email us on info@daisyway.co.za if you [...]

 
After numerous requests for coaching of kids aged between 8 and 15 years of age we will begin to develop programs that will cater for groups of kids as an extra-mural activity.  Please email us if you think your school may be interested in allowing us to present these programs in areas near you – [...]

For those of you who have not met The Spook yet, he is about to become Daisyway Coaching Systems’ best kept secret – not going to let on to too much just yet.
With a unique knack of getting people to do the right thing on the bike, we will enlist The Spook for most of [...]

As a “has been” there was one area where I lacked and that was mental coaching – in particular:  adjusting our general (in SA) belief of our own ability against the rest of the world – especially in cycling (I speak for myself).  It was not until being “forced” to think through what it would [...]