NCCP: Community Initiation

This course will train coaches who would like to work with their local cycling club or with Cycling BC’s iRide program.Let’s Ride! Community Cycling Initiation (CCI) is the NCCP context for coaches who will primarily work with novice, pre-competitive cyclists at the community level, including participants in the Active Start, FUNdamentals and early Learn to Train stages of athlete development (outlined in

Let’s Ride! Community Cycling Initiation (CCI) is the NCCP context for coaches who will primarily work with novice, pre-competitive cyclists at the community level, including participants in the Active Start, FUNdamentals and early Learn to Train stages of athlete development (outlined in Cycling Canada’s Long-Term Athlete Development Model). The program is simple, based on a number of pre-designed lesson plans, and adaptable to the varying skill and ability levels of participants. The focus of the program is on having participants develop skills that are basic to MTB, BMX, and Road, in a controlled, off-road, off-trail setting such as a sport field or parking lot.

The training required to become a Community Coach is participation in two NCCP workshops: the Community Coach “Let’s Ride”, and the Basic Cycling Skills session, which includes practical training.

Basic Cycling Skills provides information on ethical coaching, participants and their needs, basic practice planning, equipment and other important information for coaches of beginner cyclists. This portion of the course provides an opportunity for “on-bike” practice in skill teaching and analysis, practice coaching and use of provided lesson plans. On completion of both courses, coaches have “Trained” status in NCCP. The Basic Cycling Skills course is cross-listed with the Intro To Competition NCCP coaching stream.

The course will take place from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.