Coaching
Get the best coaching of any camp in the legendary Whistler Bike Park. Camp of Champions head coach Gareth Dyer has stepped up our coaching crew like crazy. Joining Alan Hepburn, Mike Montgomery, Casey Groves and Darcy Turenne is Greg Watts, Andrew Taylor, Andi Wittman, Kelly McGarry, Tammy Donoghugh, Ryan Berrecloth and Mike Hopkins as well as others. After a session of riding with our coaches you’ll ride so much better it will boggle your mind. It's like getting an extra summer of riding in just one week.
RIDE MORE - LEARN MORE® - The Most Riding Of Any Camp Guaranteed. Get At Least Two Extra Days Riding Per Week Compared To Other Camps
At COC you can ride from 10AM to 10PM. You come to camp to ride and ride hard. If you add up the hours you actually are riding and being coached compared to other camps, you actually get at least two extra days worth of riding and coaching per week at COC. Other camps get 5.5 hours total daily on their bikes, divided between the Bike Park and the Air Dome, COC does 6 hours a day in the park plus 3 private 2 hour Air Dome sessions a week after a full day riding. Add in the fact that you can ride from 10AM to 10PM in our private dirt jumps and mulch pit, it all adds up to at least 11 extra hours of riding a week, basically two days more riding per session than other camps. Add in our 1:3 coaching ratio compared to 1:6 for other camps you don't just get more riding, you get more coaching too. If you want to ride more and learn more, come to COC. It will be the best week of your life.
Best Coaching Ratio
All coaching is "One-on-One" in small groups with a ratio of 1 coach to every 3 campers. The best the other camps offer is 1 coach for every 6 riders. Coaching is all day, every day from 10AM to 5:00PM and during our Private Airdome Coaching Sessions from 6 PM to 8 PM three times a week. After riding with you all day, our coaches hit the after riding activities with you and chill at The Dorm as well. That is how you make friends for life and learn the most.
Private Airdome Coaching Sessions.
The Airdome is a 10,000 square foot playground filled with a giant foam pit for learning tricks safely and wooden ramps for learning transition riding and taking the tricks you learn in the foam pit to the next closest thing to the park, wood ramps. It’s awesome. We have private sessions three times a week from 6-8PM. You will learn so much it will amaze you.
Bike Park Tickets
Lift tickets for the Whistler Bike Park for duration of stay.
Demo Bikes
Free use of brand new top of the line bikes supplied by our sponsors, Transition, Banshee, Santa Cruz, Spank, Morewood, NS and Llama. These are not rental bikes like other camps use, they are World Cup spec'd DH, Freeride and DJ bikes for COC campers that get a complete tune every night.
Bike Damage Insurance
The Whistler Bike Park eats bikes, it's why we have the Ride Along Mechanic®. It's why this year we have added the Bike Damage Insurance feature. It costs $120CDN per 8 day session and covers your bike for any damage caused while riding the Bike Park. With the way our bies are spec'd this year with top of theline stuff from Sram, Race Face, Straitline and others the bikes don't have a cheap part on them. It doesn't cover theft. With the price of parts, this one is a no brainer. Nothing better than not having to worry about how much a part is after you crash and burn in the park.
Bring Your Own Bike Discount
Save $300 CDN per 8 day session if you bring your own DH bike (Conditions apply). Beware, the Whistler Bike Park eats bikes that aren’t worthy and you will spend more fixing your bike than you saved.
Ride Along Mechanic®
Part of learning to ride better is not missing runs due to a mechanical. Our Ride Along Mechanic® is in the park with the campers, changing tubes, fixing mechanicals etc. If he can't fix it on the spot, he swaps bikes with you and you keep riding while he takes your bike and fixes it. EPIC! RIde More Learn More® You didn't come to Whistler to walk a broken bike down the mountain, you came to ride.
Tuned Bikes
Factory Pro Riders get a custom tuned bike and so do COC campers. Your bike is tuned to your weight and the suspension, sag and fork rebound are dialed in for you. A tuned bike means faster learning. After a day of nicks, bumps and hard riding, our Ride Along Mechanic® goes over every bike with a fine toothed comb, from front to back, top to bottom bracket, tuning up your bike making sure that when you drop in for that first run the next day, your bike is perfect.
Daily Pro Photo Shoots®.
Every day Pro Photographer Mike Crane and Eric Peterson from Faultline Media ride with all the campers, shooting photos and video in different parts of the park. Every night photos are posted on the COC website and on PinkBike.com for downloading. With GoPro added to our list of sponsors, there will be helmet cams shooting all the time as well so campers go home with discs filled with every picture shot and as much video as we can cram onto a disc. If riding the park with our coaches doesn’t make you feel like a rock star, being part of your own pro photo shoot with lights, flashes, video cameras and still cameras will.
GoPro HD Helmet Cams.
Every day the coaches will be rocking GoProHD Helmet Cams while they ride, filming campers ripping their favorite runs. Every night the videos are posted on the COC website for downloading. You'll have so much footage by the end of your session you'll be able to edit up your own killer video to remind you of your trip to the Camp of Champions and The Whistler Bike Park
Free Tubes.
The Whistler Bike Park eats most tires. That's why we were so stoked to add Maxxis to the COC sponsor family. They are the longest lasting and stickiest tires anywhere. By rolling Maxxis tires on all our bikes we cut down the flats we experience d by 50%. If you do flat at camp our Ride Along Mechanic® is there to fix the flat/hook you up with a new tube.
Breakfast
All You Can Eat Hot Breakfast. We changed where we eat breakfast after campers said they wanted to eat with their friends in snowboard/ski camp, at 21 Steps. Done. All you can eat hot breakfast at 21 Steps
Lunch
Lunch at The GLC, right at the base of the Bike Park so we can watch people eat it in the Boneyard while we eat lunch. Our lunch is off the hook! Mahi Mahi burgers, beef dips, bacon cheddar burgers, salads and more. Watch people eat it while you eat. That is lunch at the GLC.
Transportation
Transfers to and from Vancouver Airport (within scheduled times)