How the BrakeAce app can help you improve your MTB skills

Records are broken every year at races like the Tour de France and Milan san Remo thanks in part to power meters. Bikes definitely keep improving, but the riders themselves have never had more personalized or focused preparation - all thanks to the data from power meters that allow them to train their weaknesses.

Power meters literally changed the game for roadies.

Dr Phil Fink with an SRM "scientific". They're much smaller and more user friendly now, but this one set the Uni back to the tune of ~$20,000The technology has trickled down to us mere mortals since then, with companies like Stages Cycling power meters, the TrainingPeaks app and Garmin devices that have democratized the path to better fitness.

Mountain bikers lagged behind the power meter phenomenon due to the fact that better fitness hasn’t been what most riders want.

And that’s exactly why we created BrakeAce. We created BrakeAce to help riders you like and I get faster by improving our skills and finding your flow. Remember, we’re riders too. You don’t get into creating a MTB product unless bikes are your life!

But how does BrakeAce help you get faster? And how can you use the app to improve your MTB skills?

Having no wires means you just need your phone to record and upload all your braking. The app analyzes the data for you.Let's dig into it.

Here are 3 ways BrakeAce can help you get faster right now:

When you’re learning a new MTB skill, feedback will help you improve leaps and bounds faster than trial and error alone. In fact, feedback is a fundamental part of learning theories such as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and reinforcement learning. Feedback is critical for shaping behaviors and correcting errors or misconceptions.

Feedback on your MTB riding can be comments from your riding buddies, review of video footage, or actual data like that from BrakeAce.

BrakeAce takes your learning to the next level by uncovering what you actually do with your brakes and the places on the trail that are your weakest links. Undeniable scores like Modulation or F/R Balance mean that your feedback is not based on guesswork or biased by someone's clouded judgement. Add to it that you can track your progress as you improve or even compare things like your FlowScore or Brake Time to your faster friends.

In this case, BrakeAce streamlines your learning by showing you exactly what you’re doing instead of relying on incomplete comments or observations. Combine BrakeAce with video of yourself and feedback from your riding buddies, and you’ll unlock a new level in no time.

You can keep your scores to yourself or compare them to friends. Either way you have something strive for. PC New Zealand Mountain Biking2. Uncovering Bad HabitsGetting faster starts with improving our weaknesses. It really is that simple!

We all know that MTB is complex. You’ve heard things like, “elbows up”, and “look through the turns!” And who could forget about pumping, pedaling, bunny hops, line choice and braking?!

If you really dig into it, riding MTB is simply doing lots of basic things the right way at the right time. This is true no matter what level you ride at - from beginner to pro!