Details Announced for Whistler Sessions, a Brand New Womxn's Dirt Jump Series

PRESS RELEASE: Womxn's Freeride Movement

Womxn's Freeride Movement has created a progression of events that will allow riders to create and achieve their goals in a comfortable environment. We feature three different formats to introduce you to dirt jumping and/or improve on your current foundations: coaching clinics, indoor park jam, and final competition. Each event works in succession, but can be completed as an individual component.


With an emphasis on fun, we want to encourage competition without the stress. We hope to create camaraderie among fellow riders, competitors, and athletes, which invariably breed growth. Our coaching clinics will achieve this by providing three hours of instruction, and then a half hour competition in each skills group. It will be beginners against beginner, and advanced against advanced. Reducing performance pressures and enabling riders to ride and compete at their level, safety first!!


Competition is definitely fun and great for skill growth and the evolution of the sport. Dirt jumping events can provide feelings of excitement, joy, and a pressure to perform. We want to help lessen any fears and anxieties by giving you the tools to ride competently in all environments, including the pressure of competitions. Each session will have goal setting and follow the proper steps to achieve them.

Coaches like Lynne Armstrong, Lauren Heitzman, Lisa Mason, and Angi Weston will be on hand to help make these goals a reality. Guest riders and coaches include; Joey Gough, Britney White, Kat Sweet, and Donald Redmond. More to be announced.


We will be conducting classes on a variety of different terrain. Features like pump tracks, skills areas, dirt jump lines, and skateparks, will enable you to be a better rider and jumper. Exploring better body positioning, dealing with different transitions, and timing, are all key components to developing our abilities on a bike. We will play with these variables often.

Our coaching events are not just for competitors, it’s for riders who want to get better, and jumping is a great maneuver to work on. Coaching clinics will have a regular class structure, but will include an optional competition at the end of each session. These can be anything from a pump track competition to a trick contest, depending on your class and skill ability. Jam sessions allow progression, most development happens when you're fooling around with your friends and bike mates.


We will be ending the series with the grand finale dirt jump competition, that will draw competitors from all over the world and with a pro-prize purse that is paving the way for what is expected for womxns freestyle events. Training and travelling for bike events is expensive and the prize money should reflect that.
Our prize breakdown is $1000 for first place, $750 for second, and $500 for third, with $250 best trick!!

You can register any of WFM Bike’s upcoming events here. Scroll down to choose your event.


We are working with the creators of Sugar Showdown, Little Big Bike Fest, and Crankworx Riverside Jump Jam to help create more freestyle events in North America. Click on their link to find out more, and where to register. First stop is in California, then on to Washington, and finally ending with two events in British Columbia. WFM Bike will be at all of them!! Hope to see you there.



The photo below of Ellie Chew, who rode in Nitro Circus last week; representing womxn, New Zealanders, and the dirt jumping community. This is inspirational and awesome, something we hope to see everyday. Thought we’d leave you with this to get you fired up! Hope to see you out there jumping!!


We’d like to thank all the people who collaborated, shared their two cents, and showed their support!! Bike events are not possible without the support of the cycling community and beyond!! My mom helps me a lot and she’s not even a biker! Love to you all, now time to play bikes!! ~Lisa

If you’d like to put your two cents in about womxn’s bike events, you can do it here.

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