Riders can now have their trail techniques corrected on the fly thanks to Dirt School’s iPhone app.

The app costs £4.99 and is only available on Apple. It features 11 coaching videos of mountain biking techniques designed to help you in a variety of trail situations. A rider can upload videos of themselves practising the techniques and compare themselves with the correct examples.

By creating a profile on the Dirt School website, users can also now have their own riding videos critiqued by Dirt School’s coaches. After uploading a video, a rider will be given written feedback on their technique as well as a video of the correct technique, a coach will be available for a web-chat until the issue is resolved.

Feedback on one video costs £35 or you can have coaching over a series of three videos for £90.

You can see the app in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrDWlzQf8cs

Finally, users can subscribe to a four-week Fit by Bike training plan that allows you to build up trail fitness without going to the gym. The 18-20-page plans have been written by Rab Wardell, a Commonwealth Games cross country athlete. There are three plans available and each one costs £20.

Here’s the first of our own coaching series with Brendan Fairclough:

Dirt School was founded by Chris Ball, managing director of the Enduro World Series, he said: “Videoing a rider during a coaching session is something I’ve found really useful over the years – often what the rider thinks they are doing on the bike is very different to what they’re actually doing.

“By uploading a video of themselves onto the app and comparing it, it’s much easier for riders to understand where they are going wrong.”