Global Syndicate of Mountain Bike Coaches - GSMBC

Brooke Galey was the only woman at the start line of her first enduro race. The riders around her waited between stages, made sure she got down safely, and showed her what this community can be at its best - She has spent the years since making sure other women find that same welcome, sooner.

Her path back to bikes was not simple. Brooke fell in love with riding on the road, moved to cross country on a hardtail, then significant health challenges took her off the bike for several years. The comeback started when she and her husband invested in modern geometry mountain bikes. From that point she was hooked all over again and has not looked back.

Today Brooke is a ride leader and committee member with Shredding Betties, Australia's first mountain bike club specifically for women and girls, founded in Tasmania in 2017. She mentors riders, runs community rides, organizes events, and manages the club's social media. Guiding newer women through their first technical sections, sharing bike setup advice, being a consistent and approachable presence on the trail, her work is about making the sport feel accessible to the riders who need it most. That is the kind of work the GSMBC Scholarship Award was created to support.

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Nishma Shrestha learned to mountain bike in Nepal with no coaches, no structured programs, and no map for where the sport could take her. So she built her own.

Riding with friends and figuring things out trail by trail, Nishma went from riding for fun to becoming one of Nepal's first women to work as a full-time mountain bike guide. She won gold in women's downhill at the 2019 South Asian Games, took the Nepal National Downhill Championship in 2022, and has lined up for more than 60 races. She was also featured in Moksha, a film about Nepali women finding freedom through the sport.

The moment she points to as most formative was not a podium. In 2018 she rode with a big group of women for the first time, after years of riding mostly with men, and it felt like a different sport entirely. That ride is the blueprint for everything she builds now.

Today Nishma runs Skills & Thrills Nepal, her own coaching business focused on skills sessions for women and beginners, creating the safe, structured learning spaces that did not exist when she started. Her long-term goal is to open mountain biking to women and young riders in places where opportunities are limited, the same kind of places she came from. Building access where there was none is exactly what the GSMBC Scholarship Award exists to recognize.

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We're hosting an intermediate coach course June 15th to 17th at the Revelstoke Bike Park.

We're hosting an Intermediate Coach Course at Revelstoke Bike Park.

Sign up now or if you're not sure, join us for the Syndicate Ride Day on June 14th to learn more.



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We’re thrilled to announce that GSMBC is officially running courses in China.

This summer GSMBC is running mountain bike coach certifications and youth rider skills certifications in Chongli, June 22 through August 24.

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报名现已开启。今夏，GSMBC 将在崇礼开展山地车教练认证与青少年骑行水平认证课程，时间为 6 月 22 日至 8 月 24 日。

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Check out our Online Coach Education: Kids Coaching

Built on 25 years of experience coaching kids, this course gives you the tools and confidence to deliver safe, engaging, and skill-focused mountain biking lessons.

Through the course, you’ll learn how to:

Apply learning psychology to understand how kids think, learn, and respond
Build a positive coaching culture while managing discipline effectively
Use respectful language to motivate and engage riders
Implement kids-specific risk management and make smart terrain choices
Deliver focused skill-based lessons with fun themes, games, and exercises
Adapt coaching to physical, social, and mental differences between age groups

PURCHASE through GSMBC Membership to access this course and other resources to grow your skills as a confident, inspiring kids’ coach.

Learn more @ https://www.gsmbc.pro/online-courses