where it started
Gary is a sports performance coach specialising in the areas of personal growth, youth development & empowerment. Certified through the John Maxwell University, he has worked with athletes all across Europe and the U.S, working closely with motocross riders at the highest level in MXGP and AMA pro championships and gaining Amateur/Youth championships on national and regional levels, many riders working with him have been chosen to represent their countries at the European and Junior world championships.
Gary has dedicated more than 30 years to his passion ‘Motocross’, he began riding aged 3 and racing aged 7 along the way picking up valuable personal experience as well as being mentored, trained and coached by some of the best in the sport, most notably Mervyn Anstie, ex GP winner and tactical specialist in the area of bike control.
Gary’s experience in coaching began with a simple invitation to assist Mervyn at a training camp whilst being mentored himself, in Merv’s words “helping to teach others, and learning how to analyse will instil what you have learnt”. He not only taught him great techniques he had never known before but also how to relay information over to riders in a structured productive way. Over time he helped at Mervyn’s Saturday schools in Hampshire and travelled to European and American events with the Anstie’s gaining valuable knowledge of the sport at the highest level.
It was in 2009, that his own dreams as a racer were halted following the diagnosis of a rare blood condition. From that moment and with a deep love for the sport he began working part time with a couple of riders who knew of his coaching background. Receiving more recommendations and not having time to dedicate to what people were needing, Gary decided in 2011 to down tools from his full time Job and pursue a coaching career of his own, putting to use the valuable experience and knowledge he had gained.
“I had invested so much in to myself with learning and gained so much knowledge, to just let that go to waste seemed wrong, all I could think was that so many others could benefit from what I had learnt. I observed what was going on in the motocross training industry and knew I had something to bring to the sport and help others in a slightly different way”
In a very short time Gary saw some fantastic results with riders of all abilities, after the first year Gary began to see the fruits of his labor with championships being won on a National and regional level and riders placing on the podium in all classes for nearly all races competed. In addition to results on the podium Gary helped riders improve their mental focus, eliminate crashing as well as arm pump, educate riders on correct nutrition, Improve qualifying routines and generally ride safer with less injuries!
Gary later went on to co-found a facility in Florida where riders could train during the winter months and soon became known amongst the locals including Tim Ferry who joined Gary Training at the Florida facility on occasion. American riders soon began to test Gary’s methods and liked his approach as well as the results produced.
To date riders involved with Gary’s training and program’s have been selected to race at european and world championships, he has helped Pro and Amateur riders achieve their goals and continues to increase his service and delivery to the motocross industry.
Gary, always keen to learn and add to his own skills as a coach joined the John Maxwell global team of coaches, leaders, teachers and public speakers, and enrolled in their university program. "To our knowledge Gary is the first Motocross based coach in the world on the Maxwell team and certified to teach his material."
“ I felt joining the John Maxwell team was a good step forward for me and a great investment, I wanted to increase my learning beyond technical bike skills and race knowledge and teach material that would benefit people from outside the motocross industry, I also want to morph these learnings into and add value to the rider on my motocross program. One of my findings over the past few years, whilst training technique is that there are many small things that make someone successful and Johns teachings are valuable to my program to create a well rounded individual with a good sport/life balance and also helping teach parents how to help support their children in a way that benefits their investment in sport. Johns teaching and Mentoring has lead to a greater understanding of how I could become a better leader and I believe Parents can get a lot from that too”
With this knowledge Gary has wanted to create a very powerful motocross curriculum with solid program options adding more knowledge and value to his riders, he aims to create a complete foundation base of understanding success and achieving personal goals.
“ too many focus on the result, the real focus should be on the process which will lead to the result”