
Freeze Tag
This familiar playground game gets a twist when you add bikes and balance!

This familiar playground game gets a twist when you add bikes and balance!

Welcome to our 3-part Coaching with Games series! We’ll highlight skills, methods, and best practices for using games with your teams. As NICA coaches, we… Read More »Coaching with Games: PART 1

Have you ever…wanted to build more community within your team? Then this game is for you! Laugh your way through a series of questions and… Read More »Have you ever…

Create some excitement around skills late in your season once trail riding has gotten a little stale. Get creative and customize your skill and activity… Read More »Roll the Dice

This simple get-to-know-you game is great for the beginning of the season. It encourages sharing while allowing athletes to choose the facts (and falsehoods) that… Read More »Something True/Something False

Combine bike skills, tag, and rock paper scissors in one amazingly intergalactic game.

A game to get to know each other: use People Bingo to learn something new about your riders and fellow coaches!

Bike body separation, friendly competition, and a catchy bit of music make for a memorable team game. How low can you go? Have two coaches… Read More »Bike Limbo

For our spring leagues in the midst of race season, a scavenger hunt can be a great mid-week change to your practice routine. It can… Read More »The Endlessly-Adaptable Scavenger Hunt

Use “The Impossible Climb” at practice after you have taught all of NICA’s 101 climbing skills, and have given your student-athletes an opportunity to attempt… Read More »The Impossible Climb