Building Champions with Experience and Integrity
Our Story and Racing Philosophy
Founded and led by Chris Williamson, a pro racing coach with 25 years of experience and multiple national records, the Williamson Racing Program embodies professionalism and determination. Our mission is to safely cultivate smart and courageous riders through expert coaching, community support, and a relentless competitive spirit.
Anyone can learn to ride like the pros!
Anyone!
If you just don't give up on yourself!
It's a gradual process that took us a long time to figure out. So it will take time.
I'll show you the quicker and easier way.
You don't need to risk injury.
I learned the painful way.
So you don't have to.
It won't cost much.
I waisted money for years.
You won't need to.
We learn from our mistakes.
You can learn from mine.
I'll show you how to get super fit and healthy.
I'll show you how to work your way to the top without risking serious injury.
We all know inside every dirt bike rider is a pro racer hopeful. By providing the information and guidance you need, a good coach can help you nurture your talant and reach your full potential.
With exreme effort you too can "live the dream"!
Dirt bikes aren't dangerous
I proved it
Dirt bike riding is not inherently dangerous. Any activity, if done incorrectly or irresponsibly, can be dangerous. Especially if you'r riding a hard heavy machine, at speed, between solid trees and over hard ground. But, it doesn't have to be.
To this day, most people don't believe this
But there is a way to race all the way to the top pro level, get a factory ride, and have a great racing career, without getting injured. I proved it.
Young men must go through the hard challenges of life in order to develop into tough, capable, experienced, mature adults. There is much to learn from our failures and mistakes. And this sport will teach you and toughen you up. But permanent or debilitating injuries are not helpful or necessary.
It's important to proactively protect our body. Because some injuries don't heal well. From my knowledge of biology, emergency medicine, and years of banging myself up racing, I realize our bodies are not as tough as we think.
So thirty years ago I developed a theory on how to ride and even race all the way to the top pro level without experiencing injuries. It was considered a finatical theory by virtually everyone. But in order to keep a clear conscience for getting my young nephew into riding, I had to try it.
Justin was a good kid, and I cared about him very much, so I didn't want to see him go through the injuries I had. But he was a little lazy. No matter what sport we got him into he didn't get in shape. We all know dirt bike riding will get anyone super fit with little effort -- I've been doing it for 58 years.
So I developed a very strict health and safety program for him. And then we spent 8 years working our way to the top, while proving my program works. For 3 years we rode a couple times a week, and raced all the FTR harescrambles. No injuries. And the kid stayed very fit.
But when he was 14 he asked me to help him become a pro racer. That's when my program was put to the ultimate test. I quit my job and learned a new one: pro racing coach, tuner, trainer, and manager. And Justin learned his: professional dirt bike racer.
Five long hard dedicated years later, we stood on the GNCC overall podium as the 3rd best race team in the USA that day. It was a very good day And then we went on to win the new GNCC XC2-pro National Championship on the factory KTM National race team the next year (2007). All with vitually no serious injuries. All it took was thousands of hours of working, riding, training, learning, and racing, but with strict adherence to my program.
Dirt bike riding is so thrilling, exciting, and fun, that you get a great workout without any effort. You don't have to push yourself because it pulls you in; it's almost addictive. Hence the problem. If a little speed is thrilling, more speed equals more thrill. It's true, but...
That extreme riding thrill is fine until the body experiences an abrupt stop. Because too much speed equals loss of control and eventually a crash. Then comes the injury and regret. By creating my program, I hoped to help my nephew avoid that.
Proving my "safer racing" theory valid is one of the most important accomplishments of my life. So now I call it "my program", and teach it to those who want to learn how to ride and compete at any level without taking painful and unnecessary risks.
My learning years
Experience
Once we decided to chase the pro racing dream, we spent about 6 extremely intense years doing nothing but developing my program and proving a racer could reach the top pro level without getting injured.
At 42 I had developed the right skills and acquired the necessary knowledge to become an effective racing coach. Fortunately I was in the right situation to coach, mechanic, train, and manage full-time while helping my nephew develop. Most Dads and uncles just don't have that opportunity.
While developing my Williamson Racing Program, we achieved 4 industry records (during our approximately 360 consecutive race run, 1998 - 2007):
(1) No mechanical dnf's
(2) No serious injurys
(3) My riders never quit a single race
(4) We made extremely rapid progress to the Top-10 National Level (only 5 full GNCC seasons '03 - '07)
Our Williamson Racing team national results:
GNCC: 2003 -- 32nd o/a, '04 -- 21st o/a, '05 -- 12th o/a, '06 -- 11th o/a, '07 -- 9th o/a. (2007 GNCC XC2 National Championship)
OMA National series: 2004 -- 3rd o/a, '05 2nd o\a, and '06 -- 2nd o/a.
AMA National Harescramble series: 2006 -- 3rd o/a, '07 -- 2nd o/a.
First USA Hard Enduro (Last Man Standing - TX - 2006): 4th o/a.
First ever USA Endurocross (Las Vagas - 2004): youngest competitor (16).
Factory KTM racer 2007 - 2008.
Health and fitness
Take care of you
Without your health you have nothing.
Even if you're not into riding dirt bikes, but you want to get fit and healthy, I can help you. I'm also a health expert, a fitness trainer and a pickleball instructor. And I've had the privilege to work with athletes in many different sports and racing formats.
There are 2 big challenges to being fit and healthy:
1. Creating "your" program
Finding an excercise and nutrition program that is effective yet convenient and enjoyable for a particular individual is not easy. But it's my specialty. Being fit doesn't have to be boring, time-consuming, or unnecessarily difficult.
2. Avoiding misinformation
Digging through all the misinformation to find the truth is difficult. I've spent many years doing just that.
I'll help you get the extra weight off, get fit, feel better, look better, and live a healthier and longer life.
For non-riders struggling with their weight, I've recently started my "Thin Down & Strengthen Up Program". And it's not as hard as it seems.
Contact
Cbwracing7A@proton.me
Meet the Team Behind the Success
Committed to Your Growth and Safety
Our team includes an elite coach, advisor, tuner, trainer, manager, and riders who exemplify intelligence and ambition. Together, we provide an environment fostering growth, character, and high-level skill development, with an emphasis on safety and competition advancement.
Professional Instructor/Advisor
Chris Williamson
Coach, advisor, tuner, trainer, nutritionist, and manager for the 2007 GNCC XC2-Pro National Champion
Justin Williamson
25 years experience advising pros and their support staff, and amateur riders
Current top FTR Elite Master A rider
Factory trained KTM and Yam tech
Former semi-pro motocross racer
Holder of 4 National race records
Factory Connection Suspension rep
Why get professional coaching
It's neccessary
If you're very serious, you'll need it. Because you don't know what you don't know. Until you consult with an experienced expert, it's just a guessing game. And fixing old bad habits is much harder than building good ones in the first place. So, the sooner the better.
All the current pro racers hide the fact that they get coaching. It's the best kept pro racing secret. The smart ones get expert advice throughout their career. They have tough competition. They don't want to compete with you too. So they keep the important information to themselves.
There's very little room at the top. You must "earn" your way in by ruthlessly pushing one of them out. They won't help you. And they shouldn't. It's a serious game when it's your job.
Without experienced coaching, most riders hit a ceiling and cannot progress further. Mainly because their programs lack important elements. If you realize this early, you have a good chance of success. A good coach will help you add the right elements.
Every rider needs coaching for 4 reasons:
1. Knowledge
I've never seen a young rider make it to the top pro level without the guidance and assistance of an older and wiser guy. A professional coach has been around long enough to aquire the neccessary knowledge and experience. By the time you learn what he knows you're usually too old to compete as a top pro. He'll help you solve problems and make important decisions also.
2. Time
As a pro offroad motorcycle racing athlete, there's too much work for one guy. Mainly because the machines requires so much time to constantly rebuild and maintain. A good coach can help lighten the load, get the bike set up right, and help find you the right mechanic.
The rider has to train, practice and rest so much that he can't do it all and stay super fit. You don't want to learn this after you're too old to race. If you try to make it alone, when you close in on 40, the regret hits hard. There's no going back. Each of us only has one 20-year window to be a pro athlete of any kind. A good coach can get you profitable before it's too late.
3. Money
Trying to figure out how to reach the top level on your own is the slow hard expensive way. Most of us waist a lot of money on unnecessary crap before we know better. The coach knows what you need, and what you don't.
Every year you spend experimenting, and desperately searching for answers, is another lost season in what would have been your peak earning years. Not the developing years in the beggining or the slowing down years near the end.
Your big money making years will just keep disappearing. The early investing and developing years must occure regardless. A good coach can get you through those years quickly, so you make money soon.
4. Injury
Most riders have no idea how to ride fast AND avoid injury. Progress stalls when you're hurt. But a wise old pro has seen it all. He knows how to avoid trouble and problems. He'll show you how to build speed gradually and without injury.
An injured racer is not a pro at all. If you can't compete, you can't get paid. Often pro riders get injured and never heal properly. Their careers end quickly. A good coach can show you how to avoid serious injuries, heal quickly and correctly when it does happen, and get back in the game.
Our sport
It's great
Offroad motorcycle racing, also called cross-country or harescrambles or enduro is one of the most thrilling, exciting, exhilarating, adventurous, and yet physically, mentally, and technicaly challenging activities you can do. That's why it's so enticing yet one of the most difficult grinds you'll ever experience.
It's a great workout. But it's so intense you don't even notice it happening to you. For people that don't like boring gym workouts, it's perfect. And practicing is the same way. But without the right knowledge, or not being disciplined, it can be dangerous.
You basically navigate a marked trail that you've never seen before, as fast as you can, for about 2 to 4 hrs, usually for 50 to 80 miles, non-stop, over, across, and through every type of terrain and obstacles you can imagine. Sometimes it's nearly impassable. And in all weather conditions. You make constant split second decisions. You just quickly find a way to the checkered flag, without letting anyone or anything get in your way. It breaks the will of men with weaknesses. A good coach can help you identify and eliminate weaknesses.
The sense of adventure, excitement, and mystery is highly enticing for most of us, because when your racing so fast across unknown territory, you never know what's about to happen. Most guys love that intense challenge. After dealing with hours of constant problem solving and slit-second crusial decision making, when you reach the checkered flag unscathed, you have a great sense of accomplishment.
When you become very experienced at a high level in our sport, you realize how deserving that feeling of accomplishment is. This sport is far more complicated and difficult to master than it appears. It's why the pros are paid so well. It's why race teams want experts like me to show them how to do it right.
But most experts are not available to teach the general public. I don't have kids, but most of them do. Out of loyalty, they save their unique and valuable knowledge for those they love. They therefore understandably will not teach it to their kids potential competition.
Racing program instruction
Complete and comprehensive
A short initial discussion will determine if we should work together.
If so, we discuss, observe, and analyze your program. Then I'll advise you on how to improve it.
Racing program catagories:
Bike testing
Effective bike set-up
Thorough bike prep
Riding correctly
Protecting your body
Training correctly
Eating correctly
Having the right mindset
Complete race prep
Daily routine
Weekly routine
Season strategy
Career plan
Living the pro racer lifestyle
Handling success
If you can stay with my program, I guarantee you'll get super fit and your race results will advance, with fewer injuries and lower costs, all the way to the pro level if you want. No boring gym workouts neccessary.
Everyone learns differently. I'll help you find "your" way to success, while avoiding painful, time-consuming and expensive mistakes. And I'll consider working with groups you can bring togather.
For us older guys, sometimes we can utilize a different perspective, to help us enjoy our sport as long as possible.
I'll also show you how to aquire, evaluate, and deal with your team staff, like mechanics, sponsors, and investors.
Part of what I do for some younger men is help them understand and appreciate the unique opportunity they have. By encouraging them to mature and develop into serious, responsible, successful athletes, their coaching investment becomes more sensible. Highly developed men with comprehensively developed racing skills and knowledge do well in this sport.
I've had the opportunity to work with and learn from specialists in all the different offroad formats, and even athletes in totally different sports. But I'm most familiar with GNCC and FTR types of racing.
We have no set fee. The industry going rate is significant. But we are very flexable. Those we decide to work with always respect and value our time. So we find a way to make it work.
Pro secrets
The 5 B's
A serious racer must address all 5: bike, body, brains, bucks, and balls.
Any one catagory failure will lead to total pro racing failure.
All your speed and skills will mean nothing without addressing them thoroughly.
I'll show you how to get them right.
1. Bike: if your bike fails, even the greatest of riders fails along with it. I'll show you how to build perfect bikes.
2. Body: if your not super fit, even the best machine can't carry you to success. I'll show you how to get in great shape.
3. Brains: if you don't get the neccessary knowledge, you can't make important split-second decisions when your coach isn't there. And if you don't have the right attitude you won't maintain your focus, especially in long intense races. I'll show you how.
4. Bucks: if you run out of money, your venture is over. It's costly until you're a pro. Then it pays very well. I'll show you how to not waist your career investment money on the unnecessary crap everyone is trying to trick you into buying.
5. Balls: if you're too concerned about what people think of you, and how you "feel" about it, you need to "grow a set". As a mature potential professional athlete, your thoughts and actions are far more important than your feelings. The opinions of people who love you, and those who have your best interest in mind, matter very much. Forget the rest. I'll show you how.
Location
Florida
I live near Altoona, in the south end of the Ocala National Forest. I'm new to the area. So I don't know of any private riding opportunities here yet. But if you do, I'm happy to meet you there.
With travel expenses getting crazy, just keep in mind where I live. And sometime when you'll be in or through the area, just contact me to stop by for a chat, or some helpful advice, or a serious consultation.
If you'll be training nearby, I'm there. Otherwise, my clients have no problem covering my time and travel experiences.
I'm flexible. And I understand the racing lifestyle. So I'll do everything I can to adjust and adapt and accommodate your schedules.
There's so much more to improving offroad racing than riding technique, so I seldom even suggest those type of changes. It's all the other little factors that make the difference. So a simple on-line or phone conversation/consultation will often be helpful, and probably the cheapest and most convenient way for me to advise you.
Race team opportunity
For serious qualified racers
My race team is a small group of serious, ambitious, responsible, unique and exceptional people, working and training togather, helping each other be the best they can be as a group.
The team concentrates on race performance, promoting sponsors, assisting distressed riders, and being good examples for young riders to follow. So members are chosen by their exceptional abilities, values, and character. All of which improves the team as a whole.
The team generally resides in their race haulers/campers out on the road, traveling from race to race, training and practicing somewhere in between. This saves greatly on transportation and housing costs, eliminating the need for a "home" and a car, creates valuable terrain variety riding practice, and keeps life interesting while making new friends and industry contacts around the country.
Requirements:
Intelligence
Courage
Ambition
Determination
Character
Emergency medical training
Mature adult attitude
New members are chosen by unanimous consent of all current team members, because a team is only as strong as it's weakest member. Team compensation is shared equally by the entire team. They support each other but also hold each other accountable.
Team sponsors appreciate our mission:
To achieve our greatest possible race team performance and public image.
To generate media exposure while promoting and representing sponsors.
To help make offroad riding and racing a safer sport.
Current affiliations
Trusted companies:
Factory Connection Suspension
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Contact
Cbwracing7A@proton.me
Services:
I offer these services and/or instruction:
(1) Off-road and mx riding and racing instruction of any level, including pro.
(2) Repair, service, builds, and rebuilds of high performance off-road and mx bikes.
(3) Safety and health protocol development for any activity/situation, especially off-road racing.
(4) Health, fitness, and weight control advisement and program development.
(5) General repair and maintenance of any and all types of machinery.
(6) Home, farm, and ranch maintenance, repair, and service.
(7) Pickleball instruction and training.