By Griff Wigley, on October 10th, 2011
The TTC is featured in the Nov. 2011 issue of Dirt Rider, in an article by Chris Green (photos by Shan Moore) titled Trials Training Center: Learning by Trial and Error.
The issue is also available online to those with a Dirt Rider digital subscription ($9/year).
You can follow Dirt Rider magazine on Facebook and on Twitter.
Here’s an excerpt:
 The boss of this operation goes by the name of Charlie Roberts, and he serves as the resident instructor. Charlie knows a thing or two about the sport of trials, and having hosted the World Trials Championships a few times at his venue, he has seen the best get it done the right way. You’re getting some of the best terrain there is when you visit the TTC, not to mention the beautiful scenery and the old-school log cabins in the middle of the woods that give you the true feeling of an off-the-grid motorcycle camping trip.
 The land at the Training Center offers a wide variety of terrain with a ton of exciting natural obstacles such as logs both huge and tiny and rocks of intimidating sizes as well as the easier ones, which I spent most of my time on.
Dry creek beds with scattered rocks wind through the area like the freeways in Los Angeles. There is even a cool flowing creek that runs through the property with fallen trees laying across it that are possible to be ridden by the daring. The bottom line is you won’t get bored here, just bring your imagination and throw together some creative lines.
By Griff Wigley, on July 1st, 2011
AMA/NATC MotoTrial rounds 5-7 were held here at the TTC last weekend (June 25, 26, 27). See the complete results on the NATC MotoTrial site.
With his win on Sunday, Pat Smage clinched the title, his 4th.
See Shan Moore’s post on the Trials and Enduro News blog: Smage Takes 2011 Trials Title At TTC
 Patrick Smage collected his fourth national title in five years and along with it claimed the prestigious Geoff Aaron Achievement Award with a 1-1-2 performance at the final three rounds of the 2011 AMA/NATC National MotoTrials Series held at the Trials Training Center, in Sequatchie, Tennessee, topping defending champ Cody Webb to do so.
See Brian Behling’s posts on the NATC MotoTrial blog:
Brian also linked to some photos from the weekend:
By Griff Wigley, on May 8th, 2011
The 2011 AMA/NATC MotoTrial National Championship series got underway last weekend with Rounds 1 and 2 in Blackwell, Texas.
See the NATC’s MotoTrial Results page for standings and scores.
Here are links to reports:
Brian Behling on the NATC MotoTrial blog:
Shan Moore on the Trials and Enduro News blog:
By Griff Wigley, on August 13th, 2010
Newly crowned AMA/NATC National Trials champion Cody Webb was featured on the cover of Cycle News last week. The cover story, by Shan Moore: Webb Captures Trials Title.
By Griff Wigley, on August 2nd, 2010
 NATC Rounds 9 & 10 were held in California this weekend. See the NATC Results page for the scores of all the classes and the year-end results. With a 1st place finish on Saturday, Cody Webb (Gas Gas) secured his first-ever national title.
He’s pictured on the right with his father and minder, Kip Webb. See the full-sized photo at the bottom of the Lewisport USA home page.
Shan Moore at Trials and Enduro News has the details on his blog:
After finishing runner-up in the series standings for four straight years, Webb picked up his game in 2010, winning eight of the 10 rounds to easily capture the championship. At Donner, Webb handled the huge granite walls and drops with precision, topping three-time and defending Champ Patrick Smage by 26 points on Saturday and 38 on Sunday.
See Cody Webb’s Facebook profile wall and this message thread on Trials Central for all the congratulatory messages.
By Griff Wigley, on June 21st, 2010
NATC Rounds 3 & 4 were held in Rhode Island last weekend. See the NATC Results page for the scores of all the classes.
And see Shan Moore’s post to the Trials and Enduro News blog: Webb and Smage Trade Wins in Rhode Island
 Cody Webb and Patrick Smage remain tied atop the championship points standings in the AMA National Trials Series after trading wins at rounds three and four of the series in Exeter, Rhode Island.
Just as he had done at the opener in Oklahoma, Webb struck first, taking a decisive win over Smage on the slippery rock outcroppings of Stepping Stone Ranch during Saturday’s round. The two riders riders – Webb on the Gas Gas Race model and Smage on a modified 300cc Sherco…
By Griff Wigley, on May 7th, 2010
On the lower right sidebar of the TTC’s website, we’re aggregating the trials-related headlines from Shan Moore’s blog on Trials and Enduro News. (If you use an RSS/news reader, eg, Google Reader, you can do that yourself using this RSS feed.)
A glance at those blog post headlines this week tells you that Shan has three posts from Rounds 1 and 2 of the AMA/NATC National Trials Series held last weekend in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. The results may surprise you, as might some of the details.
By Griff Wigley, on April 20th, 2010
Back in December, I blogged the print and online developments with Trials and Enduro News (formerly Trials Comp). Since then, webmaster Darrell Shannon (right photo below) converted their site over to WordPress and two weeks ago, Publisher & Editor Shan Moore launched his ShanBlog.
  
(Photos of Shan are from my April, 2008 blog post during the Wagner Cup, USGP at the TTC. I’m sure he’s aged considerably since then.)
An excerpt from ShanBlog post #1:
Because of my background with CN, I have always been reluctant to do a blog because that kind of writing was what I would call off the cuff… something that I’m not good at. I was worried I was too "up-tight" to do a blog, and too worried about making mistakes or saying the wrong thing. Well, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs lately, and I’ve decided no one else worries about those things so why should I.
Also, I have been so tied up with all the events I’ve been covering lately (I’m on the road every weekend covering something… as a freelancer, if you’re not on the road covering something, then your not making money) that I have been hard pressed to find the time. However, I am starting to get a handle on the workload, in addition to getting the hang of putting together 40-something pages of T&E News, so I plan of giving you "off the cuff" updates from all the events I go from here on out.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Shan.
By Griff Wigley, on December 2nd, 2009
 Trials Competition Newspaper (Trials Comp) has morphed into Trials and Enduro News with the November 2009 issue. Editor Shan Moore gives the rationale with a full page letter in the new issue.
The paper has doubled in size (to 52 pages) and the trials-related news and features that we’ve come to expect are all there. And in addition to a revamped web site, they’ve also launched a Trials and Enduro News social network on the Ning platform. It’s like Facebook but for the trials and enduro crowd only.
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