John Paul Jones (JPJ)

John received his first cycling instructor certificate in 1998 and holds certificates from British Cycling, Scottish Cycling, the CTC and Whistler Bike Park.

JPJ has guided for Ticket2Ride in Whistler, the Northshore, Pemberton, Squamish and Tyax. In his youth John was a multi disciplinary outdoor instructor specialising in mountain biking, kayaking and mountaineering. During this time he worked with a very diverse range of groups from probation and drug rehabilitation to schools and management groups. John also taught navigation at John Moores University.

After graduating from the University of Sheffield he began working as a geo-environmental consultant but was pulled back into the coaching world by Whistler Bike Park and hasn’t looked back since.

John is now a course conductor for The Instructor Development Program pioneered by Mike Johnstone (co-owner of TerraMethod, with Tom Radke) which was the in house training program At Whistler Bike Park for the last 15 years until it was transferred to Christchurch Adventure Park where Mike is now the Operations Manager.

ALine coaching was founded in 2011 and is still growing in the UK.