Camp Amped runs a dedicated Onewheel track this year, coached by Josh Ledford with Sarah Meeker as assistant coach, at the Amped Electric Games venue in Bentonville, Arkansas from September 28 to 30, 2026. Ten riders, three full days, ending immediately before race weekend opens on the same ground. It is the first sanctioned Onewheel training camp on the Amped calendar, and it sits deliberately in the week that matters most.
What Is Onewheel Racing Coaching?
Onewheel racing coaching is structured instruction for competitive Onewheel riders, delivered as multi-day camps or event clinics. Race coaching differs from learn-to-ride training: it assumes you can already ride, and works on line choice, board control, terrain reading and race craft. Camp Amped is the sanctioned version, run under USA FLT, the national sanctioning body for Onewheel racing in the United States.
What Is Camp Amped Onewheel?
Camp Amped is a three-day training camp run by Amped Electric Games at its Bentonville venue. It runs two separate discipline tracks that share dates, grounds and format but not coaching: Onewheel with Josh Ledford and assistant coach Sarah Meeker, and EUC with Christopher Brady. Each track is capped at ten riders.
Every camp day follows one loop: ride, film, review, correct, repeat. Sessions are filmed on track, and each afternoon closes with a video classroom where the footage goes up on screen and turns into a specific correction plan for the next morning. There is no timed racing at camp. Progress is measured against your own footage rather than against the rider next to you.
Who Is Josh Ledford?
Ledford is a Knoxville, Tennessee racer five years into competition, and one of the more technically focused riders in the field. He spotted his first Onewheel rolling past a restaurant in Denver around 2019, ordered an XR inside a year, and was racing not long after. His first ride ended with the board in the water off his marina dock. He went in after it, saved it, and rode that same board for years.
His background is snowboarding and wake skating, which is where the board feel and line reading come from. He recently moved up from FM to Open and took the Open win at Wheelscorcher at Fire Mountain Trails on June 27 and 28. Lemonade Float Fest 2026 was his third year there in a row.
What he is best at is exactly what a camp needs: courses that fight back.
"So the more technical and still able to push to go fast and learn how to really maneuver around the features and such, that's my favorite," Ledford said.
How Does Josh Ledford Coach?
Ledford coaches the way he races: terrain first, patient speed, and progression measured against yourself. Asked earlier this season what he wanted for riders coming into the USA FLT national circuit, his answer was about growth rather than podiums.
"I love to see people's progression and I want to keep them on the focus of self progression and don't worry about others," he said. "We're all where we're at in life and with riding. So take your time, enjoy where you're at and work hard to see your name move up."
He credits his own progress to watching riders ahead of him, telling newer competitors to enjoy themselves and learn what they can from the field, "so many talented riders before me, I watched a lot and learned so much. And that helped me so much."
He also knows the cost of pushing past your level. He came into racing strong, top five, then got hurt a few races in at Dirt Surfers, and has ridden through injuries since. His read on terrain reflects that. Of the peak trail at Reveille Peak Ranch he said he "wouldn't say great for amateurs, but once you get riding a year or two, go up to the peak."
That is the same idea the camp format is built on. Ten riders is a hard cap, not a target, and it exists so a coach can work with each rider directly instead of running a group through a fixed curriculum at a fixed pace. Riders are assessed on day one and coaching adapts from there, with two coaches on the ground for ten riders.
He has also been vocal about riders on different board types and in different classes pulling together rather than drawing lines between themselves, which is worth noting for a camp where the Onewheel and EUC tracks share a venue for three days.
"Pick what makes most sense to you and have the most fun with it," he said. "That's why I started was just pure joy and fun and smiling every time."
Who Is Sarah Meeker?
Meeker rides out of Baltimore, Maryland, and joins the Onewheel track as assistant coach. She has been riding since 2020, and her own start is the reason she is a useful person to have on a camp roster: she entered her first race at Dirt Surfers after about a week on a board, finished twenty minutes behind the field, and kept coming back.
"I've been at the bottom and I've been like the slowest and I've worked my way up like incrementally every year," she said.
She came to the sport with no athletic background at all. "I have no previous experience in sports, so I am a ballerina, classically trained, musical theater history," she said, and she is direct about the habit that had to be unlearned: "I'm used to just making things look really pretty and together in sync, so I have to learn to break away and kind of just get ahead and not try to be with the group."
From left Sarah Meeker, Ashley Gnann, Heather Graehl on the podium at Lemonade Float Fest. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA FLT).
Her terrain preference matches the coaching on this track. "I genuinely really like technical trails," she said.
What she brings to a camp with no timed racing in it is a way of measuring a weekend that has nothing to do with the results sheet. At Lemonade Float Fest she set a target of closing to within a minute of a rider she had been chasing for years, finished 35 seconds back by her own account, and took a segment off her.
"I'm not really concerned about my placement, which I think in the past has hindered me," she said. "This weekend I made sure to set goals. I accomplished all of my goals."
She also rode most of that event on a battery that ran low by segment five, left her group to go back and charge, and finished after another racer handed her a charger. Riders who show up worried about range and about being the slowest person in the group will find someone who has been both.
Why Train at the Venue Before Race Weekend?
The camp is held on the same Bentonville grounds used for the sanctioned Amped Electric Games races, and it ends as race week begins. Riders who spend three days there arrive at the weekend already knowing the terrain, rather than spending their early runs learning it. Day three closes with a competition prep roadmap: the specific skills to keep building, and a direct path into Amped sanctioned events for riders who want one.
What Does the Three-Day Arc Cover?
Every camper rides the same arc, and each day stacks on the one before it.
Day one is stance, carve and brake: board feel, body position, carving, and controlled braking, so that speed and terrain later have a clean base under them. Day two moves to trail flow and race lines, working technical terrain, line choice and the patient-speed approach Ledford rides at USA FLT and Open events. Day three is integration and race-week prep, folding the new skills into a rider's own style and closing with a personal roadmap for Amped weekend and the season that follows.
All riding levels are welcome, and riders who have never entered a sanctioned event can start with how to get started before camp. There are no separate skill buckets inside the camp, and the day-by-day session schedule for the Onewheel track is still being finalized.
Who Is It For, and What Do You Bring?
Camp is open to riders 14 and older. Riders under 18 need a parent or guardian to sign the liability waiver and to be present on site during sessions.
You bring your own board. There are no loaner or demo boards for this camp, and riders between setups are asked to reach out before registering rather than after. You also bring your charger, camping gear if you use the included site, and full protective equipment: a helmet, either full face or open face with a separate chin guard, plus wrist guards, knee and elbow pads, and closed-toe shoes. That matches the USA FLT gear requirements for sanctioned competition. There is no loaner safety gear, and riders without compliant protection do not go on track. Ledford puts it more simply: "you always have your helmet on, keep your helmet on, everybody." A full checklist goes out in the pre-camp packet after registration.
What Does Registration Include?
Tuition is $949, paid in full at checkout. It covers the three-day curriculum with Ledford and Meeker, on-track filming and the end-of-day video classrooms, an Amped Electric Games event ticket, an official Amped jersey, an onsite camping spot, and lunch plus a hydration station each camp day. Charging time and protected outlets are built into the midday break.
Camp tuition is non-refundable and spot transfers require approval, so read the payment terms before checking out. Checkout runs through Stripe on behalf of The Electric Angels, the nonprofit that operates Amped Electric Games, so that is the name that may appear on your statement. Spots are held first paid, first confirmed, and all ten Onewheel places were open as of August 2, 2026.
Camp finishes before the main race programming, and the included ticket covers event access for the weekend that follows. Registration, the FAQ and the full payment terms are at camp.ampedelectricgames.com.
A third Amped camp, three days of EUC coaching at King of the Hammers in Johnson Valley, California will also be offered with registration opening soon.
Last updated August 3, 2026.
