Here was me thinking that the other thread would be a celebration of the glory that is bumps. And here it turns out to be folks complaining about how big they get.
This is so wrong. Bumps are good. Bumps are to be cherished and loved.
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David Murdoch, absolutely. Same with slush - fantastic stuff, yet large numbers don't seem to enjoy it Of course, slush bumps are the best of both worlds.
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I'm only a low intermediate so I am sure my experience of bumps is very limited. However, I LOVE them and have been really puzzled at the trouble they seem to cause so many others. I think they are the best fun. Give me bumps over ice or very steep bits any day. I giggle to myself going over them - even if the backs of my skis cross sometimes and my knees are sore after doing too much. I don't care if I don't use the correct technique on them (I'm sure I don't) but they make my day.
My other half is a far better skier than me but hates bumps and he will seek out the icy stretch at the side of the piste if possible to get away from them while I'll happily bounce through them.
Yoda, slushy bumps? Oh, god, I'm off to change my boxers.
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I'll happily bounce through them
I found a lot of fast skiers dislike bumps because they can't "bounce through" them fast. Which really means they're not as good of skier as they think of themselves.
In the bumps, things do happen faster. It's like a whole piste in about a metre! If I want the same excitement on a smooth piste, I would have to go quite fast, which is rarely safe.
I like bumps also because one 100 yard bump field can be skied in so many different ways! Each bump has several sides I can try, different combination of bumps, so on and so forth... Bumps are just condensed, concentrated excitement. I embrace bumps.
After all it is free
After all it is free
Wasn't there a Martin Heckleman video where the entire piste turns into a field of smiley face bumps?
David Murdoch wrote:
slushy bumps? Oh, god, I'm off to change my boxers.
I so didn't need dyslexia whilst reading that.
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i love bumps
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I especially love them on my Missions. Nice and short and narrow underfoot to make it easy to get from edge to edge.
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comprex, I especially like the two rogue bumps!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Yep! The first one launch you half way up the air. Then you land on the second one and skied away!!! You don't even know how you managed!
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
My 10 year old loves 'em.
She followed me down the bottom half of the Silene black in the Chaudannes area of Tignes. Her only comments; I was a bit frightened at first, I couldn't ski it all the way parallel so had to snowplough a bit.
I was mighty proud.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Bumps hurt my back and knees..I'm old
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cfc5mu0, you are pefectly within your rights to robustly disabuse me but might I humbly suggest it might possibly not be "age" and possibly be (particular) technique that's the problem??... check out the book available from here www.LearnMoguls.com if you want to reduce the back/knee pain. It's very good IMO...
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David Murdoch wrote:
cfc5mu0, you are pefectly within your rights to robustly disabuse me but might I humbly suggest it might possibly not be "age" and possibly be (particular) technique that's the problem??... check out the book available from here www.LearnMoguls.com if you want to reduce the back/knee pain. It's very good IMO...
Second that. From personal experience:
Took one lesson in Taos because there's no fresh snow and everything was bumped up. Very frustrating for a "bump novie". Before lesson, knees hurt big time even in small bump field. After lesson, knees don't hurt even in medium long and medium big bump fields.
But it's years later before I took the second lesson. After that, knees don't hurt much any more. Do wonder why I waited for so long. Though still gets tired in big long bumps fields. So is working on that and plan to take another lesson, this time in the not so distant future. (Shall I say I learned my lesson well? )
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Wasn't there a Martin Heckleman video where the entire piste turns into a field of smiley face bumps?
Yes, I think I remember that... I wasn't convinced then, and I'm not convinced now, but I keep trying.
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David Murdoch wrote:
Yoda, slushy bumps? Oh, god, I'm off to change my boxers.
Ah the good old days when bumps were made by long skis and they were evenly spaced and at my old hill they got very very large over 2 meters from trough to top, I loved those bumps. Tight bumps made by snowboarders where my skis can sit on 3 bumps I can live without.
Yoda, slush bump season is just around the corner.
pinhead, yes "winter" is depressingly short Still, at least when you wipe out in slush bumps they don't hurt as much, although there is that small wetness problem.....
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Yoda, why is wetness a problem - carry spare boxers
After all it is free
After all it is free
David Murdoch, my boxers are Goretex
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Bumps make my knees cry which makes me because I love them! Roll on Bionic Knee and point me in the direction of a mogul field
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Yoda wrote:
David Murdoch, my boxers are Goretex
Best worn inside out on scary terrain.
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I too like bumps, but my knees end up twice their normal size I have yet to have proper instruction on how to ski them and no doubt my technique, or lack of it, is all wrong. I love unpisted runs, varied terrain is much more fun than well groomed, corduroy pistes as that can get rather boring if that is all that's on offer.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Yoda, that's the one.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Yoda, 40 degrees and sunny, afraid the season is here early, time for neoprene skiing.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
What's the hardest mogul run anyone's ever done?
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CREVASSE _07 wrote:
What's the hardest mogul run anyone's ever done?
Most of the ones on my back
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Mosha Marc wrote:
My 10 year old loves 'em.
She followed me down the bottom half of the Silene black in the Chaudannes area of Tignes. Her only comments; I was a bit frightened at first, I couldn't ski it all the way parallel so had to snowplough a bit.
I was mighty proud.
I followed my 9 year old down the bumps of La Foret in ADH. I was mighty proud of me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
I've been skiing too many years, and I still can't hack the moguls properly, but that doesn't stop me enjoying them. I think doing the bumps is a terrific challenge, and I always will. I went down Droset in Les Arcs, today, and the moguls were fantastic. I also went down Tuffes from the top of Plagnettes, and it was a b******. I coudn't hack it! When I started, I used 205cm skis for many years, but that didn't stop me having a go. After a while skiing on the piste can become boring, so have a go at the bumps, but don't expect to succeed overnight - it takes a lot of patience...
It's a bit like skiing off-piste, really, start with the easy stuff, then progress.
By the way, I use 179cms now, is that progress?
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pinhead wrote:
Ah the good old days when bumps were made by long skis and they were evenly spaced and at my old hill they got very very large over 2 meters from trough to top, I loved those bumps.
Lone Pine at Norquay last week. It was like going back in time. A whole chairlift with nothing but black and double black bump runs off it and no snowboarders going anywhere near it. Terrifying antediluvean chairlift though.
I don't find skiing them a problem, it's trying to ski them with style that's the problem for me.
If I'm lucky to come across a perfectly formed, regularly sized stretch of moguls I reckon I could get down them with a bit of style, but for irregular ones of varying sizes and spacings, I really struggle.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Fergus wrote:
I don't find skiing them a problem, it's trying to ski them with style that's the problem for me.
If I'm lucky to come across a perfectly formed, regularly sized stretch of moguls I reckon I could get down them with a bit of style, but for irregular ones of varying sizes and spacings, I really struggle.
I will try and ski Moguls as an old man, I now know what to put on my Ipod (a Mr Stab thread from a while ago) and even half way through the video someone mentions a turtle they are carrying so that covers one of the Mr Zookeepers threads about what animal to take skiing...