 Poster: A snowHead
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| DebraFinn wrote: |
| What are your top tips for tackling the moguls - I gave them a go at my local ski center Chill Factore (Manchester) as they have the "give it a go" freestyle section. I managed them but was not as fluid as I would like to be - how do you prepare, any kind of stretches or particular activities help? This is the freestyle course - https://www.chillfactore.com/give-it-a-go/ |
Work on balance....BOSU Ball (use both sides); Kneeling on a Swiss Ball; Jumping sideways from foot to foot, pausing at each jump to show balanced; and standing on one leg with eyes closed.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@DebraFinn, practise skiing old skool with your legs clamped together and doing short skiddy turns.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Occasionally my partner comes out with a dry-humour gem.
On one trip we had ‘…those mountains really get in the way of the view…’
The next we had the more literal observation: ‘…I knew the moguls were big when a small child disappeared whilst passing behind one of them…’
They indeed were big.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@DebraFinn, Welcome to SHs.
Learn how to turn correctly on one bump - absorption, braking, anticipation, rotation - then you can just string them together.
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I love moguls & always try to ski them as fast as I can but trying to explain to myself how I do it is difficult, never mind explaining to someone else.
Like a lot of skiing, it is a leap of faith, rather like I come off one mogul totally out of balance & I'm relying on the next mogul to correct me, as I kick at one mogul & come off the top of it, I bring the skis underneath me to the opposite edge ready to kick the next mogul with both feet, absorbing speed & lifting me enough to bring the skis back underneath me to the next mogul.
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@tangowaggon, you make it sound so elegant! 
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| under a new name wrote: |
@DebraFinn, Welcome to SHs.
Learn how to turn correctly on one bump - absorption, braking, anticipation, rotation - then you can just string them together. |
That's a hurdle to get over, going from one at a time to doing a series, staying in control and balanced as you do one mogul and finishing the turn in balance will leave you badly set up for the next.
An instructor gave us the excercise of skiing across a patch of moguls as fast as we can but keeping our heads completely level without the skis ever leaving the snow.
This then moved on to keeping the body in the same trajectory, as if sliding down the shaft of a giant skewer whilst weaving the skis around the moguls. This gets more difficult as the slope gets steeper and more energy needs to be absorbed with each turn, skiing the fall line of red & black run moguls is beyond the strength of my 57yr old legs 
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It's a common mistake, seems to be repeated in some (but not all, so don't jump down my throat) of the posts here, to think that there's one way to ski moguls. No, just as the moguls themselves vary, so does the technique needed to best ski them.
At BASI Level 3 they talk about three distinct 'lines' to use, inside, outside and direct. I won't describe them, as it's better done by others, like https://blog.basi.org.uk/skiing-bumps-to-develop-the-basi-performance-threads-ttppee/ but on the L3 Technical you're required to show 'a variety' of lines in your mogul skiing. This was by far the hardest part of it for me, and indeed one of the most difficult parts of skiing overall. I do question the need to still include it at the level of proficiency demanded.
But there are other ways, not in the Basi book. A slow controlled swivel, sideslip, check approach is something of a get-out-of-jail free, effectively the same technique as you can use in narrow gullies and other difficult conditions, for example. It's not the 'best', quickest or most efficient, but in some ways it can be regarded as the safe option, and I often teach it before going near any moguls, under the guise of 'braquage', an exercise to learn better control of edges and rotation, then produce it as if by magic for an easy way down cut up rutted and 'orrible pseudo-moguls.
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