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I'm thinking about buying a cheaper set of skis for improving on moguls as my wide boards at 98 aren't ideal. The skis I've looked at are 176. I'm 42 5'11 and about 14 stone and advanced (sometimes). The Rossi 80s might do for all mountain for me if it grips. I also tried some xmaxs which were good fun but I don't know what they would be like on the hard icy lumps I'll find myself on. Any opinions?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'd get a lesson tbh - 98mm shouldn't be a problem at all.
If you do decide to buy new skis, get something with a big turn radius (over 20/25m) - aggressive slalom type sidecuts don't help with the skidding and smearing you want to employ in bumps.
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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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Complete the well known phrase,"it's not that you can't ski bumps..."
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seriously helpful comment.
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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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@Flexon, nope, that's not it.
Seiously, as Clarky says, a narrower ski down from 98mm is unlikely to make much, if any, difference. The solution lies elsewhere (technique).
His point on sidecut is also valid. And unlikely anything with a 98 waist will have a particularly tight sidecut.
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I've been looking at taking the mogul courses down in Manchester. I've skied bumps on my current skis and they are ok but looking for something that isn't a 100% bump ski.
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While I am slightly skeptical about indoor bumps courses, it's going to be way better than not doing a course and won't eat into Alpine time 
My feeling on the "Experience" is that they're targetted really (despite "advanced" marketing) at the aspiring intermediate and you'll easily overpower them.
I wouldn't spend on kit until after lessons. And something higher up the Rossi range probably more sensible.
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@Flexon, the old Rossignol s3 makes a superb learning to ski bumps ski. 98mm across the middle, but a very easily released skiddy tail, as its a rockered pin tail. Then get some lessons and then practice and practice and some more. Look for bumps wherever you can and ski them. What is super about bump runs is they tend to be empty...............
Once you have the technique, the ski will not matter really, but its just practice that gets there.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Just ski bumps more then you'll get better, like most aspects of skiing mileage is what counts. Having said that something rockered will help with confidence.
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@Daleskier, no.
Seriously incorrect. Like most aspects of skiing, correct technique is what counts. 
Practise of poor technique results in seriously poor technique.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bumps is something where skiing them more often and more directly and faster is an area though where mileage definitely helps. You simply can't ski zipperline big bumps by faking a technique.
Of course more people don't get a good enough platform of technique so they find bumps suck so they avoid them - there's that vicious circle. A mate of mine who lives near a resort detours to the biggest ass mogul field everyday he is out for at least one lap to ensure he doesn't suck, regardless of what skis he is on that day.
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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.
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But, @Dave of the Marmottes, if you don't understand the technique, and skiing bumps is not just like any other skiing turn, then more practise leads to worse technique. It's pretty impossible to work out for yourself.
And poorly described in books.
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You know it makes sense.
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But, @Dave of the Marmottes, if you don't understand the technique, and skiing bumps is not just like any other skiing turn, then more practise leads to worse technique. It's pretty impossible to work out for yourself.
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The Warren Smith bumps vids are very good.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Dave of the Marmottes, certainly I wouldn't! That was less than helpful!
@spyderjon, I'm sure, butbthere's no substitute for instruction. At least once at the point of knowing what the technique is.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@GlasgowCyclops, that's much better! I guess, being a purist, I'd like to have seen him break technique #3 down into its components, and add why you want to keep your feet closer together, but otherwise (and those might be over advanced for the level the vid's aimed at) I think many would find that helpful. Well explained.
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