 Poster: A snowHead
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Yes, I know the best technique is just to avoid them, but I've been boarding for a fair few years now and find myself irresistably drawn to them. With mixed, and often painful, results! Where on the bump should you attack it etc.?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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larry duff, I ride on my heel in a mixture of regular and switch in the troughs/low bits when the moguls are huge and mix it up a bit heel/toe edge when they are a bit smaller. I always try to cut a heel edge in the down slope side of the mogul riding regular and switch (falling leaf in effect I suppose) when icy - if you understand that you are a genious 
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larry duff, they can be fun but if icy definately best avoided. I might not have the best technique but I like to try going round them rather than over and try to throw the board round the turn quickly to stay in the troughs rather than carving it cleanly. This is pretty aggressive and can be fairly tiring though but when in the right mood it's a laugh.
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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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rayscoops, did you do it?
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snowangel., yeah I think you have to be in the right frame of mind some aggressive music helps. I still fluff them quite often, sometimes traversing a fair way before turning. If the timing goes you can end up going over them and in all sorts of bother. Jumping off them's fun but in a big field it's hard to find a landing or get enough speed onto the bump to get much air.
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rayscoops, I'm pretty similar although I passed on it last year in search of powder, the right decision at the time although it probably won't get away this season.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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agressively
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Point and shoot. As fast as you can.
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You know it makes sense.
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My son, quite a good boarder but still defeated by moguls, says he saw an instructor in Val D'Isere doing huge moguls, by "embracing" them with alternate arms as he turned. Sounded, as he described it, rather like those country dances where you swing alternate partners.
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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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If you want to see the best riders you have to look in the moguls yo.
I'm not an instructor so I don't know how to actually verbalize what needs to be done and I don't have all day but I'll give you a few tips I've figured out in my journey.
If you are used to doing big sweeping turns gently carving them out on an edge...not gonna cut it in the bumps.
First thing is you need to conquor is groomed steeps. Not by doing them high speed but low speed. First skill needed is the ability to do not a carve but a jump with a scuff kinda turn, using the tail of the board and its edge to pop you around to the next turn but also absorbing some of the energy of your motion going down the hill.
Moguls...I grew up 6 miles from a ski resort in vermont so I don't remember my first time seeing them. They are always changing and always different. Steeper slope, bigger bumps. Longer time between grooms...bigger. Bigger is most likely only for someone with skills.
If you look closely at moguls, they are arranged like the bricks of a wall. Each brick being a mogul. Your path is right in front of you if you look at where the morter is. If you look at the morter in the horizontal...its your easy way out...a traverse. Follow the morter down vertical...that's a fall-line mogul run like it should be done. This is where the jump/scuff some speed turns happen. Toeside turn off the heelside bump. Unweight between the horizontal bricks then heelside off the toeside bump. Rinse and repeat. Thats all I got, my thumbs are blackburied.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks to everyone so far for all the helpful comments! A combination of bits from each seems worth a try!!!
3snowboards: Totally agree. I don't see any other boarders in moguls when I'm out. I try to unweight using the edges of the bumps but find it gives me too much speed, then end up pulling horizontal to lose speed. That then makes it harder to get back onto the fall line for the next bump. I suppose I just have to practice more at speed  ! Thanks again!
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FAQ
They say it's 'soft knees and look well ahead I just stare at the next one I'm going to plant my ass on 
can sometimes others not, and on other occasions, like powder days, i like to jump off them! 
