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Has anyone here taken the mogul course in chill factor? How did you rate it? Was thinking of going up this month if its worth it?
Thanks
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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 am curious (given the dimensions of a fridge) just how effective such lessons can be?
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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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under a new name, I did a few hours mogul course at Xscape, was very good, plenty of drills and practise that can be done in a fridge, even better when they put the moguls in.
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kitenski, Fair enough, no worries, I was just curious.
I found Braehead, f'r instance, a little short to do anything much at all.
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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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under a new name, try skiing jump turns with your boots undone , plenty long enough then 
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kitenski, Must be not dissimilar to doing jump turns with their rental boots on...
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The bumps at chill get built by the snowsports manager who is ex-british bumps team. So they are really good. The lines get progressively easier as you come out from the lift. So there is a more difficult rut line, a slightly easier rut and then 'waves' towards the middle of the slope. They also put in a couple of jumps for people to practice on.
They've also recently run english snowsports moguls coaches courses there which quite a number of the instructing staff attended so you should get some decent coaching.
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I had a thoroughly good time at the session I went to, and felt like I got a lot out of it. The coaching was good and the bumps are pretty BIG. Because of the relatively shallow gradient you can focus on your technique without worrying too much about careering to your death. Saying that, the bumps are pretty BIG!
Does anyone know if they're running any more mogul weekends this year?
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The next time the bumps will be in will be 14/15/16 November. Through the winter season they will be put in mid-week owing to how busy the weekends are. Come the off-season I expect them to go back to weekend slots.
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skir67, do you have to be on a course to use the bumps, or can you just crack on?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Their mogul page
http://www.chillfactore.com/ski-board/ski/moguls
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Next sessions:
Wednesday 14th November
Thursday 15th November
Friday 16th November
Each month we will produce a dedicated mogul field on a section of main slope and run the following schedule:
12pm > 2pm - Intro to Moguls Lesson
2pm > 4pm - Open Session
4pm > 6pm - Advanced Moguls Coaching
6pm > 10pm - Open Session
Please note that Lift Pass users will only be allowed to use the mogul field during the open sessions. All guests will need to wear a helmet when using moguls.
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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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| Mosha Marc wrote: |
| skir67, do you have to be on a course to use the bumps, or can you just crack on? |
The sessions for lessons only people on lessons are meant to use the bumps, but tbh I've never seen this enforced and in reality it doesn't really matter as there are relatively few people using them in total anyway.
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Mosha Marc, CasVegas do bumps monthly as well.....
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You know it makes sense.
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Gloucester has bumps built in
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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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Can anyone give us an idea of the difference between the 'Intro To' and 'Advanced' sessions? The website doesn't seem that helpful...
My wife and I quite fancy having a go at this, but I don't remember ever being taught how to ski moguls before and it's very much a case of picking our way down when we do give them a go. We can cope with most black runs and probably have about 20 weeks skiing each, albeit at a week a year at most.
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Poster: A snowHead
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When I went a couple of months ago, they did a test run at the start of the session and then split the groups accordingly, so everyone ended up at the appropriate level. Might be worth giving them a call and checking though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Next Chillfactore Moguls dates are the 10th 11th 12th of December.
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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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| kitenski wrote: |
| All guests will need to wear a helmet when using moguls. |
Or a rad neon headband for those rockin spreadeagles shirley?
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We did the advanced course yesterday - grand total of 3 of us in the group and we were all pretty equally rubbish to start with so that was perfect! Started out with some drills, then drills over the 'waved' section of the slope before starting on the actual bumps.
Everyone made lots of progress in the 2 hours and we really enjoyed it
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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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Everyone made lots of progress in the 2 hours and we really enjoyed it
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That's good, we were there yesterday but I couldn't time our visit to do the course. I'm trying to find out when the next session is planned but not heard back from them yet.
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