How to ski moguls?

[legalskier]

One of the biggest things you can do to work on improving in and out of the bumps is to ditch your poles and loosen up your boots.

Interesting- I'm going to give this a try next time out.

10/10 you will find that it involves pulling your feet way behind you,

But what do you mean by this?

 

[jack97]

We should get the gang together again this April at SB or K... or Sundown? Howz bumpz there these dayz?

Sundown is holding a mogul contest in the middle of march, $1000 cash prize..... that is some serious beer money!

I figure they would seed gunbarrel soon, they also place kickers in and they leave it open for general use.

 

[Blanton]

Interesting- I'm going to give this a try next time out.



But what do you mean by this?

Nothing too fancy. Just another way to say backseat skiing is always encountered to some degree. Lift your hips, get forward... to me pulling your feet back is the easiest to remember and most intuitive when absorption comes into play. Throughout the course of a turn you want your head as close to over the heel piece of your binding as possible (perpendicular to slope). Too far ahead means you are hinging at the waist, too far back means you are riding your tails and lacking ski snow contact.

Hope that helps.

 

[powhunter]

I wrote 2knees a horribly long-winded e-mail about trail running for mogul practice a coupla years ago and he hasn't spoken to me since!

That was after our dayz up at Sugarbush. We should get the gang together again this April at SB or K... or Sundown? Howz bumpz there these dayz?

Now that racing is almost over, a good portion of Gunbarrel has been seeded. Should be T2B soon. A bunch of us took the week of the bump comp off 11-16th snd will be hitting it everyday.


Steveo

 

[bvibert]

Now that racing is almost over, a good portion of Gunbarrel has been seeded. Should be T2B soon. A bunch of us took the week of the bump comp off 11-16th snd will be hitting it everyday.


Steveo

Hopefully Gunny should be T2B sometime around a week from now. The last racing commitment is next Sunday, so as long as there's no weather events to delay things we should be good.

 

[legalskier]

Nothing too fancy. Just another way to say backseat skiing is always encountered to some degree. Lift your hips, get forward... to me pulling your feet back is the easiest to remember and most intuitive when absorption comes into play. Throughout the course of a turn you want your head as close to over the heel piece of your binding as possible (perpendicular to slope). Too far ahead means you are hinging at the waist, too far back means you are riding your tails and lacking ski snow contact.

Hope that helps.

It does, thanks.