trailertrash
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Come on. Everyone knows skiers have no idea how to carve...
Fixed again! :razz:
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Come on. Everyone knows skiers have no idea how to carve...
yeah yeah ..I know it's wonderful out there right now ..
Ok back on topic .. I hate moguls for the same reason snowboarders sit down on the hill ..because we can..
You cannot fake technique. Not in powder, bumps or groomers. It’s easy to spot who skis well and who doesn’t.
Don’t you feel it’s a little self serving to write that fat skis help in powder, shaped skis help carving, but bump skis don’t really help that much at least in the beginning?
Just my $0.02 here. I agree that you can't fake technique; however, shaped skis have made it vastly easier to produce a carved turn. Is it a high quality carved turn? No. But that sensation that your skis will turn by themselves is much easier to come by then it was 15 years ago.
Likewise with mega-fat powder skis. Get on those and you can easily ski deep powder. Are they skiing it well? No, but they do get to experience powder skiing, an experience that 15 years ago required a LOT of skill to appreciate.
But put somebody on bump skis, and they'll look just as helpless in bumps as they do on any other pair of skis (unless they can honest-to-God ski).
Learning to ski well -- whether it be carving, bumps or powder -- takes some serious dedication, and I doubt anybody that dedicated is ever "pleased" with how they're skiing. Experiencing a carved turn or a powder run is now in the reach of anybody with a credit card.
But to ski a bump run in even a semi-controlled fashion (in whatever style you choose, world cup, PSIA, etc) takes a serious willingness to get a mouthful of snow countless times. No ski is going to shorten the learning curve for you. You can get all the instruction you want; the basic fundamentals of bump skiing aren't that hard to explain. You're still going to have to go out there and get slammed time and time again before you "get it".
And in a world where most people get out on snow maybe 5 or 6 times a year -- well, they're never going to "get it" when it comes to bump skiing.
+1
There are DEFINATELY days when I'm a firm believer in one of Warren Miller's classic lines (paraphrasing here) - Your knees only have so many moguls in their lifetime.
I skied my fair share of bumps in my teens/20's, so nowadays I generally choose to save the remaining bumps left in my knees for times like soft powder bumps(after the main trails and trees are tracked out) and spring bumps.
Personally though I think that many people hate bumps is because plain and simple there are way more bad bumps out there than good bumps, and for the average skier out there, that's not a fun thing
I agree with the thought that there are now more bad bumps out there than good bumps. Short shaped skis and snowboards make for crap moguls. I was a bumper when everybody was on 200 cm skis and I was typically on 207 SL boards. Bumps were far less choppy then. You rarely saw the back sides traversed out. You had a lot less low skill people on them creating wall bumps.