What are mogul skiers like?

Skiing247mogal skiing is lame

BradFiAusNzCoCaMogul skiers love full tilts and look pivots. They are our brothers from another mothers

Bushdid9_11Too lazy to find a Glen Plake interview where he says something like 'it doesnt mean your a good skier if you count to 3 and hurl yourself off the palisades at squaw. You want to see the good skiers, look in the mogul fields just below them. Thats where the real skill is'

I've always liked that a lot

MayrandpodcastIn the fourth episode of the podcast i discussed with Mikael Kingsbury , a professional mogul skier

If you're not familiar, Mik is the GOAT of mogul skiing. He won the silver medal in Sochi, gold in Pyeongchang, has 18 crystal globes, and close to 90 podiums on the world cup circuit.


He is a skier at heart and loves park skiing. We discussed Moguls and the progression/restrictions in that sport and his love for park skiing.

Let me know your thoughts on this episode

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/988376/The-Mayrand-podcast--4---Mikael-Kingsbury

SofaKingSickmuch respect to Plake of course but these quotes/arguments are so stupid. "[reductive description of another discipline], ______ is where the *REAL skiers are, maaan."

makes us sound like those super hardo music fans who argue over what to call sub-genres of sub-genres that 99.9% of the world couldn't give a shit about. moguls are super dope and their skills are top shelf but uh there's a reason there was a rebellion against that discipline so strong that it birthed the current newschool/freeride discipline

Bushdid9_11Thank you professor ski history we are indeed the children of those who overthrew the mogul tyranny

Bushdid9_11Thank you professor ski history we are indeed the children of those who overthrew the mogul tyranny

r00kieAnyone able to link that video of the dude waaay overshooting a dub backie in a mogul comp?

SofaKingSickNothing so dramatic, just that it's a small sliver of the sport and has/had super limiting rules

So declaring that there's a premier skiing discipline and it's the one that's on the bump run at the bottom of the mtn just seems like a weird claim to me

shinbangclanpersonally hate how the aerials look in moguls (which is what I'm calling them because that's what they are). Park skiing introduces interesting new rotational axes and grabs/tweaks that just look good. I don't really care to see back scratchers and iron crosses on flat axes. There is no creative energy that radiates from a back full.
Mogul skiers are good at skiing and are technically proficient, but don't forget that park freestyle is more of an art form while moguls is really not. This is also why comps have always been controversial among freestyle skiers.

shinbangclanpersonally hate how the aerials look in moguls (which is what I'm calling them because that's what they are). Park skiing introduces interesting new rotational axes and grabs/tweaks that just look good. I don't really care to see back scratchers and iron crosses on flat axes. There is no creative energy that radiates from a back full.
Mogul skiers are good at skiing and are technically proficient, but don't forget that park freestyle is more of an art form while moguls is really not. This is also why comps have always been controversial among freestyle skiers.

Skiing247mogal skiing is lame

DominatorJacquesDude, IDT you know the history of FIS mogul competitions.
Do you know who Jonny Moseley is? Do you know what he had to fight for?

The.Fishhttps://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/988991/Japanese-mogul-skier-Hara-made-history-in-2019-Freestyle-Ski-World-Champs

shinbangclanNever heard of him until you just told me. I have to appreciate his contribution to skiing. Sick trick. But as the video said, that evolved into freestyle skiing and not moguls, which is why I like freestyle skiing, and not moguls!

shinbangclanNever heard of him until you just told me.

shinbangclanNever heard of him until you just told me.

shinbangclanNever heard of him until you just told me. I have to appreciate his contribution to skiing. Sick trick. But as the video said, that evolved into freestyle skiing and not moguls, which is why I like freestyle skiing, and not moguls!

freestyler540Holy shit, dude hit the concrete and skied away from it. That guy is hard as fuck

freestyler540Holy shit, dude hit the concrete and skied away from it. That guy is hard as fuck

3maniaI don't know if any of you listened to the podcast, but Kingsbury is the GOAT of mogul skiing. He actually had some interesting things to say as to how to change the sport to make it more innovative and more like the slopestyle skiing we're more used to. Things like rewarding grabs and spinning both directions, and making the run in to the second air a little longer to make it easier to do crazier airs. Unfortunately the powers that be are slow to change.
I can tell you from personal experience. Back in the 90's I'd sit in these meetings and ask these people why 3 twisters scored the same as a 3 with position. I'm like if they are the same difficulty, why is everyone doing tw/tw/sp instead of spinning? One is obviously more difficult, but if they score the same everyone is going to do the safer trick. Unfortunately the twister fest continued until after Mosley threw that Dinner Roll, but by then the NewSchool had taken over and it was a little to late to save the sport. Sad because it's really the most athletically and technically demanding sport around.

shinbangclanpersonally hate how the aerials look in moguls (which is what I'm calling them because that's what they are). Park skiing introduces interesting new rotational axes and grabs/tweaks that just look good. I don't really care to see back scratchers and iron crosses on flat axes. There is no creative energy that radiates from a back full.
Mogul skiers are good at skiing and are technically proficient, but don't forget that park freestyle is more of an art form while moguls is really not. This is also why comps have always been controversial among freestyle skiers.

ski_salmon69We need slopestyle moguls. In between the bump runs instead of aerial jumps, throw in some rails and at the end a big air jump. Sounds dangerous as fuck but I’d watch

BradFiAusNzCoCaMogul skiers love full tilts and look pivots. They are our brothers from another mothers

DeebieSkeebiesmogul skiers sometimes get some good gear too lol, they got mad hookups on pivots

**This post was edited on Jan 17th 2021 at 12:06:45pm