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What is your personal secret to skiing moguls?

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dolanslebensraum
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I dont have any tricks that i use other than keeping my skis close together and using my body as a dampener to absorb the impact and control your speed that way.
4 years ago
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SurfinCow
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have ur line picked out and look a few moguls ahead. honestly my biggest issue with moguls is just not being in good enough shape lmao
4 years ago
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ShadowXVX
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Ignore the moguls, point my skis, go straight and fast.
4 years ago
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doubleblackjack
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Slide on the backside of the moguls to control speed. If you want to go fast, have your weight centered and bash, bash, bash
4 years ago
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snomaster
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Cut your poles short if you haven’t already.
Look a few bumps ahead as already mentioned. Keep a calm upper body and let your legs do the work. Leg motion ends up being like pedaling backwards on a bike.
You learn there are many ways to initiate a quick turn, such as a lead change - simply shuffling a ski in front of the other can initiate a turn.

practice short quick turn form without bumps, then take it to easy moguls and work your way up.

or just follow tanner hall around. He’s actually a super strong bump skier, when his ankles work...
4 years ago
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r00kie
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Ski fast and take chances.

Actually though learning to look a few moguls ahead made the biggest difference for me as well as focusing on skiing with the tips of my skis more to keep my weight balanced as its very easy to get backseat in the bumps. Otherwise repetition and staying in shape and you'll be cruising.
4 years ago
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ericforman
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Absorb then slam down over the top. If you start going too fast and mistime one instead of bailing kind of tail press over the top and pop upwards - then back down to earth cause it’s sweeeeeet. Shoulders down the hill upper body still. Legs like springs.
4 years ago
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CatdickBojangles
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Double the first couple but after picking up too much speed launch way too far and case one super hard and double eject to my face. Then continue to repeat this.
4 years ago
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switchlip2
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Gap the moguls
4 years ago
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jompcock
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Hips foreword, pressure the shovels of your skis down in between turns. If you watch people skiing bumps from the bottom, you'll see they usually get kicked out of the bumps at the same time you're able to see their bases. Reach for the pole plant, back side of the mogul.
4 years ago
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3mania
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when you start out, exaggerate the absorption (bend your knees) and start out slow and let the speed build up over the first 5 to 6 moguls.
4 years ago
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GayWolf420
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I don't, I ski regular terrain like normal adults do
4 years ago
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ReturnToMonkey
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Julian0Gap the moguls


Its so much fun to see a mogul run with a bunch of people slowly making their way down it and you're just pumping the transitions and skiing on top of the bunps, flying past people at 25 mph. Then once in a while you blow up and eat shit and everyone laughs
4 years ago
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switchlip2
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This man gets it
4 years ago
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hdubs
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If you go fast enough you can ski on top of them like it a groomer.
4 years ago
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1234567891011121
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CatdickBojanglesDouble the first couple but after picking up too much speed launch way too far and case one super hard and double eject to my face. Then continue to repeat this.


This is the only possible way to ski moguls
4 years ago
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Jems
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Julian0Gap the moguls

this is my favorite thing to do even though i’m not good enough to actually stop myself once going fast on moguls
4 years ago
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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hdubsIf you go fast enough you can ski on top of them like it a groomer.


Oddly enough, this is actually true. I saw @GayWolf420 do it once and I pulled it off once too this year.
4 years ago
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Chunderface
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
4 years ago
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ReturnToMonkey
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Here's a fun race game:
You and your friends start at the top, you all start shotgunning your beer and once its empty (no cheating!) you can start going down the moguls. There are no rules, this is like Nascar, bumping is encouraged. You can go WWE on your opponents if you like. Everyone has to chug for the number of seconds of the position you placed besides the winner (ie first doesnt drink, second for 2 seconds, 5th would drink 5). If you puked, you have to shotgun another beer.
4 years ago
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Chrischi69
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ReturnToMonkeyHere's a fun race game:
You and your friends start at the top, you all start shotgunning your beer and once its empty (no cheating!) you can start going down the moguls. There are no rules, this is like Nascar, bumping is encouraged. You can go WWE on your opponents if you like. Everyone has to chug for the number of seconds of the position you placed besides the winner (ie first doesnt drink, second for 2 seconds, 5th would drink 5). If you puked, you have to shotgun another beer.


Can you use poles as swords?
4 years ago
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ReturnToMonkey
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Chrischi69Can you use poles as swords?

Yes or spears even
4 years ago
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Chrischi69
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ReturnToMonkeyYes or spears even


Scrap the moguls lets just put 2 guys on skis on opposite sides of a pipe and have them england style joust eachother
4 years ago
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270on420out
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Don’t think of it as your body ricocheting off the mogul. It’s a turn, not a bounce. My mogul coach drilled that into my head when I was a young lad before I skied park.
4 years ago
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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270on420outDon’t think of it as your body ricocheting off the mogul. It’s a turn, not a bounce. My mogul coach drilled that into my head when I was a young lad before I skied park.


a turn on what the backside of the mogul?
4 years ago
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TreyDudski
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I've always heard the sort of "be as smooth as possible and the speed will come"... I always just focus on keeping my knees together and finding that last mogul that I can absolutely boost off of.
4 years ago
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vibecheck
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i channel the 70 year old nord grampa in me and fkin annihilate those moguls
4 years ago
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SavageBiff
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Depends on how I want to ski them..

Most of the time I treat moguls like a series of jumps and turns and smoothly bounce thru, other times I like to straight line if there’s a groomer on the side, if they are steep smooth and fast with the best of my ability, lots of nose pressure, pole plant and pulling heels up to turn and stay in the groove and absorb rather than slam into the mogul or jump them, if they’re icy, steep, narrow, rocky I ski em like an amateur using the moguls themselves to slow myself and just avoid rocks and scram.
4 years ago
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Casey
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When I was like 14 I spent a week at hood learning how to ski moguls at hit jumps with some US ski teams dudes as coaches. I am sure that probably didn’t hurt.
4 years ago
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NateDude
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You dont actually have to ski them the way you see in the olympics. Just go like 3 at a time and use your legs to absorb impacts. With practice you'll find yourself getting faster at it.
4 years ago
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dolanslebensraum
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snomasterCut your poles short if you haven’t already.
Look a few bumps ahead as already mentioned. Keep a calm upper body and let your legs do the work. Leg motion ends up being like pedaling backwards on a bike.
You learn there are many ways to initiate a quick turn, such as a lead change - simply shuffling a ski in front of the other can initiate a turn.

practice short quick turn form without bumps, then take it to easy moguls and work your way up.

or just follow tanner hall around. He’s actually a super strong bump skier, when his ankles work...

Cool. I thought you wanted to keep your legs even on moguls. I stagger to turn when carving but i didnt know you should do it on moguls too
4 years ago
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dolanslebensraum
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ReturnToMonkeyIts so much fun to see a mogul run with a bunch of people slowly making their way down it and you're just pumping the transitions and skiing on top of the bunps, flying past people at 25 mph. Then once in a while you blow up and eat shit and everyone laughs

I will gap moguls if the run out is short and there is a groomer at the end. I like finding short sections that are really steep but smooth at the bottom and you can just point it and jump from mogul to mogul and you dont have to worry about slowing yourself down going 25 mph in the middle of a huge mogul run.
hdubsIf you go fast enough you can ski on top of them like it a groomer.

Haha. I would love to see a vid of someone doing this.
4 years ago
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dolanslebensraum
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Also thanks for the advice you guys delivered.
4 years ago
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piss.boy
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i jump over and into all of the landings and swerve the heck out of them and do shiftys and tail drags over them. When I get to the bottom I wine about my legs hurting the whole way up the lift
4 years ago
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lil.Boye
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Fucking speed and wheelie over them
4 years ago
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Jacobthesadskier
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Just go over the top like a cool person.
4 years ago
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snomaster
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don't we have a newschooler or two that will be in the olympics for bumps this year?
3 years ago
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r00kie
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snomasterdon't we have a newschooler or two that will be in the olympics for bumps this year?


Big if true
3 years ago
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CatdickBojangles
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snomasterdon't we have a newschooler or two that will be in the olympics for bumps this year?


Who was the dude that was in 4bi9 that was on track to be an Olympic mogul skier?
3 years ago
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snomaster
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r00kieBig if true

I swear mikael kingsbury posted videos on ns back in the day
3 years ago
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