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Learning Moguls - Lessons??
Hi, I'm 24, been skiing off and on for over twelve years, maybe 15 times a
season the years i skiied, took about five years off during high school/ college. I was never all that great, you can learn a lot skiing with someone thats better than you but I was always the best of my group, which isn't saying much, I've never known any serious skiers.. the last three years I got back into skiing and I still don't know any serious skiers, only serious snowboarders.. Anyways, I don't know what level I am, I live in Montreal, I ski aggressively most times, my problem is moguls. I've never learned how to ski moguls, or big steep bumps. I don't know what the trick is but I don't have it. I like skiing on a nice powder day, at the end of the day you end up with those nice super soft bumps, I can rip down that stuff no problem but stick me in those hard as ice ruts and 3"+ cement bumps and I turn into a ragdoll the second i try and link more than three consecutive turns.. i noticed there are two kinds of mogul/bump skiers, the ones that can gracefully navigate the line between the bumps and then the guys that just fly virtually straight down the run sometimes jumping over a couple bumps at a time. i'll take either ability i'm sure it all comes down to three things, technique, confidence and strength. my question is, would lessons be helpful or just a waste of money? yes yes practice practice practice but practicing the wrong technique or no technique tends to be futile.. one lesson, six lessons, a season of lessons? i'd be willing to practice an awful lot, how long does it take to master moguls, or at least know what you're doing? how can you tell if you're got a good teacher? |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
"How long will it take me to master the sword?" "Ten years." "That's too long! What if I work twice as long and twice as hard?" "Twenty years." Unless you are David Lee Roth, in which case you never will, you will just break your face... ---------------------- Chester, The more you know, the more jokes you get. |
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Mary Malmros wrote in message ...
(jim) writes: Hi, I'm 24, been skiing off and on [snip "then was then and now it's now"] Montreal, I ski aggressively most times, my problem is moguls. I've Have you figured it out on your own? No? Then, yes, lessons would probably be a good idea -- but I'd recommend a private, since you're not too likely to end up doing much bump skiing in a group lesson. one lesson, six lessons, a season of lessons? i'd be willing to practice an awful lot, how long does it take to master moguls, or at least know what you're doing? I agree with Mary. I wrote about my own experience of changing my bumps skiing that can be found by searching google in rec.skiing.alpine for: anybody43 moguls I will repeat one point:- In changing my bumps skiing all of my skiing was deconstructed and re-constructed. It was a long road for a few-weeks-a-year-skier (I did more last season) and I still feel a little less confident than I was in some places since the re-construction is not finished. "aggressively" ... "moguls" ?? - they will beat you every time Maybe when you get good at bumps you can start to bash them up, hopefully one day I will find out. I love the bumps but interestingly you sound like a better and more experienced skier than me in general. I am sure that you will be able to make progress, but be prepared for a lot of work on basics first. Good luck. |
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You're probably still up-unweighting. Watch the good skiers in bumps and
you'll see they never get tall to start the turn -- they *compress* to start each turn. This means they absorb the bump. If you up-unweight, any hard bump becomes a little ski jump, and you launch. Take a lesson, learn to ski without the up-unweight, and your bump skiing, powder skiing, crust skiing, steep skiing, everything will improve vastly. Seth http://masia.org http://skiinghistory.org http://snowindustrynews.org "jim" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm 24, been skiing off and on for over twelve years, maybe 15 times a season the years i skiied, took about five years off during high school/ college. I was never all that great, you can learn a lot skiing with someone thats better than you but I was always the best of my group, which isn't saying much, I've never known any serious skiers.. the last three years I got back into skiing and I still don't know any serious skiers, only serious snowboarders.. Anyways, I don't know what level I am, I live in Montreal, I ski aggressively most times, my problem is moguls. I've never learned how to ski moguls, or big steep bumps. I don't know what the trick is but I don't have it. I like skiing on a nice powder day, at the end of the day you end up with those nice super soft bumps, I can rip down that stuff no problem but stick me in those hard as ice ruts and 3"+ cement bumps and I turn into a ragdoll the second i try and link more than three consecutive turns.. i noticed there are two kinds of mogul/bump skiers, the ones that can gracefully navigate the line between the bumps and then the guys that just fly virtually straight down the run sometimes jumping over a couple bumps at a time. i'll take either ability i'm sure it all comes down to three things, technique, confidence and strength. my question is, would lessons be helpful or just a waste of money? yes yes practice practice practice but practicing the wrong technique or no technique tends to be futile.. one lesson, six lessons, a season of lessons? i'd be willing to practice an awful lot, how long does it take to master moguls, or at least know what you're doing? how can you tell if you're got a good teacher? |
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Chester Bullock wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote: "How long will it take me to master the sword?" "Ten years." "That's too long! What if I work twice as long and twice as hard?" "Twenty years." Unless you are David Lee Roth, in which case you never will, you will just break your face... ---------------------- Chester, The more you know, the more jokes you get. strength _is_ impotant for moguling, but going with the terrain (the moguls) is _as important_. You´r not "fighting" those bumps, you´re playing with them, and as one poster before said, you don´t lift up, you "absorbe" them (well most of them, those under 1/2 a meter) ;-). It´s not only skiing technique, but also getting a feel of the piste before you, i.e. whilst skiing down and mastering the next one or two bumps you have to look forward for the course of skiing for your next two to three bumps ( and you will have pretty much choice then) to ski. So it´s strength, ability of skiing _and_ a good prieview of the piste you are hollowing down cheers and good skiing tom -- Nobody is perfect, not even in failing |
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