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  • Good Skiing Advice from Bumps for Boomers

    The Bumps for Boomers website has a great series of content that any rider can benefit from reading. If you are not familiar with Bumps for Boomers they offer ski clinics in Aspen, Colorado for people who want to learn or become better at mogul skiing or powder skiing. They have done a great job of putting together content that anybody can benefit from - not just for mogul skiing.

    I like how they frame the target audience for this content: "If you are a young 20 or 30 year old hot dog with lightening-fast reflexes who is interested in skiing the zipper line, skiing fast or getting air then this web site will not give you the mogul technique guidance that you are looking for."

    The content starts here: https://www.bumpsforboomers.com/mogul-skiing-technique/. The content is divided up into 6 topic areas.

    The real meat of it starts here: https://www.bumpsforboomers.com/mogu...etter-balance/. Some of the pages before this have general information that seems a bit fluffy so start here.
    In pursuit of Peace, Harmony and Flow.....
    Think Like a Mountain

    Boards ridden, some owned: Sherpas, Spruce 120 "STS", Blunts, DS110 custom prototypes, Rockered Condors, Revolts, DLPs, Summit Custom 110s, Summit Marauders, Head 94s, Raptor prototypes, Osprey prototypes.

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    A few nuggets from the Bumps for Boomers site:

    Here is the bottom line on how to achieve better balance when you are skiing in moguls or skiing in powder:

    Keep hands forward and quiet
    Anticipate the acceleration of your skis by making your short leg long [this means initiated the turn with the uphill leg by moving it forward]
    
Make a slow, patient and gravity-powered entry into your turns
    
Ski with a narrow stance in moguls.
    Rebalance on your uphill ski before each new turn.
    
Keep your ski tips relatively even.
    
Match your shoulder angle to the angle of the ski slope.
    
Keep your legs long and absorb pressure by flexing your ankles

    https://www.bumpsforboomers.com/mogu...inal-thoughts/

    "Because of over-crowding on groomed slopes: We believe that mogul and powder terrain can actually be safer than skiing on groomed runs."

    Anatomy of a mogul: Anatomy of a mogul: https://www.bumpsforboomers.com/mogul-skiing-technique/new-insight/common-terrain-elements/

    Repeating pattern of a mogul field - I will never see a mogul field the same way now: Repeating patterns of a mogul field: https://www.bumpsforboomers.com/mogul-skiing-technique/new-insight/repeating-patterns/

    Great concept:

    The edge angle of the ski against the snow is an important variable that you, as the skier, have control over. It is something that you consciously need to manage. You vary the edge angle to achieve whatever desired effect you want to achieve. There are an infinite number of edge angles between a high edge angle and a low edge angle. You become a better skier when you discover this. And, your skiing ability will grow exponentially when you discover how to vary the edge angle of your skis throughout the turn as a tool.

    Great tip:

    Incorporate your eyes into your movement pattern you will need to select, and look at, a specific turn location for each and every turn you make. That includes turns on groomed runs and as well as turns on mogul runs. Because...If you don’t also use your eyes when you make turns on groomed runs then, when you ski in the bumps, your eyes won’t be part of your normal turn sequence movement pattern.

    Great tip:

    When you find yourself skiing too fast – and thinking “YIKES!” – is your first thought to quickly make a turn in order to slow down?

    If so, you may want to reconsider this immediate Pavlovian life-saving reaction. It is completely counter-intuitive but you should avoid turning if you are going too fast.

    Why?

    Answer: Because when you initiate a new turn your skis will enter the fall line and will accelerate. Net result: your speed will increase even more.

    Great insight:

    This is related to shaped skis driving the desire to carve - all the time: "The net result, as documented by this history, is that we have become a nation of carvers. And, as a by-product, whether intended or not, a nation of groomed run skiers."
    In pursuit of Peace, Harmony and Flow.....
    Think Like a Mountain

    Boards ridden, some owned: Sherpas, Spruce 120 "STS", Blunts, DS110 custom prototypes, Rockered Condors, Revolts, DLPs, Summit Custom 110s, Summit Marauders, Head 94s, Raptor prototypes, Osprey prototypes.

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