What's your strategy for skiing bumps/moguls?

[ill-advised strategy]

https://m.youtube.com/results?search...mstrong+moguls

[ill-advised strategy]

Style evolution:



Fwiw my favorite is Janne...

I love em all, but my favorite era is Janne.

[TBS]

Seems to me the advent of snowboarding created big changes in the shape of bumps fields.
Gone are the nice round moguls
Instead there’s a series of triangular-shaped ridges running more or less parallel down the fall line

Sorta makes the legacy technique useless, no?

[muted]

Janne's girlfriend went to MSU in the 90's so me and my friends got to ski with him frequently at Bridger Bowl for a few years. It was surreal to think why we were skiing with a WC champ in some small MT town that had not jumped the shark yet.

There was a big language barrier but the guy was nice and fun to ski with.

[ill-advised strategy]

Janne's girlfriend went to MSU in the 90's so me and my friends got to ski with him frequently at Bridger Bowl for a few years. It was surreal to think why we were skiing with a WC champ in some small MT town that had not jumped the shark yet.

There was a big language barrier but the guy was nice and fun to ski with.

Fkna, jealous.

[Buster Highmen]

I was more of a devotee of the wasted, mad, wildman mogul style:




https://youtu.be/MGhCVifDPws?t=67

https://youtu.be/MGhCVifDPws?t=232

[Vt-Freeheel]

Just don't do it like this



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[I've seen black diamonds!]

Just don't do it like this



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Is that a vid of me from 1989? That style was part of my learning curve back when it didn't hurt me to fall.

[buttahflake]

I like bumps, and yes that’s a Towelie/Phish shirt

[Vt-Freeheel]

Is that a vid of me from 1989? That style was part of my learning curve back when it didn't hurt me to fall.

Pretty much the same for me, stylish too fast wipeouts at MRG.

[Sutter]

In the words of The Great White Jah Lion aka Tanner Hall:

"LET'ER BUCK!!!"

[Lvovsky]

Seems to me the advent of snowboarding created big changes in the shape of bumps fields.
Gone are the nice round moguls
Instead there’s a series of triangular-shaped ridges running more or less parallel down the fall line

Sorta makes the legacy technique useless, no?

An instructor told me, the weird bump shapes are caused by defensive skiing. 90% of the snowboarders are defensive on bumps. I think you are on to something. Are bumps round in Alta?

[Eric1207]

Post 83, thats a blast from the past. Some how I stumbled on this thread. That 2nd skier in post 83's video link is Squirrel (Bob) O'Callahan, now deceased, who was a ski buddy from Seattle area. Some will know that that is the worlds first hotdog contest at Aspen sponsored by film maker Dick Barrymore, 1969 or 70. Winner was Dave Wheeler. Story is in his K2 film The Performers. I love how Squirrel adjusts his goggles near the end of his "run", while on his back going backwards. Those contests were crazy spectacular, you never knew what was going to happen, unlike the carbon copy zipper runs of current mogul contests, though all are certainly great athletes. Guy doing the flip over the Matterhorn is also an old Seattle ski buddy, Jim G. That story is in Barrymore's movie Assignment K2. Both classics in my book. I was involved in that whole pioneer freestyle/hotdogger era. Thanks for the memories.

[Doodledude]

I have similar problems and would love to ski faster in moguls the coming season.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

weird bump shapes are caused by defensive skiing.

Best example I've seen of this is at Taos (It's a been a few years so excuse my if I get some detail wrong). At the top of Reforma under whatever lift that is you see the worst bumps where the slope angle is the least steep. Move to either side where the pitch gets into the mid 30's and the bumps get much better. Move a hundred yards skiers right into the trees where the slope angle is even steeper and you find nice, big, round, perfect bumps. The tighter, steeper spots that are typically avoided by less skilled skiers (and snowboarders) tend to have better bumps.

[CHAIR_97]

Seems to me the advent of snowboarding created big changes in the shape of bumps fields.
Gone are the nice round moguls
Instead there’s a series of triangular-shaped ridges running more or less parallel down the fall line

Sorta makes the legacy technique useless, no?

I concur. Go to Alta for bumps that haven't been snowboarderized

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[TBS]

Oh yea, no doubt.
I just haven't figured how to ski boarderized bump fields when there's vertical ridges every meter across the field

I have enough trouble on nice round ones where there's a full ski length between bumps - can't tell you how many times I've launched off a bump and executed that land-on-one(inside)-foot-maneuver you see many times in Freeheel's vid. And the aftermath...

[old goat]

An instructor told me, the weird bump shapes are caused by defensive skiing. 90% of the snowboarders are defensive on bumps. I think you are on to something. Are bumps round in Alta?

Plenty of defensive skiers too.
Bump shape in the Sierra is a lot different than in the Rocky. Huge dumps of wet snow followed by long dry spells make for close together pointed bumps with vertical sides and faces and deep narrow troughs. Bumps in the Sierra have been tough since well before snowboards.

[buttahflake]

Vt-Free likes bumps

[buttahflake]

Channeling my inner Wong

[CHAIR_97]

^^^nice

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[old goat]

Vt-Free likes bumps

I like how when you look at the average bump slope almost everyone is standing still.

[Core Shot]

Just don't do it like this



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Mushrooms?

That was impressive

[wickstad]

Channeling my inner Wong

More like Bob Mann there.

[Greydon Clark]

More like Bob Mann there.

Slow dog noodle

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