 Poster: A snowHead
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it's all about being LOOOSE, man!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Unless you're absolutely nailing it perfectly, mogul skiing has all the grace of falling down a flight of stairs in leg calipers.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Old Fartbag, Just slightly different ways of saying the same thing - will appeal to different people.
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Jonny Moseley's exercises are excellent even if one doesn't ski!!! great for fell running btw.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was told to imagine a low ceiling to stop my head popping up at the top of the bump; make sure all the bump was absorbed by the legs.
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| Gyro wrote: |
Still naff, and the group coming down together!!
Just to clarify, I know their skill level is off the chart but even so, looks naff. |
Taste is a tricky one. I spent a few years trying to photograph people riding rails, which just looks incredibly stupid to me... but it's been popular for a fair while. Still, a very difficult photography job.
If you think you're sensitive to things looking "naff", then you can be sure that everything you think isn't naff today will be horrendously naff to you in a few years time.
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I spent a few years trying to photograph people riding rails, which just looks incredibly stupid to me
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I can confirm it looks utterly laughable when I do it! A middle-aged man looking for an opportunity to incur some additional dental expenses while being as ungainly as possible.
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| Bob wrote: |
| nothing beats the superior feeling you get when you've completed a good mogul run. |
Yes, mogul bounce, powder float, and steep jumpturns are the three best feelings in skiing.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Bob wrote: |
| nothing beats the superior feeling you get when you've completed a good mogul run. |
Yes, mogul bounce, powder float, and steep jumpturns are the three best feelings in skiing. |
And you would know this? How?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Another bumps tune-up today. The new bit of info was to scrape the outer/lower ski down the back of the bump, rather than the inner ski as I'd been doing before. Had to force myself the first few times, but started to get it after.
Season-established bumps with 4in of fresh on top. Not easy.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| Stop the brutal grooming... |
In the States and Canada they often leave ungroomed strips along the side of wider pistes.
Allows people to have a little go if they want to with an easy way out.
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| Orange200 wrote: |
Another bumps tune-up today. The new bit of info was to scrape the outer/lower ski down the back of the bump, rather than the inner ski as I'd been doing before. Had to force myself the first few times, but started to get it after.
Season-established bumps with 4in of fresh on top. Not easy. |
By the "Back", do you mean the d/hill side?
I was taught to "check" against the u/hill face of the bump (softer snow) and then let the turn unfold, staying off the edges on the scraped "d/hill" side (then check against the u/hill face of the next one). As speed and ability improves, you then check less hard against the side of the bump....but I suppose there are a 101 ways to skin a cat.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Old Fartbag, that sounds about right, but for bumps there's really only one "proper" way to do it. Which is about what you describe.
@Orange200, well done but why so much weight and activity on the uphill ski?
@snowheads68, struggling to think of anywhere that doesn't have that?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Moguls.....best avoided. The idea of skiing moguls always reminds someone me of those weird people who go cycling and deliberately loom for hills to climb - not for the thrill of coming down again, just for the masochistic pleasure of going up them in the first place.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@foxtrotzulu, nope, IMO.
Skiing well formed bumps is the most fun.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| under a new name wrote: |
@Orange200, well done but why so much weight and activity on the uphill ski?
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Because I’m a classically crap back-seater?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ah.
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| Thesixquidman wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
| Bob wrote: |
| nothing beats the superior feeling you get when you've completed a good mogul run. |
Yes, mogul bounce, powder float, and steep jumpturns are the three best feelings in skiing. |
And you would know this? How? |
I don't know how or whether Whitegold is qualified to write that, but I agree with him. Three great feelings 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Chamcham, the knee must be feeling better!
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| Moguls.....best avoided. The idea of skiing moguls always reminds someone me of those weird people who go cycling and deliberately loom for hills to climb - not for the thrill of coming down again, just for the masochistic pleasure of going up them in the first place. |
Surely its the thrill of having accomplished something that's rather difficult, rather than just being able to do the same as 99% of the population can do? A bit like going down a mogul field with style I suppose - something I'd love to be able to do!
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @snowheads68, struggling to think of anywhere that doesn't have that? |
He means within the bounds of the piste markers 
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@jellylegs, what difference does that make? + several slopes around Cham are no longer pisted regularly.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @jellylegs, what difference does that make? + several slopes around Cham are no longer pisted regularly. |
It means you can ski bumps to the side of the run without going off-piste and invalidating your insurance.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@jellylegs, pretty crap insurance eh?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @jellylegs, what difference does that make? + several slopes around Cham are no longer pisted regularly. |
It means people can have a go at a few moguls and then easily dip out back on the bashed part of the piste. They're not committed to a whole run of just moguls.
Suppose it's needed more in the States which has a lot of tree-lined skiing.
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@snowheads68, I’m just unsure of the point being made. Loads of places are like that. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Chamcham wrote: |
| Thesixquidman wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
| Bob wrote: |
| nothing beats the superior feeling you get when you've completed a good mogul run. |
Yes, mogul bounce, powder float, and steep jumpturns are the three best feelings in skiing. |
And you would know this? How? |
I don't know how or whether Whitegold is qualified to write that, but I agree with him. Three great feelings |
Adding... Landing a big air into powder and not going over the handle bars - or maybe that’s just relief? (Even if mine aren’t very big)
Usually avoid moguls to protect knees, but tried to run a mogul field on my 124´s the other day and it wasn’t entirely unenjoyable if somewhat messy!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| jellylegs wrote: |
| under a new name wrote: |
| Stop the brutal grooming... |
+1
The pistes are becoming so boring, especially around the Sella Ronda. |
++++++++++1!!!!!!!!
For such a big area, the piste skiing in the Sella Ronda is soooo boring, late in the day some small bumps appear but they get wiped out overnight. France has far better piste skiing where some pistes get regularly groomed and others are left for days or never groomed. In Tignes there were mature moguls on a blue run so intermediates can get used to skiing them without the fear of the steepness of a black run.
I ski moguls fairly well but I'm hard pressed to say how I do it! I would say it's about reading the bumps two ahead of the one that you are on, sometimes coming off one bump completely off balance but knowing that hitting the next bump correctly will restore that balance and just going for it instead of panicking, its a confidence thing, putting your body in a position that it thinks is dangerous is where you have best control
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FAQ
of course (slaps forehead) if I am going to ski the fall line smoothly I have to make the bumps disappear...and then it’s just normal skiing. Right?
