How to Ski Moguls: Speed Control

This is the third in a series of Skier Steve videos describing how to ski moguls. In this video, we'll show you how to control your speed in the bumps. To ski moguls well, you'll need to use the gas pedal and brake pedal in the bumps.
Once you've learned to control your speed, you can improve your skills with future mogul skiing tips, skiing technique and ski lessons.
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I'm Skier Steve! I want to help you learn to ski. I provide content on ski instruction, how to ski and ski techniques. I want to explain how to ski for beginners, but I also include some intermediate skiing tips too. I hope you find my content useful and entertaining!

[@SkierSteve]

If you have questions and comments about skiing moguls, Please let me know. I'll see if I can address them!

[@SkierSteve]

I believe we can all agree with you on that! But in the next video, I can show you how to deal with being scooped so it doesn't always turn into a yard-sale...

[@michaelsupple6081]

As a beginner mogul skier I have watched a ton of how to videos and far and away this is the best and easiest to understand video I've come across. Thank you so much. Subscribed!

[@SkierSteve]

Be sure to check out the entire playlist. I have about three more videos I'll be releasing in the next few days.

[@michaelsupple6081]

@@SkierSteve I watched them all! A+++

[@rockiesinoctober]

Being scooped is an unpleasant feeling, to say the least.

[@indiggioman]

For beginners and experienced alike, always start out SLOW!!! I tell myself before entering the bumps to go slow. It's VERY easy to pick up speed, so a slow rhythm is far better than careening down the bumps. As a beginner, you're NOT going to look like a pro, ripping down the zipper line, so don't try. Speed will come with experience.

[@johnklaus9111]

Ok. This is just wrong. You straighten your legs into the trough and bend them for the next bump to "cushion" the over. You then downbubble inside the line of the mogul sliding on the outside ridge of the bowl created by the 3 moguls that mark every mogul trough. It should feel like you are pressing down just over the bump lip every time and scraping the outside of the bowl you see. You should NOT be hitting the lip at all.... 😂😂

[@SkierSteve]

Thanks for the comment. I'm always up for learning better techniques, so I really appreciate you sharing this. But I'm not sure I completely understand what you are suggesting. I think I understand what you mean when you say "cushion" over the bump - I think that means bending the knees a bit to unweight the skis as you go over the crest of the bump. I like that! I have experienced that and find it to be a very helpful tip. But I don't understand how you straighten your legs going into the trough. Doesn't that cause you to increase speed in the trough which has a tendency to cause scooping? How do you manage the speed? Also, I'm not sure what "downbubble" means - can you explain this? I would appreciate further explanation and thanks again for your comment!

[@johnklaus9111]

@@SkierSteve Speed is managed using carving technique and path down the mountain. Bumps are a "shoots and ladders" game. You go up the wall of a bump to kill your speed and down through the path to gain it back. If done properly, due to the nature of potential energy exchange, you can maintain a near constant average speed, with variations up and down the bumps. This "momentum" is a learning exercise for advanced bumps "techniques" which include variations between semi-straighting and curved turns. It depends on the path and requires experience and knowledge. Keep practicing the lesson above until you perfect it then we can talk about longer-distance patching as assistor in your speed management!

[@johnklaus9111]

@@SkierSteve "downbubble" is aligning your head, shoulders, hips and feet down a steep fall line within a turn of greater than 40 degrees downhill angle. "Downbubble" comes from submarines. If you watch the pro bumpers, they down bubble, drift the mogul trough, then downbubble the next mogul front. It's the "straighting" technique I mentioned elsewhere.

[@indiggioman]

@@johnklaus9111 I've also never heard of this "downbubble" you speak of, but from your description it sounds to me like you're referring to the "stacked position" we all strive for in good mogul skiing technique where our feet, hips, shoulders and head all form a straight line perpendicular to the mountain (on a flat piste). This position allows for the extension/retraction of the legs when traversing moguls (spring action of the knees) while keeping the upper body stationary.

[@johnklaus9111]

@@indiggioman Seems likely. I wasn't formally trained on bumps, just racing. What you say aligns with what I'm saying with one exception: It is actively a bad thing to do on a flat piste, which is why I say "downbubble" weight application is as important as the vector of said application.