Mogul-Master Class...or at least a quick tip or two that'll really help average skiers!

I should start by saying this is not an in-depth analysis on how to ski moguls. It also is not a "classic" mogul technique, and if you're looking for high level performance bumps skills then a lot of this doesn't apply...but what I have put together here is a few great ideas that'll hep out the classic "holiday skier" looking at improving your comfort and control at skiing bumpy and steep conditions.
"Braquage" is a skilful side-slip, and a way of accurate way of navigating your route through the field of bumps. It involved turning your skis all the way across the fall line, turning off your edges and drifting side-ways.
Learning to turn off the edges and reducing grip, then turning them back on- with a specifically selected amount of rotation under the ski- will allow you to play in the bumps and actually enjoy them..not just battle your way through!
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[@MrDogonjon]

The best tactic for moguls is to avoid slopes where inexperienced skiers attempt to ski bumps. Bumps are made by skiers and bad skiers make bad irregular, pointy bumps with cross fall line trenches where the only tactic is to ski them badly. Good skiers make big round smooth bumps that are much easier to ski well. This only occurs on very steep double black diamond runs so get comfortable with hyper steep and soon you will find the good bumps are there.

[@Cookiesports]

Mmmmmmmm…..

[@moogskiandorra]

Agreed the worst bumps as made by skiers traversing making zig zag turns rather than linked arcs....

[@liamkingsbury7438]

@@Cookiesportsis this a good mmmm or a bad mmmm?😂

[@paulwhetstone0473]

Fantastic tutorial!

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you!

[@maciejg.8653]

Hey Cookie -I must say that I love the content you create - mostly, Windsurfing ones, but the skiing are also amazing! Keep that coming as they help thousands of skiers and windsurfers. I wish those materials are spread wider. it's really really worth watching!!!

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Maciej! Got a few more lined up and coming soon! Back on the water in May too! 👍👍

[@FMLohse]

This is a brilliant piste Cookie! Definitely Rivals le Tunnel and Combe Charbonniere for the best mogul pistes in Alpe D'huez - Your Channel is a huge nostalgia source for me since I visited Alpe D'huez in week 6 this year, definitely thinking of returning!

[@Cookiesports]

🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@eqbobyboucher]

Nice video...I'm trying to learn how to manage them better as my 2 boys are on a mogul team and I want to try and follow them on "fun days" , I just have to giggle (in east coast canada) at the moguls since I WISH we had that here >.< ice and small mountains are the only "bumps" we get and I think id die trying to drift like that lol! However it was nice to see how it could be done on more snow / nice conditions!

[@Cookiesports]

Bump styles vary massively around the mountain… and as such so much out technique. The skills and techniques your boys use in a perfectly groomed bumps field take skill, but won’t work everywhere!

[@tompem]

Best of luck to you learning bumps as an adult...it is not easy. I grew up skiing as a teen in the 1960's in a small area outside of Buffalo NY that had NO moguls. When I came back to skiing as adult in my mid 30's, I thought for sure I should be able to learn how to ski them, but it turned out to be pretty tough. I think the main reason why is that as adults, we are reluctant to risk things..new things/skills that inevitably have risks with them, but that are necessary to advance. Kids do not fear falling like we do and consequently they can try and LEARN what works and what doesn't much faster than us with older established patterns. Appreciate just how quick your kids can turn 'em on the flats. Can you keep up? That's a skill needed and often overlooked. Best of luck just the same

[@wiendai888]

Awesome video to show both the front view and rear view, @Cookie! Wonder how the video was taken? I don't see the camera was attached to your body. Shot by a drone? I know most ski resorts ban drones.

[@Cookiesports]

Unicorn mount with an X3 in n my helmet! Use the link in the description for discount and freebies if you want to order one!

[@Hello_there_obi]

This looks so fun! The moguls are really small and manageable! Looks like you can even jump off them and play around safely.

[@Cookiesports]

It’s a really fun field! 👍👍👍

[@Hello_there_obi]

@@Cookiesports going to alpe d’huez next year! Absolutely cannot wait and will definitely hit this slope. I’ve been planning routes and was wondering if you’ve done belvedere, bartavells, les rousses, chalets, les travers, ecureuils and vaujaniate all the way in one? The other one that really got me frothy was tunnel, rousses, les rousses (same run?), chalets and la fare. Looks quite special! Do you have a list of favourite reds and blacks?

[@Cookiesports]

@@Hello_there_obi I’ve been here for almost 10years… I’ve skied all the pistes and off-piste! I’d be happy to take you out for a few days and ensure you make the most of your time here- I’m and instructor and a guide! 👍👍

[@carterfan80]

Vermont Moguls are nothing like this. You can actually learn on these. These have plenty of space in between them and are not that big. American (in the NE) moguls are much tighter, deeper, and VERy irregular. It's tough to get better when you're constantly on Frozen, giant , rutted bumps

[@blmeanie]

Nice video, enjoyed it. Question for you- your speed dial on the video - would you describe how you are getting that, strictly from the app? I edit in studio exclusively, do you know a way to get the on screen dials added?

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! All the 360-mp4 editing was done in the studio too… then into iMovie for the rest. I this video I connected the camera to the app pre-recording, activated location settings, then record. Once done then gpx data is in the video so you’ll can simply select the speed/altitude dials. Easy!

[@blmeanie]

@@Cookiesports cool - so just connect camera to app before recording and go, then do I have to import from app to studio or how do I get location info into studio? Do you have a video on it or know of one? thanks

[@Cookiesports]

Ah- you use the desktop studio not the mobile app? I gave up on the desktop studio- just wasn’t as easy to use as the phone app. Sorry, can’t answer your question… just guess… the gpx data would be saved as part of the video file… IF the studio can do it, just click the button! Otherwise use the mobile app- it’s far better anyway!

[@douglasbroccone3144]

Dude, how far is the mogul field from the lift let off? How far from the bottom can you get back on? It doesn’t look like there’s any lifts anywhere after you got off. Like the run, where did you say it was?

[@Cookiesports]

Hi! From the start of the video you see me get off the lift, turn left and ski…. The bottom at the the end of the video is then only a few hundred meters to get back on a lift. This was all filmed in Alpe d’Huez, piste names shown in the screen! 👍👍👍

[@mishasaratovtsev7370]

Cookie, what skis are you using here? About 170 something? How wide? Thank you!

[@Cookiesports]

Hi! This is filmed in Whitedot Altum 94’s, 189 length. A great all-mountain- all-round ski. It’s my day-2-day ski I use in all conditions- until the snow gets deeper than my boot!

[@stuartturner1244]

What skis are you on?

[@Cookiesports]

This is filmed on Whitedot Altum 94’s…highly recommend! 🤩

[@DavidChung111]

Which mounting technique are you using for this camera? I am debating whether the 360 would help me analyze my own film to improve.

[@Cookiesports]

This was done using a standard unicorn mount 🦄

[@inquistive]

@@Cookiesports How does the camera turn round and film in different directions.

[@Cookiesports]

@@inquistiveinsta360 software! Highly recommend… link in the description for discounts! ❤

[@confluenceinfinitethemovem]

How do you get the camera shot without holding the camera or a cameraman? Did you graphically reduce?

[@Cookiesports]

It’s an Insta360 on a unicorn mount! 👌👌 Link in description

[@moogskiandorra]

Great ideas but the fish eye lens gives a very bad perspective of what's going on.

[@Cookiesports]

Sorry about that- many more in the channel a bit less fishy! 🐠

[@kiwibloke2000]

you must be quite fit, mate, to not be out of breath like that.

[@Cookiesports]

Not really… just using the right technique to save energy! 😜

[@Dean0577]

Really

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍

[@JJMcClure]

That's not how you ski bumps. Regards, Mary Jane

[@Cookiesports]

🦄

[@inquistive]

Er, yes it is for the type of bumps he was skiing. Also he is showing how the average holiday skier might approach them. If he was to ski them at full tilt then we would see something different. Clearly you know little about skiing and so are not qualified to comment.

[@jogihaug9243]

Your skies could be more closed together and the moguls are not very high

[@Cookiesports]

Haha! Could be… 🤣

[@inquistive]

When you learn how to spell "skis" maybe you will be qualified to comment!

[@jogihaug9243]

@@inquistive thanks nerd

[@inquistive]

@@jogihaug9243 So knowing how to spell "skis" makes me a nerd, ha ha! If so , I would rather be a nerd than a dunce who cannot even spell "close".

[@jogihaug9243]

@@inquistive F B N ( Frustrated Brexit Nerd) 🤣

[@tod5098]

Brits teaching skiing? wtf???

[@Cookiesports]

Huh?! 🤷‍♂️

[@inquistive]

To become an ESF instructor is incredibly difficult and it doesn't matter which nationality you are the exam is the same. The fact that you don't know this shows how crap your own skiing must be.

[@garshaspnodan4633]

Buddy you are not a mogul skier, that's not how you ski bumps and this slope is not a mogul field either. Stick to what you can!

[@Cookiesports]

Haha! 🤣Thanks for confirming the points made in this video… -No, this is not a groomed moguls field, there are naturally formed bumps. -No, this is not how I’d ski a true moguls field, but this is a great trick for Skiing the mixed up irregular bumps like in this field! Let me know if you’re ever in ADH, I’d be happy to take you for some training on our World Cup bumps field we have here! 👍

[@DS44444]

I agree, this is basically a demonstration how NOT to do it :-)!

[@inquistive]

Well buddy, you have just demonstrated you don't know what you are talking about. This guy is a far better skier than you will ever be. You clearly don't know how good you have to be to be an ESF instructor.

[@h8marxists663]

Those aren’t “bumps” they’re ruts. So fun to watch you ski down a cat track for 10 minutes. WTF?!

[@Cookiesports]

Haha! Ruts not bumps! 🤣🤣

[@simonorr594]

Come to the East Coast and become a true bumper!!

[@Osnosis]

Yes, this is a rut-field, not a mogul run!

[@inquistive]

@@Osnosis As far as I know a mogul is formed by other skiers skiing in powder that is left ungroomed and this is exactly what this run is.

[@inquistive]

@@simonorr594 He doesn't need to go anywhere to be a "true bumper" as he already is. Like anyone else he can only ski what nature and other skiers provide on a given day.