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- From: speedy@speedy.demon.co.uk (Jeffrey Holdgate)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!speedy.demon.co.uk!speedy
- Subject: Question to more advanced skiers (bumps)
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- References: <1992Dec21.155743.8308@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Organization: Jeffrey Holdgate Associates
- Lines: 36
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:08:59 +0000
- Message-ID: <725040539snx@speedy.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec21.155743.8308@brtph560.bnr.ca> woodstock!chris@mcnc.org writes:
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- >
- >In article <1992Dec21.035423.4667@wam.umd.edu>, bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak
- >Gohari) writes:
- >[...]
- >|> What I usually end up doing is (now don't laugh) to turn so that I actually
- >|> start going up the hill and lose the momentum. This sounds stupid, and
- >|> looks even worse, so my question is: is there any other way to stop on
- >|> bumps, especially many mini-bumps in a cluster? Thanks.
- >
- >Yeah. Fall down.
- >
- >I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, but unless you're to the point that
- >you can handle mogul-fields well, it's probably your best bet. Make
- >sure that you fall up-hill and not down-hill. Since you'll probably
- >just be falling into the steep side of a mogul, it's fairly easy to
- >get back up.
- >
- >You're gonna loose momentum no matter how you stop (unless you fall
- >downhill), so you just gotta find a better way to get rid of it. What
- >you want to do is hit the top of a mogul sideways, as you lean into the
- >hill. As you hit, let your chin hit your knees, and you've lost a lot
- >of momentum.
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------
- >Chris Fulmer Bell-Northern Research
- >Sr. Software Designer Research Triangle, NC
- >mail to woodstock!chris@mcnc.org (preferable) or...
- > chrisf@bnr.ca (not so preferable)
- >Oh yeah. The usual disclaimers apply here.
- >
- >
- Turning uphill to lose momentum (Counter turn) is a valid bump technique.
- J.
-