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- From: mueller@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Frank Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Question to more advanced skiers (bumps)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.205932.22757@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Sender: mueller@delta (Frank Mueller)
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- Organization: Florida State University Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec21.035423.4667@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec23.183209.10821@gasco.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:59:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.035423.4667@wam.umd.edu>, bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
- > Dear more advanced skiers:
- > ...
- > 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.
-
- I suggest two stages of training:
-
- When you first learn to ski moguls, you should be told to initiate the turn
- while on top of the mogul and finish it in the "valley" right below. You
- should not turn back into the same mogul (too sharp) or into the next lower
- one (too wide). Make it a round turn with controlled, continuous edging (not
- abruptly) and, yes, steer back uphills for a short time if you are going too
- fast.
-
- You should follow the dotted line.
-
- ...>...
- >.../ /----\\
- / mogul\\
- <... /
- \......<../
-
- /-----\
- / mogul \
-
-
- You first try to make turns whenever you're in control, then every other
- mogul and finally every mogul.
-
- ----
-
- When I made the transition from intermediate to expert, someone told me to
- try to make two turns per mogul. This sounds impossible first, but when you
- take a slope which is not too steep and you try it, you will find out that
- you lose a lot of speed by turning more frequently. You can also increase
- the use of your edges to slow you down, i.e. each turn will be more emphasized
- such that your skis are almost parallel to the mountain (rather than facing
- downhills).
-
- ----
-
- When it gets real steep, there's only one way: You have to "jump" down from
- one mogul level to another. You need to keep your upper body extremly forwards
- to aviod losing control. If you even lean too much on the ends of your skie,
- you will gain speed in no time and get out of control.
-
- On the other hand, you can use this last hint in another way: If skiing becomes
- too boring, you make skiing on the ends of your skis into a new, challengin style:
- Again, go over the top of a mogul and while you initiate the turn, lean back
- to move your weight onto the ends of the skis. If the timing is right, your
- front ends of the skis will become airborne up to the binding, it will catapult
- you out of the modul and around the curve. You land facing the opposite (new)
- direction and go one with this until you're really tired. This looks really
- great since your skis are pointing 45 degree up into the skies.
-
- I'm sure someone can think of more variations...
-
- Frank
- mueller@cs.fsu.edu
-