Cannon Mogul-Vaders

This is the not-so-official place for Cannon Mountain Mogul-Vaders. You'll find the Cannon Mogul-Vaders, along with Coaches Scott and Leo, ripping up the bumps every Saturday and Sunday morning at Cannon Mountain, Franconia New Hampshire.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

The Importance of Flats Training

Hey, Mogul Vaders! Dan DiPiro, here. Hope you're all having a good season, and I hope you'll see some bumps at Cannon this week.

I just drove by the front five and they were looking pretty flat. When the weather doesn't cooperate and everything on the mountain is groomed flat like this, remember the importance of groomed-trail (flats) training. You can, and should, work on nearly all of your mogul skiing skills on the flats. The Finnish World Cup mogul skiers value flats training so much that they do as much or more of it than actual mogul skiing! Even when there are no bumps, you can still work on your...
  • poling and hand position
  • body posture (upright torso, hips driving down the hill)
  • narrow mogul skier's stance
  • fast turns in the fall line
  • vision (look down the hill, Like Coach Scott says in a previous post)

Work on this stuff on the flats and, when the bumps show up, you'll just need to add absorption and extension and you'll be ready to rip!

-Dan

posted by Dan DiPiro @ 12:56 PM  

1 Comments:

  • At 5:11 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Dan,

    Thanks so much for your post.

    Dan and I have spent entire days practicing just what he describes.

    Last weekend I came down to where the group was stopped with a fury of tight turns on a flat steep stretch on Tramline. She laughingly referred to my turns as looking like a "bumblebee" and suggested that as a blog name for me. I might just do that.

    That's really a pretty accurate description of how a bump skier should ski the flats.

    When I ski flats I try to "envision" bumps.

    I call them "make believe bumps."

    Ain't this a great sport???

    Coach Leo

     

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