This is an extremely important technique to add to your armory, not just for the moguls but also for many other situations you will encounter as an expert skier. Traverse the moguls, slowly at first, absorbing them by allowing your legs to bend under tension so that as you come off a mogul they automatically spring back into the hollows. To understand this action hold your arm out horizontally and get a person to apply pressure to your hand. Gradually, as the pressure increases, let your arm bend while maintaining a degree of resistance. Ask the person to release the pressure by removing their hand, but to do so without any warning, and watch what happens. When the pressure is removed, your hand will shoot forward like a compressed spring. This is the reaction you want from your legs as you go through the moguls. Your upper body should remain at the same level throughout. As you become more confident, steepen the traverse angle.
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It will help if you imagine yourself balancing a book on your head or carrying a tray of glasses. Pay attention to the pressure under your feet and try to keep it constant. Focus on something ahead so that your eyes remain steady. If you keep looking at a mogul as you approach it, your head will drop forward and this may lead to you bending too much at the waist. Exercises like this help to keep the upper body quiet and give you feedback as to whether you are succeeding.
As you reach the crest of each mogul, breath out forcibly. The value of breathing correctly is immeasurable in mogul skiing. You can use your voice to help with this. Choose a word that describes the action and one that is naturally said with an expulsion of air, like FOLD or BEND, for example. As you approach the mogul say the word, stretching it out so it matches your skiing actions: FOOOOOLD. Place your pole plant just before the crest of each mogul, and as you go over, assuming the moguls are quite large, your head will normally be level with your hand.
Remember that as you come off a mogul you must extend your legs back into the trough in order to keep your body at the same level, this will then allow your legs the room they need to retract for the next mogul.
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