Ski · Moguls · コブ技術

Mogul Bank Turn.

コブバンクターン

コブの裏側(バンク)を使った速度コントロール

Difficulty
Category
Type
Prerequisite
01

How to

Step by step
  1. Look at the moguls from the top and pick a line that links the wall-like back face of each bump (the bank).

    Instead of charging straight through the troughs on the shortest line, choose the longer, arcing line that connects the upper half of each wall. The slope of the wall pushes your body back inward as it tries to drift outward, so the turn comes around without you having to set a hard edge yourself, which keeps your speed in check.

  2. Enter the first bank.

    Run your skis along the upper half of the wall (near the crest), bend your knees and ankles softly (about 120 to 130 degrees at the knee), and let weight settle gently onto the ball of your outside foot (the one drifting downhill). If you lock your legs out straight you can't absorb the wall and you get bounced off, so keep the joints slightly bent to act as a cushion.

  3. With the skis riding the wall, keep your upper body facing down the hill (the fall line) and let only your hips and legs follow the curve of the wall.

    Send your eyes ahead to the second bank, not the wall you're on now. Because the slope of the wall does the work of changing your direction, there's no need to crank your arms or torso to force the turn.

  4. As you ride up near the crest of the bank, extend both knees in one quick move to lighten your body (unweighting) while rolling the pressure under your feet from the toe side to the heel side, or the reverse, to switch edges.

    The crest is where the wall flattens out most, so switching here makes the skis light and lets you steer toward the next wall with the least effort.

  5. At the same instant as the switch, lightly tap your downhill pole near the crest of the next bank.

    A placement rather than a hard plant is enough, and it becomes the metronome for your rhythm, evening out the spacing of your left and right turns.

  6. Repeat the rhythm from wall to wall, stringing arcs together without dropping into the troughs.

    If one wall slows you too much, use a bit lower on the next wall with a shallow angle; if you're too fast, use the upper half longer and deeper. Fine-tune speed by how high you place the skis on the wall.

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Tips & common mistakes

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Tips

Aim for the upper half of the wall. Up high the slope is steeper and pushes you back inward strongly; near the bottom it flattens and that push fades. Run through the bottom and you can't use the wall at all, turning it into a flat bump-bash that throws you off.

COMMON MISTAKE

You can't use the wall and drop into the trough → Your line is too low and you're hitting the flat, lower part of the wall. One wall early, send your eyes to the upper half of the next wall and re-aim your skis near the crest.

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