Product Description

The real mogul-skiing instruction you're looking for. Whether you want to ski gentle moguls with comfort and confidence, turn heads on your local mogul run, or compete in mogul contests, this book will give you the specialized techniques you need to reach your goal. In this first-of-its-kind book, mogul-skiing competitor Dan DiPiro reveals techniques that have remained largely unknown and unaddressed outside of competitive mogul-skiing circles. Most skiers try to ski moguls using only groomed-trail techniques, says DiPiro. But the bumps require a special set of techniques that have nothing to do with groomed-trail skiing. With an understanding of these special techniques, most fit, expert skiers can become good mogul skiers, and some can become excellent mogul skiers and even mogul competitors. For the aspiring mogul skier, this book is full of invaluable instruction. For the seasoned bumper, it's an ideal tune-up guide and a long-awaited affirmation. For all skiers interested in broadening their understanding of downhill skiing excellence, it's an original, eye-opening read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #258928 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-26
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Customer Reviews

Learn to ski the bumps!
For most skiers, there is nothing more terrifying than accidentally emerging at the top of a field of steep and deep moguls. If you're like I used to be, you deal with the situation by first shedding some tears, then bucking yourself up for the task ahead.

Resolute, you push off, then quickly panic as you watch the mogul and your skis drop away in front of you. Scared, you lean away from the horrifying chasm, the tails of your skis dig into the snow and you slam into the next mogul, fall, and cartwheel down the hill until you finally come to an ignoble stop.

That used to be my experience with moguls. I could do the steeps, I could do the deeps, but moguls constantly defeated me. My friends were more than eager to tell me what I was doing wrong. I practiced and practiced but it always seemed the key was beyond my grasp.

Then I read "Everything The Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing" by Dan DiPiro. It's a short book but it's full of great information.

One of the most important points is that you cannot use the same form on the moguls that you use on groomed slopes. It's important to change your stance to a "tall" position so your legs can absorb the bumps.

Another great tip is when Dan explains how to do the "rotary-powered" turns that are critical to mogul skiing. He debunks the idea that you can "carve" through the bumps.

There's a lot to learn from this book. Dan describes a series of techniques and exercises that will definitely help your bump skiing. I'm still not an expert but I've improved dramatically. I've had several great (but short) mogul runs where I made it through fairly smoothly on a good line. The feeling is exhilarating. I now seek out moguls so I can practice and, hopefully, re-experience that feeling.

Thanks Dan for writing this book.

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Our book "...is dog-eared and tattered from so much use that I may have to order another!"
I wish this great book was available when I first started skiing back in the 70's!

For years I tried to keep up with my friends in the moguls.
They were expert skiers, but they were not expert instructors;
and their teaching philosophy was watch and learn and try to keep up!

There were many times that I would be left in the dust picking up my gear
after a spectacular crash and yard sale.
I would get tips here and there, but getting real instruction from my friends
or ski magazines was like bleeding a rock. Plus, there was a lot of misinformation
that made mogul skiing even more confusing.

Then, Dan's book came out cleared up all of the misconceptions about mogul
skiing that I had "learned."
It was like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz!
Thanks to Dan, my bump skiing has hit a new level and now I'm ripping through the moguls.

My 12 year old son has benefited as well and we never go skiing without taking
our "mogul book!" In fact, the book is dog-eared and tattered from so much use
that I may have to order another!!

Thanks Dan for writing and publishing this great book. I can't wait to ski the moguls
again and now look forward to each new season with anticipation!!

Finally I get it!
I want to change the title to "Everything your husband never told you about mogul skiing".My husband and I ski groomed trails together with about the same proficiency. I have tried for years to follow my husband down mogul runs,with very little success.He skis fast through the bumps and I am left behind to "survive" the bumps. Last season I took a ladies clinic and granted little time was spent on moguls, but what they did teach was all about where to turn on the mogul and somrthing about going in a door and out a door!Just like with my husband it was lots of talk about "choosing my line" meanwhile no one ever says it is a totally different way to ski from CARVING the groomed slopes. Now in defense of my spouse he learned to ski as a kid and has a very Austrian (pre-shaped ski) legs close together steering (not carving)style of skiing so maybe it never occured to him to tell me that I needed to change my stance and the way I ski to do the moguls. I read the book on the way up to Vermont and tried to practice the drills as much as I could on the groomed stuff and felt great. It was a crowded weekend and I was with my 4 kids and so I didn't get as much time to traverse the moguls and practice some of the skills, but I can already say that my mind-set is totally different and I am confident that I can ski the moguls because now I "get it!" I just wish I had a few hours to myself and a soft mogul run to go at it!