I could watch her do that edge change drill on the flats for hours, so amazing. And the upper body and hands, soooo still & calm. Olivia has inspired me to work on quiet hands this year.
So good. Love that edge to edge! So tight! I think it would be good to do a video on stance width. In the old days, from an aesthetic standpoint, tight stance was everything, instructors have told me about exams where they had to hold a handkerchief between their knees as they skied. However, this had limitations in all-mountain type conditions, icy conditions for example. Now the basic PSIA stance taught is quite wide, in fact they really discourage a tight stance. However, as we see, a tight stance is appropriate and indeed necessary for high level mogul skiing, and a good choice in crud. Maybe it's to avoid confusion, and kind of just teach one basic stance that can kind of work everywhere, but I think a "stance width explained" type video would be helpful, because I think a lot of people are being taught now that that a tight stance isn't "correct", when the answer really should be "it depends".
Olivia skis carved edge to edge turns (not sure if one can call them turns as her upper body is moving straight down the hill) in the bumps down the zipper line. When I ski “recreational” bumps, I use a skidded turn to control my speed as I gently make my way through the moguls. Different techniques for different purposes! Thanks for another interesting and informative video !! Happy New Year!
Based on my experience, it depends on the ski. It's tones easier to skid a turn on a K2 244 than on a Hart F-17. She is on a ID-ONE MR-CE, pretty stiff for a girl. It's just the nature of the ski. Even on an MR-D, much softer, I still can't quite skid as on other skis. I'd say that "theme and variation" applies for any particular ski. I have to adjust quite a bit depending on the moguls ski I'm on. But I do love to skid a turn on the Mamba. The MR-D has the best absorption, but I have to work it foot to foot and knee lead. I feel like on an old 1980 ski, despite it's modern looks, and it want's you to hit and absorb any little bump you can find anywhere on the mountain. The F-!7 feels synthetic and stiff, less absorption, but very agile, less foot to foot. I have to work them like a mono ski. They are all moguls skis, but the approach is different. She skis those moguls amazingly well. I bet she could skid pretty nice on a softer ski, but she can't quite bent that CE. Too stiff for her weight, but it helps her go faster and win in competition. But going fast to win is not the same as taking time to enjoy. It's like running the 100 yards vs dancing The Blue Danube Waltz. I like older style skis like the Mamba too. The modern ones are too focused on fast competition and big airs. That's why they loose a lot of the real flavor of a softer mogul ski for the benefit of winning competitions. Maybe mogul skiing should be more about style, and less about time. Like in the 70s and 80s.
Ha, I've been telling myself you'll never learn to ski moguls unless you spend all your time on the moguls. But I get the importance of preparing for it on the groomers. Can't wait to work on this drill. This one goes straight into my mogul skiing playlist.
I took lessons last season to improve my mogul skiing. First time out with my instructor we did not even ski a single mogul. It was all fundamentals and getting my feet fully engaged. After three half days I was much improved. It’s counter intuitive but it is true!!
@@bobakfarzin6916 I believe it. I'm a solid skier everywhere except moguls. I'll get down any but won't be pretty. The kind of work this video shows (very narrow stance and especially the upper body) isn't something I normally do on the slopes so it's at least a part of the puzzle. Thanks.
I've been doing this edge change drill(which is very fun) on the flats for a few days now and it's absolutely amazing how much more nimble I feel. My carving short turns have benefitted the most!
Olivia's quickness is jaw dropping. Deb - a 5 STAR performance filming in the bumps. I was cringing since it takes me 110% concentration to just ski the bumps.
What I love about this video is the presence of good fundamentals with a twist. The goals of a mogul skier may be very different than that of your "average" skier. The fundamentals are applied here very appropriately. Theme and variation!
You and Olivia are stellar and inspiring, Deb, Thx! That edge-to-edge action is AMAZING. I'd REALLY enjoy a video (series?) on how recreational skiers can use pro mogul techniques/drills on recreational bumps to bridge the technique/style gap between "negotiating" (rec) and "zippering"(pro). For example, how can one use/develop the pro style and form but have a little more rounded turns to lessen the impact to our ever-aging bodies.
I’m a very advanced mogul skier and the one item I never considered was the grip of the pole but have fallen victim to keeping my grip open. Very cool. Although I do this naturally there are times when I’ve been thrown off due to the pole getting behind me. Great stuff. Thanks from Utah.
3:37 - “ok, she lost me…. You’re a mogul skier and you lost me” High praise indeed coming from a downhill racer. I see confidence, poise and elegance in this young skier. Charming. Thank you, Deb, for spotlighting Olivia for this video. She is a natural at demonstrating technique and you were masterful at capturing it. While I may never be able to roll my knees the way she does, for fear of dislocating something, I once again learned something new I can use from these video shorts that you are doing. Hope you can keep them coming.
I've never seen that side to side angulation exercise in the beginning before but it makes so much sense on how she uses that to reinforce and transition to moguls and quick, short turns. Priceless tip for me at least - worth more than a lesson.
You rock, Deb! You’ve single-handedly accelerated my progression in PSIA like no one else online. Keep up the amazing work! Your videos are such a joy to watch!
AWESOME! Envy Olivia's opening groomed skiing sequence swiveling with skis close together. Takes a certain kind of body leg structure and skis to do so. Understood long ago my legs cannot even using my narrow Twisters without feeling awkward so do not. However I can and often do play fast edge switching lead change games like that on easy groomed but with more ski separation but same optimal tucked against knee switching with each tip constantly moving ahead. What she does at 2:22 is a favorite show off game. Notice how quiet her upper body is while doing so and how she has a kind of arch in her upper torso. In my POV videos, one can see that in my shadow dance. Something not mentioned when describing a stacked alignment maybe because in comp moguls it detracts from an overly idealized aesthetic. Liked what she said at 4:10 about one-foot despite appearing like she is swiveling on two skis. At 6:30 Bobby talks about hand/arm position as an arm box. That is similar to when I describe holding up and aiming an imaginary car steering wheel as it uses similar brain motor control mechanisms. At 7:05 Oliva describes the difference for her between comp and rec moguls. 7:48 DA >>"Do you enjoy skiing recreational bumps?" OG >>"Yeah, yea, I didn't used to. Yeah yeah I definitely. Especially when they're soft. Thus she obviously was very comp mogul focused when young and after developing superb technique became accomplished also in rec bumps as neural plasticity of her visual system to motor brain became automatic finding much dynamic rebounding visceral enjoyment in the constantly variable shaped visual game. Bobby is a master at holding a camera through moguls videoing others. I'd love to ski bumps for fun with any of them. See this old guy on Heavenly Little Dipper bumps at www.youtube.com/@davids1586
David, Thanks for sharing your Little Dipper runs. Do you have any that are not POV? My son loves that run. We'll be up there 4 or 5 Sundays this season. Maybe we can meet up one day? Here is his video: ua-cam.com/video/ssY8_YakVhc/v-deo.html
watching someone with her degree of skill and having been a skier instructor for more than 25 years I see what an extraordinary degree of balance in motion. All of the greats have that, having skied with some great skiers and clinicians through the years that is the kind of movements that inspires us to want to ski better. Sadly most of us never reach that level but we keep trying.
I've watched this video at least 4 times now, even pausing to make sure I fully understand what is being communicated. It's truly pure gold what you, Olivia, & Bobby are revealing in this video. It's also great to know that I can improve my mogul skiing on piste & even flat terrain. Thanks so much!
Good tutorial on the bumpage.. My warm up is what i call the hourglass ....similar to the funnel y'all demonstrated with an inverse funnel immediately thereafter...hence an hourglass shape....work great on long runs then you're ready for the trenches
One of my favorite videos ever! Deb specifically mentions at 1:20 that lead change isn't something they focus on in racing. But in Deb's "Edging, Training the Elite Skier" about a minute into the video, John Leffler is shown training drills of what appears to be retraction of the strong, downhill leg in a very deliberate manner affecting lead change. As my only qualifications are "I like skiing", I may be confusing John's drills with practicing lead change. The other video is here: ua-cam.com/video/jSJR4sqR8pU/v-deo.html
I wonder what flex and how loose her boots are. I’d say her lateral range is a really small box, even her fore-aft is relatively small. Conversely, seems like a lot of ankle flex and release which a high flex boot would make difficult for a lesser trained athlete.
I love that you had different camera angles and you asked her the great question about skiing irregular "normal" moguls. I'm going to show this to my 13 year old son who loves the moguls. At 6:09 when you said "Heavenly" I started looking for Lake Tahoe :-) Please come and visit us in California!
One of my favorite videos from your channel! I love the focus on the fundamentals and very inspiring from Olivia. Thanks Deb for continuing to curate fantastic skiing content.
Deb and Olivia. This exercise helped so much with moguls. You are right, it happens so fast you can’t see it. Mogul skiing is now a different level and love this exercise. BTW Deb, your channel is fantastic! So much good advice and instruction. Keep it up
I love this. As a tele skier I struggled with bumps for years. The problem was just that I felt like I couldn't control my line and just got shoved around by the shaope of the troughs, and I always fell after 2 or 3 turns. The thing that fixed it was just a bunch of drills on groomers. Falling leaf and side slipping and tele basics like keeping the hands out front. I also do a drill where I pack as many short distance turns into as short of a hill as possible, just quick kick turns to pop 180 degrees and keep the torso downhill, really exaggerated. The funny thing is that none of this was exercises I did in bumps, and I only spent about 15 minutes a session really drilling it. Then one day it just clicked, I and I just had enough fast control to stay in charge of my line and see a couple of turns ahead to know how to react. I'm in my 60s and can now tele through blue and many black runs nicely, though it wears out the muscles FAST. 😁 Also agree about playing n the top of the bumps. Good snow there long after the troughs are iced up. Also, I loved that tip about wrist direction, It's little stuff like that that you have a hard time learning alone.
No better concise explanations on the internet. When Olivia starts that outside ski pressure at the beginning of her 1st demo, it's so demonstrative. And it's only better when coach Bobby joins you. I cannot thank you enough. You are a ski bum encyclopedia. Keep em coming! And I know you will.
Lots of elements I use in my day to day coaching. I use the funnel exercise all the time for various reasons, typically as a warm up for a rotary exercise but there's certainly other ways it can be used. When i took my level 3 my examiner had us ski funnel line in very steep moguls after several inches of fresh snow had fallen on crusty moguls. That was humbling. The ski lead thing is interesting becuase I think of it as more of a byproduct of separation between the upper and lower body but I do mention it when teaching but don't make it my main focus. But when I teach switch skiing I focus heavily on ski lead so the hips stay open and allow our shoulders and head to be able to look down hill.
Interesting. Watching her on the fresh groom feels a bit robotic but when you see her actually tackling moguls, you really get how it all falls into place. I do find, personally, that it’s very aerobic to do moguls in this style but less fun than a more classic carving style that gives you that exhilarating feeling of falling versus trying to stick to the mountain for efficiency.
Deb, NO DISRESPECT, but bear with me. I totally didn't 'get' you when I first watched you around three years ago. Teaching a child I thought you were loud and a bit patronising. A good level one instructor at best. How wrong was I! I had no idea who you were but I do now. I now see the loudness as clarity. Crystal clear clarity. The patronising, as you finding anything to praise and highlighting those points, you see all the negatives but put those to one side to work on later. You highlight all the details. You make everything so clear it's easy to understand and the way you film makes it easy to visualise what you're saying. From directly above the skier or directly below makes things very easy to understand alongside your commentary. You put other instructor's videos to shame. I wanted you to know how much I look forward to your videos now, as do many others. From walking around your kitchen making Sourdough bread with your Dad and dogs, to interviews with the greats on ski lifts and elsewhere your relaxed manner is a pleasure to watch. I can't get enough of you now. Thanks very much for all you do and long may it continue.
Well glad you have more clarity now😉 Folks are quick to judge, see only their bias or viewpoint. I see that all the time. Glad your view broadened. Thank you for the comment
Interesting. I never felt she was patronizing even in the slightest. It’s a good reminder we all interpret things differently. Happy you see her for what she is now. Hats off to deb. A real legend.
From my perspective as and old Certified Tennis Teaching Professional and lifetime skier I immediately admired your teaching skills and methods. I understand it’s a bias but teachers recognize talented teachers. It’s one thing to have knowledge and skills but it takes a special perspective and personality to effectively teach. Deb teachers as well as she skis🙏🙏
Wow.. thanks for this.. I am doing moguls since 10 years in Austria with Tati Mitermaier. what a great Video and help. great posture and great explanation.Thanks.
Also worth a look is Steven Fearing (level 4 SI - Canada) 'How to ski Moguls' for how to switch (pull boot back under your) skis. Switching pressure's, the boot tongue, bends the knee, which frees up the Knees and/or hips to turn/steer your skis around... Not taking anything away from Bobby Aldighieri who obviously is world class.
beautiful skiing! You have to have a bit of style when you ski. Started racing a few years ago, due to lack of bumps in winter. All the racers and coaches fill your head with engineering schematics on how to turn when it should be so much more basic and naturally explained. In the first 2 years I struggled badly, then I said screw this and just went with came naturally and immediately started to have dramatic leaps in success on the course. It wasn't what other racers called good technique but it works for me and besides that it is fun. Doing an entire movement without thinking about the 20 individual parts of it. Mogul skiers rock!
here again, you produce a great video of a great skier. ive never seen a mogul technique video that offered this perspective of the feet, edging and angulation, its fascinating. she skis beautifully, and is a master of the 5 skiing fundamentals, their integration, and application to mogul skiing. the fundamentals in mogul skiing do work differently, compared to alpine racing disciplines like slalom and gs. the upper body is much more quiet, with no hip angulation, no pole swing, finishing the turn with tail skidding. i might try these techniques on groomers
I've been practicing the quick edge change drill on my Gunbarrels on groomers. It's much tougher than she makes it look. It would have been interesting if Deb had shown her attempt at doing the drill on bump skis in the video.
Please consider this. Turn on the back of the mogul. Carve the turn. Never slide into the bottom. Transfer the turn at the gap between moguls. Level out the terrain and skip all of the drama. Just keep the carving high on the back of any mogul. This leaves more options more control less effort. You will never win the contest but you will be more successful, stable, confident and make everyone look like mogul skiers except you. You will look like a groomer slope skier. Play the slope off from the frequency it offers and ski a more flat line around the tops and before the bottom of the line. This is how you make it look easy and as a 54 year old skier I can ski the big nasty chop wind pack in moguls. With a grin.
Great Video Deb. Thank you so much for taking the time to film Olivia ! She has really sweet turns on the flats, I can see Bobbys influence too. Awesome! We are all students of the art🙏
You can stand at the top of a mogul field and see the lines. But if you can't ski on the flats like Olivia does here you will not be able to ski the line at speed in the moguls. Her fast rhythmic windshield wiper like motion rolling from knee to knee is superb. I would like to see less talking in this video and a lot more of Olivia skiing especially to see her ski the same way through deep moguls.
6:56 look at the difference in stance width here. I don't feel at all stable skiing with my feet pinned together even on a catwalk, lol, although a narrow stance is definitely useful in the moguls...so I ski more like the blue
oh man, I wish Olivia was wearing race suits or some sort of tights, I want to see those knee movements... harder to see while she's wearing loose pants.
Nice to see some skis with quite a gentle sidecut and how helpful that is for rapid direction changes without a wide stance, which I assume would lead to a lot of unhelpful scrubbing in moguls (my mogul technique is kind of comedic). I'm not a fan of the broad tips and tails that seem to get pushed on skiers. They have their place and are fun to use for the slingshot effect of a hard-carve, but for getting around a mountain and enjoying different terrain I think they can be quite limiting. Maybe that's just because I spent half my ski-life on the old straight planks.
Also going to recommend this vid to people I'm introducing to scissoring to initiate a turn, as Olivia's fore-aft foot-switching is a delight to watch.
There are plenty junior moguls skis around, but I agree. Big push to sell whatever makes money, and not necessarily what would make most sense. When I'm on my ski resort looking around, I feel everyone is geared up for some heli skiing in Alaska. It's solid or ice most of the time, just about perfect for those 117s and 127s. I can't stop laughing. When they see my narrow skis, I get a lot of "are you just learning how to ski ?". I go, "yes, can you show me some mogul technique on those tongue depressors?" It's funny how they judge your skills on the lift based on the width of your skis. Sometimes they talk a lot of technicalities and completely ignore anything I may add or have to say. It's like, "you're on narrow skis, you don't know anything." :) Then we meet somewhere on the mountain and that's the end of their expertise...:)
I always enjoy your videos and learn something new. But, this one is top-notch. The interview format is a great addition with the chance to dig into some little details (e.g. hand position) in ways that get lost sometimes in more lecture formats.
Not a fan of the "hotdogger" (legs together at all costs) technique. I know it's a thing. But as a ski instructor from the ATM days of honest to goodness carving, the slalom gate technique is so basic to ripping up any terrain that this hotdogger style just makes me shake my head. To each his own I guess. (In all fairness her technique is great. And her and her former coach do talk about the fundamentals of gs-type carving. Then go into derail about how "it's all about the angle of the downhill ski," which is correct. But when a less technically proficient and less physically gifted skier tries to emulate this bump skier look, they often get their weight thrown back, shoulders back and before long their center of gravity is back and they're quickly out of control.)
Ok its mogul skiing.. not complete turns. Hole lot of pivot and steering.not riding a edge. Zipper line skiing is hard because not enough speed control for the average skier .which is way world class mogul skiing is so hard .my point is not for the average bear
The “average bear” to use your terminology is generally wise enough to see that this is one of the best mogul skiers in the world, several podiums this year, and is sharing per perspective and insight to her focus. My channel covers all things skiing which includes windows into the mindset, technique, equipment etc of the worlds best. I also cover beginners. I don’t get comments on my beginner videos as they are wedging criticizing the video because the wedge is not how experts ski. If you are an informed skier you will realize there are many levels to the sport, many different types of turns depending on what you are trying to accomplish, many different motivations for different individuals, etc. your comment seems to imply one turn to fit “the average bear”. This video has a lot of views. Possibly the average bear likes to see what the pros are thinking about
WOW! Good stuff. I learned a lot specifically she keeps the upper body moving down the hill, very stable, no excess movements while the lower body is doing it's thing. And the pole plants are not exaggerated and so subtle. She's very good at her craft.
Fabulous up-close interview/ demo w. Olivia Giaccio including warmups! Wow! Reilly McGlashan's demo is great to compare as well. (hope my posting the link's OK?) ua-cam.com/users/shortsaCCitsQRJDA?feature=share
I love your videos very much. I learned many things from them and try them on the slope when I have a chance. They have helped me a lot. I’m still a lower intermediate skier but I will keep learning and hopefully improving. Thank you. By the way, are you sure she is skiing? It looks like windscreen wiper 😂😂
Fantastic video! To have Olivia share her tips with you is special indeed! There's a reason why she is one of the top-ranked mogul skiers in the world. Also special thanks to Bobby Alidigeri for sharing his tips on how to make a proper pole plant in the bumps. Love your videos, Deb. Keep up the good work.
A mogul competitor also has to be intentional with their upper body (and especially hand discipline) because they're being judged on it. I think that a "civilian" can ski zipper-line moguls well with a slightly more natural style than Olivia's, though obviously you can't ever get away with getting backseat, banked, spun, or dropping a hand.
I've watched this video at least 4 times now, even pausing to make sure I fully understand what is being communicated. It's truly pure gold what you, Olivia, & Bobby are revealing in this video. It's also great to know that I can improve my mogul skiing on piste & even flat terrain. Thanks so much!
I could watch her do that edge change drill on the flats for hours, so amazing. And the upper body and hands, soooo still & calm. Olivia has inspired me to work on quiet hands this year.
Deb, you are a very dear and special person! Your vids have such an awesome friendly vib. An the content is super, as usual! Best!
I love watching this video. Pinky toe on edge! Simple and memorable.
So good. Love that edge to edge! So tight! I think it would be good to do a video on stance width. In the old days, from an aesthetic standpoint, tight stance was everything, instructors have told me about exams where they had to hold a handkerchief between their knees as they skied. However, this had limitations in all-mountain type conditions, icy conditions for example. Now the basic PSIA stance taught is quite wide, in fact they really discourage a tight stance. However, as we see, a tight stance is appropriate and indeed necessary for high level mogul skiing, and a good choice in crud. Maybe it's to avoid confusion, and kind of just teach one basic stance that can kind of work everywhere, but I think a "stance width explained" type video would be helpful, because I think a lot of people are being taught now that that a tight stance isn't "correct", when the answer really should be "it depends".
Nice comment and idea for a new video! Thank you
Olivia skis carved edge to edge turns (not sure if one can call them turns as her upper body is moving straight down the hill) in the bumps down the zipper line. When I ski “recreational” bumps, I use a skidded turn to control my speed as I gently make my way through the moguls. Different techniques for different purposes! Thanks for another interesting and informative video !! Happy New Year!
Based on my experience, it depends on the ski. It's tones easier to skid a turn on a K2 244 than on a Hart F-17. She is on a ID-ONE MR-CE, pretty stiff for a girl. It's just the nature of the ski. Even on an MR-D, much softer, I still can't quite skid as on other skis.
I'd say that "theme and variation" applies for any particular ski. I have to adjust quite a bit depending on the moguls ski I'm on. But I do love to skid a turn on the Mamba. The MR-D has the best absorption, but I have to work it foot to foot and knee lead. I feel like on an old 1980 ski, despite it's modern looks, and it want's you to hit and absorb any little bump you can find anywhere on the mountain. The F-!7 feels synthetic and stiff, less absorption, but very agile, less foot to foot. I have to work them like a mono ski. They are all moguls skis, but the approach is different.
She skis those moguls amazingly well. I bet she could skid pretty nice on a softer ski, but she can't quite bent that CE. Too stiff for her weight, but it helps her go faster and win in competition. But going fast to win is not the same as taking time to enjoy. It's like running the 100 yards vs dancing The Blue Danube Waltz.
I like older style skis like the Mamba too. The modern ones are too focused on fast competition and big airs. That's why they loose a lot of the real flavor of a softer mogul ski for the benefit of winning competitions. Maybe mogul skiing should be more about style, and less about time. Like in the 70s and 80s.
Ha, I've been telling myself you'll never learn to ski moguls unless you spend all your time on the moguls. But I get the importance of preparing for it on the groomers.
Can't wait to work on this drill.
This one goes straight into my mogul skiing playlist.
I took lessons last season to improve my mogul skiing. First time out with my instructor we did not even ski a single mogul. It was all fundamentals and getting my feet fully engaged. After three half days I was much improved. It’s counter intuitive but it is true!!
@@bobakfarzin6916 I believe it. I'm a solid skier everywhere except moguls. I'll get down any but won't be pretty. The kind of work this video shows (very narrow stance and especially the upper body) isn't something I normally do on the slopes so it's at least a part of the puzzle. Thanks.
Knees of rubber! Amazing.
Wow she ski's so good. Great video
I've been doing this edge change drill(which is very fun) on the flats for a few days now and it's absolutely amazing how much more nimble I feel. My carving short turns have benefitted the most!
That mogul-style short-turn is a thing of beauty.
Olivia's quickness is jaw dropping. Deb - a 5 STAR performance filming in the bumps. I was cringing since it takes me 110% concentration to just ski the bumps.
What I love about this video is the presence of good fundamentals with a twist. The goals of a mogul skier may be very different than that of your "average" skier. The fundamentals are applied here very appropriately. Theme and variation!
You and Olivia are stellar and inspiring, Deb, Thx! That edge-to-edge action is AMAZING.
I'd REALLY enjoy a video (series?) on how recreational skiers can use pro mogul techniques/drills on recreational bumps to bridge the technique/style gap between "negotiating" (rec) and "zippering"(pro). For example, how can one use/develop the pro style and form but have a little more rounded turns to lessen the impact to our ever-aging bodies.
I think the most impressive thing about this video is how effortlessly Deb follows along with the camera.
Actually, in this video, Deb reveals elswhere in the comments section that it's actually Bobby wielding the camera (for all the action footage).
I’m a very advanced mogul skier and the one item I never considered was the grip of the pole but have fallen victim to keeping my grip open. Very cool. Although I do this naturally there are times when I’ve been thrown off due to the pole getting behind me. Great stuff. Thanks from Utah.
3:37 - “ok, she lost me…. You’re a mogul skier and you lost me” High praise indeed coming from a downhill racer.
I see confidence, poise and elegance in this young skier. Charming. Thank you, Deb, for spotlighting Olivia for this video. She is a natural at demonstrating technique and you were masterful at capturing it. While I may never be able to roll my knees the way she does, for fear of dislocating something, I once again learned something new I can use from these video shorts that you are doing. Hope you can keep them coming.
Good mogul skiers can smoke anybody on any terrain. Not high praise or surprising at all
I've never seen that side to side angulation exercise in the beginning before but it makes so much sense on how she uses that to reinforce and transition to moguls and quick, short turns. Priceless tip for me at least - worth more than a lesson.
You rock, Deb! You’ve single-handedly accelerated my progression in PSIA like no one else online. Keep up the amazing work! Your videos are such a joy to watch!
Thanks!!!!!
I agree. I hope I see you on the mountain someday to say “thanks Deb!”
Terrific camera and audio work. Really a level above. And what a darling subject that is the essence of maybe honesty.
AWESOME!
Envy Olivia's opening groomed skiing sequence swiveling with skis close together. Takes a certain kind of body leg structure and skis to do so. Understood long ago my legs cannot even using my narrow Twisters without feeling awkward so do not. However I can and often do play fast edge switching lead change games like that on easy groomed but with more ski separation but same optimal tucked against knee switching with each tip constantly moving ahead. What she does at 2:22 is a favorite show off game. Notice how quiet her upper body is while doing so and how she has a kind of arch in her upper torso. In my POV videos, one can see that in my shadow dance. Something not mentioned when describing a stacked alignment maybe because in comp moguls it detracts from an overly idealized aesthetic. Liked what she said at 4:10 about one-foot despite appearing like she is swiveling on two skis.
At 6:30 Bobby talks about hand/arm position as an arm box. That is similar to when I describe holding up and aiming an imaginary car steering wheel as it uses similar brain motor control mechanisms.
At 7:05 Oliva describes the difference for her between comp and rec moguls.
7:48 DA >>"Do you enjoy skiing recreational bumps?"
OG >>"Yeah, yea, I didn't used to. Yeah yeah I definitely. Especially when they're soft.
Thus she obviously was very comp mogul focused when young and after developing superb technique became accomplished also in rec bumps as neural plasticity of her visual system to motor brain became automatic finding much dynamic rebounding visceral enjoyment in the constantly variable shaped visual game. Bobby is a master at holding a camera through moguls videoing others. I'd love to ski bumps for fun with any of them.
See this old guy on Heavenly Little Dipper bumps at www.youtube.com/@davids1586
David, Thanks for sharing your Little Dipper runs. Do you have any that are not POV?
My son loves that run. We'll be up there 4 or 5 Sundays this season. Maybe we can meet up one day? Here is his video:
ua-cam.com/video/ssY8_YakVhc/v-deo.html
That's fascinating! Super useful for a bad skier like me.
Please do more videos on moguls! I'm learning how to do them and could really use some input on how to start learning them. Thanks!
watching someone with her degree of skill and having been a skier instructor for more than 25 years I see what an extraordinary degree of balance in motion. All of the greats have that, having skied with some great skiers and clinicians through the years that is the kind of movements that inspires us to want to ski better. Sadly most of us never reach that level but we keep trying.
I've watched this video at least 4 times now, even pausing to make sure I fully understand what is being communicated. It's truly pure gold what you, Olivia, & Bobby are revealing in this video. It's also great to know that I can improve my mogul skiing on piste & even flat terrain. Thanks so much!
Good tutorial on the bumpage..
My warm up is what i call the hourglass ....similar to the funnel y'all demonstrated with an inverse funnel immediately thereafter...hence an hourglass shape....work great on long runs then you're ready for the trenches
Those turns are just amazing - something to aim (and never reach) for. Great video as always
Can’t telll you how much I enjoy your videos deb. Many times just for your wonderful personality, but when it’s mogul related I’m fully locked in!!!
One of my favorite videos ever!
Deb specifically mentions at 1:20 that lead change isn't something they focus on in racing. But in Deb's "Edging, Training the Elite Skier" about a minute into the video, John Leffler is shown training drills of what appears to be retraction of the strong, downhill leg in a very deliberate manner affecting lead change.
As my only qualifications are "I like skiing", I may be confusing John's drills with practicing lead change.
The other video is here: ua-cam.com/video/jSJR4sqR8pU/v-deo.html
Yep, that’s a fair point.
I wonder what flex and how loose her boots are.
I’d say her lateral range is a really small box, even her fore-aft is relatively small. Conversely, seems like a lot of ankle flex and release which a high flex boot would make difficult for a lesser trained athlete.
I love that you had different camera angles and you asked her the great question about skiing irregular "normal" moguls. I'm going to show this to my 13 year old son who loves the moguls.
At 6:09 when you said "Heavenly" I started looking for Lake Tahoe :-) Please come and visit us in California!
One of my favorite videos from your channel! I love the focus on the fundamentals and very inspiring from Olivia. Thanks Deb for continuing to curate fantastic skiing content.
I was skiing chopped pow and bumps today, and remembered the stuff about the arm box and it cleaned up my turns right away.
I have to say, your video is amazing!!!! Bring lots of good questions to professionals. Those athletes are awesome, and you are awesome too
Deb and Olivia. This exercise helped so much with moguls. You are right, it happens so fast you can’t see it. Mogul skiing is now a different level and love this exercise. BTW Deb, your channel is fantastic! So much good advice and instruction. Keep it up
Fantastic!!!!
I love this.
As a tele skier I struggled with bumps for years. The problem was just that I felt like I couldn't control my line and just got shoved around by the shaope of the troughs, and I always fell after 2 or 3 turns.
The thing that fixed it was just a bunch of drills on groomers. Falling leaf and side slipping and tele basics like keeping the hands out front. I also do a drill where I pack as many short distance turns into as short of a hill as possible, just quick kick turns to pop 180 degrees and keep the torso downhill, really exaggerated. The funny thing is that none of this was exercises I did in bumps, and I only spent about 15 minutes a session really drilling it.
Then one day it just clicked, I and I just had enough fast control to stay in charge of my line and see a couple of turns ahead to know how to react. I'm in my 60s and can now tele through blue and many black runs nicely, though it wears out the muscles FAST. 😁
Also agree about playing n the top of the bumps. Good snow there long after the troughs are iced up.
Also, I loved that tip about wrist direction, It's little stuff like that that you have a hard time learning alone.
No better concise explanations on the internet. When Olivia starts that outside ski pressure at the beginning of her 1st demo, it's so demonstrative. And it's only better when coach Bobby joins you. I cannot thank you enough. You are a ski bum encyclopedia. Keep em coming! And I know you will.
Lots of elements I use in my day to day coaching. I use the funnel exercise all the time for various reasons, typically as a warm up for a rotary exercise but there's certainly other ways it can be used. When i took my level 3 my examiner had us ski funnel line in very steep moguls after several inches of fresh snow had fallen on crusty moguls. That was humbling. The ski lead thing is interesting becuase I think of it as more of a byproduct of separation between the upper and lower body but I do mention it when teaching but don't make it my main focus. But when I teach switch skiing I focus heavily on ski lead so the hips stay open and allow our shoulders and head to be able to look down hill.
Sounds like a lot of crap to distract people from what's really important. This is why most ski coaching is completely bunk
Interesting. Watching her on the fresh groom feels a bit robotic but when you see her actually tackling moguls, you really get how it all falls into place. I do find, personally, that it’s very aerobic to do moguls in this style but less fun than a more classic carving style that gives you that exhilarating feeling of falling versus trying to stick to the mountain for efficiency.
The wife and I will see how many turns we can make on simple familiar runs. Breaks some boredom and add some giggles. Camera work...outstanding BTW
Deb, NO DISRESPECT, but bear with me. I totally didn't 'get' you when I first watched you around three years ago. Teaching a child I thought you were loud and a bit patronising. A good level one instructor at best. How wrong was I! I had no idea who you were but I do now. I now see the loudness as clarity. Crystal clear clarity. The patronising, as you finding anything to praise and highlighting those points, you see all the negatives but put those to one side to work on later. You highlight all the details. You make everything so clear it's easy to understand and the way you film makes it easy to visualise what you're saying. From directly above the skier or directly below makes things very easy to understand alongside your commentary. You put other instructor's videos to shame. I wanted you to know how much I look forward to your videos now, as do many others. From walking around your kitchen making Sourdough bread with your Dad and dogs, to interviews with the greats on ski lifts and elsewhere your relaxed manner is a pleasure to watch. I can't get enough of you now. Thanks very much for all you do and long may it continue.
Well glad you have more clarity now😉
Folks are quick to judge, see only their bias or viewpoint. I see that all the time. Glad your view broadened. Thank you for the comment
Interesting. I never felt she was patronizing even in the slightest. It’s a good reminder we all interpret things differently.
Happy you see her for what she is now. Hats off to deb. A real legend.
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong I hope I didn't offend you. I have the greatest respect for you. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
@@johnsands146 I appreciate your initial comment and I’m really glad you have grown to appreciate the channel. All good!!!!!
From my perspective as and old Certified Tennis Teaching Professional and lifetime skier I immediately admired your teaching skills and methods. I understand it’s a bias but teachers recognize talented teachers. It’s one thing to have knowledge and skills but it takes a special perspective and personality to effectively teach. Deb teachers as well as she skis🙏🙏
Wow.. thanks for this.. I am doing moguls since 10 years in Austria with Tati Mitermaier. what a great Video and help. great posture and great explanation.Thanks.
Also worth a look is Steven Fearing (level 4 SI - Canada) 'How to ski Moguls' for how to switch (pull boot back under your) skis. Switching pressure's, the boot tongue, bends the knee, which frees up the Knees and/or hips to turn/steer your skis around... Not taking anything away from Bobby Aldighieri who obviously is world class.
beautiful skiing! You have to have a bit of style when you ski. Started racing a few years ago, due to lack of bumps in winter. All the racers and coaches fill your head with engineering schematics on how to turn when it should be so much more basic and naturally explained. In the first 2 years I struggled badly, then I said screw this and just went with came naturally and immediately started to have dramatic leaps in success on the course. It wasn't what other racers called good technique but it works for me and besides that it is fun. Doing an entire movement without thinking about the 20 individual parts of it. Mogul skiers rock!
here again, you produce a great video of a great skier. ive never seen a mogul technique video that offered this perspective of the feet, edging and angulation, its fascinating. she skis beautifully, and is a master of the 5 skiing fundamentals, their integration, and application to mogul skiing. the fundamentals in mogul skiing do work differently, compared to alpine racing disciplines like slalom and gs. the upper body is much more quiet, with no hip angulation, no pole swing, finishing the turn with tail skidding. i might try these techniques on groomers
I would love a video expanding on the first exercise. I really struggle keeping my skis together in moguls and bumps.
I've been practicing the quick edge change drill on my Gunbarrels on groomers. It's much tougher than she makes it look. It would have been interesting if Deb had shown her attempt at doing the drill on bump skis in the video.
Please consider this. Turn on the back of the mogul. Carve the turn. Never slide into the bottom. Transfer the turn at the gap between moguls. Level out the terrain and skip all of the drama. Just keep the carving high on the back of any mogul. This leaves more options more control less effort. You will never win the contest but you will be more successful, stable, confident and make everyone look like mogul skiers except you. You will look like a groomer slope skier. Play the slope off from the frequency it offers and ski a more flat line around the tops and before the bottom of the line. This is how you make it look easy and as a 54 year old skier I can ski the big nasty chop wind pack in moguls. With a grin.
GORGEOUS way of skiing!
A picture is worth a thousand words, and those concepts were very well demonstrated. 😊😊
Great Video Deb. Thank you so much for taking the time to film Olivia ! She has really sweet turns on the flats, I can see Bobbys influence too. Awesome! We are all students of the art🙏
They make it look so easy! I tried today the little drill and just couldn't quite get the flow. More practice tomorrow!
Look at those spectacular subtalar joints! If you know what I'm referring to, then you're a real ski nerd like me.
You can stand at the top of a mogul field and see the lines. But if you can't ski on the flats like Olivia does here you will not be able to ski the line at speed in the moguls. Her fast rhythmic windshield wiper like motion rolling from knee to knee is superb. I would like to see less talking in this video and a lot more of Olivia skiing especially to see her ski the same way through deep moguls.
6:56 look at the difference in stance width here. I don't feel at all stable skiing with my feet pinned together even on a catwalk, lol, although a narrow stance is definitely useful in the moguls...so I ski more like the blue
I always love to see how you clarify different drills in an easy understanding way. Thanks for the instructions and bring us some useful insight.
Great video! and a nice tribute to JP with the gloves!
Deb why you don't make an interview to the great hotdog Hans? That should be very interesting
Amazing, why does she make it look so easy.....Just not fair :)
Thanks
Simply astonishing. Can't wait to try even imitate on the slopes but the mountains are closing
Great video thanks
oh man, I wish Olivia was wearing race suits or some sort of tights, I want to see those knee movements... harder to see while she's wearing loose pants.
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which model is this in video? and which model do you recommand of mogul skiing?
Nice to see some skis with quite a gentle sidecut and how helpful that is for rapid direction changes without a wide stance, which I assume would lead to a lot of unhelpful scrubbing in moguls (my mogul technique is kind of comedic). I'm not a fan of the broad tips and tails that seem to get pushed on skiers. They have their place and are fun to use for the slingshot effect of a hard-carve, but for getting around a mountain and enjoying different terrain I think they can be quite limiting. Maybe that's just because I spent half my ski-life on the old straight planks.
Also going to recommend this vid to people I'm introducing to scissoring to initiate a turn, as Olivia's fore-aft foot-switching is a delight to watch.
Crap Olivia is good. Even better, Deb does a great job showing how she does it.
57 year’s old skiing for years yet never a great mogul skier. Really learning tons
How many times is it possible to say the word "like" when speaking! 😁
When I saw her agile movement, I felt her voice was cute and lovely as well.
Mogul skiers make it look so easy! Are they easy to teach the other skiing disciplines?
Deb I started to ski at 43. I watch your videos like religion. Thank you so much for what you do
I love it!!!!! Thanks
Thx Deb 👍🏼
How does she not ski over her own skis standing that narrow?!!?
Another great video ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Seems that technique would lends itself to cross tips.
Be awesome to free ski with ya sometime. Find me.
I love her narrow under foot ski. Ski manufactures are making it impossible for young kids to mogul ski with wide underfoot “water” skis they pitch.
There are plenty junior moguls skis around, but I agree. Big push to sell whatever makes money, and not necessarily what would make most sense. When I'm on my ski resort looking around, I feel everyone is geared up for some heli skiing in Alaska. It's solid or ice most of the time, just about perfect for those 117s and 127s. I can't stop laughing. When they see my narrow skis, I get a lot of "are you just learning how to ski ?". I go, "yes, can you show me some mogul technique on those tongue depressors?"
It's funny how they judge your skills on the lift based on the width of your skis. Sometimes they talk a lot of technicalities and completely ignore anything I may add or have to say. It's like, "you're on narrow skis, you don't know anything." :) Then we meet somewhere on the mountain and that's the end of their expertise...:)
You are clearly out of touch with reality. Manufacturers are offering more width options than ever for all ability levels
Ok, that’s just gorgeous to watch. I wish.
I always enjoy your videos and learn something new. But, this one is top-notch. The interview format is a great addition with the chance to dig into some little details (e.g. hand position) in ways that get lost sometimes in more lecture formats.
Not a fan of the "hotdogger" (legs together at all costs) technique. I know it's a thing. But as a ski instructor from the ATM days of honest to goodness carving, the slalom gate technique is so basic to ripping up any terrain that this hotdogger style just makes me shake my head. To each his own I guess. (In all fairness her technique is great. And her and her former coach do talk about the fundamentals of gs-type carving. Then go into derail about how "it's all about the angle of the downhill ski," which is correct. But when a less technically proficient and less physically gifted skier tries to emulate this bump skier look, they often get their weight thrown back, shoulders back and before long their center of gravity is back and they're quickly out of control.)
Take into account the situation. She is the best in the world at what she does
I like how she explained the pinky toe.
Ok its mogul skiing.. not complete turns. Hole lot of pivot and steering.not riding a edge. Zipper line skiing is hard because not enough speed control for the average skier .which is way world class mogul skiing is so hard .my point is not for the average bear
The “average bear” to use your terminology is generally wise enough to see that this is one of the best mogul skiers in the world, several podiums this year, and is sharing per perspective and insight to her focus. My channel covers all things skiing which includes windows into the mindset, technique, equipment etc of the worlds best. I also cover beginners. I don’t get comments on my beginner videos as they are wedging criticizing the video because the wedge is not how experts ski. If you are an informed skier you will realize there are many levels to the sport, many different types of turns depending on what you are trying to accomplish, many different motivations for different individuals, etc. your comment seems to imply one turn to fit “the average bear”. This video has a lot of views. Possibly the average bear likes to see what the pros are thinking about
What in the world is she skiing 🤔😳😱?
Very cool! Thanks 👍👍👍🙏
Thanks for an informative video! I wonder about ski gear for mogul skiing. What kind of ski boots are preferred by mogul skiers?
Not my specialty. I hope you get a comment here
why is it look so easy, deceiving.
Her technique is flawless
WOW! Good stuff. I learned a lot specifically she keeps the upper body moving down the hill, very stable, no excess movements while the lower body is doing it's thing. And the pole plants are not exaggerated and so subtle. She's very good at her craft.
Nice detail. Thanks!
The person behind the camera sounds like Melissa McCarthy!
Ha!
Olivia is STYLE with a smile
Should add Olivia Giaccio’s name to the video description to give her Cred!
Thank you!!!
ridiculous level of skills shown here! are the straight skis typical of mogul skiers?
Yes
Fabulous up-close interview/ demo w. Olivia Giaccio including warmups! Wow! Reilly McGlashan's demo is great to compare as well. (hope my posting the link's OK?)
ua-cam.com/users/shortsaCCitsQRJDA?feature=share
I love your videos very much. I learned many things from them and try them on the slope when I have a chance. They have helped me a lot. I’m still a lower intermediate skier but I will keep learning and hopefully improving. Thank you.
By the way, are you sure she is skiing? It looks like windscreen wiper 😂😂
Fantastic video! To have Olivia share her tips with you is special indeed! There's a reason why she is one of the top-ranked mogul skiers in the world. Also special thanks to Bobby Alidigeri for sharing his tips on how to make a proper pole plant in the bumps. Love your videos, Deb. Keep up the good work.
Imagine being that good x
Wow! Fantastic! Just had a breakthrough in my telemark bump skiing from this. THANK YOU!
A mogul competitor also has to be intentional with their upper body (and especially hand discipline) because they're being judged on it. I think that a "civilian" can ski zipper-line moguls well with a slightly more natural style than Olivia's, though obviously you can't ever get away with getting backseat, banked, spun, or dropping a hand.
I've watched this video at least 4 times now, even pausing to make sure I fully understand what is being communicated. It's truly pure gold what you, Olivia, & Bobby are revealing in this video. It's also great to know that I can improve my mogul skiing on piste & even flat terrain. Thanks so much!