What tricks do world-class moguls guys throw now?

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Ott3r

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Going into the Olympics, I realize I haven't seen any mogul comps since the last Olympics. What airs do they need now to win? I think they're throwing cork 7's and D-spin 3's, with some people trying 10's, right? What do the women have nowadays?
 
cork 7s are pretty common with a solid grab, as are dspin 7s... i don't think there's many 10s being thrown, simply because they demand a huge kicker, and technique would be sacrificed in order to get the rotation...

most of the top chicks are doing backs, a few are doing 7s, a couple are doing cork 7s.....twister twister spreads are still making an appearance, however.
 
two/maybe 3 years ago....they allowed it because the sport is changing... and it's more spectator friendly to watch more tricks... i think the biggest reason though, is that these really are world class athletes, completely aware of everysingle trend in newschool that everyone on this website cherishes so much, and they want to be rewarded for being able to do such sick stuff.
 
Dspins, corks are pretty standard. Ocasionally you will see a perfect pencil 720, or 360 spread 360, which score really high if done with good form. It's defenently judged differently than big air and slopestyle airs.
 
They are even allowed to land switch, and take off switch. Its not seen much because the DD given for taking switch does not compensate for the speed you loose..
 
I have the ultimate bump comp trick... I call it the Podium 7. Because if I have a clean run and stick the ballerina/pencil 7, I'm usually on a podium.
 
When you can take off and land switch in a professional mogul course I will kiss your feet. Thats practically impossible.
 
moguls are lame and tainting skiing. there needs to be a definite separation between the "new" stuff and moguls. i would rather not be associated with a bunch of lame-o's wearing matching knee guard pants and under armor tops, bobbing their heads down a mogul course. moguls isn't skiing. its a form of destroying your body very quickly.
 
you all have no idea. As of now im pretty sure a lot of guys are doing cork tens and i know of one that is doing straight up tens. Nate roperts is trying to get the whoever they are to let him throw double backs, so really its pretty intense. i would agree with a lot of you that freeride is much better than freestyle but you've got to give these guys props for doing this shit in the moguls
 
I like the matching knee guards and the underarmor i like like the penciled out spins too. I really miss jonny mosely because he was so progressive with the dinner roll.
 
I thought you still werent allowed to go inverted, just off-axis. Wasn't that why the dinnerroll was so sketchy? He had to make sure his head didn't dip below his waist line otherwise it would be considered inverted.
 
i find it funny that you're all talking about why anyone would want to ski moguls and how that type of skiing destroys your body because clearly, rails and tables can fuck you up pretty good.

also, i think a little more respect needs to be given to the guys and girls (yes, girls too) who are throwing d-spins off a mogul kicker.
 
Word! We wont start the debate because it will never end, but id rather with the olympics in mogul, throwin a double full and a cork 10, than winning the x-games!
 
no no no

You are absolutley 100% wrong. I used to be a very competive and damn good mogul skier at one time, and i know the ropes. Any kid who skis moguls is defianlty one of tyhe best all around skiers on the mountains. They can ski powder and drop cliffs, because they have good skiing form and technique. In fact, many pro freeriders today are former mogul skiers. Henrik Windstedt was jujnior wolrd champ afew years back, Rory Busfields also, along with Jon Reedy, and yor steezy, the Dumont was a great mogul skier also. We can not forget Julien (11 in the olmpics), Jp, JF cusson, Shannnon SChad, fuck the list goes on. Mougls develop great skiing ability. Moguls is a very pure form of skiing. Mogul skiers can ski the mountain better than anyone (all around). Mogul skiers do not destroy their body quickly, as there is proper technique to skiing moguls. They are true athletes just other other sports, that require vast amount of time, patience, natural abilty and practice to become a good skier. Mogul skiing is very fun, especially if it is done right. Just because you live at a mountain that is icy, 100 geet of vertical, and just a lame park does not mean you can bash on mogul skiing. Get out of the park for a day, and have some fun on the mountain, as there is much more to see than a box and a few jumps.
 
Mogul skiiers dont progress, they copy the style of the current champion, they ski for score not for style and shit like that
 
how can you say mogul skiers don't progress???????? a few years ago, double twister spreads were being thrown, not d spins.
 
I wish they would just do cork 3s off those jumps cause anything over a 3 looks pretty damn ugly on those tiny jumps
 
^he means that they don't throw new tricks they just take old trick and add it to there run. example d-spin is there for more than 2-3 year
 
so much fucking ignorance in this thread.

and yes, mosly throwing the dinner roll was HUGE. he lobbied really hard for that to happen, and it basically happened on a trial basis... and it worked out well for him, the sport, and us. shortly thereafter, inverts were allowed back in, which is freaking HUGE, nearly revolutionary news.

to the kid rattling off names of skiers who have a bump background: add tanner (as much as i hate him) and mcconkey to that list.

this isn't really the time or place for it, but racers need respect too. jon olsson, shane, etc etc et fucking cetera come from racing. being a well rounded skier, whether its from big mountain, racing, moguls, ballet, or whatever makes you so much more well-rounded and it shows. you can see it in jumps, in-runs, landings, even in the freaking air.

if you wanna be a park-rat thats fine, but you are not a skier anymore than a rollerblader is. get out of the park once in awhile and pull your collective heads out of your asses.
 
they should add a jump at the end of the mogul course that doesnt have moguls after it to allow competitors to throw more technical tricks with switch landings
 
jeremy bloom is throwing d7s and most other guys r doin cork7s and ds most chicks r doing backs and taking it old scool with like quintwisters and quindaffys
 
thats why every time this subject comes up i laugh.

kids think snowboarding is what influences this sport.

NOPE.

look at T.Hall.

he still does four point landings.

screw snowboarding... we owe moguls for how awesome todays pro freeskiers are.
 
Plake is relatively old and still shreds the bumps. Many old skiers still love zipperlining.

Meanwhile, how many pros do we see injure themselves at competitions and photoshoots every year? How many people post here complaining their season is over because of a catastrophic injury?

Park skiing can damage the body much more then skiing moguls.
 
fucking moguls are turning gay. used to be looking like moguls/freeride. now its moguls/areials. fucking candadians are throwing double fulls. nate roberts is working on a fucking double back in the moguls. and almost everyone throse a fucking backflip. like only 5 percent are throwing corks or d's. fucking lame. moguls went to teh shitter
 
are you retarted? all most all of the top newschool skiers today started with moguls and arials. you dont know what your talking about.
 
you may not like where its at now, but i can't see how you can argue that its worse than the days of twister twister spreads.
 
For all you guys that are saying that the trick difficulty is too low in mogul skiing, go try to land a simple, easy 720 into moguls, I bet you will fail. Coming out of the air into moguls at 30mph is a lot harder than landing on a groomed landing, it just takes WAY more skill.
 
You kids are fucking ignorant if you think moguls and what we do are really that different.

Fuck, the only difference between the kids on this site, and mogul skiers, is they actually have technique, rather than just hucking.

Moguls create mad good skiers. TJ fucking rules at bumps, as does Abma, and virtually every other skier that doesn't just huck.

Know your roots kids, moguls aren't completely different, and newschool isn't some elite sport.
 
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