Olympic mogul skier Matt Graham breaks down three key techniques: narrow your corridor with a flatter stance, stay tall and let your legs rise into bumps instead of dropping, and keep your torso anchored pointing downhill with minimal upper-body movement. These work together to keep you stable and fast.
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If you're my coach, give me 3 things you think I could do to improve. Try and work on having that corridor a little bit more narrow. Okay. And so to do that, you'd probably want less edging, using your absorption and sort of steering a little bit more. Flatter, flatter ski. Flatter, yeah, flatter ski. Still the same sort of feelings and sensations that you would want to feel, but everything is much narrower underneath. Yeah, you almost want to think of like, you know, if there's a balance beam, like you're literally just right on the edge of that balance beam. Yeah, okay. Then you'll be able to really start to work your absorption and going faster.
One thing I have, I have worked on that's really helped with the absorption, really, when I hit a bump, not letting myself come down to it. It's all like trying to stay as tall and strong here, and the legs only come up, not me go down to my legs.
If you bottom out early, you can't like, like maintain forward momentum over the crest. You'll end up—
your skis will release off the front side, and you'll actually get a bit of air on there.
Probably put in the back seat, your body like would naturally and instinctively do it. If you were to jump off this little couch here onto the floor, yeah, you could do it pretty stiff-legged. Yeah. But if that couch was 2 meters off the ground, you're naturally gonna— yes, that impact. Yes. And so put— being able to, I guess, have like the courage and the, and, and the will to push the speed a little bit. Generally, like, your torso is, is— you want it to be anchored, just anchored down the fall line. You're just pretty much pointing down the fall line the whole whole time. Yeah. And the rotation and the angulation comes from basically a little bit of like a foot inversion. But in modern-day moguls nowadays, it's like upper body, head completely still, arms as still as possible.
