Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Legs come up, instead of body going down. Improve your mogul absorption. #skitips

21 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this ski‑tip segment, Tom Gellie explains why static practice—feeling the body move down and up—only teaches the basic flexion/extension of absorption. He references DeMelzer’s lesson for the next step, emphasizing that effective mogul skiing should not rely on moving the body down into the mogul. Instead, the skier should generate the skiing position by allowing the legs to be lifted by the mogul, letting the obstacle push the leg up. This leg‑up approach creates a more dynamic, responsive absorption and extension, improving control and flow over bumps.

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Practicing statically, you're only able to feel absorption and extension, or flexion and extension, by feeling like your body moves down and back up, which is fine. You want to get the motion going, and DeMelzer teaches a great lesson on this. If you haven't seen it, watch it. But this is the next part. When you ski, you don't really want to feel so much that you move your body down. You want to feel that you create the position by your legs coming up. So if a mogul is under me here, it's going to push my leg up, as opposed to as the mogul— I interact with it, I go down.