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‑instruction segment, Tom Gellie explains why static practice—feeling the body move down and up—limits a skier’s ability to absorb moguls effectively. He references a lesson by DeMelzer for deeper insight, then emphasizes a dynamic approach: rather than letting the body move down into a mogul, skiers should generate the correct position by lifting their legs. When a mogul pushes against the ski, the leg should be driven upward, creating absorption through leg extension rather than body descent.

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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.