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 instructional segment, Tom Gellie critiques the common static practice of feeling absorption by moving the body down and up while skiing moguls. He references DeMelzer’s lesson and explains that effective mogul absorption should be generated by the legs lifting upward, allowing the mogul to push the leg up rather than the skier forcing the body down into the mogul. The key takeaway is to create the absorption position through leg extension, not by lowering the torso, which leads to better control and smoother mogul navigation.

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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.