Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing

by Dan DiPiro

The real mogul skiing instruction you're looking for. Whether you want to ski gentle moguls with comfort and confidence, turn heads on your local mogul run, or compete in mogul contests, this book will give you the specialized techniques you need to reach your goal. In this first-of-its-kind book, mogul skiing competitor Dan DiPiro reveals techniques that have remained largely unknown or misunderstood outside of competitive mogul skiing circles. Most skiers try to ski moguls using only groomed-trail techniques, says DiPiro. But the bumps require a special set of techniques that have nothing to do with groomed-trail skiing. With an understanding of these special techniques, most fit, expert skiers can become good mogul skiers, and some can become excellent mogul skiers and even mogul competitors. For the aspiring mogul skier, this book is full of invaluable instruction. For the seasoned bumper, it's an ideal tune-up guide and a long awaited affirmation. For all skiers interested in broadening their understanding of downhill skiing excellence, it's an original, eye opening read.

100 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2005

Reviews

[David]

2016 Update: I reread this book in anticipation for a moguls camp I'm going to in two weeks (excited!), and I think I have to downgrade my rating from 4 stars to 3 stars. For an absolute beginner, the most important point to learn from this book is the dramatic differences between mogul skiing and downhill skiing - a whole other set of techniques is required. This book is too short and tries to cover too much. There are many flat-land drills one can do to improve mogul skiing, and this book only mentions a couple of them. It also tries to cover the broader topic of freestyle skiing before it adequately covered skiing moguls.


2008 Review: Very good book to reinforce what you learn from a live person

I read this book after attending a one-week camp on mogul skiing. This book helped solidify a lot of what the coach taught me. If I didn't go to that camp, I don't think I could've learned as much from this book. After all, you can't really learn to ski from reading a book, and it's really hard to know if you're doing something wrong on the slopes. In any case, learning to ski moguls was such an amazing experience for me, and this book definitely helped.

[Andre Grillon]

This book served as an excellent companion to Harald Harb’s “Anyone Can Be An Expert Skiier 2”. Let’s face it, moguls are many skier’s worst nightmares on the terrain. This book helped me deprogram erroneous survival instincts to position myself on more stable footing while navigating mogul fields. The author is in a great way a mogul skiing maniac and riles up the reader to get excited about what mogul skiing means. A great job is done teaching the reader to distinguish among different sorts of moguls and optimal strategies to handle them. Problem trough ahead? Jump over it!

The instructions are as easy to absorb as they are comprehensive, and naturally require a fair amount of real world practice. A huge boost in my own mogul skiing ability was enjoyed when I took into account where to look, never again under my skis or even at the next bump, but rather three to five bumps downhill, while trusting my skis ability to handle well what’s under me and coming up.

Some choice quotes:

“Don't worry about the exact shape of the bump or trough beneath your skis. If you worry too much about the bump beneath your skis, you'll have too limited a perspective; you won't see the whole picture.”

“Most skiers try to ski irregular bumps as they would ski uniform bumps. That is, most skiers, regardless of whether they're skiing uniform or irregular bumps, turn only where the troughs tell them to turn. In irregular bumps, therefore, these skiers ski irregularly!”

“But the gifted Taoist butcher knew how to maneuver his blade through the soft, forgiving places in the carcass. He never struck bone and never dulled his blade.”

“You don’t meander about the mogul field. You don’t allow the terrain to dictate your path.”

(one star was removed for publishing errors on the Kindle format affecting certain graphics)

[Dana Powers]

Entertaining and informative. Excited to hit the zipper line, do some trough hopping, and throw a daffy!

[Matt Miltenberg]

Pretty Good. Got me excited to go out to Colorado.

[Patty Gilbert]

Best book ever on how to ski moguls. A must read of you want to ski moguls with style

[JackCanoes]

Helped me in improving my mogul skiing.