A New Way To View And Analyze A Mogul Run

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An Alternative Way To View A Mogul Run

There is an alternative way to think about a mogul run. When I stand at the top of a mogul run I have a completely different point of view because I'm looking at a completely different set of terrain features. My eyes seek out, and are focused upon, three things:

(1) the flat tops of the moguls;

(2) the spines that run down from the mogul tops to the bottom of each mogul and

(3) the secondary fall lines that come off the spines.

I'm oblivious to the troughs. I don't see them in my frame of vision. By focusing on the flat mogul tops, ridge lines and secondary fall lines I concentrate my attention on more "friendly" places to ski.

Because you tend to ski where you are looking, my skiing routes and turning locations enable me to avoid locations where high-speed skills and lightning fast reflexes are required to remain upright.

The conceptual equivalent of focusing on the color white is an alternative view of a mogul run ... where you visualize, and only recognize, just the flat tops of the moguls, the ridge lines and the secondary fall lines to be the primary feature of the mogul run. We have illustrated this in the mogul run photo below by highlighting where these three terrain features are located:

The key message is that when you visualize only certain terrain elements of a mogul run it simplifies the terrain complexity. This new visual simplicity provides your brain

(1) clarity on how to make better choices regarding how and where to turn and

(2) less things to think about when in motion in the midst of a mogul run.