Mogul camp at Mt. Hood, Oregon

well you don't have to take the product my name is jack simon i grew up seeing stratton mountain vermont the greatest mountain on earth uh five days well day one is always flat flats and drills we do a lot of short swing turns uh short swing turns you're supposed to mimic your mogul turn so all of your bad habits you have during your short swings are only exasperated in the moguls so if we can get to them before we get into the bumps then we can know what we're working with and what we what we need to fix like the snow is really soft and i feel really comfortable really pushing pushing my boundaries for moguls especially you get nice soft conditions it's nice and warm if you're jumping a whole lot the landing is nice and soft so you don't have to worry about taking a digger and getting a real bad injury this week i was working on getting more tip pressure as i hit the mogul to get the tips faster over it um keeping my knees together and my feet and just like kind of going more direct jack's telling me to keep my elbows in because i'm getting like these chicken arms and i've been kind of slinging my back flips and i need to like hold it out more so i can actually get the tuck this is the job well done but now let's keep those knees together as you're doing it i know it's a bit freakier you're going faster you're going harder but we still have to have our fundamentals correct well being able to look at video after your training is super important uh because it's really hard to be able to understand what you're doing while you're doing it because you obviously can't see yourself you get to look at your turn look at the way that you hit your take offs and do your tricks we can look at the things we talked about that day and we can find new things that we didn't notice before the video helps you just see what you're doing and see like what your coaches are telling you hey you're too quick with your tuck on here as well wait until you see blue sky until you talk a trampoline gives us the basis for our tricks and an understanding of how they translate to snow shoulders are back behind here let's get them forward better you have three different jumps three different abilities one is a bigger booter that you won't really see in the moguls but it's great for working new tricks we got a uh a medium-sized jump it's great for kids to learn spread eagles 360s stuff like that and then we have one jump for beginners one jump with a sloping landing um with a flat top so you don't have to come off of it and feel like you're being heated to your back and the jumps are super slushy and the landings are really nice so even if you like land on your back you're fine what are you working on here today right now i'm working on my back flips and keeping my hips up and then tucking quickly and not tucking too early what are you working on today 360 with my platform i'm practicing my 360 right now and how's that going well not well but i'm working on it what's the hardest part about doing a three um like committing to it and like not getting scared all ability levels can come here um i've had kids who skied norms i've had ski kids who ski national championships and i've had 40 year old dads who just want to learn how to ski moguls better all types are welcome here it's one of my favorite parts about the camp is that i can use all parts of my mobile knowledge and build someone from no knowledge from no understanding of how to ski moguls and build them to a comfort level where they can go and rock it with their boys on a trip and then for those who ski nationals i can help bring them to the next level what can you tell me about coach jack uh coach jack is a pretty silly guy um but he's pretty he's good at he's good at moguls he's good at teaching teaching us he makes the makes it fun on the mountain also if you're an accomplished competitive mobile skier it's a great place to come and train and meet new people and have a good time with your summer camp the moguls are alive and well here at hood and perhaps around the country it's a fun camp because you get to come up here in the slush and work on things that you need to work on we're all out here to have a good time we're all going to improve and it's positive vibrations it's really nice because it's it's just nice to come here in the summer because there's still snow and you can still ski during the summer you learn a lot and there's a lot of like one-on-one time and it's worth it i had a really great time this week it was really fun it's an amazing place to live skiing and they should definitely come try it out it's been really fun and i've gone way better just from this one week and i always get better here it's really nice i don't want to go home this is the only job i've ever had where i leave work happier than when i came in and uh that's why i love helping other people doing it that's why i love doing it myself that's why i get up at five a.m every morning with a smile on my face and a red bull in my hand ready to get after another one on snow

Channel: Robincressy

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Keywords: MHSSC, moguls, camp, mt. hood, summer, ski, camps, mt hood summer ski camps, Jack Simon, Palmer, Timberline

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Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020