Used to be an Instructor in Steamboat, 1999-2011, met Cooper Shell there, skied with Plake early season at Loveland Pass 2009ish, he is a great guy. This video is a good find. Thanks.
Then I ditched the alpine bindings early in 93' and swapped out Riva cable telemark bindings on a pair of 210cm Dynastar Course Gs skis. I used the Merrell Super Comp telemark boots w/ the white plastic cuff. Ripping the big bumps rock solid and stoned to the bone on a sunny day at speed on that set-up was like attaining the state of nirvana! .
When I was young I loved stump films and had a blast skiing the bumps. Then I got older and moved to a hill where it snowed so much the mountain literally never had them. I never missed them at all.
Ive been skiing since i was a kid in the early 80’s yet I never saw this film. I remember yelling at my tv and jumping out of my chair when Mosley dropped that 360 mute grab in Japan. Thanks for putting it up!
You have no idea what it meant for me in Poland when I saw Mogul skiing at Winter Olympics in Calgary 88. I wanted that "type" of skiing only. In 1993 I move to USA. Now I skied almost every mountain in NA and I know almost all back country/ side country places. Became a free skier. Dragged my kids across trees since they were 3 years old. Now at 16 they ski bumps in trees and are in the air every 2 seconds. If they had that talent back then in the 90's they would be Olympians :) Like the guy says: Look who is skiing bumps and you will know who can ski. From bumps to dropping cliffs the transition is very natural.
My all time favorite ski movie. Not a dull moment like some over and over again Valdez runs. Gives me goosebumps like the cold of winter snow. Amazing soundtrack of course adds to the goosebumps
bro, so sweet, thank you. drop the tips, drive the hips. I was there, im 65 and my Park skis are in the mail. still banging bumps, can't walk down stairs so good ,but still bashing. peace.
I just love Plake`s blunt perspective and passion. He has got good points ... you cant buy good mogul skiing... you gotta earn it! A mogul field ... separates the men from the boys. I confess I bought shaped skis and now I am carving ... but always came undone in the bumps. Ye are not men - but gods!! ... love the sound track too!
i met plake in EU in 1990. Verbier. just briefly. had a beer with him at night after watching him shoot his then movie on the slopes in the arvo. was called SNOWWHAT. i never saw it tho.
How do you get to the Metropolitan Opera? PRACTICE!! It took me years to get even slightly good at moguls. And C’mon Glen, you made your fame and fortune hucking cliffs for Warren Miller, Greg Stump, and so on. And if every ski instructor had to ski as well as you, there would be 5 ski instructors in the world!
I miss skiing the bumps on Silver Fox at Snowbird, Exhibition at Sun Valley and Gun Barrel at Heavenly Valley. But I'm 65 now and my legs and body can't that pounding anymore. LOL.
i lived and skied in mammoth from 92- 2000 and i was up on the mountain one day doing the moguls ( not by choice , but i wasn't bad in my 213 super gsm's ) and here come Glen by me ripping it up .... was an amazing experience to se in person :)
Get this...most of these mogul skiers are skiing on 190 or 195's. I bet Plake was still on 200 or longer. Just some mean footage from rock star skiers, 92 Olympic Gold Medalist Donna Weinbrecht, 92 Olympian Ann Battelle, 1998 Olympic Gold medalist Johnny Mosley, and the one and only Glenn Plake.
Bucky, I saw Plake ski down mogul run at Squaw and he was on downhill skis. I am not exaggerating. The guy was unreal. I competed on 195s. Everything has progressed yet I like old school naturally made mogul runs. : )
Maggie, back in the 90s when I made my living patrolling I only used 205 GS skis. They worked even in the bumps of Ketchum because I adjusted my line about half way up the moguls. I think a lot of other people came to the same conclusion. I had to make that adjustment to survive chopped bumps made by too many people traversing. Like you say about Plake, it's ALL about how ya bend em!
Unless you conquer difficult situations with technique instead of technology, you will miss the soul of skiing. Conquer powder, bumps, ice, crud and breakable crust without the latest cheater ski, then your soul shall be quenched.
Back in the day we used to do it all on 78mm slalom skis lol. By necessity. Course you added a snorkel for those bottomless pow days cause you were so down and deep. I’ve got a 20 something son working the western ski resorts. Normally rides 110 to 120mm on pow days. He watched me last year on my 82 mm. As a result decided to try a 93mm a few days ago on a champagne day. He said, “I get now. I’ve never had so much fun.”
Pete West I learned bumps in the 80s on a pair of HART freestyle 190s.. see lots of them in these clips!! I run lifts for little Bristol Mountain (NY) and have never lost the desire for bumps.. our freestyle team has put out quite a bunch of mogul skiers including Morgan Schild , Jon and Chris Lillis , and Bristols "super six" Dylan walzyac(total misspelling??) and others.. several in the Olympics and national and World Cup class!! I love these old movies !!! Of course the day Glen Plake visited Bristol I was not working🙁 would have loved to high five him!! The quote he made "show me a ski resort with no bumps and I will believe you" must have been BEFORE his visit to Bristol... we are lucky to have one zipperline for the freestyle team practice and for the northeastern freestyle jam competition we get both an A and B course..
Rick Parshall: Nice 👍. I ran bumps like a demon for a number of years. Had the ultimate iconic ski for the bumps back then - K2 Fours baby. Red, white and blue. Ridden by Wayne Wong and crew. Hart’s didn’t come into dominance until sometime after that “hotdog” period. I look at bumps with yearning these days. I might run 100 yds of a zipper line now and then. But I have to force myself to stay away. My knees can no longer handle it. I pay a major price days afterward if I take it too far (MCL’s). But that’s a minor price to pay to be able to still slide down mountains. (I noticed I have a typo above - that should be 68mm slalom skis. 78mm would be way too wide back then.)
The best mogul skis I owned and rode were a pair of 213cm Kastle Super G skis circa 19990/91 season. The tangerine orange Super GSM model. I took em' heli skiing in BC, too the last week of December 90' and the guides looked at me like I was loco when they loaded up the above mentioned 213 cm Kastle Super G skis. By the end of the day they saw the light! LOL! Surface area equals speed and stability......Cascade concrete on late 80's/early 90's box cut slalom skis? Go over the tops, not just in the troughs--the big boards smooth out a bump field like you can;t believe on long , stiff skis, if you can ride the bull.
WOW real moguls not artificially formed NO SKID AND SKLIP icy areas from snowboards. Just pure unadulterated bumps created by 200 + centimeter skis carving. Yet look how fast they are cranking through them. Oh I remember those days.
Donna Weinbrecht (note spelling)... she gave me killer tips on the bumps at Copper Mtn back in 1992 which I sermonize and use to great effect even today. She was kind and observant while everyone else was all guffaws and laughs. She is one of a kind.
Nostalgic vibes Competitive moguls skiing looks plain dull today. Robots on perfectly aligned moguls, and flip shit in the air. Even the retro aerial maneuvers are more pleasant to watch.
ive always thought that you havent made it or not that great if you cant ski the moguls. ! if you can do everything else, you must also know how to do the moguls to complete the set !
lunar stellaris yes, and where can this variation be found? I have searched high and low for nigh on 20 years. Bought the album off the back of watching this movie and prefer this version to the one on the album.
I understand looking back why skiers had this snobby reputation and were considered square by the snowboarders. There's no doubt that these people were extremely skilled at what they did... but they didn't look that cool doing it.
Pretty cool but guy talks alot of sh*t on other forms and styles , nothing wrong w/ powder skiing ,running cliffs or carving groomers at all . Moguls are cool and are a good tool to make you a better skier/rider but they arent anything but another chapter in the book .
He's just having a bit of fun / joking around and being ironic? He's not writing off powder skiing, he is joking about how you can just "buy tongue depressors" to help you do it easier.
