If moguls intimidate you this episode is going to change that. You’ll learn a clear, repeatable method for going from avoiding bumps entirely to skiing 60 in a row with control and actually enjoying it. Expect practical handholds: how to control your speed and direction, why “just get small and absorb” quietly sabotages most people, and the mindset shift that turns a scary bump field into a series of solvable problems.

My guest is Geri Tumbasz — Hungarian-born, Austria-based, and one of the most highly certified ski coaches in the world. What makes him the right person for this is that he wasn’t a natural at moguls either. He struggled, got frustrated, went looking for answers, and reverse-engineered a progression that now gets terrified skiers skiing bump lines in a single camp.

Here’s what we cover:

✅ The full beginner-to-confident progression — wedge-parallel turns in a corridor, then building a real mogul line with gates

✅ Why you find the round line before the direct line (and how that kills the fear)

✅ The “just get small and absorb” myth — and what to do instead

✅ The heel-up / hamstring-as-a-hinge move for releasing your tail in steep zipper lines

✅ Where pole-plant timing actually wins you control

✅ The mindset shift: hunting for the solution instead of staring at the problem

✅ Geri’s bouncy low transition and where his style comes from

✅ The ideas he stole from Japanese and Korean technical skiers

✅ Why he deliberately overdoes a movement to find its limits

✅ How telemark transformed his feel for pressure and dorsiflexion in alpine skiing

⛷️ Geri’s online Mogul course (founder/lifetime access offer mentioned in the episode): https://www.snowsportsgeri.com/offers/m7hSgEVq/checkout

🌐 Geri’s Ski Camps: www.snowsportsgeri.com

🏕️ Geri’s Cold Candy ski school: www.cold-candy.com

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🎿 Ski camps with me: https://skicoachcollective.com

⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 Intro – why moguls scare people

01:20 How Geri became the go-to mogul coach

05:30 Where the progression starts: the wedge & corridor drill

13:00 Moving from groomers into real bumps

15:00 The "get small and absorb" myth

16:20 Finding the round line before the direct line

21:30 Reading the line & looking for solutions, not problems

25:00 Steep, long bumps and over-skied lines

32:15 The steep rut line: the heel-up hamstring release

40:30 Pole plant: timing, prep & targeting the next bump

45:40 What he learned from World Cup mogul skiers

51:40 Mogul waves: the easy way in

54:50 Who the camps are for & "booking your line"

57:15 Moguls and your knees

01:00:45 What makes Geri tick: the low position & overdoing movements

01:09:00 Japanese & Korean inspiration + favourite drills

01:14:30 Telemark: what it taught him about alpine skiing

01:24:15 How to ski with Geri – camps & course

01:29:20 Wrap-up

🎧 Also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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