You mean the zipper line? It looks like you are skiing the troughs but a bit wide to me. A good form of speed control and to avoid much of the flexing and absorbing. Though, I don’t see how mogul skiing is very relevant to the speed of ski tipping rotation when you don’t have to tip the ski very much at all. It is the moguls themselves, that are ‘tipped”. As a matter of fact, a geometric argument could be made that wide skis are going to be quicker in the bumps due to quicker/closer edge contact with the sides of the troughs providing a quicker and more “grabby” edge bite and especially when turning on the berms. The only reason I prefer a narrow ski in the bumps is because it is a more nimble setup.
Though it may be mathematically/geometrically true that a wider ski requires more tipping rotation to reach the same tipping angles, it is my experience that, by itself, these are very small numbers that do not make very much of a difference at all. However, it is generally true that increasing ski width is often complimented with a softer shovel and a straighter sidecut which do make more of a difference in getting a quick response from the ski.
Moguls aside, technically, it is very beneficial to have a very short “transition” period between turns. It is advantageous to be able to “always be turning” and, thus, always be tipping at a constant and uninterrupted rate to maintain flow and rhythm but to also have more time/space within the same turn distance with which to further more evenly spread the forces of the turn (more control), both advantages of which are beneficial in virtually all carving scenarios if not all else. To be carving early in the high “C”, that space for more carving needs to come from somewhere within the predesignated radius of the turn. A long meaningless transition is wasted opportunity.
When the space between the pencil thin rail marks on the snow are shorter than the length of your ski, you will know that the quickness in transition is about as quick as it can be. There are too many good skiers that slow down or hesitate tipping when close to neutral/transition which produces a seam in movements or a flat spot in the aesthetic that, instead, need to flow into each other, visible and otherwise. Many, instead, prefer to ski one turn at a time. When the rate of tipping is constant/consistent throughout an entire turn set, things are looking good. Unless one needs to be turn shopping on difficult terrain, rhythm and flow produced from a constant rate of tipping can only help.
I like the term I read from a
@BornToSki683 post: “finishiation”.
