Half Pipe Skiing Tips

haul ass. skis with good edges and nicely waxed bases help alot as well. i suck at pipe, considering i don't have one to practice on or hit etc. but when i have had the opportunity to hit one at a bigger resort, the one thing i learned is just to keep ur speed up as much as possible, first couple times i thought i was going fast enough when i dropped but barely got outa the pipe. so i basically doubled my speed and actually caught some decent hang time ! so fun. wish i had one to practice on at my mountain but i don't, so i don't know how good that advice is, more of like what my experience was like and how i learned to boost out of the pipe. hold a mean edge and haul ass. oh and have fun. always helps !

Edges, and no fear of falling 15 + feet to your side on an icy deck or flat bottom.

Use those arms to pump the transition

don't worry about the takeoff, don't jump actively, let the transition do the work.

others in this thread said different, but i'd suggest to start slowly to get a feeling for the transition. focus on your body position, avoid leaning back or forward.

just to repeat myself. don't jump if you're a pipe beginner, get a feel for it first.

you have to cut nearly perpendicular

Learn to carve. If you can carve very well in a balanced stance, your pipe skiing will improve. If you're a park rat and can hardly actually ski then you will never be able to maintain speed in a halfpipe. Other than that just sack up and ski fast. don't dump speed by carving up the wall, instead, try to take off at the lip on your downhill edge.

Not really. A major problem a lot of skiers new to pipe have is cutting up the pipe too much and losing all their speed.

Three major things you need -

The higher you go the better you'll look

Made a thread about this last winter: https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/738724/

read it, some usefull tips in there!

Don't be so soft, go as fast as you can.