I like the following
1:45 for smooth and controlled.
Definitely smooth and controlled. What I do like is that he's getting early edge engagement and a fairly round turn shape. What I don't like is that way he banks inside a bit, and at the end of every turn he was leaned up the hill rather then centered (laterally) over his skis. There is not enough counter-action happening for this turn size and conditions. Bump skiing is where we should expect to see the most counter developed, but he only develops a little tiny bit and kind of follows his skis with his hips too much for the situation IMHO. That contributes to the lean-uphill at the end of every turn. I'd like to see him with his hips over his skis at the turn finish and flowing the CoM down the mountain, crossing the skis earlier, then developing better angulation with less banking, and more counter (ie, facing down the fall line), which would contribute to making that better release at the end of every turn.
3:45 for the Franz Klammer impersonation. Most entertaining.
Indeed! He was definitely going for broke though. Hope he didn't injure himself.
In general, I will make the observation that very few (there are a few standouts) of these skiers have a well developed ability to absorb a bump and crossover in transition simultaneously at the same time, which is a crucial skill for bump skiing. Most of them are reliant on an extension move to initiate turns. Some of them were barely absorbing the bumps at all because its contrary to their normal muscle pattern for transitioning and initiating each turn. So they are kind of stuck in fairly static stance...which means the bumps will either give them hell or force them to try to pick a line that avoids crossing any bumps. The latter can really only be done in either fairly conservative manner, or else they will have to use air carves and other stuff to GS their way down the bump run with somewhat poor bump absorption happening.
Most of the skiers that were absorbing the bumps were still delaying the turn init until after absorbing the bump. This delay made almost all of them look like they were having trouble keeping up with the line. A few of them compensated for that in various ways like doing air carves, or aggressive rotary to start the turn late, play catch up so to speak. Most of them end up without really moving their CoM down the mountain during release, they are stuck on the uphill side of their skis and rather then crossover with a nice release (while flexing to absorb at the same time), they instead make an up move and twist their skis up the hill to get to the new edges that way. This process takes longer and results in late engagement, albiet with the bump at least being absorbed better then that static group mentioned above.
In conclusion, they are deficient in flex-to-release technique. How they go about coping with the terrain that really needs that technique manifests itself in the above ways.