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Three days on telemark skis
 Poster: A snowHead
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As the post title suggests, I've just spent three days on telemark kit.

I'm shagged.

Cream crackered.

But, on the bright side, something seems to be happening. I can link turns and control my speed on steep blues. Reds no longer look beyond reach. And I even tried a sneaky bump today (when no-one was looking). This is a big (really big) breakthrough.

Joe accused me of looking like a telemarker the other day. (Rather, I assume, than some numpty wearing telemark kit.)

The big breakthrough has been getting some consistency over the edge change before lead change thing that I've posted on before. It's one thing to know something and it's another to be able to do it with any consistency. Over the last few days I've been getting earlier and earlier edge changes and that movement pattern has started to become habitual. Which is excellent because it's been really very icy and telemarking on ice really is real sod unless you get an early edge.

For anyone who's interested and didn't understand my original post then having a look at mow-know marking and the linked turn progression stuff on Telemarktips.com will probably help make sense of what's going on here.

Having gotten some consistency of that edge/lead change timing, Joe's been working on making the whole movement pattern less sequential and mechanical. Edge change...lead change is fine of bigger turns, but no good at all for shorter turns (and steeper terrain) where it needs to flow together. I'd also managed to lose a lot of movement out of my skiing - so we've been working on getting that back. It's getting there slowly.

As I say, things have stopped looking scary and unattainable. I can now make 6-10 linked turns and control my speed. I can carve. Cool

I spent today on a mini tour of the PDS on telemark kit. 98% of which I alpined, but I did stick in the odd telemark turn when I felt confident enough.

All I need to do now is reverse that percentage Toofy Grin


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Nice one! I'm very impressed Smile
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nice job: has it been zero-to-that in 3 days?? sorry, not quite clear from your post. Reason being that I've hooked me up with some tele kit for this season and am giving it a go - aint been out yet on them. Will be more than pleased if I can jump on a similar learning curve as you though!! will definitely get me some lessons but gonna have a bit of a potter about first Very Happy
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barry - two lessons in a fridge; 2 or 3 days last season with a lesson at the beginning of the day and a spot of practise afterwards.

I'm not a particularly quick physical learner and I wasn't very fit last season - I reckon there's a faster learning curve to be had if your quads are up to it!

Do remember that you can always just alpine on tele kit - although bumps and steeps are, well, "interesting".
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FlyingStantoni, bit of a glutton for punishment so far this year wink ... Interesting report though and gives me hope that the climb onto the tele tree will be weeks not months... Perhaps my bumps will be better on tele gear, cant get any worse.
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thanks FlyingStantoni, btw I don't do bumps on alpine gear and I aint doin bumps on tele gear neither Very Happy
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FlyingStantoni, interesting, thanks. I was enjoying watching a (rather good) telemarker from a lift yesterday, and though I don't think I'm going to try it (I've left it a bit late) I'm interested in the technique.
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new snowhead and new telemarker, just back from week in Livigno, amazing snow but best bit was my first try 2 days of telemarking at the end of the week and now don't want to go back to normal skis, absolutely hooked although my quads are still a bit angry with me!,
anyone else had trouble renting telemarking gear in other resorts (livigno seems to have loads of telemarkers and is holding big festival there in march), i want to try and head out again this year/do a trip...any links/tips welcome, will be looking at the pointers from flyingstantoni too..cheers
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Welcome to snowHeads cloudstomper (great name!).

Though don't look to me for telemark pointers at the moment though - there are far better qualified people on the board!

skimottaret - having tried a few bumps on tele skis I can confirm that they can get a lot worse!

pam w - never say never!
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