February 12, 2006

Video footage of Miche and me on telemark

We both spent 3 days on telemark when we were in Megève last. Here's some video footage of each of us. Thanks to Milky for doing the camera work.

Here's Miche. She was, generally, doing much better than I was. She had much more edge control and much better angulation - and because of this was more stable and faster.

A normal link in case the active movie thing above doesn't work.

I was better than last year and slowly managed to find and control the egdes a little more this time. My stance started out very long and loose but got better on the last day.

And the normal link.


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Posted by Len at February 12, 2006 09:17 PM | Categories: Misc Holidays - Video Clips
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Comments

Awesome! Another season and you'll be dropping that alpine gear altogether. I'm basically only telemarking these days. I'm more confident on alpine gear, but I like the challenge. Plus a lot of days I only go up for an hour or two, and tele is a quick workout.

Looks like your right turn is bit stronger than the left. I had that problem. It is amazing what you can get away with on alpine gear. Before I started on teles I would have said that they were equal. I've been trying to tele bumps this season, but after 4 turns I'm about ready to have a heart attack.

Even if you don't tele all the time, I'm convinced that tele helps alpine skiing because it improves balance, strength, and edge control. Plus there's nothing like carving a tele turn. It's grace on snow.

Have fun!

Posted by: christopher baus at February 13, 2006 12:35 AM

The work we've been doing on telemark has certainly helped with our alpine skiing. I'm looking forward to trying some alpine style turns at speed on tele gear next time to force all my remaining fore-aft balance issues out into the open once and for all.

At the start of the this season's tele work I was massively over roatating, I think due to the long way behind that my trailing leg was and the fact that I was giving my hips a bit of a tweak later in the turn to bring my trailing leg around... I seemed to tidy that up a bit on days 2 and 3 though but the turns are far from equal, as you spotted.

More work to do but it's quite obvious when it works and when it doesn't and it's quite nice to have something challenging and new to try. :)

Posted by: Len at February 13, 2006 07:47 AM
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