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Post by mark on May 3, 2024 14:12:01 GMT
Wow, you are living in your very own ski world Al. Either you are playing stupid on purpose or you really are ignorant of basic ski technique terminology. How much vertical unweighting a skier should use depends on a couple of things: 1) how much the skier needs in any given situation ; 2) whether the skier is using down-unweighting or not. You are, over and over, just making shit up that no good instructor would agree with, Al. Telemark front ski bias is generally a term used to indicate that the skier usually changes leads by moving the rear ski forward . Skiers tend to either shuffle (less than full front ski bias) or change leads by moving the trailing ski forward. Rear ski bias would be rare as it tends to too much skidding and braking on the new rear ski.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on May 3, 2024 15:03:48 GMT
Sorry Al, that's just a bunch of double-talk nonsense. Specific Telemark style today includes skiing low, medium or high. There's no reason you cannot ski low-riding with a lot of vertical on the lead changes on about any Telemark gear you want today. TTS bindings did limit that early but not so much anymore. Vertical movement is about choice and it is not limited by today's gear. You have no business instructing the noobs of Ttalk if you are going to tell them - as you just did- that skiing with separation is not necessary for better balance and advanced performance. That's pure bullshit to suggest that flailing in upperbody rotary, whether throwing the arms uphill and back or down and across, results in good balance. Do it if you want if that makes you happy but stop the freaking nonsense. You are making decent stable skiers laugh out loud! Maybe you get away with your drunk-monkey flailing on bunnyhills, Al, but you better keep it there. NO GOOD INSTRUCTOR teaches flailing as "advanced". It's one of the first things skiers are taught to toss in the dumpster, right where it belongs. Telemark ski "bias" is generally just exactly what Mark says above and I have never called it anything else. A shuffle is generally preferred in the lead change because it keeps "SOME" weight on both skis and keeps both in snow contact, but no matter, the bias is still almost always on the ski that goes forward.
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Post by teledance on May 4, 2024 13:17:27 GMT
Don't know which thread had the last video of Al but that was barely advanced beginner to early intermediate skiing, glad he's got a quiver of odd skills to keep him up.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on May 17, 2024 14:09:47 GMT
The first skier in this video is skiing exactly how Disco Al thinks is great! Skiing. And it's precisely what any good skier tries to eliminate from his or her turns i.e. excessive upperbody rotary, forcing the turns from the hips up, and it's perfectly how Telehiro does NOT ski. You can argue that at times that shoulder swinging hurts nothing, but those times tend to be very low speed, very low angle and very easy conditions. Overall that upperbody movement will result in bad balance. Notice how Telehiro flicks the pole by wrist action.
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