Actually, I was in extreme pain when Ludwig Van came on. What a terrible use of one of the greatest pieces of music ever--in combination with the drone flying back to him. Disgusting.
When I skied aggresively downhill in alpine gear my knees would often felt sore. That doesn't happen telemarking xc gear. I have not skied heavy tele gear, but my guess is it's bad technique. Also at 4:25 he is going uphill lifting his skis up above the snow each stride. This makes zero sense to me.
First time today going downhill more than 30 or 40 feet this season. Skinned up and skied down semi local hill. Tried to take a video of my skis while going down but my hand was all over the place, plus trying to focus on filming skis means less focus on the actual skiing. Would be more beneficial if I had a friend to film me.
P.S. the first half of the first run on greens all I did was alpine parallel turns and some steps and christies. I shoulda kept going with these drills but I wanted to tele dance since first time out all season. Maybe when the lift runs so I can go down 4 times more than when skinning I will spend more time on this... I did some monomarks for the first time. Wow good training. Very good skill to have.
Monomark mastery is essential to advanced Telemark, otherwise you have a lot less control over where and when you start your lead changes. Skiers who rely on inside poling for stability or constantly use cross country poling are stuck in traverses rather than using gravity and the Monomark to initiate new turns.
Great, will keep working on it. Thing is with all the basic techniques I feel much better doing it on low angle green runs. Granted, I will telemark down blue or black, more confidently the deeper the snow, but I want to learn the technique right and worry when steep I am ignoring basics. Best teach the muscles proper on low angle technique first.
Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Jan 20, 2024 20:25:38 GMT
Mca80, re the monomark, just use it to release your edges and delay the lead change start until you are "more or less" in the fall-line. It's really not necessary, (and of no real value ultimately) to hold the monomark turning all the way left and right down the hill, and though that is a great exercise, no one actually skis that way because it's not of any real practicality after you have moved into where you want to begin the lead change which is +- the fall-line.
I've skied with a guy who got in a monomark stance and few down the Mtn couldn't keep up with him and I'm not slow, he even landed jumps and went back into that stance only guy I ever saw who made it his style.
Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Jan 21, 2024 15:23:42 GMT
There was a thing called the teleboard and it locked you in to exactly one lead change. I skied with a guy who was promoting it. I found it really odd to ski on. He was going off to work on the Meidjo binding in Europe. No idea what became of the teleboard.
Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Jan 23, 2024 15:30:52 GMT
This way-spread-out form is the biggest issue in advancing in Telemark especially with those who fancy themselves "xcD" skiers. Not using alpine poling indicates very weak downhill skills in general, and that totally contributes to the weak form. If you cross country stride into a lead change, you throw yourself right into a spread out mess at every single turn, and will most often be forced into uphill poling to balance.
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Practicing shuffles can really help provided you have good stable intermediate downhill skills to begin with. NO ONE skis in a tighter Telemark stance than this guy. You can also tighten things up by keeping your rear boot heel very LOW just as he does.
Look At Telehiro's rear foot in the cover pic. The heel is not even off the ski, or not perceptibly so. Often, with the light boots, you usually see 2 or 3 inches of heel lift in his Telemark skiing and seldom more. His feet are amazingly close to his Telemark axis of rotation.
Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Jan 25, 2024 14:21:52 GMT
From jbtele, Our revived telecritiqe thread apparently was discovered and copied at Ttalk just like our Telehiro thread. A couple obvious things: Jb is doing the TRex hand and arm thing and he's way too spread out and there's 0 shuffle in his lead change. If he fixes those things, he'll get beyond the beginner stages.
I had too much to drink and got in a spat with a guy who said something along the lines of videos of you show you aren't good, or something of the sort. He also vigorously defended Tom from being critiqued by anyone who doesn't offer their own videos. Bizarre.
Also, keep in mind jb has stated some strange things elsewhere, for example he won't use nnnbc (30+ years old, been to both poles) because he wories about its durability and reliability and would prefer xplore (3 years old, many noted problems).