Telemark skiing is dead.

**frorider** · 12-26-2022, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by ~mikey b

just have fun

it doesn’t fucking matter

This. But also: really try weighting that rear ski. If you think you’re putting 50/50 weight, you’re probably barely weighting that rear ski

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**Meadow Skipper** · 12-26-2022, 06:38 PM

I like thinking of keeping my hips centered between my two feet as I bend my knees/drop my hips. That helps me keep my back foot weighted.

**BFD** · 12-26-2022, 06:51 PM

MS were you at Wolf Creek for last storm?

**~mikey b** · 12-26-2022, 06:52 PM

centered says the jedi

**Alpinord** · 12-26-2022, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

I like thinking of keeping my hips centered between my two feet as I bend my knees/drop my hips. That helps me keep my back foot weighted.

This plus lifting the head and shoulders used to help me stabilize and anchor the rear foot.

It’s not ‘drop the knee’, it’s pressure/bend the skis in their centers as one.

Edit: another thing that helped, was think ‘press big toe & little toe simultaneously’.

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**Meadow Skipper** · 12-26-2022, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by BFD

MS were you at Wolf Creek for last storm?

Nope. I’ll PM you if I go up.

Terry/Alpinord gets it.

**BFD** · 12-26-2022, 07:02 PM

Saw a women I know from Santa Fe. She was skiing with a tele guy. Just had a thought it might of been you. Looking good for this week. We have a solid base.

**Meadow Skipper** · 12-26-2022, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by BFD

Saw a women I know from Santa Fe. She was skiing with a tele guy. Just had a thought it might of been you. Looking good for this week. We have a solid base.

**~mikey b** · 12-26-2022, 07:18 PM

this thread makes me think

since I’m not working for an asshole who can’t tele so he doesn’t like it for AC work I really can do whatever the hell I want

if I had to give up all my rigs but one I’d keep my tele rig

I might need to start rebuilding my quiver

**frorider** · 12-26-2022, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by ~mikey b

I might need to start rebuilding my quiver

This is the way

**~mikey b** · 12-26-2022, 07:59 PM

yeah

PB · 12-26-2022, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by ~mikey b

yeah

Let me hear a YEAH-Men!!!

**andy m** · 12-26-2022, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

I like thinking of keeping my hips centered between my two feet as I bend my knees/drop my hips. That helps me keep my back foot weighted.

This reminds me of a helpful tip I got from a tele instructor way back in the 1980s: She told us, while going into the tele stance, to think of dropping down to sit on a narrow piano stool between our fore and aft feet as they spread apart.

**Meadow Skipper** · 12-26-2022, 08:44 PM

^ that’s a good way to put it.

**Laps** · 12-26-2022, 09:02 PM

I heard it explained as “imagine your a horse on the merry-go-round, with a pole theough your head to betweeen your feet.” Turning was the up and down, moving feet fore and aft at the same rate.

Or you could just ski a shit ton. That is a good way to improve.

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**ski-wpk** · 12-26-2022, 09:25 PM

I’m probably 40/60 front (downhill) ski to back (uphill) ski. Dropping one knee and keeping that side dropped for both left and right turns should help you feel that weight.

**~mikey b** · 12-26-2022, 09:29 PM

I need some more Outlaws

**XXX-er** · 12-26-2022, 10:12 PM

I find if i rotate my upper body DH into the fall line just before i pole plant it sets up a platform which gives me stability and allows me to weight the edges

**MakersTeleMark** · 12-26-2022, 10:29 PM

Get used to shuffling seamlessly on the greens and making just shallow turns, even changing leads while turning. It doesn't matter which ski is front or back when you turn. And edge is an edge. You will find your perfect center very quickly.

**bodywhomper** · 12-26-2022, 11:10 PM

Monomark to get the feel of weighting the back foot

**jhyatt** · 12-27-2022, 06:55 AM

I have Scott voodoo I bought from demo fleet and new outlaw x.
There is stiction when I flex the binding. I think the binding flexes smooth it's the boot sort of moving in the toe thing? Is that possible? Cures?
Basically not a smooth motion lifting the heel. More steppy in the motion. Like a suspension fork that needs work.

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**Doremite** · 12-27-2022, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by S.B.

Much appreciated

Will report back when I dont suck

It'll be awhile

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You want to be able to leap of the snow while in your turn, springing off the balls of both feet. If you can’t, you’re dragging your rear ski too far behind you and won’t be able to get any power from it, hence putting too much weight on your front ski. Use shorter poles too. Your alpine length will keep jacking you too far rearward and throw you off balance. Seeing folks with giant poles and a lazy back foot flailing around behind them kills me and gives us all a bad rep.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 12-27-2022, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by jhyatt

I have Scott voodoo I bought from demo fleet and new outlaw x.
There is stiction when I flex the binding. I think the binding flexes smooth it's the boot sort of moving in the toe thing? Is that possible? Cures?
Basically not a smooth motion lifting the heel. More steppy in the motion. Like a suspension fork that needs work.

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You shouldn’t be lifting your heel, you’re heel comes off the ski because you pressure the cuff

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**Peruvian** · 12-27-2022, 08:08 AM

I'm not sure I understand what he is saying, but maybe it will help you.

**MakersTeleMark** · 12-27-2022, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by Doremite

You want to be able to leap of the snow while in your turn, springing off the balls of both feet. If you can’t, you’re dragging your rear ski too far behind you and won’t be able to get any power from it, hence putting too much weight on your front ski. Use shorter poles too. Your alpine length will keep jacking you too far rearward and throw you off balance. Seeing folks with giant poles and a lazy back foot flailing around behind them kills me and gives us all a bad rep.

Spend a couple days without poles. You don't need to be jumping/unweighting at all to accomplish much of a solid turn. In fact, you don't need to at all.