Improving your telemark turn on cross country skis
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Performing the telemark turn on light cross country ski equipment is a challenge for many nordic skiers. By the progression shown in this video skiers should be able to learn this elegant turn on their cross country skis. Thanks to Cross Country Newfoundland and Labrador, Rossignol skis and boots and Infinity ski poles for their help with these videos.Keith Nicol is a CANSI Level 4 ski instructor and runs X-C ski instructor courses in Atlantic Canada. For more information on CANSI contact: www.cansi.ca You can contact Keith Nicol at
knicol@swgc.mun.ca and you can check out his nordic skiing web page at:www2.swgc.mun.c...
I am a pretty good telemark skier and have been telemark skiing for about 30 years. The truth is that cutting tele-turns with standard cross country equipment is exceedingly difficult. Boots are soft, skis are stiff without a profile cut, bindings have a little wiggle. I agree with the idea of learning how to cut a telemark turn on your standard equipment so that you can have fun with it in ideal conditions, but don't get discouraged if you have a very difficult time doing it. Most of the back-country guys who actually use telemark turns when touring have beefier equipment that is much more conducive to making telemark turns, especially in tight conditions. I typically tour with heavy-duty leather boots and beefy telemark three-pin bindings mounted even on lighter skis. Try it, have fun with it, but don't be discouraged. Typical cross-country skis, boots, bindings are not really designed for the torque and demands of tight or even moderately tight telemark turns.
Great to see all the Tele flics it makes me feel proud. As one of the telemark teaching innovators it gives me great pleasure to
see all of these videos. When I started we only had wooden skis. What a challenge. As fiberglass skis were developed with thin metal edges it made it easier to ski on packed powder and crud. It was in the mid 1970s that I had the thought of bringing this technique to the skiing public in establishing the First Telemark Ski School at a ski area in the eastern U.S. at Bromley Mt
That school and tradition lives on there today.
Telemark Fil.
The slope and snow type certainly help....when you are starting out try the turn in good snow conditions. Once you are comfortable with the turn you can try it when conditions are not quite so good.
I learned tele & all the other ski turns on xc track gear. I still believe it's the best way to start. Terrific videos. Ty!
Keith makes it look so darn easy. Anyway, I'm going to make a renewed effort to at least come up with a half decent telemark turn this Winter.
Let me know how you make out
@@k2nicol Ok, now that I'm committed and encouraged by the impressive technician and author. ): Keith, I've enjoyed and benefited from your excellent videos over the last 5-6 yrs. and recommend them to the HS and MS kids as well as their parents that I work with here in North Central Wisconsin. Your videos are so good visually that you hardly have to spend much time talking. ):
I ski telemark and I practice some telemark transitions on my "classic" cross country skis and would offer a note of caution. A lot of additional lateral strain is place on the knee joint (even in the pisted grooves of a langlauf course) as the support of the lower leg is reduced.... that said, it does look quite cool.
HI: You can certainly use them at an alpine ski area...the video above was filmed at Marble Mountain Ski Resort in Newfoundland. The success you will have will depend on how easy it is to flex the ski. I used softer flexing classic skis in this video since I find them easier to turn. Many people use skate skis to do telemark turns on the trail.
It is a very stable position so that is why it is used.
@lassehoei
It is just a basic binding for regular trail skiing. I am using classic skis and boots.
Keith
Great drill.
Looks like it takes the advanced telemark technology out of the equation, and focuses on pure Nordic skill.
QUESTION 1: Will the lift operator allow me to ascend without metal edges?
QUESTION 2: Do cross country skis have runaway straps?
Steve Doe 1: it depends on the mountain
2: by runaway straps do you mean like a leash so you don’t lose your ski? If so, XC skis don’t come off like alpine skis so it’s not an issue, but it makes injury’s much more likely. I’d advise against going to a downhill resort with XC skis.
Beautiful shot, but my opinion is that the smoothness of this ride is because of the type of snow and preparation of the slope.
Thanks for the video!
nice. I'm sending the link to people I know.
Thanks
There is likely not info out there...in Canada we model our teaching of downhill skiing on x-c skis on what Canada's alpine instructors are doing. Not sure about other countries and how they approach this but I assume they might be the same thing. Hope this helps
What would you say is the effect of the telemark turn as opposed to normal skiing. Am I correct in assuming that bending the mountain knee allows the lower foot to have more weight on it/be more stable? Or would you just fall forward because the heel is loose doing a 'normal' alpine turn.
Nice easy demo.
I just have a problem with focus on weighting outside ski. Most folks seem to have more difficulty trusting their weight on inside/uphill/rear ski. Really weight should be distributed more equally, or especially on uphill ski, pressuring uphill edges to dig sidecut of skis into the snow and help bring the turn into completion!
hi... could you please help me... i'am student of Faculty for Sport and physical education in Sarajevo... right now we have winter sports, and i got to research something about "analyses of basic and parallel turns in Nordic skiing"... it is very hard to find anything about that... or i don't know to search :D if you could help, i would be very grateful...
I just purchased traditional XC skis and would like to learn this technique. Can somebody explain if/how different boot styles are conducive?
I used combi boots in these demos...they give more support than classic boots and toe flexes.
this is going to hurt, learning this. :(
This must be skiing nirvana. What kind of binding was used?
Can't afford tele gear, so used XC gear it is!
How come ALL skiers are thin? Are there no fat skiers?
uphills do the job.