Avery Cordova thanks it’s never too late... to start tele

Avery Cordova: I’m a dedicated extremely good alpine downhill skier. I love speed, moguls, deep pow and the power and grace I can apply to my craft. I’ll never be good at telemarking due to my first love but there is something really cool about it. Linking fine S shaped turns down a slope with about 3” of pow on top of smooth hardpack (the easiest and only snow conditions I’m at all competent in) is a feeling of extreme pleasure. Probably like hitting that perfect glassy wave surfing at a beautiful break on a drop dead gorgeous sunny day - an hour before sunset. In tow with a gorgeous lithe athletic bikini girl plying her trade on the wave in front of you. Ha ha. ‘Tis true.

Because Telemark is the purest form of travel over snow... You're home.

Thanks for sharing!

This timing depends on speed and/or terrain. I will almost always make the lead change before the fall line.

+andy withers That's is so cool Keep It up

Great, Enjoy the journey!!!

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My pleasure! That for the kind words

+PeteGiuliani Great comment. Thanks What are the positive movement you would recommand? Cheers

Thanks for asking. Try stepping, shuffling, hopping, gliding in various conditions and terrain. Learn the fundamentals of classic xc and skate, then apply them to the telemark turn , i.e. striding, retraction or scissoring initiation. Experiment with different turn shapes, sizes and intensities and encourage progressive guided movements, but also teach to the extremes such as stem telemarks, all to develop versatility... facebook.com/Pete-Giuliani-Telemark-and-Alpine-Ski-Coach-1533176226907468/

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Thanks

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+christopher phillip skeates This is awesome. Telemark is a feeling. Once you're hooked, it's hard to go back

+Timothy Kaufman Awesome. Glad you liked it

it seems you fall the way your falling to pick up the ballance again so if you fall out then lean out and fall ouit if you fall inward then lean in and fall inward to pick up the ballance again

but to pick up the ballance again the scissor motion gets it reverseable eqilibrium where as the old telemak snow plow cant

this is not a waiste of time learning patients to balance

Thanks. Next season!!!

contscot close is subjective. I see a lot of people having their feet too close. So I will recommend at least one boot appart as a general rule. If an expert found otherwise and feel good with a tighter stance than why not. But it’s not my recommendation.

when rene says he nearly lost it in the trees that was because he had no ability to increase the forward foot further forward left and so the back foot took over but his experience saved him so dont go into a tree section if your last bit of increaseing front foot ability is going to run out you have to have a bit in reserve for that last forward foot ability to get the last bit of forward balance over the tough section its all about how much you can keep in reserve ...skeatesy 2018

you should increase your limits but dont kid yourself as to where in reality your limits are while your increaseing them practice makes perfect ... skeatesy 2028

watching rene is poetry in motion ... skeatesy 2018

renes power full technique in getting the forward foot going forward is just unbelieveable unbelieveable thats where its at unbelieveable ability to get that forward foot going forward so powerful ...skeatesy 2018

when you did the tree run and nearly lost ballance there must be subtle differences in how your system works under difference amounts of ice and powder something we could only get to after many yesars of useing your system i know with ski racing i never went out of the gate faster than i was going to go through the last gate or else i was asking for disarster since i would be pretending how fit i was so may be confidence is a good measure of muscle fitness for the surface your skiing ... skeatesy 2018

maybe.. but his scissors dose traction control so you dont speed up so its not divergent the first time ever any one has captured this ..

but there is up unweighting and down unweighting so this defines it all a bit further by asking are you going to up unweight the rear foot or down unweight the back foot not too dificult to understand and put into practice ..well done rene

did you use insufficient up and down unweighting and some how youir scissor motion tended to return on the back leg instead of ballanced between the front and back leg... so you ended up in the back seat some where just at that moment your back leg action wasnt ballanced enough to the front leg in action with the scissor motion ...some how the turn wasnt round enough even though it was a mogal type terrain ...some how you entered that one last bump and didnt absorb it enough ..then you fell inside the turn at that point forcing you to used the older system some how then your system is not failing but the bump and speed dont corelate ...you used the old habit of the old system in an emergency and you got away with it but your system needed a fail safe recovery method attatched to it so you dont go back to old habits ...but have up your sleeve a recovery method for the scissor motion like in parrelel skiing its possible to use snow plow at a last resort and thats parralllels old system... is that all thats possible or can it be anylised if the advanced system is out of wak what would be the best recovery method ..

you said you werent feeling comfortable so your ballance wasnt ballanced on both legs and you didnt bend down lower enough ... when i raced motorcycles if we came unstuck the bike would go into a tank slapper and we had to get our weight right up over the petrol tank and get the weight of the back wheel and hope for the best in the shortest recovery time possible so maybe you didnt get your weight onto the front leg fast enough or you just got it there in time ...

in the begiining you say...'a lead change is the moment where you transfere from one leg to the other this wil get the forward leg to lead the turn ... at the end you say ...'so i always to go and have a lead change where my leg is moving forward or at least in my head this is like a mind set that ah brings me to be more aggressive in the bumps ... when you made a mistake in the forrest in the start are you saying you didnt acrue a measure of aggression and resorted to the leg moving back and aggression is your desired method and holds the hold system together as the old system is not aggressive and dosent have any way aggression can keep you upright ...

acrueing a measure of aggression tends to bend and kerl the rear of each ski upwards when on the front foot the desired bending moment to control the speed ...as opposed to the divergent bending and kerling the front of the ski upwards by being on the back foot and disaster happens ..

also .... when you walk on ice and slip over what is happening there is you are moveing sideways and your forward motion is slowing down till eventualy you fall backwards with no control ...your superfluid motion of walking foaward now has become frigid and down you go and if you try to do anything you make it worse and the more you fight it the worse it gets ....but it can be controled .... by immediately freezing your whole body so you are not adding anything to the situation and you will slide contantly forward until you slow down and your side ways movement stops so you dont fall backwards and you regain your super fluid motion forward and your frigidity stops ...and all the while this is happenning you keep your head still as possible and focus so you can accurately assess if your body legs and sholdiers and head are all one if they are moving sideways instead of forward ...so you body muscle memory resumes to a muscle memory of moving forward superfluidity ...and if you practice muscle memory of freezing your whole body as you slip side ways your momentum will go forward again and just let the slip sideways happen until you go forward again just by freezing without a frigid technque ...and you dont add anything to the situation until it resumes forward again ...you cant get something for nothing here you have to give into the situation by a freeze technique ..so you go from superfluidity forward movement and muscle memory to a freeze situation muscle memory situation until the forward situation resumes and dont add anything to the situation just ride it out as you cant get something for nothing.......... nothing can work only freeze and so your whole tecnique is not frigid but superfluid ...and then freeze if some sideways movement developes holding your head as still as possible ...and ride it out until your going forward again and this is what happened to rene in the tree section....... he lost his forward superfluid movement to a sideways movement .....and he added to the situation makeing it worse instead of freezeing at the last muscle memory of super fluidity forwards to a sideways frigid movement .....and adding to it with a die hard older tecnique which only just got him out of the situation instead of a muscle memrory freeze non movement until foraward movement resumed again by not adding to the lost situation trying to get something for nothing ...

lol i'm 51 and doing the same thing... also wondering where parts 2-7 are...

Looks like Le Massif in Quebec

Not even close. Looks like le Massif.

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Right! And this is exactly what is this movie about.

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haha, Yes, well not really

On the real though tele skiers will always bitch about form, but screw form (as long as your skiing in an anatomical position that won't compromise your ligaments/safety!) Just go have fun that's the best way to learn.

abasin rules

+stefanr00 Hi Stephan, great skiing. Very good rhythm. Your stance is a bit too spread to have the proper weight on your back ski. This is not too hard to solve. Try this exercise kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5dzmKqcsam9gKM.html

Hi! Thanks for the advice. I barely have any weight on the back ski because that is how I learned to telemark. I think this is easier for beginners? I will practise with your exercises. Thanks a lot!

stefanr00 I can put all my weight on the back foot while even lifting the front ski. u just balance on toes. but generally you keep less on back than front. in the beginning I would have all on front. now I alter weight as needed and alternate between a tele turn and parallel turn when I start to tire. also I found you can ski while sitting on ur heel to rest but not stop

But you are :)

Equipment is not the problem. I use all kinds of bindings, from mouse trap three pin bindings to Bishop BMF's. I've skied them all. I've skied leather boots (still do) I've skied 4 buckle boots, I've skied them all. And in my experience, technic is very similar whatever the gear. Yes, you need to use the ball of the foot and this is not the subject of this video. And in all the clips, I use the ball of the foot on my rear ski. So I don't really agree with your point. This is like if you said that I need to have my shoulders square to the bottom. Yes, but that's not what I'm talking about here. Just a different topic

if you are unweighting the back foot we should then be asking if you are up unweighting or down unweighting ..

you have revolutionised skiing

when we dropped the foot back and lent down to our knees ..we were told thats how it was done ..since it was invented by telemark finland bloke who invented it back in the 50's ...and we put all our weight on the lead foot and ballanced on it because the rear foot was back and kicked in a bit so the tip of the ski was pointing at the binding of the other foot ...and in ruff tree stuff we lifted the whole position so the ski was completely of the snow so we thought thats all was too it ...but it did keep getting faster and faster because of the spread and the light back foot ...so thats what it was but your saying 'rene that to get the weight on both feet the stance has to be closer together ..and not so wide apart which lifts the back leg ...so i think your saying bring the back foot closer enough so the weight equals out ...and if the back foot is still not enough weight on it then keep bringing the back foot up closer ...then use your scissor stance if you finaly get both feet equal weight... but that also means the front foot is actualy slightly back so the back foot dosent come parrallel ...but remains back but the front foot slightly is back compared to the original telemark because the front foot took all the strain ...and the back foot just went back as far as poosible till your knee was on the ski and pointing to the inside binding of the front foot ...and the front foot was straight down taking all the loading ...and then use up unweighting and down unweighting and the back foot just steared it all ...but dose speed up ..........so by the front foot slightly back to allow the back foot come forward and equalize compaired to the old telemark stance ...the pressure and thats close enough together in a scissor position ...but not any closer or you are parrallel skiing ...and the front foot and back foot are directly bellow equal pressure ....so your saying the scissor motion wide enough to still have equal pressure.... until the rear foot starts to loose pressure ....but a little forward but the front foot must slightly go back or else you need to be together parrallel skiing ..skeatesy

if your front foot goes too far forward then the back foot position pressure may be too much ...so you get it happening in reverse ...so you have no control of the front foot being too light ...and the back foot too heavy contry to the original telemark being too much in the front seat...skeatesy

it looks like you need to crouch and bend the knees ...and even use your hips like parrallel skiing but only move the leg below the knees in a scissor action so the knees almost stay together ...so the lower leg and ankles do all the work so your stance is to do with your lower leg area not widening your whole leg up to the groin ..skeatesy

Because we are not all "GrumpyOldMan" :)

That's a fair question--why bother? It's trickier to learn than Alpine technique. But I gotta say, telemark feels amazing once you start to get it. It uses more of your body and puts you in closer proximity to the snow, resulting in a more compelling ride even on gentle slopes and at slow speeds.

Because your wife is a permanent intermediate and you even the playing field so you can enjoy skiing on the same terrain.

Or, you are about to turn 60 and need to figure out a fun way to slow down AND stay in shape.