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Telemark Skiing Lessons With Mammoth Mountain's Urmas Franosch

Getting Started

The Basic Telemark Stance & Shuffle Exercises

Assuming you have some skills acquired as an alpine skier or snowboarder, this is the place to start. In this video Urmas covers the fundamentals of the telemark position and has the student practice the basic movements while stationary, moving down the hill, and during simple traverses across a mellow slope.

 Running time: 04:31

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About Urmas:

Urmas Franosch is a former PSIA Telemark Demo Team member who has been teaching telemark at Mammoth Mountain for more than two decades. In addition to being a gifted teacher and a master of the tele turn, Urmas also serves as the PSIA-West Nordic Chief Examiner, in other words he teaches other tele instructors how to instruct.

With his easy style and friendly enthusiasm, Franosch has helped more people discover the stoke of the tele turn than just about anyone else in North America . Quite simply, when it comes to teaching telemark, nobody does it better.

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