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Telemark Skiing Lessons With Mammoth Mountain's Urmas Franosch

Getting Started, Part 2

Add this little telemark "J" turn at the end of a traverse and begin to feel the love..

You've practiced your lead changes and worked through the shuffle exercises in Part 1, now it's time to add a little tele turn to the end of a traverse. Follow Urmas instructions and you will start your traverse, hold it across the hill, and as you begin to slow, sink down, bend your knees, and spread into the tele position, gently turning up the hill to a stop.

Congratulations! You just made your first telemark turn. For many of us, life was never quite the same ever again... welcome to the tribe!

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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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