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Telemark Skiing Lessons With Mammoth Mountain's Urmas Franosch

Getting Started, Part 3 Work on your tele stance while using this side slipping exercise to learn how to release your edges in preparation for linking turns Urmas says, "the main difference between telemark skiing and alpine skiing is the telemark position, so we are going to spend a lot of time (in this series of lessons) learning a really solid telemark position and lead change." In this exercise Urmas has the student shuffle the skis as they did in "Getting Started part 1," but this time while side slipping down the hill. This will help the student learn how to release the edges while shuffling the feet through the lead change.  Running time: 01:37 9mb Windows Media 9 1mb Windows Media 17mb Mpeg 8mb Quicktime

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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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