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Telemark Skiing Lessons With Mammoth Mountain's Urmas Franosch

Powder! Learn to ski the fluff with style and grace using the techniques Urmas teaches in this simple progression!   "First we need to learn how to ski the snow rather than have the snow ski us," explains Urmas at the beginning of this lesson segment. He goes on to say that "the key to skiing powder and mastering the technique is pressure control." Follow along as Urmas gives you the tools you can use to rule in the snow that many feel telemark skiing is all about, and for which the technique was developed so long ago.  Running time: 04:46 27mb Windows Media 9 2mb Windows Media 49mb Mpeg 28mb 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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