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Advanced Lessons
With Tele Tom Peterson
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Advanced Video Lesson
1: Tele Skiing Offensively
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Intended for experienced freeheel
skiers, in "Tele Skiing Offensively" Tom explains and
demonstrates techniques for aggressively taking control of the
telemark turn on the steeps, then he takes you the viewer down
to intermediate terrain, teaching the progressions that will
lead to tele skiing offensively instead of defensively. |
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Advanced Lesson 2: The
Tele Hop Turn
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The tele hop turn is the advanced tele
skier's best friend. Even guys like Frode and Scott Murray don't
straightline every steep and narrow chute, and the hop turn is
the key to making turns in challenging snow too.
On the steeps the hop turn drastically
reduces the amount of time the skis are in the fall line, making
speed control much easier. In junk snow the hop turn allows the
skier to get the skis up and out of the mank or crust and initiate
a new turn.There are many other uses for a solid hop turn. It's
an important key skill in becoming a go-anywhere-you-want-to-go
telemark skier. |
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Begin the hop turn lesson progression by working
on making a series of strong edge sets, focusing on coming to
a complete stop in a balanced and collected tele position. Concentrate
on keeping your knees parallel, don't let your uphill leg drift
too far back |
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Next, add a pole plant at the end of each
edge set. Again try to come to a complete stop in a balanced
tele position, legs bent, skis pretty strongly on edge and in
a nice low, flexed, tele stance. This will help you make the
hop turn movements correctly and precisely. |
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Now try what are called "leaper turns."
This is where you leave the snow just enough to turn your feet
downhill into the fall line, landing in a nice tele position
and then letting the new turn lengthen out. This exercise gives
you an opportunity to really work on your balance, your pole
plant and edging. The larher radius leaper turns will lead you
into making the short, quick, snappy hop turns in the final stage
of the progression |
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Now it's time to bring it all together by
making hop turns down the fall line. Work on this beginning with
a strong edge set, adding a nice and strong pole plant, with
your upper body turnd and facing down the hill. All of this allows
you to then extend your flexed legs and lift yourself up and
out of the snow. Work on getting enough lift to get your skis
up off the snow and pointing downhill, then round off the turn,
coming out out of the fall line. For clean and powerful hop turns
don't over rotate the skis while in the air. |
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Lessons Pages
(1), (2),
(3), (4)
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