Jan 30 2005
Tele Mark
My first weekend of Telemark skiing and I loved it! It was hard to un-learn my alpine ski reflexes (even though it’s about 8 years ago since I last did any alpine skiing) but after a day and a half I suddenly got the hang of it.
Did I already say I love it?
(I do have sore muscles though. Umph.)
Tuesday, 1 February, 2005 @ 09:02
What’s the difference?
Tuesday, 1 February, 2005 @ 10:03
Alpine skis are connected to your shoes so you can’t bend your knees. This gives greater control, but is also very static. On telemark skis you can move much more freely, so you can dance with them. But it’s also much harder. Another ‘problem’ is that in alpine ski your lower (closest to the bottom of the hill) ski is always behind the upper ski. In telemark it’s exactly the opposite as you can see on the picture.