The Last King. AKA: A telemarking battle movie.

[Harris]

It has axes. It has spears. It has a medieval "overthrow the king" plot. It has Norwegian legend. And... It has telemark fight scenes. I give you...

[anemic]

It's so good. When we stream it from iTunes, it defaulted to an experience-killing English overdub. My IT guy (16 y/o son) switched it to Norwegian language w/English subtitles, which is the only way to see this movie if you don't know Norwegian. We loved it.

[GLB]

It's a good movie with some good skiing in it. I'm reading the book now "Birkebeiner" by Jeff Foltz, a historical fiction about the events.

[lowangle al]

It looks like fat rockered skis were the origional XCD skis. For historical accuracy were there no T turns before Sondre Nordheim?

[GLB]

Who did Sondre Norheim learn it from??? I believe it was all part of getting around and moving through that terrain while on skis that they learned different techniques. I am sure it was used in some form with a combination of other skills before it was given a name and called a style. However in the movie you don't see any T-Turns but good skiing all around.

[phoenix]

My recollection is that Sondre Norheim came up with the idea for the turn as a way to check speed after landing Nordic long jumps. It bled over to the alpine world... there were fierce arguments over the temark vs. parallel styles.

I think the movie was really the Kingdom boys looking to have fun out of tele camp. One of 'em was babysitting their grandson, had to do something. And get the kid started young.