lead change.. getting to the in fall line?

[Montana St Alum]

That’s my friggin point.. First have to describe the key points of the turn… or else there’s no common frame of reference to describe when the lead change occurs.

Your points tend to be...."opaque".

[Manney]

As opaque as “lots of ways to skin the cat”… “ just go ski and I think it'll come to you”.

Don’t necessarily disagree with those phrases… sometimes repetition, practice more helpful than words… but not a good launching point for calling someone else’s post opaque.

[Montana St Alum]

As opaque as “lots of ways to skin the cat”… “ just go ski and I think it'll come to you”.

Don’t necessarily disagree with those phrases… sometimes repetition, practice more helpful than words… but not a good launching point for calling someone else’s post opaque.

This is how I do lead changes:


How do you do them?

[Manney]

You can use words… Continuous motion… both feet moving… equal weighting… body rotation. You can use diagrams… like Tall Grass. You can use a video. At some point need to break those nice smooth movements down… new telemarkers would miss nuances.

As for my skiing… conditions different. So different points when rotation, lead start.

Conditions are an important part of the discussion… cause if you start tightening line, throwing snow (like in the video when skier tightens lines) when slope is lower, snow is softer, your going to have a hard time keeping speed, flow.

[mca80]

Yeah. Some places better than others for tele…. Hate to burst anyone’s bubble.

Telemark is a method for turning freeheel skis. It works in any reasonable type of snow or conditions. I don't look at weather/snow conditions and think "ooh, tele turns aren't going to work today." I just grab my gear and go.

If you've got terrible breakable crust out there you still just grab your gear and go out for turns?

[connyro]

Yeah. Some places better than others for tele…. Hate to burst anyone’s bubble.

Telemark is a method for turning freeheel skis. It works in any reasonable type of snow or conditions. I don't look at weather/snow conditions and think "ooh, tele turns aren't going to work today." I just grab my gear and go.

If you've got terrible breakable crust out there you still just grab your gear and go out for turns?

[Manney]

I don't look at weather/snow conditions and think "ooh, tele turns aren't going to work today." I just grab my gear and go.

Really? You don’t look at weather (temperature, freezing level)… snow conditions… to make a go-no go decision? In the UP?. Wow… I’m doing it all wrong.

[connyro]

I don't look at weather/snow conditions and think "ooh, tele turns aren't going to work today." I just grab my gear and go.

Really? You don’t look at weather (temperature, freezing level)… snow conditions… to make a go-no go decision? In the UP?. Wow… I’m doing it all wrong.

Nice try to distort. Weather or conditions don't dictate tele vs alpine. If conditions suck, I won't ski. If conditions are reasonable, I'll ski tele 100% of the time. Does that help clear things up?

[Manney]

Distort? Just posted what you wrote… lol

Here’s another one…

Weather or conditions don't dictate tele vs alpine.

Yer sayin that you don’t match gear, technique to conditions… lol.

[lowangle al]

"If you don't go you won't know" Surface conditions are sometimes hard to predict in the bc. They can change daily even with no new snow, sometimes for the better.

As far as this thread, I assumed the OP was resort skiing and wasn't concerned with the conditions.