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Once you get over the edge catching hump, it can be as effortless as skis, and catching an edge is not really something I worry about. That being said, there is
by uxp100 5y ago
Once you get over the edge catching hump, it can be as effortless as skis, and catching an edge is not really something I worry about. That being said, there is only so much time in a life, and if the sort of "balance" aspect isn't clicking, there are a lot of fun ways to get down a snowy mountain.
I've been trying to learn telemark and parallel turns on my off-track cross country skis as someone who has basically only boarded downhill, and uh, it's an interesting challenge (and a bad season for it...). The skis have basically no sidecut, but if the conditions are right, I can struggle out a gentle telemark turn.
- blunte 5y agoI always found the telemark guys silly looking, but I think it might be a nice peaceful way to do things :). I would try it!
- uxp100 5y agoFreeheel is still the only way to do "complete" skiing, where you go from flat cross country, to mild uphill, to a low angle descent without changing a thing on 3 pin or NNN-BC bindings, so it's a handy technique to have in that context. But yeah, it's pretty silly, and I think just worse than a parallel turn in a lot of conditions. Maybe I wouldn't think it was silly if I felt a good one!