Free Tele Clinic / Ski Santa Fe / Saturday / Feb 25

Cost = You need to register at the link below. Free to club members. However, you supply your own lift ticket or pass.

Meeting place = Bottom of the mountain, right outside of the SuperChief quad chairlift maze, between the lift and main lodge. I will have on black pants, an orange jacket and maybe a black helmet.

Meeting times and duration = 10am-noon & 1pm-3pm. Register for one or both clinics. Strive to be on time!

Prerequisites = Have your own metal-edged Telemark gear. Glide wax your skis beforehand, especially those of you with 'waxless' skis. You need some type of ski retention device [strap/clip]. Be comfortable with chairlift loading and unloading. Feel free to wear a helmet, kneepads or any other gear to enjoy your day on the mountain.

Curriculum = I hope to introduce various techniques to help improve your Telemark technique. Turning with Tele gear is inherently more challenging than with alpine or snowboard gear. The tradeoff that Tele makes for freedom & flexibiity results in a loss in power/control. However, that does not mean a loss of enjoyment or fun! If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing, right?

The AM session will target lower level skills and the PM session will ramp things up a bit. However, I try to target each student with skills appropriate for their level.

Questions? Feel free to shoot me a DM or email.

Apology: I apologize for unintentionally conflicting with the awesome Telebration weekend at Los Alamos. Life and other scheduling conflicts pretty much forced my hand. If I don't see you at Santa Fe, then you should be at LA instead.

-Barry

Register at the link below: