How much different is telemarking to alpine?

It for sure takes more balance, but is not overly difficult. if you've skied cross country and have skied downhill, chances are you can ski tele. it's super fun, I highly suggest trying if you have the chance. some people can get quite frustrated with tele turns though, and it takes a while to develop nice style but it's for sure worth it
 
if you're a good alpine skier it will be easy to learn telemarking. which means you will be able to turn on groomers and get down the mountain. guess it'll take some work to make it stylish
 
yea, its not too hard to get pretty decent, it is pretty fun to just play around with sometimes, a good change of pace from regular alpining
 
It's sick when it looks like fools are just running straight down the hill droppin those knees and gettin in there
 
whenever i see tele skiiers i say "get real lock down the heel" or yell at em from the lift "ur bindings are breaking!!"
 
with hard boots and cable bindings learning to tele isnt that difficult. i learned it in about a week of skiing. The most trouble i had was when i took my tele's in the park, landing switch etc.
 
In my opinion, if you want to be serious about tele, don't learn with hard boots and cable bindings.

the best way: find a pair of leather boots and a pair of older cross country skis with the 3 pin bindings (not skate skis), then find any hill near your house with snow on it and walk up ski down till you can put together tele turns the whole way.

you'll probably get frustrated as hell but if you can do that you're absolutely set and will be miles beyond when you put on the whole stiff boot/cable binding setup at the mountain.
 
It's funny because of irony.

Also tele is really fun, definitely hard in the park at first but you get used to it. I switched back to pussy skiing a couple years ago but tele'd almost my whole life before that. For all mountain skiing it's great, such a good feel for everything around and under you. And pow is that much deeper!
 
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Any doubles been done with em?

Im now seriousyly thinking of buying a pair, would be gr8 fun just to skii around too..
 
i tele'd for a while, and it is pretty hard. the telemark turn is easy to learn, but any form of park skiing is crazy hard. it just feels like your skis arent attached
 
one day at my local mountain they had tele demos, all for free. and i was able to make some nice turns within a few hours. and i think i only fell once
 
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