NEWSCHOOL TELEMARK by Stephane DUFOUR

[owentheman1]

this makes me happy

[Ihavenonameismyname]

what song is this????

[carledowning]

Sainte foy has excellent off piste and is not too far from Tignes. Ntn bindings totally release in a big enough crash

[tylero1985]

Wow, falling looks so much more dangerous on teles since they don't pop off. Is that really the case?

[MrNickhubbell]

@tylero1985 Yes. Telemark bindings are much more dangerous because they don't have a release mechanism. Even if they do release they will still fall with you because they are attached to your boots by ski leashes. Bad news if you're on extreme terrain.

[xilizo]

@tylero1985 It might be with 75mm-bindings, but with the newer NTN-bindings you do have a "pop off-mechanism" which you can of course adjust to match your weight. NTN = new norm telemark. Look'em up! ;)

[DrBergdahl]

@tylero1985 No.There are telemark bindings with release function. You can have ski stoppers as well. Telemark equipment is found in a wide variety from old-school simple bindings to very burly stuff with stability similar to alpine gear.

[MrNickhubbell]

Is it possible to telemark ski moguls backward? I've been looking for an answer to this but I can't seem to find one.

[MrNickhubbell]

Perfect technique.

[jkyep13]

and then it happened!

[jkyep13]

i was just thinking what i would pay to see this guy fall lol

[k2tele27]

Sick! work on the pow

[panzerkrafft]

Best telemarkskier i've ever seen!!

Does anybody know how long skis he's using??????

His skiing looks so extreme stable

He's the telemark king

[tesaure]

totally awesome!! Best regards from Norway ;)

[freshsteff94]

skiing is aweome =)

i learned it on a school trip a month ago and it is so mutch fun! =D

im gonna stick to and and recommend it to anybody who likes sports

[39rudeboy]

"Sick Bird" Free your heel and your mind will follow. No Tea bagging aloud

[skiaddict101]

this is the best skier ive ever seen

[christoph7687]

whats the name of this song?

cheers

[tlohmoD]

Are the bindings centered?

[n0rweg]

@tlohmoD have to be for good carving. But not so comfortable for riding the powder. U can see this on film...

[DiveRule]

My friend ... You are simply MAGIC!!! I'm just about to try that.... Pls call an ambulance ...!!!! Sure is not easy but it doesn't look impossible!!! LoL

[psgjc]

cool vidéo but bad bad music !

[briandavidbarr]

what's the name of this song?

[saitouknt2009]

Is he still telemarker? I want to watch much more his skiing.

[petterviken]

From one skilled telemarker to a master! You're an inspiration!

[TheUltimateDrift]

Where was this filmed? I want a cool place to ski at :T

[a3fvideo]

@TheUltimateDrift TIGNES, France, best place in the world... (See the movies "SWEET SNOW IN TIGNES, and POWDER DREAMIN on my channel...

[Tallah0]

@a3fvideo Exactly i was there last great place to skii. I just love Grand Motte probably one of the best slopes in the world

[freshsteff94]

@a3fvideo skiing is the best damn thing in the world. i love watching your videos and imagining i could be riding right now... in spring i´ve been on a ski trip in italy with all of my friends and it was the best time in my life. you have awesome driving skills

[koekjedeslayer]

@a3fvideo how can the best place in the world be in france?

i hate french ppl

[trudal987]

Dude mad skill! Just makes me want to try this even more!

[sektor2001]

a very nice style !

[Sloppymudsprocket]

Fucking Awsome

[snoozedogg]

Crazy dude im Norway he is crazy

[n0rweg]

@snoozedogg for sure, man! But he put me into love with telemark! He's crazy and so sklilled skier!!!

[christianwestoo]

mad telemark skills! it may look easy, but anyone skiing telemark will agree with me that skiing backwards tele-style is soo much more difficult than, say, an icy, tourist-wrecked mogul slope...

[phil656565]

@christianwestoo agreed, only thing keeping me from tele skiing is bad knees, one acl tear and reconstruction and a very small tear in my meniscus in my other knee. Tried it for a day and loved it but my knees just cant handle it. I stick to alpine but it definantly doesnt have the difficulty of telemark.

[flynfinn49]

@phil656565 Friend, I too have meniscus tear but good acl. I am 62 tele tor 17 yrs. Believe it or not it is not hard on the knees. The physical pain is in the quads like doing walking lunges at the gym for an hour at a time. There are injuries with the new big boots but rarely to the knees, mostly the ankles. Give it a try but only if you want to for fun. If you are a good skier then intermediate tele comes very fast; advanced is a bitch with lots of work. Have fun whatever you do.

[phil656565]

@flynfinn49 like i said i tried it for a day, put a pretty good amount of stress on my acl, i was at the intermediate level at the end of the day but my knee was swelled up pretty well. Alpine works great for me, i still do knee strengthening excercises every other day to prevent future injury. 65 days on the snow this year and will probably get two or three more, snows been amazing.

[Avventurier0]

That's incredible!!

...Too good and funny!

[julianf0918]

his style has got the greatest flow, its awesome

[nykann]

So good! The best Telemark video on the net!

[Knopfler1988]

What bindings are you using ? Rottefella Cobra R8 ?

[loosecakes]

I alpined for about 10 years and then started to telemark about 10 years ago. I was frustrated with my alpine skiing not improving and enjoyed the rapid progress of learning something new. I loved telemarking so much I stopped alpine altogether. I couldn't say which requires more skill but for an unbiased point of view my partner (ex alpine examiner) says my alpine sucks and he thinks I tele pretty good. Strange but true! Perhaps cos I'm passionate about telemarking? It's all in the love!

[FlyFishNewZealand]

awesome!



[sanpolen]

Iron legs...

[jamesridenour]

nice wreck scene. A Daffy! Hilarious!

[alinitto]

Nice. By the way why did you call it "new school", his style seems to me to be fairly classic ?

[chitchiskateboarding]

2:27 I wish i could be there now

[skier71192ryan]

what kind of binding is that? a black diamond, g3, voile, rottefella, ect...? and what brand skis are they?

[ax524]

I've got to learn the backwards telemark!

[multyFULLkojon]

Gutt! Super video! My rating:6! :D

[rockymountainwomen]

This guy is an incredible skier. I want to know if he can ski like this on traditional, narrow, straight telemarks skis and leather boots?

[alinitto]

I am very interested in this aspect of telemark, but did not tried it yet because I still lack the equipment: can you tell me about this "old fashion" telemark, with straight skinny skies and light leather boots, which seams soo attractive, is it not too difficult in steep terrain or in deep powder, ice or breakable crust? It seems to me that in harsh conditions it is only for experts .. am I right?

[rockymountainwomen]

@alinitto

I think skinny skis require more balance and skill because they have less sidecut and are much more narrow than the super- shaped skis of today. I ski mostly on the Karhu Guide which I consider to be fat, but they are not compared to many skis. When I want humility, I try to do turns on my double-camber, touring skis or my traditional, straight Karhu skis on more gentle terrain. Alinitto, your comment is right on.

[alinitto]

@rockymountainwomen okay, modern skis are, hmm, more giving that the old ones, but there has to be a price (apart from the obvious economical POV ;).. humility is good, but what about their lightness, their flexibility, their confort ? I take it to be sooo very important, and it seems to be a forgotten subject in tele skis .. in this sens, the ATs seem much more sensible .. telemark does not deserve this brute force approach, telemark is an art, this should not be forgotten ..

[sloaiza81]

@alinitto if you have any testosterone in you, you should understand.

[alinitto]

@sloaiza81 Thanks, I usually use my brains to understand, that testosterone, I give it a different use ;) if should put it more reasonably we could communicate ..

[phil656565]

@alinitto its the hardest snow sport there is

[alinitto]

@phil656565 are you talking about telemark in general or about the telemark practiced with 'skinny skis' and light leather boots?

[phil656565]

@alinitto telemark in general, if you try it on skinny straights and leather boots its deffinantly the hardest there is

[alinitto]

@phil656565 as for the telemark in general I tried it on my own skin :) and I like it so much ..after 3 years of continuous practice it seems to me to seeing some light at the end of the tunnel (hopefully it's not the train . :) in the sense that the movements seem to be more and more effortless (somehow like in chi kong, a kind of internal energy..) in this sense I think that a light equipment though less giving in crust, steep or ice, will help conserving THAT energy, moving lighter, jumping..

[adamcrookedsmile]

It's awesome backwards skiing guys.

3:37 you have to land in Telemark stance, never parallell feet.

[bendu73]

magnifique

[Novex2]

Can you tell me the name of the skiers?

[Lineriderprogamer]

Telemark

[a3fvideo]

Stéphane DUFOUR

[TheSallador]

Суперрр!!!!!!

[squidfrites]

Really great video, C'est fantastique.

Is telemark suited to particular snow conditions?

How is it in powder compared to conventional alpine?

[Willum13]

you can telemark everywhere. it's superb in deep snow, feelin free, almost like flying. telemark is really... woaw.

[tomas49]

@Willum13 yes telemark is my favorite winter sport, Free your heel - free your mind

[flynfinn49]

@squidfrites Easier in powder than alpine. Tele's is weaker with narrow chutes and steep ice where it is hard to hold the edge.

[tvanmaaren]

Gruwlijk lekker filmpje!

[teuf40]

magnifique

[telleskipowder]

Half the binding twice the fun.

[a3fvideo]

Not bad...

[Stianson87]

Yeaaaah (0:39)

[daveshaw99]

rippin. love it. love that you show the reality of him eating it a few times too.

[imi3usy]

does anyone know what the music is?

[a3fvideo]

Music: "BREAKING MACHINE" by NEMLESS, a small french band. I don't thinck they still play music, the track is 15 years old...

[BigestMooseEver]

Extremely skilled skier... Very impressive. Telemark has always been something id like to learn.

[sardin69]

Cool. Very cool, indeed :-)

[Robkat3751]

I've watched this a dozen times just to hear the music.

[a3fvideo]

Thank you for the rider...

[Robkat3751]

His backwards is better than everyone else on the mountain going foreward.

[Freefallification]

Great job! Super cool movie.

[riderdijon]

Good ski

is it possible to tell me what is the music on your video

thanks

[a3fvideo]

Hello my friend, the music est signée NEMLESS, un petit groupe de Toulouse. Je ne pense pas qu'ils jouent toujours, le morceau à 10 ans et je n'ai plus aucune nouvelle depuis. Leur label s'appelait SKALOPARDS si tu veux essayer de chercher, je ne peux pas mettre le site sinon youtube ne prend pas le commentaire

[BlessUpDiHerbs]

the switch shots are nice however nothing to ground breaking here

[madcitydev]

Nice skiing but I am almost as impressed with the camera work.

[tserkus]

I have been riding telemark for 8 years and alpine about 8 years before that. Until i saw this movie i thougt twintip was stupid. Now I got myself a pair, and Im only riding backwards from now on :P

[BBgreenie]

Love it. That backwards skiin was somthing, wow. Look forward to a week out in the powder now... Have fun and free your heel. Greatings from Telemark, Norway.

[MxRider1997]

i have telemark skis too ( twin tip ) Rossignol S1 Howell :D and im 12 years old

[Fifoulescalope]

ce qui m'impressionne c'est que ça parait vraiment simple quand tu le voit ... alors que ça ne l'est pas ^^ techniquement et physiquement ;)

[icehawkone]

You inspire me man, keep going fast...Merci.

[tijosk8]

you are pretty good

[roberentong]

nice ride

enjoy the 09/10 season dude!!!

[DWWhitcher]

Best i've seen in a while. fun to watch and a rocker tune to go with the flow

[yoprod]

that backwords skiin looks really funny,....

thats what skiing is, playing around having fun...

[DonSmilo]

Great!

[HugeJohn51]

gee, I've been doing 'newschool' tele for the last 6 or 7 years without knowing it! I'll give him the backwards stuff though, that's pretty hard, but really, who wants to ski backwards? Seriously, this is a dude going fast on green runs- so what?

[pfatti333]

yeah thats true but damn the backwards skiin was pro

[unhygienix1970]

Blah Blah. Skiing is personal. Do what ever makes you feel good. Otherwise you are missing the point.

[unhygienix1970]

Sweet ride

[frapepito]

Fantastico!

[kettensaeger999]

mafiashadow ,sorry you are a idiot ,NEVER compare telemark and alpine,i really can tell,even if you ever tried telemark,yes you only tried i was born on skies(alpine crosscounty,short skies,carving even oldskool woodenskies ,i tried everything on frozen water) then snowboardet for about 18 years ,got to know telemark about 12 years ago and since 9 years nothing else,there is nothing comparable FREE YOUR HEEL MERCIE STEPHANE

[phil656565]

damn i thought i could pick up tele pretty fast... i picked up snowboarding really fast after getting to the advanced intermediate level on alpines... i was hoping the feeling of ridin on snow would transfer over... eh gonna have to try it anyway

[mafiashadow]

The only main thing which is different between alpine and telemark is the position on a ski compared to the other one when you turn. Kneeling down is pretty easy, and the top of your body has the same position. Really, when you know how to alpine ski, you can learn tele quite fast.

[Trailsthatflow]

Dud telemark skiing is about 60% harder than alpine

[JC0ST4]

where's this place ?

[trondtioo]

Cool:-D

Name off the song??

[Digitz111]

I love watching Telemark skiers. I do alpine and hope to one day try to have a go at telemarking.

[nateriovideos]

Anyone who wants to learn to Tele can. I think it's best if you never alpine first, but what do I know. It took me about six days to free-heel confidently on blues. If you alpine first, you have to 'forget' everything you know. A snowboarder only needs to learn to deal with the extra board. I only tried alpining once, and it feels VERY unnatural.

When I grow up, I want to be like Stephane!!

[sanpolen]

I desagree with you. I tried telemark one time and i know is more difficult than alpine. But if you have any alpine experience you will progress faster than if it's your first time on the snow.

[adambomb479]

i completely disagree. you don't need to "forget everything you know" at all. I raced for a few years and was a very strong alpine skier, it took me about 3 days to get the hang of tele, and i wouldn't have been as good as i am now with out alpine.

[thomastviler]

.. and telemark requires much more skill, balance and training then alpine. its much harder on the knees and ancles aswell.

[thomastviler]

you dont have to learn alpine before telemark. infact the nature of telemark is that its a combined cross country and riding style, an all round style where you master the mountain in all ways both up and down and on the flat land. norwegian kids learn telemark skiing before anything else its the best base training for balance.

[Piuaq]

whatever, he is good! :D

[dabausa]

ese tio sabe!!!

great movie :+:

[Thonhaugen]

This isn't newschool.. its telemark twintip.. he doen't even hit any jumps.. gay

[bassfreak185]

going switch on teles is pretty tough though.

[Thonhaugen]

yes indeed :P but not newschool

[haugan3]

omg this isnt newschool???? ur the gay! have you ever ridden a pair of twintip telemark skis in a high speed switch??? guess not... ive done oldschool telemark! That is though this is even thougher

[telemarkham]

La madre que lo parió....

[juvi65]

Scratch BC, i have a pair like yours, but with alpine bindings.

If i go to tignes anytime, i will look for you. Iwould like to have a master teacher ski like you.

Congratulations Stephane.

[juvi65]

Eres un crack!!!!!!!!.....Un crack!!!!!!!!

Enhorabuena por ese telemark que haces. De switch, saltos, etc...

Congratulations!!!!!!!

[thormann84]

yeah its cool for what it is but you never see teleskiers huck anything nearly as big or do anything as scik as good alpiners.

[Flamaha]

cuz alpine is easier and so more ppl are doing it so u see them a lot more. and u need a lot more skills for telemark if u want to do sick things

[skitheloaf185]

ya but who has more skill? a good fixed heel skiier or a good free heel. To learn to free heel, you have to know how to ski alpine. So know matter what, any teleskier is technically better than a alpine skier. There are definitely exceptions, like pro athletes but for the most part, this is true.

[cedricargentina]

Great!!!!!!!! Congratulations!

Would like to know which kind of alpine skis are there? If someone knows the model.... send me a mess! ThanX

[Insionsi]

Really nice!!

Nice fall at 3:36

[waffles3339]

sick. everything was sick

[teleirie]

great video and free heelin'!

[jayBULLS35]

shit thats nuts haha i fuckin love tele skiiers man im not so great at em more of a twin tip kinda guy haha but thats fuckin nuts

[kettensaeger999]

yessssssssssss!!!!!!!freeheels forever!!!!!!!!!!!this is the true art to WALK on frozen water ,very fast fakie ,respect

[ibmreric420]

your raw homie that switch telee turn is dirty to the bone.

[alez750s]

wonderfoul... what the title of soundtrack please?

[bergzieger]

is written in the end of the clip....

[alez750s]

Thanks :)

[bdharring]

I have been telemark skiing for about 6-7 years and was wondering what kind of exercises I should do to ski backwards? Love the video

[hvh1970]

Awsome skiing style. What setup are you using?

[climbhardv10]

really great tele video....great skills under the perfect conditions

[a3fvideo]

Thank you for your love Kaktuzen (but no french kiss...) We are in Tignes, France

[Kaktuzen]

As I said: I LOVE you guys! In which country can I found you?

[Kaktuzen]

I LOVE this video! I can see it ten times in a row...

[diss121]

Skiing backwards is just sooo awesome..!

[Wauzler]

high speed witch telly ;.)

[naro110]

that has to be the best tele-switch I have ever seen, keep the vids coming

[dufftele18]

nice vid

props on the switch tourist slalom

[SkitoWin]

Nice Vid, How long you been Free heelin?

[a3fvideo]

Yes, ros scratch BC

[tveranger]

Nemless "Breaking machine" dumbass

[Skidude91]

Rossignol Scratch BC?

[teleoski]

what's the song, please ?