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Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips

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I've been a telemark skier for over 15 years. Even so, this book has been very helpful in helping me to understand and improve my technique. The book dissects the turn into an incremental learning experience - really giving a skier something to focus on in the quest for tele-turning joy. Understanding that each skier is an individual, the authors don't try to force-fit the reader into a particular mold, instead allowing the skier to find the tips that will most help their skiing. The humorous illustrations and writing make for a refreshingly friendly and approachable book - an improvement upon the usual writing on the subject. The book has been helpful for me, and I don't doubt that tele-skiers of all skill levels will find it just as useful.

I rented telemark gear and bought this book at the same time. It was fabulous. I had never tried telemarking before and had no clue what I was doing. I have skied for 20 year, switch to snowboarding 6 years ago, but the itch to learn something new sprang up again. I wanted to be able to go backcountry, but first I need a mode of transportation. Telemarking I thought, but how in the world do I do that?? It looked so difficult.

This book was the answer! I read it cover to cover, that isn't saying much seeing how most of it is drawing and diagrams, but it taught me so much. The picture are worth a thousand words. Every drawing gives you so much information, a visual on what you are supposed to look like. I still have no idea if I look like that, but at least I believe I do.

I had actually taken a lesson first, no offense to the instructor, but I got so much more out of the book. It wasn't an hour of information, it was day after day of information, I could read something and try it out. Ahhh that is what I was doing wrong!

If you want to learn how to telemark buy this book, if you have been telemarking and still aren't sure what you are doing wrong, buy this book. It is funny and entertaining as well as extremely helpful in learning how to telemark. Good luck and enjoy!!

This is the classic comic book version of a telemark skiing text book: brief, clear narrative accompanying excellent cartoon drawings. The book shows both old style (knee down) and new style (no deep dips, feet never widely separated front to back) telemark techniques without really distinguishing between the two but, if you follow the exercises and advice, your skiing will improve. An enjoyable read, an attractive style and price.

I've been telemarking badly for a few years, got hold of this book, and all my faults are in there! This is a wonderfully put together collection of tips, structured in a way that makes a beginners' progression through the various parts of a telemark turn simple.

The cartoon illustations convey the positioning with humour and accuracy, making clear the text, not that the text isn't clear, far from it.

The flowchart at the end is really worthwhile. Can't recommend this enough to a beginner or intermediate telemark turner!

I have been telemark skiing for probably 15 years. If you can get the tips in this book into your head you will telemark ski well. Each of the tips are laid out well with great illustrations and humor worthy of Mad magazine. Whether you are an advanced skier seeking improvement or a beginner I doubt there will ever be a better book to help you out to master telemark skiing.

My copy is getting pretty tattered as it's in use while I ride the lifts. Stuffed in a pocket, dragged acorss the snow on a downhill faceplant, soaked with sweat after a long turn and burn run, I'm ready for another copy. I've found it particularly useful to review mistakes and tips as I ride up the lift for yet another quad burning run.

Relatively new to tele skiing, this book offers easy to remmber tips to dramatically improve your tele skills. I've found the humorous text and hilarious illustrations most useful. Allen and Mike get right to the point while avoiding a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo that often confuses and frustrates a beginner like myslef.

Yes, I still stink at tele-skiing. This is my second season, and when I make a turn with my left leg back, that left leg is indeed "trailing behing like a neighbor's dog..." (tip 18, "Sit on your Heels"). Nontheless, this book has provided many laughs and constant companionship in my pack while I ski. Just read the first review (Posted by Mike Clelland himself) and you've got the tone of the book in a nutshell!

The authors make it clear from the start that the book is "nothing more than a bunch of little tips." True, but the authors certainly have a big picture in mind, and each tip serves to drive home the big picture in slightly different ways. For instance, the problem with my left leg is: not enough weight on it. I've tried lots of tips to try to get more weight on that leg, and in the end, one magic tip will likely be the one that fixes my leg, although I haven't found it yet. This book gives many tips for me to try at the resort, and always makes it clear what the purpose of the tip is.

I don't think this book will put professional ski instructors out of business, but it will help your skiing if you try the tips they give you.

I'd heard some good things about Allen and Mikes Really cool Telemark Tips but it wasn't till I read it myself that I realised just how cool the tips are. Everytime you open to a page it has a new handy hint on how to improve you turns. They think about skiing in the same way as I do, not too serious, but fun to improve.

When I ordered the book, Amazon suggested that I purchase on of Allen and Mikes other books. At the time I wasn't interested, but now they are on my list.

Well done boys, I look forward to adding more of your titles to my library.

This gives good basics to art of telemark skiing. The cartoons are really fun and silly, making it an enjoyable read.

When my friends recommended this book over some of the fancier books I was a little skeptic. Hands Down the best tele book to recommend to anyone. I would still get lessons the first, maybe even second day on your tele sticks. I even carried the book in my jacket pocket. Look up some tips while in the lodge for lunch, snack, hot beverage, then out on the slope to practice. Every morning I would also read about 2-3 techniques that I hadn't mastered yet. Then on the slope work on it until it was comfortable. Plus the greatest part was I didn't need to go rip it on the black slopes, I could hang out on the blue and even green runs and have some fun (something I lost a long time ago while I used to be a alpine skier). So I hope you enjoy this book and have a fun learn you tele turns.