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Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions [Paperback]

Paul Parker (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1995

-- Paul Parker is the master of free-heel skiing

-- Features a color insert, new illustrations, information on the latest gear, and new anecdotes

Incorporating the best and most recent techniques from both alpine and Nordic skiing, Free-Heel Skiing presents skiers with the latest methods for tackling the full range of terrain and snow. Everything from beginning turns to advanced telemark techniques is covered, along with tips for choosing and caring for equipment and suggestions for conditioning and strength training.

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-- Features a color insert, new illustrations, information on the latest gear, and new anecdotes

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In this bible for telemark skiers, author Paul Parker covers everything you'll need to know to free your heel.

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"The indomitable bible for learning telemark skiing." -- Adirondack Sports & Fitness --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: Mountaineers Books; 2nd edition (September 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0898864127
ISBN-13: 978-0898864120
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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- #81 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Outdoor Recreation > Skiing > Cross-Country

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5.0 out of 5 stars Free Your Heel, Free Your Mind, June 4, 1998

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This review is from: Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions (Paperback)

Paul Parker wrote the definitive discourse on off-the-run skiing with his first edition of this book. Time has only improved it. Every skier from the expert backcountry telemarker to the improving bunny-hill snowplower MUST read this book. What Mr. Parker has done is to condense all the theories and techniques and observations of the skiing community into a simple, progressive instructional guide. He starts with very basic snowplowing and ends with telemarking, and in between shows how all the different styles are linked and flow into each other. All of it is described with marvelous clarity and engaging style. The 2nd edition adds stories, commentaries, and pictures which motivate the reader to get out into the snow and play! My only complaint is that they don't publish a waterproof small-size edition that I can take out skiing with me!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Advice for all levels of abilities, January 6, 2000

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The author does a good job providing tips and lessons for all levels. What I like most about it is that the author does all this very concisely making this book a quick and effective read. After reading this book, I've experienced some 'breakthroughs' and have taken my skiing to the next level. My only minor complaint is that the illustrations are somewhat lacking but I would not hesitate to buy the book because of this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great book!, January 20, 1998

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Anyone interested in learning more about free-heel skiing would benefit from reading this book. Tips and discussion about technique, various conditions, and equipment make it a valuable resource to students as well as instructors. It also covers BOTH turn options: tele and parallel. Remember - it's a turn, not a religion. For what it's worth, I highly recommend it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, comprehensive approach to free-heel skiing
This is an excellent and ambitious book- assuming the reader has practically no experience, it systematically takes the reader through wedge christies, stem christies, and ends up... Read more

Published 2 months ago by The A-Man

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but Incomplete
I'm a long time cross country skier working on improving my downhill technique. I found this book to be well written and somewhat useful, but it's only about skiing on modern... Read more

Published on January 24, 2008 by Noah Balmer

5.0 out of 5 stars This book doesn't age --- it just gets a new edition
I am pretty sure a new edition will come out soon, given the rapidity of gear evolution. The basics remain the same --- the technique just gets refined and simplified over time... Read more

Published on November 3, 2006 by Eugene Tsiang

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a bible of free heel skiing
Great book that all free heel skiers should read. Eye opener is that "Telemark" is just a turn - free heel skiing is hell of a lot more. Read more

Published on January 12, 2004 by Southpaw

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible of Learning to Telemark.
The book is wonderful.

It is abound with simple, practical, and easy to remember helpful hints;I call them little golden nuggets of information that you take with you on each... Read more

Published on March 11, 2002 by Bruce Katz

5.0 out of 5 stars it works!
Using only this book and a few random tips from strangers, I picked up telemarking in two days. (I also started with 25 years of alpine experience. Read more

Published on November 28, 2001 by Nom dePlume

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, comprehensive book
If you are an intermediate Telemark skier, and wants too ski down that steep-brakable-crust slope: this is the book for you. Read more

Published on March 14, 2001 by krimart

3.0 out of 5 stars The basics and that's it.
This book briefly touches on all areas of telemark skiing, but doesn't cover any of them particularly well. Read more

Published on March 6, 2001 by kroyal@yahoo.com

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book on Telemark
If you want to learn or get better this is the book

Published on March 8, 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to the variety of techniques you would use
This book has an informal, yet competant, style. I have found it useful from my beginning training to my current intermediate level. Read more

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Throughout modern ski history one theme recurs: the gradual development of two separate skiing disciplines, alpine and nordic. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tele skiers, early lead change, stem christies, rear ski, plant your pole, sidecut ski, tele skis, randonn�e skis, inside ski, gliding ski, telemark position, uphill ski, downhill pole, front ski, outside ski, uphill edge, back ski, parallel turns, cable bindings, telemark skiers, difficult snow, pole plant, upcoming turn, turn initiation, ski base

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Advanced Parallel Tips, Advanced Telemark Tips, Scott Cramer, John Norris, Mark Shapiro, Paul Parker, Free-heel Equipment, Ace Kvale, Free-heel Ski Care, More Free-heel Turns, Crested Butte, Crud Skiing

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Cross-Country Skiing by Ned Gillette on page 94, and Back Matter
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Breakthrough On Skis: How to Get Out of the Intermediate Rut by Lito Tejada-Flores in Back Matter
Cross-Country Skiing Right by William Hall in Back Matter
Serious Training for Serious Athletes by Rob Sleamaker on page 101

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