Product Details

• Actors: Dickie Hall
• Producers: North American Telemark Association
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LH9TV8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,306 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In this new interactive DVD Dick Hall and friends whip up a tasty batch of new teaching tips including simple and easy to understand progressions and corrective exercises. Feeling stuck at your skill level? Joy can help you repair and refine your skiing and launch you to the next level with a bounty of clear and precise instruction for skiing groomed and un-groomed, bumps, powder, crud, transitions, poling, carving, angulation, and skiing your best. This beautifully filmed movie also features Telemark skiing footage from Washington State Cascades, the knarly steep glades of Mad River Glen Vermont, the awe inspiring perfect powder of the Ruth Glacier on Denali Alaska and many more mouth watering locations. Telemark Movies are the perfect blend of inspirational skiing, great music, and simple effective instruction with down to earth commentary for all skill levels.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing at Many Levels, March 24, 2007

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A. Deger (Lafayette, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joy of Telemark Skiing: A Soup to Nuts Guide to Improve Your Telemark Skiing (DVD)

Wow, did I ever feel I got taken on this. The DVD suffers in three main areas:

1) Very amateurish production quality. If this thing sold for $10-15 bucks I might be able to understand but NATO is asking $30 bucks for this thing on their site. Terrible echo-ey sound quality, choppy/hacked chapter transitions in many cases

2) Instruction quality. Only a few of the tips are demonstrated very effectively and many are given such short shrift that I wondered why they even bothered. With that said there may be a couple of useful tips here for any given level but very few for advanced skiers with tips about skiing gloppy snow as an exception and some stuff about centering as it relates to lead transition at least interesting (just to show I'm at least trying to be fair).

3) Useless fluff. WAY too much amateurish fluff material which should have been left on the cutting room floor. Even if you find some of it amusing the first time or two, I'm bettig that, like me, you're going to regret that the disk is cluttered up with this mostly self indulgent and pretty much useless extra/bonus/fun/whatever material.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Joy of Telemark Skiing: Get ready to be Inspired!, May 2, 2009

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Suzanne Koessler - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joy of Telemark Skiing: A Soup to Nuts Guide to Improve Your Telemark Skiing (DVD)

I purchased this video for my dad who prefers the "self-teaching" approach to any hobby he takes on. He was absolutely ecstatic when he watched the video and he watches it over and over and over again. He is so sad that it's May and there is no snow to test out some of the moves. My dad is a tough critic, so for him to say that this video provides an excellent overview for all levels and is very inspiring, is saying a lot. Highly recommended!