Do you find you do everything wrong when skiing? Is your weight on the uphill ski not the downhill, do you swing your body when you turn, are your arms all over the place, is your upper body too upright, your weight too far back? Then Telemark is for you - just do the complete opposite of everything that you've been taught in skiing and you can achieve that graceful, balletic style that draws gasps of wonder from chair-lift audiences. Invite 6 ski instructors, who are twice weekly subjected to ski brain-washing training sessions, to have a go, and they get very confused, go into melt-down and prance around the piste before retiring, not at all gracefully, into the Almhütte to drink, and talk about how they really felt they were starting to get the hang of it.
