Carv for Telemark
I’ve been using Carv for 3 seasons while Tele. I would say 80-90 % of the time the feedback is reasonably accurate. I feel I have improved my tele as a result
It seems to me as Tele Instructor you have a tiny amount of work to pull in a new market persona
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malcolmredheron
Apr 3
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Telemark support? Please?
My alpine skiing has benefited a lot from Carv. I'm now trying to learn telemark and I believe that Carv would help even more, if it supported telemark:
- It's a really different stance, with a ton of things to get wrong without even realizing it
- Tele instructors are extremely rare. For example, Whistler claims to have zero tele instructors (out of 1500 instructors at peak season)
I'm far from alone with these challenges. If you had a tele mode, I'm pretty sure that a huge fraction of the admittedly small tele community would use Carv. But this community is large enough to support multiple companies making tele boots, multiple making tele bindings, and some making tele-specific skis. How much would it cost for you to make a tele mode? Surely less than boots and bindings cost. And you have ARR that they don’t!
How about starting by gauging interest with a survey the tele/freeheeeler community?
AndyC
Feb 25
As a telemark only user (and a founding member of Carv), this would be greatly appreciated. The feedback I gain is quite useful in diagnosing and choosing what areas of my technique I need to work on. Every year as the algorithm progresses I can tease out helpful data and apply that to my technique. The current edging, weight release and g-force metrics seem quite accurate and helpful. The algorithm does seem to get stumped when it comes to the metrics for parallel skis (consistently rated at 0% once I switch inside foot lead alpine turns to outside ski lead telemark turns. The feedback and training modes have helped me improve my alpine skiing technique smoothing out and making my turns much more precise and efficient over the past 8 years of use. The most helpful change has been the rollout of the automatic detection of parallel, carving, short turns, moguls and powder technique and the specific feedback received from each.