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Anyone here on Tele's?

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C_Ewart
Posts: 627 - Karma: 43
I just switched over this season and i'll be riding on Foils with Bomber binders(bombertele.com), and i'm looking for some new boots. Anyone have anything cheap to get me set up untill I have the money to buy good ones?
Oct 9 2006 4:23PM
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ARSpickert
Posts: 533 - Karma: 25
i recently started to telemark ski in addition to alpine. its just really fun. not that i am bored with alpine skiing but with tele it adds a whole new aspect to skiing and gives you something to work at. i picked it up last season and im going to continue doing it because i like the challenge. it helps you become a better skier by learning how to do all different kinds of things.
Oct 9 2006 4:56PM
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skier47
Posts: 39 - Karma: 10
i personally dont care for tele and i love to throw snowballs at anyone i see on such skis going down the mountain (it comes with being a narrow-minded teenager).

anyway, i have no clue of your size but take a gander at these:

https://newschoolers.com/classifieds/detail.php?cat=6&de=2242
Oct 9 2006 4:58PM
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Black-Bandanna
Posts: 6680 - Karma: 1,603
i honestly feel there is no reason for "freestyle teleing". you just ski it like an alpine when doing tricks anyways (besides switch landing..). im definitly for teleing, just not freestyle teleing. theres just no point...im gonnna get flamed so hard for this...
Oct 9 2006 4:59PM
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N-Yourd
Posts: 423 - Karma: 63
yeah i tele... i skied the almost same set up as you last season.... do you ski park at all
Oct 9 2006 5:00PM
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twintipteles
Posts: 2954 - Karma: 13

Bombers are the shit. As are three pin hardwires. Just get the stiffest boots you can afford. T1's are a decent starting point, they can handle pretty much anything. And for whoever posted those boots up there, those are AT boots, not tele.

Oct 9 2006 5:26PM
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C_Ewart
Posts: 627 - Karma: 43
That's true.. but I've noticed that I like Tele a lot more than alpine. So if I can do the same thing in the park, and then tele everywhere else.. why not switch?
Oct 13 2006 7:24PM
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Hajen
Posts: 86 - Karma: 10
^same for me, why ski alpin in park when I ski tele everywhere else. Ive been skiing Telemark exclusively for the last 5 seasons they only thing im jealous of is the easy-mode switch landings on alpin skis.... Back to the original question, i would go for something like the Scarpa T1 or Garmont Ener-g.
Oct 13 2006 8:52PM
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KjellEllefson
Posts: 581 - Karma: 254
exactly
if there is no differnece in the park then why is everybody bitching
Jan 23 2007 6:21PM
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chrismoJBEATS
Posts: 5898 - Karma: 44
tele = sick
i love the free heel mank
Jan 23 2007 6:24PM
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SkiMN
Posts: 4005 - Karma: 38
I dont do it, but I think its sick as shit.
Jan 23 2007 6:30PM
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Ceru
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 101
i gotta question, i dont tele or anything, just curious...

if u tele and u ski park and u wat to mount ur bindings forward, lets say u mount-2 from center, when u turn and stuff wouldnt it be like your skis are mounted a lot more forward, like +2? idk if that makes sense but haha you know
Jan 23 2007 6:39PM
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BumPskiA
Posts: 196 - Karma: 10
tele skis are made for touring and backcountry. If your using them for the park and shit you just a moron. I like AT better for even touring since you dont have to slog around with the tele springs and you can still have the stability and energy transfet of alpine bindings
Jan 23 2007 7:59PM
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KjellEllefson
Posts: 581 - Karma: 254
well some companies make park skiis that are made for skiing park like the Karhu Agent, K2 Piste Pipe, and the Rossignol SickBird
Jan 23 2007 8:02PM
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Concept53
Posts: 138 - Karma: 10
i want to tele because i saw this video moonwalking on a box and now i want to do that.
Jan 23 2007 9:46PM
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hoodratz47
Posts: 12021 - Karma: 9,498
i tallywhacked before i went down hill../ to each his own.. but shit..


FIX THE HEEL FIX THE PROBLEM!!!
Jan 23 2007 9:52PM
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wolfmansbro
Posts: 2155 - Karma: 137
those are AT boots not tele
Jan 24 2007 1:09AM
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Twaddler
Posts: 1197 - Karma: 109
jea simon
Jan 24 2007 8:21AM
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nitsua
Posts: 4631 - Karma: 726
people on tele skis on park have some sick talent. i think it looks coool
Jan 24 2007 8:52AM
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Homebrewer19
Posts: 346 - Karma: 11
T1s are your best bet (if you have scarpa sized feet) , but garmont are good too. try FHL: http://freeheellife.com
Jan 24 2007 10:12AM
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skiandsky
Posts: 9 - Karma: 10
Ok as to your question about getting cheap boots.

Go to telemarktips.com you will have the best chance to find something cheap there.

Side note:

Just because company's market tele specific skis does not mean a telemark skier has to ski on those sticks. Tele skis have taken the same transition that alpine skis have. They have become wider, float better and carve better then there skiny straight cousins. Most tele skis are made on the same mold as alpine skis. The tele market isn't large enough for the manufacturers to have competely different designs. Example Rossignol Sickbird same ski as Rossignol BC wrs, Volkl T-Rock same ski as Karma, -1 layer of metal.
Jan 24 2007 10:51AM
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