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I Want to Try Telemark Skiing...

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Casey_L
Posts: 29 - Karma: 10
Hey everyone, I am bored, I am a ski instructor at Nashoba Valley. I have Line Skogens, and there is absolutely no park there. (Boo hoo)

So I want to try telemark skiing, it looks like crazy fun. I want to know the 411 in telemark skiing, can I use my downhill boots? Could I mount them on a pair of skiis. I don't want to spend a lot of money.

I also heared of some telemark skiiers hitting the park? Seems like some funny stuff. Has anyone seen any of that?

thanks .
Jan 18 2004 7:38PM
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PocketRocketRipper
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you need new boots and bindings, but you don't necisarily need a tele-specific ski. look online for a movie called 'unparalelled', it's a pretty sick movie about the progression of 'telepark' skiing. pretty hardcore stuff if you ask me.

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Jan 18 2004 7:47PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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yeah telemarking looks pretty fun. I couldn't imagine landing switch on those things.

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Jan 18 2004 8:19PM
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Pipe_Munky
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yeah i definately wanna give'er a try



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Jan 18 2004 8:35PM
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patrickcowan
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It is really hard your first two days and then you start to get used to it

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Jan 18 2004 8:40PM
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downhiller52
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It's a blast i usually tele about once a week. i started last year, starting to do a little park. i can throw 7's and slide a couple box rails. give it a try.




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Jan 18 2004 9:59PM
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McGoo
Posts: 227 - Karma: 10
Telemarking is sweet, damn hard but sweet. When you get good at it, you will be able to look back at everyone else on alpines and say, 'You know, I used to be like you, until I stopped sucking.' If you wanna do it, you need tele bindings, tele boots (so comfy, alpine boots suck compared to these, seriously), and a soft flex ski. There are tele specific skis, but basically they are just soft flex skis. You can get a cheaper option by getting a secondhand pair of alpines that have gone spongy, and use them. You might want to upgrade later, but meium flex in alpine equals super stiff in tele, because of the way you transfer power onto them.
Normally I dont like getting lessons, but I would have to say, get someone to show you what to do. First time I tele'd, I went out on my own, and got nowhere. Trying to do the lunge turns is a whole heap harder than it looks. Oh, and make sure you have knee medical insurance, cos it can fuck you up if you're not careful.

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Jan 18 2004 10:00PM
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skiing_is_religion
Posts: 157 - Karma: 10
I know a guy who can rock on tele's he skis switch so fast, hes got some k2s called the Peace Pipes, there sick. Tele looks so rad i want to try it, he can do like 3s and 1s all the time.
Jan 19 2004 12:49AM
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lanks
Posts: 12544 - Karma: 74
i would SO switch to telemarking in a second if i had the chance. and if i was out west. but im not, so i ski park. here. out east.

and plus, i dont have the cash to switch to telemarking either.
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Jan 19 2004 1:23AM
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sconnyFC
Posts: 2197 - Karma: 76
skiing_is_religion, they are called the Piste Pipe. they are just a softer model of the Enemy.

Telemark skiing is great fun. if you really want a quad burn, do a tele-tuck down about 1500 vertical. you will barely be able to stand up at the bottom. works as a great croos-traing sport though. it really helps build leg and knee strentgh, plus it is way lower impact than alpine is. i messed up my MCL a couple of seasons ago and started telemarking when i was healing. it worked good because i couldn't hit the jumps or go nearly as big in the back country, now my knee is %150 stronger than it ever was just alpine skiing. i highly recommend it. it is so darn fluid, it is so much fun.
Jan 19 2004 5:25PM
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Casey_L
Posts: 29 - Karma: 10
Thanks for all the help guys, I was hoping I could just use my alpine boots and get some cheap or used bindings and mount them on my old pair of skis. :( I basicly have no money right now, so there is not much that I can do. It looks like so much fun. Ill keep my eyes open for any used equipment. thx guys.
Jan 19 2004 7:08PM
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Posts: 8198 - Karma: 258
no....you don't want to try telemark skiing.......
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Jan 19 2004 7:18PM
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MadTrix4Me
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I think Tuffelmeyer said it best in Freeze when he called em a bunch of 'free-heelin' hippies.' I'm gonna put super glue on your heels so your boot stays on the ski...


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Jan 20 2004 3:35PM
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west
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Tele is sick, on pow days at at Jat and Mad River Glen, tele's outnumber alpine......




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Jan 20 2004 3:41PM
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RustyPlanks
Posts: 290 - Karma: 10
Tele's suck stay strapped in
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Jan 20 2004 10:25PM
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Sharpy
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telemarking is hard, its almost the same as reg. in the park, just have to watch your balance more on rails and such. I did rails first time out but i sucked at the actual teleskiing itself. Good for laughs
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Jan 20 2004 10:40PM
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jibhouse
Posts: 734 - Karma: 11
at my hill only the granola tree huggers tele ski so its pretty despised around here but it is sumthing diff. parkin it with them is awsome
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Jan 21 2004 12:18AM
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strode
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the sickest skier i've seen this year was on tele's.....he rips winter park - can slide any rail and pull huge smooth rodeo 7s' and lincolns



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Jan 21 2004 1:55PM
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vtpublicenemy3
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dont watch unparalleled, look for Core by tough guy productions, good shit



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Jan 21 2004 3:53PM
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McGoo
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I would have to say that your balance improves out of sight on teles. When you go back to alpines, your balance is so much better, you start to think 'shit, Im really good'.
Jan 21 2004 10:25PM
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jibhouse
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^ that is an AWSOME idea i never even thought about how it could help when u went back to regular. your my idle man
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Jan 22 2004 1:14AM
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