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I know this thread doesn't really have a point, but I have been skiing for ~18 years now and for some reason I have never tried telemark skiing. I just tried it for the first time yesterday and I had a fucking blast! It brings a totally different dimension to skiing in my opinion.
you have a mad river glen icon... how have you not tried telemarking?
i usedto be into it, and my dads totally obsessed. i almost totally converted at one point, but it was just way too hard to ski park. i couldnt spin more than 3 or do more than a 270 off so i pretty much stopped
my friend tele's and we switched setups one night. i front 2d out of a box and put too much pressure on my tips while landing switch. my heels came up and i faceplanted. hilarity ensued. its fun to mess around with every so often, but ill keep my heels connected from now on(with very rare exceptions for the fun of it)
teled beofore i ever downhilled.. when i was 4-6 , the last time i did it.. this guy in college said he was a better skier then me cause he tele d so i rented a pair and showed him what the fuck was up!
My tele friends can rip switch it's kind of nuts, and they stagger their feet opposite switch than alpiners do so they stick their inside ski downhill.
I've only done it a couple days, but it's definitely fun. Wish I had three lives so I could snowboard, ski, and tele.
I read "the wife with tele. She has a unique flow"
gross dude
but yea, tele is where it's at. Absolute best feeling in pow. when I was younger I used to hit up the ski hills just in my cross country setup before I could afford anything else. got me good at tele real fast, then soon as I was in a heavier actual tele setup it was clutch