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Tele Freestyle: Rad or Lame?

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mrk127
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What's NS overall opinion on tele skiing? Ik it looks pretty wack in the park but is it a good or bad kind of wack. Myself I can't say it looks better than normal skiing but damm is it a fun challenge to do every few days
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Jul 25 2021 11:05PM
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Treegrabber
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Rad obviously

**This post was edited on Jul 25th 2021 at 11:07:22pm
Jul 25 2021 11:06PM
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Casey
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I bought a tele set up because I thought if I could just learn how to tele instantly based on nothing but athleticism that I could just pack some skins and be ready to rock for uphill travel on the fly but turns out it’s really hard🤷‍♂️
Jul 25 2021 11:13PM
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Mackaroni_space
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They took a lame thing and turned it rad, i never thought I’d live to see a dude do a nosebutter 3 on teles but here we are
Jul 25 2021 11:58PM
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Chunderface
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core af
Jul 26 2021 12:08AM
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mrk127
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Max.broThey took a lame thing and turned it rad, i never thought I’d live to see a dude do a nosebutter 3 on teles but here we are

I can’t comprehend a nose butter on tele. Like a sw tail butter would work but a nose butter seems like an instant face plant
Jul 26 2021 2:01AM
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Mackaroni_space
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mrk127I can’t comprehend a nose butter on tele. Like a sw tail butter would work but a nose butter seems like an instant face plant


And that’s on god, you’d think once they reach like 90 degrees they’ll just get too top heavy and go splat but hell naw they be riding out like nothing happened
Jul 26 2021 2:58AM
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switchlip2
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Whoever chose lame is a fucking pussy
Jul 26 2021 9:25AM
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teabag
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Max.broThey took a lame thing and turned it rad, i never thought I’d live to see a dude do a nosebutter 3 on teles but here we are


who did that
Jul 26 2021 1:04PM
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a_burger
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Eh seems to me like a lot of tele park skiers have very similar style, and it usually isn’t the best imo. I’ve been meaning to try for a while now but usually end up just riding alpine gear all the time, hard to commit a fresh pair of skis to a tele setup and old park skis with missing edge are ass with tele gear

hot take though: if your using stiff plastic boots and ntn bindings you might as well just ride alpine gear
Jul 26 2021 1:44PM
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mrk127
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a_burgerhot take though: if your using stiff plastic boots and ntn bindings you might as well just ride alpine gear

Is stiff NTN gear that much better? I’ve only ridden 75mm cable bindings on my skis
Jul 26 2021 3:52PM
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mrk127
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din110who did that


https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrSDZGndcx/?utm_medium=copy_link

I think this guy has a few other NBs on his account too
Jul 26 2021 3:55PM
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a_burger
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mrk127Is stiff NTN gear that much better? I’ve only ridden 75mm cable bindings on my skis


to me the whole point of doing tele is to lose the stiffness inherent to alpine gear, whereas ntn gear adds an insane amount of support to the point you might as well just be wearing alpine gear. I guess it's kind of an old fashioned way of thinking but to me it's like riding a bike with training wheels. That said of course without stiff boots and bindings that shit is hard as hell and I can't pretend I don't suck at tele but I don't see the point if it isn't really that much of a challenge imo.

to double down on my hot take: no one cares you can nose press on a dance floor tele skiers, how about you try and hit rails/boxes without the grace of a newborn giraffe learning how to walk

**This post was edited on Jul 26th 2021 at 5:14:47pm
Jul 26 2021 5:14PM
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Andi_G
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Switch tele skiing is the truth
Jul 27 2021 1:46PM
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mrk127
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a_burgerto double down on my hot take: no one cares you can nose press on a dance floor tele skiers, how about you try and hit rails/boxes without the grace of a newborn giraffe learning how to walk

**This post was edited on Jul 26th 2021 at 5:14:47pm

Do I look like a baby giraffe? It Describes the feeling of being freeheel on a rail very well

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1007510/trim-F18C1FF8-348B-40E0-8E72-D47F96D95C71-MOV
Jul 27 2021 10:55PM
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junior1derful
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My boss is a tele skier. He saw me do a cork 3 off a cat track and when he saw me later he said, "nice 360, i think its time for you to take off your "training heels." most tele skiers are karens, but he rips moguls and pow so i give him respect.
Aug 2 2021 11:32AM
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toe-bang-gang
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not only the skills but the balls is crazy
Aug 2 2021 9:39PM
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Chrischi69
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Almost always sick like i remember in a child labor or millbastards vid (i think) this dude slides a box but then he pops his heels up and slides on his toes and i was like holy shit
Aug 3 2021 2:03PM
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mrk127
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1015309">http://1015309Holy shit the Tele segment at 9:45 goes so hard. Some of the best tele tricks I’ve seen
Oct 28 2021 3:53PM
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GayWolf420
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I once saw a teenage ripper on teles smoke some of the competition field once at an IFSA event which solidified them as forever rad to me. Kid was super nice too.
Oct 28 2021 4:05PM
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mrk127
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https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1019746/Telemark-Movie---FUTURE-FREEHEEL-II-2021--4K-

Holy this edit is gas, some beautiful tele pow turns
Nov 27 2021 3:17AM
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MarkusFin
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mrk127https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1019746/Telemark-Movie---FUTURE-FREEHEEL-II-2021--4K-

Holy this edit is gas, some beautiful tele pow turns


saw a guy throwing a sw 7 into pow with tele bindings the first minute of the movie. Anyone who says tele isnt crazy is delusional
Nov 27 2021 5:05AM
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