Should I Switch to Telemarking?

[BFFset.]

its wayy fun but you have to be in good shape, your legs get sore if you are doing good, quality shit all day

 

[DaysToCome]

you dont have to tele turn all day either. i save my energy for tele turns when it counts, off groomers and outside the park. not to say that i dont occasionaly drop the knee for steeze

 

[LINE169]

why would you totally switch over to telemarking, just do all types of skiing. you dont have to quit one style to take up another

 

[twintipteles]

true nosepresses and nose butters will never be possible on teles. Big switch landings in powder are probably possible, but not very feasible. Anything else is possible. This is not to say that people can't do some weird knee presses and butters, but a traditional press is just not possible.

 

[skidemon22]

in my opinoin, fuck tele.

 

[Grimace.]

werd simon is a sick tele skier

 

[JAYTRON]

check out adkfreeskier's pics. He's a ski patroler at my mountain and is sick on them. heres one of his pics on tele's.....

 

[JAYTRON]

lets try again...

if that doesnt work just click this...

 

[tBatt]

^yeah jamies sick...

 

[oiECSoi]

ill kick you nin the nuts if you do

 

[dr_phil]

Try it and if you find it fun, do it! That's all I can say.

 

[telejib]

you should definitely try it first. it takes some time to learn, but once you have it down, its way fun.

 

[televback1]

for the first month it hurts your knees but eventually it feels good and you are getting a work out

 

[Ski303]

Why? Theres no point to Tele'in besides being different. There are no advantages. Get AT bindings if you BC. I would say no, theres no need

 

[huckaberry]

my friends brother does it
he can do all of the rails at the park
and 360 to
haha

 

[Sir_SkrillALot]

I started freeheelin it like last year sometime, didnt try a day on alpine since, then tried alpine 3 weeks ago and was really disappointed, just not as fun compared to tele. A previous poster is right, the free heel is way more comfy but thats not whats great about tele, its the awesomeness of the turns. I would never want to ski powder again on alpine (maybe just like once to try a nose butter in powder) but my god those turns make you get so much more into it. And that hippie shit isnt true at all, many tele'ers now are tryin to look or look as gangstaz as many alpine skiers out there.

 

[Sir_SkrillALot]

Were you dropped on your head as a baby? Tele'in is based around the ability to lift your heel and do tele turns. Yeah we dont do that in the park but who the fuck carves in the park. Being different is what id do if I lived in your homo ass town but where I live there are plenty of tele skiers

 

[KjellEllefson]

you should check out http://www.lipstick-films.com

they are a freeride based telemark company and kill it

 

[Sir_SkrillALot]

Haha self promoting? Just kidding man, and lipstick-films is way sick, those guys are just crazy.

 

[fk.ths.noys]

How about "Toe-Presses"?

http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/videos/1207106868toepress.mov

Me

 

[Sir_SkrillALot]

Most of this is tele kidshttp://blip.tv/file/726207/

 

[C_Ewart]

This is a tele nose press:

 

[C_Ewart]

 

[C_Ewart]

I give up.

 

[SK1ERDUDE]

tele is sooo much fun but it is hard
it will probably take you a bunch of years to get the hang of it

 

[tele_tom]

umm, yeah. nothing left to say.

lose your training heels!

 

[leone]

if you're on the east coast, check out pico,vt next year cause they do free tele demo days with cheap lessons. try that first and then go from there

 

[Malcolm]

i wana try it just for fun

 

[Bumbleton]

word, then you basically have the best of both

 

[twintipteles]

except the ability to make a tele turn, which is pretty much the point of tele-skiing.