Should i switch????

little_ey

little_ey

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so i'm dealing w/ a pretty big dilema that i need to solve before next years open...

here's the deal. i'm a telemarker. have been for pretty much forever. and i got people who hook me up because of it. i just tried alpine this year (for the first time in over 7 years). i will never switch to alpine for big mountain, but i'm having this debate over park. my face is liking 5's a lot more on alpines than teles. some of my sponsors wouldn't care if i switched, but others might... they plug the fact that i'm one of the few ladies doing park on teles. (i was the first tele lady to do the Open). but i feel like i can get farther along in my park tricks on alpine. (but i can also suck on my tele skis in the park, and still get props, simply cause i'm on tele ;)

so... any comments???
 
I personally don't see the point of riding park on tele's but it's not like I've ever really tried it.
 
Wow, Erin. That's a big decision. If you did switch, you would wind up picking up alpine sponsors, and you would probably keep the tele ones for big mountain. So, that would be awesome. But, you are one of two girls I have ever seen rip the park on teles, and that makes you very unique. All in all, it is probably a good choice to switch for park, or at least give it a go for a season. With your air sense, you'll pick up new tricks in a heartbeat. And seeing how you hit rails so well on teles, putting the heal down will probably make locking down new stuff even easier.
 
i can't really give out advice on such a huge decision like that. i would like to see some video though
 
I just keep on keepin on with the teles. Work concentrating on tricks, and set you focus on one trick, and just work that until you get it down. You're a pretty big asset to the tele community, and I'm sure you can keep progressing without your heel on lockdown. But, you have to do what's FUN. not always what's best. If you really want to give alpine a try, go for it. You might end up switching over completely, who knows? Basically, it's all up to you. Feel free to switch, and if you like it more, definatly stay with it, but at the same time know how much you influence the tele scene
 
You should do what you want. Forget about what's right for telemarking, you have to do what's right for you. And forget about being unique...cause that's just a word, and I know it's sick to be one of a few, but you having fun should be more important. And forget about sponsors, cause it sounds like you're driven to be a sick skier and so either way people will hook you up.

You want to be a big mountain tele ripper and alpine park rider. I can tell that's what you want to do from your post. So do it!!!
 
id say get a pair of alpine twins for park but i have a lot of respect for tele park skiiers especially if you can 5 that seems redic. but you are gonna progress a ton with your heels strapped in, anyways just do both you will find it more fun skiing park on alpine anyways theres so much more you can do
 
yo stay on teles and drop the poles then youll be the only girl tele skier that rocks no poles steez and your sponsers will pay you more
 
I'd be original. And tele.

Seriously, teleing is SO much sicker than skiing or snowboarding, simply because your regular gear is your touring gear. Take it into the backcountry.
 
YO! FUCK THE SPONSORS, FUCK COMPETITIONS, FUCK "training". why do we ski?

FOR FUN. DUH! do whats more fun... or do both?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if learning new stuff on alpine skis and then transferring those skills to tele is much easier than straight up just trying to learn that same stuff on tele sticks. In other words, if progression's what you're after, it makes some sense to switch at least part-time.
 
How do you plan to push yourself if there are only 2 girls at your level? I feel like people who competitively tele in park like to be the big fish in a small pond and don't really have the drive to push themselves as hard as those with regular bindings. Or they are just filthy hippies who refuse to shower, drown their sorrows in granola and love to get props for their Arc' teryx jackets at String Cheese Incident concerts. Oh, and fix the heel, fix the problem.
 
by the way, both of those videos are sick! you killed it as well as those guys. personally, if i ever had like a few hundred bucks to drop, id drop it on teles in an instant. this past season at alta shredding with some fools there totally got me psyched on it all.
 
You are from the east coast and you tele? That's pretty fucking stupid in its own right. Tele park skiers who don't switch to alpine for park are like snowbladers, they are just afraid.
 
i really liked that toe stand at the beginning of the first video haha, that was sweet.
 
do what you want

it's not like you can't switch back

if anything, alpine will help you with tele and vise versa
 
oh, and for a side note... to clarify...

the skis used to ski tele in the park and alpine are the SAME. just a matter of slapping a different binding on and riding w/ a differend boot.
 
fuck off, there are tele'ers placing in the top twenty in the US open and its alot harder to do shit on tele's so i could argue that one would need more talent than alpiners to tele and be good
 
They definetly get a point boost from the judges. Also when the tension is so high on their bindings, why just not switch to alpine anyway? Oh right, they wouldn't do as well.
 
no, he's talking about the answer. it sums it all up about right.

There's absolutely no harm in trying it for a little bit.
 
learn stuff on alpines then try to switch the tricks you learned to telemarks, and anyway, dont let sponsors control you, do want you wanna do in skiing, and have fun
 
you could always get those super high tension tele bindings that you can't bend at all, since those are essentiall alpine bindings, it actually kinda pisses me off to see those though,since the tele park people who have them never make tele turns.
 
is there anything speacial that you can do on telemark in the park that you cand do with alpine bindings?

if not theres no real reason not to switch in my mind.

its really about what you find more fun
 
ur an idoit thats all i have to say

no matter how tight your bidings are it is still possible to touch your knees to your skiis

and if anything i get screwed in comps because i tele

Cough Spring massive Cough
 
Damn babe you got skills! Stick with tele, your really good at it. You can already do more on tele than most (i.e me) can do alpine style.
 
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