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09-18-2022, 03:00 PM #101
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09-18-2022, 03:39 PM #102
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09-18-2022, 05:28 PM #103
Where I live, getting to the top of snow, self-powered, is only necessary 3 or 4 months of the year. And, during those months there's far more dirt, scree and boulders during the approach than snow. It's sometimes miles of dry ground. I just wear hiking sandals or shoes until I get to snow. What snow stashes remain in those few months are so small, and they've been frozen and refrozen so many times, that the surface is ideal for just using my boot toes to boot straight up the fall-line.
"Don't bug me, granny. I don't dig slick chicks trying to goof me up." --Tragg
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09-18-2022, 06:06 PM #104
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09-18-2022, 06:25 PM #105Gel-powered Tech bindings
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?!?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1247047959086108
(Although someone remind me, in the GapicSki Movement Analysis threads, are points deducted for open-mouthed excitement while skiing? The PSIA-oriented scene does seem somehow subdued at times -- not dour, yet not wildly exuberant either.)Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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09-18-2022, 06:38 PM #106Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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09-18-2022, 07:04 PM #107Registered User
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It's all fun and games until your knee/ski/pole jolts up and hits your lower mandible. Next thing you know, your tongue's flying up into the sky, trailing a hefty streamer of blood. As a racer coach, I'm sure you know this.
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09-18-2022, 10:38 PM #108
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09-19-2022, 05:54 AM #109Gel-powered Tech bindings
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09-19-2022, 08:02 AM #110
The fact that you stated a telemarker is descending in a much "worse" fashion is what's at play here. You descent like a robot with the most generic stiff style I've ever seen. You're technically sound, although I'd question your ability to straightline out of a dicey situation and you surely have never left the ground by more than two feet. To me that is a much "worse" descent than a good or great tele skier. Some or many tele skiers have an athletic and graceful style which is a work of art to watch, hence it is much superior. Now we can talk about someone like Chris Benchetler, Candide, or Telefree's kids in alpine mode and call that an art form and incredibly pleasing to the eyes. So in the end it's the individual, not the tools they're using.
And yeah, I'm not defined as a tele skier or an alpine skier or a snowboarder.
Endless...sorry for the hijack of your awesome thread! You rock!
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09-19-2022, 08:12 AM #111
Shitty emo equipment leads to shitty skiing.
Fact.
Tight anal is the only way
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09-19-2022, 12:02 PM #112Gel-powered Tech bindings
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You're of course wrong on the specific attributes that you cited in the rest of your post, although I can understand how a telemarker would take offense at my lack of typical telemarking attributes like a wedge initiation and upper body rotation.
However, even that aside, if I had some skiing spreadsheet accomplishment like, say (in an example that may or may not be hypothetical -- I have no idea) most earned vertical for skiing-on-snow turns down a mountain in a single season for a full-time resident of Eastern North America yet I then learned that a telemarker with a proclivity for both skiing and spreadsheets had outdone me, I would step down (or even entirely off) the (virtual) podium rather than try to parse it further with a non-telemarking qualification as I do respect telemarkers as my fellow skiing-down-snow-covered-mountains skiers.Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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09-19-2022, 12:12 PM #113Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Yes, definitely a fact that 100% carbon fiber skimo race boots ski really well.
(Their entirely plastic predecessors from the earlier years of the sport, not so well!)
Ditto for skimo race bindings with rigid ski<>boot coupling and low heel>toe delta.
(Skimo race skis though in any sort of unconsolidated snow, well, that's a combo best avoided!)Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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09-19-2022, 01:59 PM #114
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09-19-2022, 05:56 PM #115
Endless, you ever meet a fella who in the early 90's had skied every day for 12 years?
Can't member his name. Wore a green floppy brim hat like yours, and god forbid made tele turns...
Drove cats in southern Co. in the winter and Timberline in the summer.
Used to bump me here in Ootah so's he wouldn't have to make the drive to Timberline in a day.
Free ticket and all. Wonder how long that streak ran?
Anybody remember that guy?Time spent skiing cannot be deducted from one's life.
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09-19-2022, 06:41 PM #116
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09-19-2022, 07:13 PM #117
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09-19-2022, 08:26 PM #118
I once saw monkeys throwing poop at each in the zoo
Sent from my SM-G781U1 using TapatalkI <heart> hot tele-moms
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09-19-2022, 08:42 PM #119
^ was one in better form than the other? Any notable equipment variations or certifications? Thx.
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09-19-2022, 09:54 PM #120"Don't bug me, granny. I don't dig slick chicks trying to goof me up." --Tragg
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09-19-2022, 10:08 PM #121"Don't bug me, granny. I don't dig slick chicks trying to goof me up." --Tragg
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09-21-2022, 04:09 PM #122
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