kingslug
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Are you not entertained????
Is this not why you are here???
Is this not why you are here???
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kingslug
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Jcb890
Active member
The people that I see tele-ski, pretty much lunge every turn. I always just assumed that was the whole idea, otherwise, why bother doing tele?
ThinkSnow
Member
Late to the game here. Is this like Telemundo?
Smellytele
Well-known member
I'll bite. For me some things are easier on tele skis. Bumps, Trees, Powder. When I am on a groomer there really is no reason to tele turn other than checking speed every now and then.
Jcb890
Active member
Interesting. Honestly, I don't think any of the tele skiers I see here in New England ski like that.
Smellytele
Well-known member
Well you may not notice them when they aren't in tele turns
Jcb890
Active member
That's a good point. I guess I notice way more people that do ski the way I am describing. There probably are some "real" tele skiers out there that I don't see too often.
I do want to point out that I didn't start the question... nor am I a tele-evangelist...
I was only hoping to help spread some understanding for a group of skiers that people may or may not have run across before... where it seemed it was "not", based on the elementary questions.
I mean, I'm not sure I'd elect myself as a person to represent that community (or any). I can only speak of my own experiences.
Also, it's not as if I care if so or so person like abc does approves of, or doesn't approve of my TYPES of skis or my personal TYPES of skiing. If you don't - so what? Who cares? Stick to your own thing (and if you're sticking your nose anywhere, stick it into your own thing).
While abc would wrongly judge you as not being a teleskier for this, it's 'valid' teleskiing to me.
I might make a few more tele turns on groomers than you, but just because I happen to love the way a tele turn feels, and how each different type of tele turn feels different. I might monomark on that 'boring' section or go extra-deep old-school if I happen to feel like it or even snowplow. Each turn presents a whole new opportunity for a whole new whim, part of why I like the sport. Whereas alpine (for me) is a lot more locked-down limiting and less freedom - same turn on every turn.
If I cared, from this thread I might now worry that someone like smellytele on a chairlift might see this as showboating if I go deep knee on a turn, or someone like abc would see a snowplow as cheating, or a tele newbie who is so enthralled and excited by tele turns feeling like any turn not using elegant tele lines is a 'wasted' opportunity and a potential sellout to alpine (I admit to having this short phase in my beginning 20+ years ago)... to plastic boots are sellout to lift-service... the 'active' spring-binding on some of my teleskis are a sell-out... etc, etc.... the list would go on and on.
Who cares? Ski what and how you like. F everyone else's expectations. Seriously, do you apply the same rules on alpine skiers? I noticed abc completely avoided those questions (of what she judges as 'valid' and correct types of alpine skiing to her).
That applies to everything, no? It's not just tele.
Your coworkers to you: No one cares that you ski
Me to my coworkers: No one cares that you golf
Your road racing friends to you: No one cares that you mountain bike
Your mountain biking friends to you: No one cares that you road bike
Or XC... or kayak... or run... or any of the other things that some people are passionate about, that others might not be.
Back on topic... I completely agree. No crowds. Still good snow. Go for it!
I was only hoping to help spread some understanding for a group of skiers that people may or may not have run across before... where it seemed it was "not", based on the elementary questions.
I mean, I'm not sure I'd elect myself as a person to represent that community (or any). I can only speak of my own experiences.
Also, it's not as if I care if so or so person like abc does approves of, or doesn't approve of my TYPES of skis or my personal TYPES of skiing. If you don't - so what? Who cares? Stick to your own thing (and if you're sticking your nose anywhere, stick it into your own thing).
While abc would wrongly judge you as not being a teleskier for this, it's 'valid' teleskiing to me.
I might make a few more tele turns on groomers than you, but just because I happen to love the way a tele turn feels, and how each different type of tele turn feels different. I might monomark on that 'boring' section or go extra-deep old-school if I happen to feel like it or even snowplow. Each turn presents a whole new opportunity for a whole new whim, part of why I like the sport. Whereas alpine (for me) is a lot more locked-down limiting and less freedom - same turn on every turn.
If I cared, from this thread I might now worry that someone like smellytele on a chairlift might see this as showboating if I go deep knee on a turn, or someone like abc would see a snowplow as cheating, or a tele newbie who is so enthralled and excited by tele turns feeling like any turn not using elegant tele lines is a 'wasted' opportunity and a potential sellout to alpine (I admit to having this short phase in my beginning 20+ years ago)... to plastic boots are sellout to lift-service... the 'active' spring-binding on some of my teleskis are a sell-out... etc, etc.... the list would go on and on.
Who cares? Ski what and how you like. F everyone else's expectations. Seriously, do you apply the same rules on alpine skiers? I noticed abc completely avoided those questions (of what she judges as 'valid' and correct types of alpine skiing to her).
That applies to everything, no? It's not just tele.
Your coworkers to you: No one cares that you ski
Me to my coworkers: No one cares that you golf
Your road racing friends to you: No one cares that you mountain bike
Your mountain biking friends to you: No one cares that you road bike
Or XC... or kayak... or run... or any of the other things that some people are passionate about, that others might not be.
Back on topic... I completely agree. No crowds. Still good snow. Go for it!
ThinkSnow
Member
Good one!
abc
Well-known member
For someone who proclaimed not-to-care, you posted long hypothetical answers to all the questions that you "don't care"!!!
If posting a full page is "not care", I wonder what it would be like when you care!
Seems to me you CARE a great deal! You care so much you keep tab on whether I answered a question that wasn't asked!
Funny thing is, I don't care how *you* ski. I don't care how *I* skis. I don't even care WHAT I ski!
Yes, I skied ON tele gear for a few hours one time, when I was waiting on the AT gear I intend to demo which was already checked out by someone else. To pass the time, I "demo" a tele setup, even though I had no intention to tele at that point. So, I slapped some skins on, skinned up for a bit, skied down with the group. The terrain was sufficiently complex I didn't feel like it's the time to experiment on a new turn. So I paralleled the whole time, with a bit of snowplow and some side-slipping thrown in.
Was I a tele skier even though I didn't make a single tele turn??? I bet not. Because I didn't have the right mentality that I'm special just because I'm on tele gear!
I'll just point out that the key part you revealed here about 'feeling special' just because you're on a different ski, is entirely a construct you yourself felt, made up and created. Yes? I've never seen "hey, come tele, be and feel special" adverts or ever heard a tele person say or express or even hint at that thought.
Honestly - have you ever heard someone ever express that? Really? Or is it simply you, looking at them, where YOU project onto them, "Sigh, I bet they just must feel sooo 'special' over me".
Next time you feel that - just go ask them, "Hey, why do you tele?" They'd likely tell you. I would. It might be many reasons, but I'd bet "'cuz I feel special over you" wouldn't be one of them. That's simply you projecting.
And no - I agree - you weren't a teleskier - you were simply someone who strapped on tele skis where your heart wasn't into it. So great - we have some common ground there. That is indeed a totally different scenario than a non-tele person completely invalidating an actual tele person with passion for the sport, since they wrongly and mistakenly feel one 'non-lunge' turn (as our Worcester friend here aptly put it) means it is 'fake' tele skiing.
I've said my piece on that, and made my point. Feel free to disagree. I'm done with the topic... now let me get back to my feeling 'more special' over you because of the ski I'm wearing.
I get bummed near the end of ski season too.
This is so true!! I found myself feeling the quality of the corn snow of the melting snow piles in the work parking lot this morning. Only several inches left. "There they go..."
abc
Well-known member
You "just point out" a "key part" that you just made up, and wrote a long thesis on it!
I'm glad you're done. Considering all the question you never asked but expect answers, and supposed "feeling" of others, how many more long dissertation are still pending?I've said my piece on that, and made my point. Feel free to disagree. I'm done with the topic... now let me get back to my feeling 'more special' over you because of the ski I'm wearing.
FBGM
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Yo who cares about the tellamarketer.
Whats the repoet from hippie fest? Cars and lodge burning? Dirty hippie sex in the lodge? Groomers running over passed out hippies?
Whats the repoet from hippie fest? Cars and lodge burning? Dirty hippie sex in the lodge? Groomers running over passed out hippies?
kingslug
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bdfreetuna
New member
literally never seen someone on a mono tele ski
Define "all the rage" :lol:
Define "all the rage" :lol:
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