most telemark skiers will look at you blankly if you start talking about active bindings...
...not every telemark skier reads TT.com....
You have made this same post countless times, and five, six years ago you may have had a point. Not anymore. Whether they read Telemarktips or not, only the seriously uninformed don't know what is meant by "an active binding." While Mitch and Telemarktips may have been the first to popularize the use of the terms "active" and "neutral," today those descriptions are found everywhere, from product descriptions (try Google) to print magazine articles. Last year's Backcountry magazine binding review used the two terms more than 30 times in just a single 2,500 word report.
Actually, he's correct. I realize this must be hard to comprehend since you're perhaps a bit too enamored with this website (4000 odd posts -- many in the OT forum), but it's true. Of course you have to actually go outside and ski a bit in various locales to understand.
Anyhow, this NTN thing.... jeezus christ. It looks like a linken, with BD cable routing, and a tour mode. Who cares. Guess I'm naive but I always thought that tele-marketers weren't given to the sort of bullshit marketing hyperbole that we've seen from Rottefella.
"Revolution" -- good rule of thumb, if it actually is revolutionary you won't have to go around telling people it is.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:57 am Post subject:
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you wouldnt act like this around the table at the bar after a buncha turns but you do here .
Damn if that ain't the truth! Someone in the other NTN thread was bagging on Dobish's ski technique, the dude rips, go figure!
I sure as hell wouldn't put up pics of me skiing, not if a bunch of premadonna assholes are gonna look at it and miss the point:
It's a ski gear review, duh!
I ski with some people on this forum and I hope to ski with many more over the years. There are folks on this forum from all over the world, what a great place to hook up skiers in exotic lands
I can't imagine coming across as an asshole and expecting to be received with open arms. It's no wonder why so many forum members read and don't post; it sure saves you from being worked by a pissed off peep who hasnt' gotten laid recently
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:06 am Post subject: Gol darn new fangly things!
Why is it you whippersnappers are always inventin' stuff? When I was young we only had two flavors of ice cream, Turnip and Brussel sprout, and we was happier than a pig in a poke. Gosh durn it I remember when we was writin emails with 1200 baud modeems. Now those was the days! Well thats the problem with you youth today! Nuthins ever good enough. Why can't yawl just be miserable and happy like we was? _________________ Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Gol darn new fangly things!
pinsarein wrote:
Why is it you whippersnappers are always inventin' stuff? When I was young we only had two flavors of ice cream, Turnip and Brussel sprout, and we was happier than a pig in a poke. Gosh durn it I remember when we was writin emails with 1200 baud modeems. Now those was the days! Well thats the problem with you youth today! Nuthins ever good enough. Why can't yawl just be miserable and happy like we was?
I am barely old enough to remember cassette tapes _________________ mediocre kneedropper
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Anyhow, this NTN thing.... jeezus christ. It looks like a linken, with BD cable routing, and a tour mode. Who cares. Guess I'm naive but I always thought that tele-marketers weren't given to the sort of bullshit marketing hyperbole that we've seen from Rottefella.
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Errrrrr….. Simple, have you seen the boots? Errrrrr….. Simple, have you booted up anything steep in tele boots? Errrrrr….. Simple, ever used crampons? Errrrrr….. Simple, ever alpined or AT’d?
And, btw, your remark Re. Rottefella is most uneducated. You obviously have no clue to the revolution in boots and bindings that happened in the XC world. _________________ "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
Yet, only a minority of telemarkers... read these forums.
There is still a very high percentage of telemarkers that are happily using G3s, without breaking them and having no idea what an active binding is.
Are you simply guessing, or just making stuff up, or do you have actual numbers to back up these assertions?
Stanford, if it isn’t obvious to you that there are loads of tele skiers who don’t give a hoot about the internet let alone speak your language then there really isn’t much we can do to help you. And don’t give me this crap about giving you numbers. We don’t need no stinkin’ numbers to figure out something which is painfully obvious. Go get them yourself if empirical evidence isn’t enough.
Way less than 1 in 10 tele skiers I ski with have heard of TeleTips. And then there are tons more who know its there but never read it. Hot skiers I might add (the kind you read about). And these are educated persons who use internet and speak English. They are just obviously interested in other things on internet than ski forums. Maybe it has something to do with living in the mountains.
Sounds like its time for you to expand your horizons a wee bit.
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