MikeK wrote:Does this look right?

Hmmm. Looks like a new-to-tele skier trying to figure it out. Timid form and hands are awfully high.

MikeK wrote:whatever makes you want to ski more, is perhaps what makes you a better skier.

Exactly. This is a good concise way of putting it!

I don't find that downhill skiing on powerful Telemark equipment helps my downhill skills- when downhill skiing on BC-XC equipment. In fact, the more I practice on powerful Telemark- the more I find my old habits creeping back into my body- and spreading everywhere into my BC-XC skiing- then I star...

IMO, skis are skis, regardless of how they are turned. THere's plenty of them you can mount up tele.

For me, these things seemed to have come full circle. Start on light gear and struggle, be it MTB or tele, crave more action and start lusting after bigger and higher-performance (DH MTB or heavy tele) gear, gain experience/confidence at high-speed/high consequence. Once experience and confidence ar...

Replace "level" with "axe" and I'd agree with that statement.

I ski solo a lot and also a lot with SO and enjoy it immensely, but honestly, I prefer the company of a ski buddy when skiing.

HA! Well, it says more about how information and assumptions made on the internets is not always what it seems... That's my buddy's workbench. Uninterestingly, mine's a pigsty too. And what's funny is that's a workbench in one of my buddy's rentals; his real "workbench" is an entire fucking shed ful...

rglide wrote:Maybe someone will invent a duckbill add- on. Turn any hiking boot into a tele boot.

***PAGING Bri7***

So now I'm thinking we should just remove the SNS bindings, put on NNN BC bindings and get some new boots. We want leather, so it will probably be the Alpina Wyoming boot. ' IMO, you've got a good plan. Use the old skis, mount new NNN BC bindings, get boots. I'd be curious to hear feedback about th...