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    Tele-toons

    ive heard about skiing pontoons tele. i've laughed it off many times. i understand the elimination of tip dive, but it just seems like the lead changes would be extremely awkward.

    maybe i'm wrong. if so, somebody vouch.
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    You just gotta ski cowboy style...
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    Paging Hop.
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    It's completely impossible to ski any reverse sidecut ski tele.

    For that matter it's completely impossible to ski any fat ski tele, or to ski at all agressively. Tele is for butt waggling turns under the liftline.

    Duh
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    I saw a guy on them with Bomber Bishops. Asked and he said he was loving the setup. I'm not a tele person, but it seems to me that binding would rock on those skis. It'd give you plenty of extra control/stability to work them. The bindings are too heavy to tour on, according to Tele afficionados, but you aren't going to tour on Toons anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinecure View Post
    Bomber Bishops..... The bindings are too heavy to tour on, according to pussies.
    Fixed it for you.
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    I don't have a problem making lead changes on Pontoons.








    Even when I tele.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hop View Post
    I don't have a problem making lead changes on Pontoons.








    Even when I tele.
    You can count the number of tele turns hop does in a season with fingers and toes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shirk View Post
    You can count the number of tele turns hop does in a season with a finger and a toe.
    fixed!


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    Quote Originally Posted by lemon boy View Post
    fixed!


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    pot calling kettle black?

    and for the record I have probably made at least 50 tele turns this season. Not bad for 15 days on snow!
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    Actually LB makes way more tele turns than you would think. I couldnt really figure out any reason "why", but he seemed to be having fun
    "I dont hike.... my legs are too heavy"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Professor View Post
    Actually LB makes way more tele turns than you would think. I couldnt really figure out any reason "why", but he seemed to be having fun
    faceplants =/ tele turns.
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    Overheard:
    "It is impossible to wreck when you get good and low and your skis are all spread out nice and long"


    And, FYI I only ragdolled being a complete jackass and it hardly had anything to do with tele turns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lemon boy View Post
    Overheard:
    "It is impossible to wreck when you get good and low and your skis are all spread out nice and long"
    Just to set the record straight, right now.... this quote did not come from me. But I was there AND tempted to push the idiot off the chair, especially when he used the term "invincible" to describe how he felt when he got "super low"
    "I dont hike.... my legs are too heavy"

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    Forget those clown skis if you're looking for float & peformance, sfotex rides his Praxis 185 Tele and loves 'em. $400+ less in cost isn't a bat upside either...

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