From: launce@apollo.med.utah.edu (Tri-Ungulate)
Newsgroups: rec.skiing
Subject: Re: Telemark skis
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:19:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: apollo.LAUNCE.92Oct16121913
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	<Oct15.031507.60154@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: Trifurcate-Hooved Ruminant Surveyors, Inc.

>   In article <Oct15.031507.60154@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
  >>   In article <LAUNCE.92Oct14163358@apollo.med.utah.edu> launce@apollo.med.utah.edu (Tri-Ungulate) writes:
  >>If I wanted that, I'da gotten a randonnee outfit. Or stayed with the
  >>Alpine gear, of course.  Tho' when the going gets icy or waay steep, I
  >>*do* revert to parallel turns.

>   This brings to mind a question.  Now don't get the wrong idea.  Perhaps
>   unlike some previous queries, this is a legitimate, non-malicious question.

Well since you asked so nicely...

>   Is there an advantage of some sort for dropping into that silly telemark
>   position?  

Others have already answered the question. Being the oblique
inscrutable asian that I am, I will answer your question with other
questions:

- Why do you look for an "advantage," grasshopper? 

- Is skiing all about being "maximally efficient" at locomotoring down
a slope?

- Why ask why?  Try (your favorite over-advertised alcoholic beverage
that tastes like Olympia Lite but costs twice as much)...
 
>   I mean, I've tried it because thats the way everybody says
>   you're supposed to turn on free heal skis, and I can even sort of turn that
>   way.                       ^^^^^^^^^ 
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           hmmm, an alternative to Medicaid, perhaps? ;^)

Who's this "everybody" that *says* you're "supposed" to do it that
way?  Oh yeah, fergot 'bout the PinHeadPolizei, who patrol the slopes
of Alta, ever ready to strike down any Parallel-skiing slackers, those
heinous followers of the apostates from Christiana (Oslo), with a
well-aimed granola bar. 

(diagram that run-on sentence -- 10 points)

>   But, like you, when the going gets tough I revert to paralleling.
>   After all, at that point my safety is at sake.

Of course, there *are* situations where safety takes precedence over
aesthetics.

>   I'm not going to mess
>   around trying to look like some kind of yodeling, wool-knicker-wearing,
>   volkswagon-driving fool when I'm in the midst of a serious acceleration
>   problem.  

But the chicks *dig* it. Don't they?  I mean your voluptuous Betty Sue
from Corpus Christi jus' caint' beleeeve it when you blow by her Billy
Bob (who is struggling down the slope on his 160cm Rossi 7GHXYZExtreme
RacingCutEquipeCoupeDuMondes that he got for $555.99 -- a *bargain*,
dammit). You look sooo cool on those funny-looking skiis, making those
elegant linked turns with that *sexy* pelvic motion (until you
overcompensate and faceplant, but hopefully she doesn't see that).
She comes up to you later at Watson's or the 'Glow where you're having
your bag-lunch of organic brown rice and tofu and wants your phone
number for some "private instruction."

>   No sir!  I lay those boards side by side and like Chuck Yeager,
>   I pull out of it!  Then after the addrenaline stops, I revert to proper
>   imitation of the accepted beautiful-looking style.

Only after checking that you haven't been seen by the PinHeadGestapo,
of course... Hey! watch out for those granola bars!!!

>   But seriously, under what circumstances is the tele position an advantage?

Advantage, shadmantage - whaddaya want?

If it feels good, then I do it (as long as it doesn't impinge upon
others, of course)

If I wanted speed + minimum effort I'da gotten a snowmobile...
 
>   If you answer this question, then maybe I'll leave you alone, grab
>   my spinning rod, and go harrass the fly-fishing purists over in
>   rec.outdoors.fishing.  (But no promises.)

If you answer my questions, then maybe I'll leave you alone, get some
work I've been putting off for *too long* started, or (more likely) peek
into alt.flame to see if T*d K*ldis has posted anything particularly
worthwhile to make fun of.

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