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Post by TM on Jun 13, 2023 14:43:57 GMT
Ignorance is bliss telebabble. And you're a prime example. Arc on if you can. TM
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Post by mark on Jun 13, 2023 17:26:54 GMT
Tb, this tread is about the Ttalk circus,not the circus of delusions and lies of TM! Are you listening TM? Go do some research so you know something about the shape and overall design of the skis you flop around on.
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Post by Ankle flexer on Jun 13, 2023 17:29:52 GMT
^^^^^^^^ Nope! Skis like the e99 kick the snot out of alpine skis in the Bush. If your saying you hit a lift, ski a hundred yards into whatever you might be right. But if your cruising the Bush where you go up, down, and all around then alpine skis suck. TM Not on the down TM, and on tours that have a lot of climbing I don't find much difference in speed between heavy and light gear. I spent 20 years on leather boots and double camber skis and almost 20 more going back and forth between leather and plastic boots. When my goal is to have fun on the down, I'll go with an alpine ski almost every time. It did take a couple seasons to be as comfortable skiing plastic boots as I was with leather but it was worth it in the long run. I've skied deep powder on skinny skis and fat skis, and fat skis are more fun. Their greater surface area makes them much more responsive and the extra float keeps you out of the deeper stiffer snow that is tougher to turn in. I can understand that if you ever tried tried heavier gear that you didn't like it, but I think if you stuck with it long enough your opinion would have changed. I know for sure that if you made the switch you would have enjoyed a lot more turns over the years, especially in crappy conditions.
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Post by Telebabble on Jun 17, 2023 13:06:45 GMT
Let's be polite about this: TM is already 3/4 the way there. He generally is on skis that are of the old alpine form standard but have a bit more camber (not double camber, just camber+) though on occasion he takes out some old E99's on hero snow days. Why the obsession with "skinny" camber+ skis and wax and 8ft poles? A schtick, an act, performance art, but mostly fodder for 20 years of trolling.
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Post by The experts of the KTB on Jun 20, 2023 22:38:10 GMT
TM is at it again. His technical prowess is on full display at Ttalk. GAWD! Endless drivel! He has no valid concept of phases of a ski turn as he speaks again of initiating turns but not finishing them: "You initiate the turn but rarely finish it as the skis continue on their slicing journey DOWN." So clueless it's just shocking. The radius of a ski turn is infinitely variable. So what he is belching about is essentially extremely short radius turns, almost to the point of straight-lining, but he has no real concept of what "finishing a turn" means, rather he thinks it means skidding the skis to a Zzzzz stop. He's a skier of 70 years experience -according to him- but he thinks "finishing a turn" means you skid across the hill, 90-degrees to the slope, and, essentially, come to a virtual stop! Sad, just fking sad!
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Post by albertatele on Jun 20, 2023 23:42:44 GMT
^^^Well, he's one of the few, the exceptional, who can "turn but not cross the fall line"! Well, I bet Johnny's pet dog Manny can too! Too damn funny.
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Post by Ankle flexer on Jun 21, 2023 15:00:38 GMT
You can't compare TM to Manny. TM skis in the bc, does T turns and speaks from his experience, although it is limited to the light gear he chooses. On the other hand Manney skis groomed xc trails wearing spandex and is too concerned with his heart monitor to bother himself to try a T turn.
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Post by Telebabble on Jun 21, 2023 16:06:38 GMT
Manny be the MAN!!! Maybe Manny and Bauerb are cousins? They both ramble on about how great their fitness is but there's 0 evidence either of them can actually tele at a stable beginner level. Bauerb can't even pole right!
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Post by TM on Jun 21, 2023 17:30:28 GMT
long poles, uh, might be he isn't around the Lift so he needs them for cruising and going up a skill many on this site are foggy about. On my daily three mile trips there is everything not just the down. If you had to ski in the raw you would have trouble breaking, cruising, but might survive the down. On the other hand, with your head, the Beech, maples, yellow birch would probably take you down. BC in the East isn't lift served. TM
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Post by Ankle flexer on Jun 21, 2023 20:40:00 GMT
I don't know TM, I've learned to cruise the gonz with alpine length poles(125cm) but I never was able to learn to use long poles properly to make turns. When I'm on the flats I hardly use my poles anyway and when I'm climbing I can place my palm on the flat top of an alpine pole which is like extending it's length by 12 or 15 cm from having my hand in the strap.
Shorter poles are lighter, even adjustables feel lighter when shorter because they exert less leverage. There is less chance to hurt a shoulder and they are less tiring in general in the bc where your skis sink in powder making you lift your arms higher. Also, for me, my stride in typical off trail bc skiing isn't long enough to take advantage of a xc length pole.
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Post by TM on Jun 22, 2023 11:21:30 GMT
Going up is almost always a zigzag. Downhill side a longer pole is helpful while I grab the uphill somewhere along the shaft depending on steepness. Can't say I appreciate wide skis following that narrow trail up as the wider ski falls out of the up trail and mangles the downhill side of the up trail. Confused, well that's part of the game we all play in the BC. Going down the trick with long poles is to get them out of the way. They are helpful when going through whips, blocking, moving and opening the way to fields of deep powder. If you're a BC skier there is NO WAY. You make things work in YOUR way and change that the next time out. Arc on guys. TM
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Post by Telebabble on Jun 22, 2023 12:49:47 GMT
TM, YOU zig zag "always" for 2 reasons: 1) camber+ skis resist holding the ski to the snow especially underfoot and; 2) You cannot overcome that with wax of any sort and you use wax. Single camber does not fight snow contact like camber+ and skins grip far more effectively than wax, so skins and single camber beat wax and camber+ on steep and more direct ascents EVERY TIME.
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Post by mark on Jun 22, 2023 13:00:08 GMT
TM quacks endlessly about the great xc poles. Dumbest troll EVER! Use adjustable poles if you have a brain, otherwise choke up on the poles as required if you must use 10ft dork poles- and don't forget your wool knickers or maybe a big Mackinaw! Oh, and there are pics of the KTB with adjustables (as well as all kinds of modern gear) so, to be clear, TM does not really speak for other members of the merry band though he yammers like a drunk pope.
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Post by Ankle flexer on Jun 22, 2023 16:41:08 GMT
My experience is that with wider skis, either with scales or kick wax, they climb much better then narrow ones and I don't need to rely on my poles as much to climb. I do what I need to do, as far as changing climbing angle, sidestepping or herringboning to lessen how much I push with my poles. You can't push your way up a mountain with your arms, just very short sections.
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Post by TM on Jun 23, 2023 11:44:21 GMT
Uh. In the raw one doesn't plant a pole and rotate around it. Understand when on skinnies which means a less than two-inch-wide surface you go long to get some surface which necessitates a different kind of skiing. One that Alpine skier on Alpine equipment can't compute. Since most if not all of you are Alpine skiers (lift served) you're in the mainstream of sameness. Don't compute? Alpine equipment is your mantra, and you want everybody to be the same. Remember Frost...... and I, I took the road less traveled by.....AND IT MADE ALL THE DIFFERTENCE! Arc on boys. TM
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