Re: mounting point of telebindings

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tommy T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Booker,
>
>Your technical analysis is always good.  Follow up a little on your comment
>about the "Telebomber" binding.  (By the way, are you refering to the Bishop
>Bomber?  Your web link goes to telebomber.com and I can't get it to work.
>Bishop's link is bombertele.com.   The Bishop Bomber can be made quite
>active for big aggressive skis by using the heavy spring option.)

_ Sorry, I should never write URL's from memory, that's one thing
  that I know is unreliable. It is the Bishop telebomber that I'm
  talking about. 

>
>But to the point, you seem to imply that a neutral binding would be
>preferred by an experienced telemarker while a beginner would do better with
>something more active.  My own progression was the opposite.  As I got
>better and demanded more performance, I went to more active bindings.  Did I
>perhaps substitute binding performance for personal ability?  Whatever, it
>worked because I'm telemarking much more aggessively with Hammerheads in
>setting 5 than I did with (recalled) O2s and I was hotter on the O2s than on
>the Rotterfella cables that preceeded them.
>

_ Hey, if it works, it works. I'm just recounting my own
experience in going from NNN/BC -> NNN/BC w cables - > SuperLoop
- -> Telebomber with demoing some G3's and others along the way. 
It's really kind of personal thing, there are lot's of skiers
way better than me that ski HH's on 5. But for me, it was an 
eye-opener to ski the telebomber set up to be less active. 
Even on mega-bangs with T-races, the effortless feel of 
lighter gear in softer snow was there. For me anyway, the
whole point of telemarking is the feel of the turn in
soft snow. 

_ I think one of the real innovations in recent bindings
is the decoupling of "activism" and edge control. Old farts
can recover that sweet tele feel and still ski crud, young
guns can charge the hill. Anyway, if you want to see what I'm
talking about the next big powder day, set your HH's on 
1 or 2 and see what it's like. You may think I'm full of 
it, or you might say "Wow, no tip dive..." 

_ Booker C. Bense 



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