How Old Three-Pin Telemark Bindings Made Me A Better Skier

I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel progression, I long swore off the greatest if most divisive paradigm shift in recent telemark history–the New Telemark Norm–a platform that after years of competing with elder duckbilled gear has finally been elevated as the modern exemplar of telemark equipment in most skiers minds. Cue angry responses online.Maybe it spoke to my nostalgic streak, or a certain mistrust of things innovative or co