Will the Telemark Tech System Become the Telemark Norm?

Telemark skiing has long been dogged by a war over two incompatible norms. And debate rages on about what platform serves the telemark skier better: legacy duckbilled 75mm gear and its soft, supple, familiar flex; or the feature-laden, strong-skiing, but rigid new telemark norm (NTN). This Norm War–a polarized, pitched battle that only a two-party system (and backward incompatibility) could create–has instigated a schism in the sport, a dividing line that has too often been oversimpl