Mechanic - a question:
Turn to tip sounds impossible to some, but I may have a resolution. At least it generates a question:
1. When you turn to tip - by this do you mean foot movements, which while in a carve would be pretty impossible
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2. Do you "steer or point" your knees into the new turn? Pointing your knees into the new turn is one type of "external cue" that results in the feet tipping. Tipping the feet also point the knees into the new turn. Neither of these movements are "steering" the way people here are thinking of it. When I hear the phrase active steering I'm hearing and thinking point your toes in the direction of the new turn.
In anycase pointing your toes or tipping your feet or pointing your knees into the new turn are all fundementally differently than the Phantom move as Harold Harb describes it or Phantom Edging as Lito Tejeda Flores describes it or the movement patterns Eric and Rob DesLauriers describe in their book.
So when you say you steer to tip, what do you mean? I'm thinking it may be what Eric and Rob describe as the "Parallel Christie"
On page 32 of their book they have a section called "Old Habits". To paraphrase they say basically a 2nd movement to avoid is turning the ski at the top of the turn in the release to initiate the new turn and that this has been taught for years as the Parallel Christie. They then go through the reasons why this is not the best way to turn then present the Phantom Move.
If it's twisting by foot action at the release point in the turn to get the new turn going I would guess this is the movement pattern you may be describing.