As in skiing, during transition, your center of gravity (body) has to move across to the downhill side of the skis for a "high C" turn. This has to be initiated by feet tipping actions. If this isn't done on the carvers they will feel like they don't want to turn.
SkierSynergy has also posted that to be one of the critical factors in turning the Carvers.
It took me quite some time to get it. Until then my turns where shallow, and long radius.
My wife is skating on Pros. She is doing great job on flat or almost flat parking lots. She is doing beautiful textbook LTE tipping, keeps nice narrow stance and develops good edge (or rather wheel) angles. She is demonstrating her best tipping action ever (... in short I am falling in love all over again). But moving CM into the turn is something which does not come easy to her.
All of the tipping ends up being countered by upper body and the CM stays somewhere above the stance foot BTE .
As result she can make only shallow long radius turns. I think, what is preventing her from committing into the turn is all headology. It is scary at the beginning to trust the skates and commit to what seems like unavoidable face plant.
The two best drills for committing into the turn on skis that I know of are:
1. Von Grunigen turn
2. Stepping turns (initiated with new inside leg and done with aggressive committing of CM into the next turn).
Well, if you can do Von Grunigen type turns on Harb Carvers, you can do sharp short radius turns as well. I am looking for simpler drills. Stepping turns are a great way, but it seems like we need to find a different angle. If anyone knows of any good drill I will very much appreciate a post.
On more advanced level, what is the best way to master one legged turns?
Seems like on one leg I am back in square one. I make turns the size of small parking lot! I am riding clearly on one edge of wheels with angle developed, but what is missing is the commitment of CM (well for some headological reason it is more scary for me to commit with one leg than with both legs). Is there any progression drill for one legged skiing?
Here is what I tried so far (and this helped a bit).
I try to play with learning Von Grunigen turn on Carvers. I finish the turn with all weight on outside leg lifting the inside leg a bit, I transfer the edges on the stance leg to the LTE edge. At this moment my turn is shallow and there is very little or no commitment.
I commit only after both feet are on the ground. I intend to commit more and more when standing on transition stance leg, creating a progression which hopefully will teach me to commit with one legged turns.
Please let me know if you know a drill that can help.