Hey HK,
For 97% of us
the BPST is going to be a brushed carve. What you want to work to develop is, as Skier Synergy sez, is "the ability to be more analog and less digital." Remember the TFR you were working on? Try linking them and use the Phantom Move. Just the amount of mental confusion that having to think about what you are doing will cause you should slow your engagement down enough so that you don't get edge lock at the top of the turn
. Go find Harald's Blog entry on linked TFR and watch what he is doing. Then go watch Max501s clip on brushed carving. Then go watch one of Harald's brushed carving segments. That should give you the range you have to work with. In the ubiqutious Max footage, he is brushing most of the turn. In Harald's footage, the brush is minimal; just a bit of the high C. Depending on how skilled (and how scared
) you are, a BPST could look like either of those turns or anything in between. But the absolute critical skill is to master the art of the brush.
Step away from the edged lock carve sir, nobody has to get hurt...
Now go back to your refrigerator and try to spend the entire session *without* making an edge-locked turn. Once you can do that, you can start playing with it. Start brushed and finish edge-locked. Vary the amount of time you spend brushed vs. edge locked. Give us some more footage once you've got the concept down & we can help with the technical pieces.