Art,
Welcome back to snow! I have fond memories of early PMTS camps with you.
I hesitate to comment on your remaining question, because Max put his finger on exactly what you should do next (no surprise there.) Since you’re in the fitness industry, the foot pullback should be dominantly the same movement pattern you use in well-executed hamstring curls. That forward and upward motion of the pelvis probably indicates you’re doing too much of the work with your glutes. One of the checks of this is to have a friend place a ski pole behind your knees parallel to the ground and then try to pull your foot back from a stationary position on snow. If you knock the pole back, then you’re overusing your glutes.
In locked arcs you can get by with funny business in your pullback. I know this because I am an expert at every way of cheating on skis
(I just gave Harald a masters class this week in cheating on skis
) I posted a long lesson report in 2010 about three days of privates with Diana. This is one of the issues covered there. In short, I had to learn pullback again without the crutch of a locked edge by alternately getting ultra-ultra-forward and then centered on a flat non-carving traverse and then working it into highly brushed long and medium radius turns alternating between centered and ultraforward three times per turn. Any funny business in your pullback will twist or push a flatter ski in a visible way.
But lift-touch-tilt first. I’m sure you’ve forgotten it, but you advised me to do that early season many years ago. At your advice based on your black snow carving, I didn’t let two skis touch the snow for my first three weeks on snow that year and it was a huge help.
Again, welcome back!
-Todd
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