think confusion can arise about the transfer of balance to the uphill ski ( point # 1 ). You don't need to push from
the ( old ) stance ski to do this.....lateral movement of the hips to assist with the transfer of balance to the uphill ski
as well as simultaneous flexing or collapsing the stance sking brings the free foot ski into contact with the
snow/slope and by lengthening this uphill leg balance is transferred
Bluey,
excellent clarifying post! You are absolutely right, it was #1 (quoted above) that got me confused, and got me starting to experiment with the push-off. When I did the push-off "exercise" last weekend, I could much better "engage" the little toe edge, but I also noticed that the push-off tended to "break the flow" of turns. Yesterday I practiced the SP again, but this time, using the input from this thread, I instead focused on the flexing/collapsing/bring-the-knee-to-the-chest approach, and it was clear that this is a much better way to achive the SP in linked turns, maintaining the "flow". However, with this approach, I wasn't able to "hold" the little to edge for very long, but I guess that's not the idea anyway when doing linked turns.
Last weekend, I was more focused on the foundations of the SP, and working on individual turns, one by one, exaggerating the amount of time on little toe edge, as an exercise to getting familiar with SP, and the "push-off" helped me "getting to the inside edge". Yesterday, I tried to "use" SP in consecutive turns ("putting SP to use") and it was obvious that the push-off was detrimental, while the flex/collapse/... was the right way.
Thanks to everyone for their input!
Cheers,
Tommy