There has been a lot of talk about pulling the inside ski back but I have recently started to experiment with actively pushing the outside ski forward at the same time I pull the inside ski back. The reason I have been doing this is that I notissed that a 16y old racer girl that beats me hands down seemed to have her legs much more matched than I do. A video comparisson reveals this. She has her legs not only closer together sideways but also more even in the fore aft plane. Her Technica boots are tilted very far forwards so that allows her to pull that inside foot back and bend at the ancle at the same time she can extend her outside leg and stack it under her hip with probably not as much ancle flex and cuff pressure applied by me. My outside foot tends to lag far behind and I have problems with that outside ski skidding out and behaving inconsistently due to exessive cuff pressure.
Are my assumptions correct? The little experimentation I have done has resulted in positive results but I need to ski a lot in order to find out exactly how much I can push that outside ski forwards while still managing to stay out of the back seat. Actually, exactly how much I need pull it back after the transition where my knees are bent and my boots are far ahead of my hips while unweighted and floating. Now I consentrate on extending that outside leg out and not out and back. Any thaughts anyone?