I hope someone can help me understand how "ankle tipping" can be done properly.
Ankles are wrapped around with hard shell of ski boots. So, I am not sure if you can actually physically tip your ankle inside stiff ski boot. Ski boots covers up pretty close to our knees, so any movement from ankle up to knee is basically linear, i.e., no or almost no lateral movement at least up to knee. Also. knees do not allow too much lateral movements.
If there were no boot around ankle, I understand that tipping of ankle would be more visible triggering movement of knee and rest of the upper body. But, with ankle wrapped around and fixed with boot, would trying to tip ankle be basically the same thing to tipping knee as far as feet are close/touched together?
By the way, PTMS definitely changed the way I ski. I can see that more active inside foot movement (tipping to the little toe edge) and more passive outside foot are the key to advanced level skiing. While I focus on tipping inside foot/ankle when turning, I don't feel I am continuously tipping enough throughout turn. I feel that I tip initially earlier in the turn, but at some point tipping stops or doesn't tip as much as it should. But focusing more on my knee instead seems to allow me to tip continuously and to have much tighter turns if needed.
I don't mean to cut corners, but would like have thoughts on this from anyone who understand what I am wondering about.
Thank you.