Ken,
I greatly appreciate your time and detailed analysis.
Ken wrote:I have been back on my heels
Learn to hold the free foot (inside foot) alongside the stance foot (outside foot) by using a strong pull back of the free foot all the time in every turn forever. On that easy slope practice sliding along and pulling both feet strongly back...not up...multiple times during a straight run and in large curves. Pull back strong & quick. Get to the point where the straight back pull results in the tails of the skis flapping up a bit on the snow. Still not an up-pull, make it a straight back pull.
I have been doing exactly this since I wrote my last comment. The last time
I skied I believe I that I made some good progress in this area. I was able to link a good number of short tight
turns on a blue run. Being centered and in control throughout the arc makes everything easier because I'm in balance.
Ken wrote:You do not tip the stance ski to its big toe edge. You keep that leg aligned straight (bit of knee flex for shock absorption). Your body movement across the skis tips that ski. There are intentional movements (tipping the free ski to its little toe edge) and incidental movements (the stance ski coming on edge due to the body moving across the ski...or the ski skiing out away from the body). Just lighten and tip the free foot.
I'm aware of this. I'm not actively trying to tip the new stance foot to BTE. However, I have observed
that, as my legs and body move across the skis
in transition, my new stance foot seems to be going faster to the BTE than the new free foot is toward LTE
before I begin any tipping with the free foot.
In slower turns I sometimes take a quick peek at my feet during transition. It seems that I simply need
to begin tipping the new free foot earlier to LTE and begin counterbalancing, and maybe holding back
the stance foot from tipping to BTE? I've been working on this since I've posted video.
I'll have to confirm everything with video in the upcoming weeks. This Sunday / Monday may be my
first opportunity to do that.