When making a left turn, you appear to push on/pressure and edge your right ski, which moves your weight to the left leg.
Yeah, I can see that happening. In this sequence, from 0:20, I actually noticed it when it was happening, which will help me snuff it out. Yay!
Interestingly, it is happening
after the peak of the left turn as I am shifting the weight back to the left, so I'm not sure that I do that to initiate turns. At least I seem to be angulated, rather than inclined, at the peak of the turn.
The wedge at the end of the turn happens here, too, from 0:25:
Wouldn’t a narrower stance help with this, i.e. moving a weight over to the outside ski as opposed to just pressuring it?
The only exception is deep powder and crud where we need to be more two footed.
The snow was pretty rough, so my stance is wider than usual, and I'm weighing the feet more evenly. I'm not sure that I can bring them much closer in snow like this, especially at 25-30 mph, because I get so easily thrown off the snow, like here, from 0:29, where both feet are thrown off the snow and I start to seriously skid.
Now, I'm not sure that the right foot would have been thrown up so high--or that I would have survived this at all--if I had much weight on the inside ski. Or, do I lose the outside edge because I had too much weight on the inside? (One thing I know, the left ski in right turn loses the edge more easily than right ski in left turn, probably because of a hip joint pain I've had for a few seasons now.) I do look angulated to me.
Here are some frame grabs where the inside skis' camber is actually off the ground, suggesting that my weight is on the outside, at least sometimes.
And in the 0:25 sequence above, you can see the daylight below the inside ski. All the snow plume is coming from the outside ski. (The inside ski is wobbling a lot, and I have actually been advised that this was because I don't have enough weight on the inside ski...)
Another thing I noticed is that I'm A-framing at times (toward ends of turns?), like in the profile photo (I'm still using it because I look cooler than I thought I did.
) and in the 0:20 sequence above. Overedging the outside for sure.
I was hoping to have another day on the snow, but it's looking very unlikely now. Even if I go, there probably won't be a video. I'll keep working on this next season, and try to get a lesson.
Again, thanks!