A too stiff ski will hinder your skill progression, and potentially induce bad habits.
Story: a long time ago when I was learning as an adult, I bought a stiff short-radius carving ski. I figured I'd "grow into it."
I knew, intellectually, what I needed to do to carve. Tip the skis, don't turn them. When tipped, they will turn on their own.
This is true. A tipped carving ski will bend, and a bent carving ski will turn on its own. It's fun to get yourself to let the ski turn you instead of you turning it. You will learn what the turns made by that ski at a certain speed will going to be like, and you'll learn where the ski will take you. It's also fun to feel it bending. It can, depending on how you ski it, feel like a diving board going boingggg boingggg. Nice!
But I could not get that stiff ski to do anything like that because it was too stiff to bend at the speeds I was used to and willing to go. It would have bent when used by a racer who knew what they were doing, or a heavy person going fast who could tip the skis without pivoting them - a true advanced skier. But that wasn't me. I was a learner. And I didn't know what I didn't know.
So what I learned, by default, was to rotate the ski to point where I wanted it to go. This worked, the skis turned, but this technique produced out-of-control skidded turns on hard groomed snow. As I became more confident, I sped up, emboldened by the turns I could make, and ventured onto steeper groomers. I often wondered "is this safe?" It wasn't, but my ski club buddies praised me and I believed them. As seasons went by, I bought new skis but I had by that time deeply embedded that "quick pivot and skid" habit into my muscle memory. New skis did not fix me.
You do not want to do that. It took me forever after I became a ski instructor to rid myself of that terminal intermediate movement pattern. It's gone, but I lost years of potential technical learning because I wasted many seasons making those pivoted turns.
Get a softer ski, short (up to your mouth and no higher when stood on end), with camber, without early rise, with a waist in the lower 70s or upper 60s. With such a ski you can learn to tip without pivoting them, feel the clean sensation of the ski traveling along its length smoothly, and as you gain confidence you'll be able to feel the ski bend. You may even figure out how to produce the diving board boinggg as you make short rhythmic turns!
