liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
^^ That is called "parameterizing." It can be done with any isolated thing in skiing. It's very good for learning how to improve your control, as well as for improving one's recovery ability.
Try it with both lateral and fore-aft weight distribution (already described upthread), for angulation timing (early to late in a turn), angulation amount (leaning in aka banking, to angulating), amount of counter (much to little), upper body rotation (early to initiate a turn, to late which means the upper body is following the skis), pole plant timing (early to late), staying low between turns to staying tall between turns, pole plant placement (forward of foot to behind the foot), arm swing (a lot to none), visual target (eyes waay up ahead vs down in front of ski tips), and so on. Vary the radius for each run while doing one of these parameterizations, and notice the difference in how much control over the turn you get.
Try it with both lateral and fore-aft weight distribution (already described upthread), for angulation timing (early to late in a turn), angulation amount (leaning in aka banking, to angulating), amount of counter (much to little), upper body rotation (early to initiate a turn, to late which means the upper body is following the skis), pole plant timing (early to late), staying low between turns to staying tall between turns, pole plant placement (forward of foot to behind the foot), arm swing (a lot to none), visual target (eyes waay up ahead vs down in front of ski tips), and so on. Vary the radius for each run while doing one of these parameterizations, and notice the difference in how much control over the turn you get.
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