9. Sudden flexion movements on a loaded ski is potentially stupidly dangerous for someone at any age and at the age of 77 could result in serious injury or actually end your life. Please be really careful with this advice.
8, 7, 6, 5: While all of these statements vaguely resemble parts of effective skiing - these aren't the parts that let you create higher edge angles.
Inclination and Angulation with a hefty dose of lateral balance (aka foot to foot pressure) at *high speed* create high edge angles.
Inclination [moving the CoM to laterally] tips the skis relative to the snow and creates edge angles.
Moving the CoM to the inside of the turn *must happen* in a carved turn at any significant speed (or you fall to the outside, potentially very very hard).
Angulation (tipping the skis relative to the CoM *and* the snow at the same time without moving the CoM laterally) is what creates grip and starts bending the ski.
Angulating *first* and then inclining will make sure the ski bends early in the turn and you have the ability to carve the entire turn.
The bottom line for creating high edge angles though - is go fast and incline hard. (You can reduce the speed you need to reach a given angle by adding angulation). The caution is that inclining too far, or inclining not enough will both result in a fall.
4. See below - this is mostly false.3. Consistently sharpened (aka smooth and the same angles) are more important than what angle you're at.
2. A narrower pair of skis is good advice. Also make sure that they are torsionally rigid (they don't twist side to side when loaded up).
1. Please find me a pair of skis that don't bend when you apply 130+ pounds of pressure to the middle of them while supporting them at the two widest points of the ski.
Drills - none of the above are going to get you what you want. Outside pole drags might help you with keeping your body more over your outside ski - but they won't teach you the fundamental angulation movements and you can cheat them pretty easily. Both of the pole drills will let you cheat (trivially) and not have your hips where you want them. "Separation" doesn't create high performance carved turns.
Instead, please try: Creating a two footed railroad track turns on flat terrain with and without inclining, carved arcs up and down hill in a traverse, Crab Walks (done to go in a straight line, *and* to create deflection across the hill), and then blend the crab walks into carved turns.
Soft snow can certainly support high edge angle. Your explanation is leaving out the fact that you're making a turn so this is a dynamic system. The "Area" under the ski doesn't have to change when you're in 3d snow and the ski is immersed in it, and bent. Random image I found in 10s as proof.
to both of you.