@az29okg, here's my suggested progression for you to try. Others upthread have suggested stork turns, but you may be having difficulty doing them. This progression leads to stork turns by way of small steps. I hope this helps. Stork turns will solve most of the issues blocking your road to carving. You will morph them into flexion turns, which will open up the potential for making carved turns. If you don't need this many steps, just skip some.
a. uphill thumpers in a traverse
Traverse. Lift the tail of the uphill ski. Keep tip on snow. Set tail down. Lift it. Set it down. You can set it down with a loud "thump." Thump thump thump all the way across the trail. You do not have to lift the tail high. Keep tip on snow the whole time. At the end of your traverse, turn then repeat in the other direction. Experiment. How high can you lift that tail? ** If the tip refuses to stay on the snow, pull that lifted foot back as you lift the tail. Foot must go back. ***If the tip still refuses to stay down, dorsiflex the stance ankle more and raise your hips higher. You may be in the back seat. Dorsiflexing and hip raising can get you forward. Then the tip should behave and stay down on the snow.
b. downhill thumpers in a traverse
Traverse. Lift and thump the downhill tail. Thump thump thump. Turn and repeat in the other direction. Repeat. This is more difficult than uphill thumpers. Persist.
c. stork turns with NIS tail lifted above fall line
While doing b above, hold onto the last downhill tail lift at the end of the traverse. This lingering removal of weight from the new inside (downhill) ski will transfer your weight firmly to the new outside ski. Keep it there by holding onto the tail lift. Do not lean back uphill. Your CoM will want to move downhill over that lifted tail. Let it do that.... and around you'll go.
You will have just done your first stork turn. Repeat until you can link stork turns without a thumping traverse. The key is to start the turn by letting your CoM move across that downhill ski as its tail is lifted. People find this difficult. Persist.
d. one-ski turns with entire NIS ski lifted above fall line
Morph your new inside tail lifts into lifting the whole ski. Lift the entire ski at the end of the traverse. Not high, just a little. Keep it parallel to the snow surface. You will be heading toward the trees. Do this first, repeatedly, in a traverse, set it down, lift, repeat. Lift it and hold at the end of the traverse; allow your CoM to cross that lifted ski as you hold it airborne. Around you'll go. KEEP IT LIFTED all the way around until the ski is heading back across the slope. See what radius your ski will create.
This is a one-ski turn. Link one ski turns, alternating which ski you raise so that you are always turning on the new outside ski. People have difficulty doing these at first. Persevere.
e. flexion turns
Instead of lifting the entire new inside ski, lighten it. Follow the same progression but allow it to slide lightly along the snow surface. Lighten, set down, lighten, set down. At the end of the traverse, lighten and hold it light; allow the CoM to cross the ski; keep it light and around you'll go.
You are now doing flexion turns.
f. additional NIS movements for flexion turns: ankle-tip, pull-back, knee-roll
While doing these flexion turns, pull that lightened foot back for added oomph. Experiment with how the pull-back affects the turn. Experiment with how tipping the foot of that lightened ski to its little toe edge adds oomph. Experiment with how rolling that new inside knee over towards the snow affects these flexion turns. Try combinations of all these additional variations as you become familiar with flexion turns. How much can you
control your radius by adding and subtracting and combining these variations?
g. one-ski turns with whole ski lifted, tipped, pulled back, and with knee rolled, starting above the fall line.
Use the progression (traverse first, lift and set down, etc.) to successfully do one-ski turns using tipping, pulling back, and knee-rolling. When you can lift and hold that ski from a traverse, without doing anything else to start a turn, allow the CoM to cross, and continue to hold the ski airborne, you can be making carved turns if you balance well (no pushing, no pressing!) Avoid leaning your torso back uphill or inside the new turn. For added oomph to your turns, tip the lifted airborne foot to its little toe edge. Turn and look at your tracks to see if tail follows tips. When you have narrow tracks,
you will be making carved turns.