Pure carving where the tail of the ski exactly follows the tip to within a micrometer is an impossible utopia.
agree. I call that edge locked arcing.
Would define brushed carving as one where the tail is displaced from the track of the tip by anything from a couple of few cm to, maybe, 20-25cm and that displacement is controlled by the skier. So not an edge locked carve and not a skid.
controlled by the skier how? There is a huge difference between intentional pivoting and refined butter-knife edging skills which extract carving action out of the skis while also allowing some "spreading" in limited doses.
you mentioned between a few cm and 20-25 cm, but what is your label for displacement under a few cm?
for me that is brushed carving.
20cm of displacement is not really what I could call brushed carving at all. Maybe some carving action in wedge turns or extremely slow first day skiing exercises where there is a minute amount of carving action present, but that is not what I would ever label as "brushed carving". Brushed carving to me strongly resemebles pure carving, has a large presence of carving action redirecting the direction the skier is going, but with very small amounts of displacement in order to control speed in a refined way. In fact getting brushed carves with the smallest displacement possible is part of the nuanced skill set there and actually helps achieve the greatest speed control because higher edge angles are possible. High edge angles are not possible with large amounts of displacement.
If the tail is displaced from the track of the tip then the ski has pivoted in some way, allowing for the softness of the snow.
There is a huge difference between pivoting and the ski self-steering itself through lack of edge lock. so no I don't like your use of the word "pivot" there, but I do like your re-explanation better about some displacement happening when edge lock is not achieved.
In my view "pivoting" is an intentional steering effort, requires the ski to be fairly flat in order to do it also. This is very different from applying finessed edging skills to achieve non-edge-locked carving. brushed carving is intentional, not from the snow caving in...though both things can result in similar results IMHO.
But if I understand you correctly what you are trying to say is......pure carving is zero slippage off the track...but you also say it's an impossible utopia.....and everything else is pivoting. Perhaps there is a grey zone in there?
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