If a ski moves me, I will turn it.
Actually, the more you tip the ski, the shorter the turn radius is.The statement in the Facebook post that drew my attention is,
"On hard snow once a ski is tipped on edge and then the camber taken out so the whole ski edge contacts the snow, it cannot bend further"
I get that more tipping doesn't necessarily mean tighter turn on account of more bend. But, still, more bend does mean tighter turn, I'm pretty sure.
Not so much poor training UKE but IMO, the lack of proper training, For so long, and for reasons unknown, any attempt to educate instructors (God forbid the customer) on the most basic elements of physics was verboten. How many on this forum do you see referring to centrifugal force as the force that turns? And when you try and tell them that it is centripetal force and that centrifugal is the equal and opposite, you get a "Whatever....".Poor level of training?
For people who would say that skis can turn the skier without the skier turning the skis, and without the skis carving an arc-to-arc turn, how so?
and the closer the critical angle is going to be to 90 degrees.
In a pure, BUT NOT park-and-ride, carved turn, we TIP THE SKIS, tip THEM into a carve; THEY will go only where WE TIP THEM TO GO, based on HOW MUCH WE TIP THEM, SKI design, gravity, and snow interaction. We may have the intent to travel from point A to point B, AND the course of travel to B is determined, BY HOW WE TIP THE SKI, as it is when WE PUSH ON THE HANDLE BARS ON A BICYCLE.
AND the course of travel to B is determined, BY HOW WE TIP THE SKI,