Jim, I can't get all engineery with you, but I can tell you that anyone that is producing the High G turn, with big edge angles at speed pretty much says the same thing, it requires huge committment to tipping and huge committment to counter balance and counter rotation and there is abolutely nothing passive about it. Watch any good skier carve tight turns at speed in gates (where thhey need to reach maximum angles) and you will a skier that is real tired at the bottom. The level of intensity in tipping that occurs with anyone that is able to do this is well beyond what observers (that can't do it ) notice.
I can also tell you about one of my first times skiing with my friend Thor Kallerud who was the Head Mens Technical Coach for the US Ski team. We spent the day working on getting higher angles and on really tipping the feet and ankles. Working on getting higher and higer edge angles is very hard work and exhausting on the body, even for WC Racers (and incredibly so for me).
I guess my point is that I'm not sure your analysis is correct that "Tipping to high edge angles (which I will admit that I can't do) is more about not blocking the force somewhere in the kinetic chain than it is about applying "more force" in the tipping"
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