realskiers

In spending the past week skiing powder every day, I think my primary observation about powder skiing (especially Sierra deep snow conditions) is that skiers who rely on a highly steered pivot move in their transitions are generally rendered helpless in deep snow.  It takes a great deal of balance and aggressiveness to pull off that kind of movement in deep dense snow and sometimes even the best skiers get themselves into trouble skiing it that way.  Do yourself a favor and learn how to transition to your new edges without a pivot, while also re-centering (strong foot pullback) and flexing to release.  The RTE (release, transfer, engage) is just as important, if not more so, in deep thick snow.

Skiing deep snow or thick crud will definitely reveal to you if you are still pivoting the entry into your turns.