realskiers

RL,

That sounds like an interesting exercise that I will try the next time on the snow. From your description, I am assuming the pressure from your hand is on the outside of the downhill knee thus driving it into the slope and engaging the big toe edge. As I am a veteran of several of the Ski Doc's camps, I thing what Gary is referring to is using the free uphill foot tipping to the little toe edge to cause the stance foot to tip and engage. I like to think of this as passive control in that the free foot dictates what the stance foot will do as it kinetically comes along for the ride.  During the turn our balance is shifted to the little toe edge of the uphill ski thus turning it into the new stance foot. We now have a new downhill free foot that can dictate the next turn with a tip downhill.

Joe