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It's hard when you're taller - higher centre of gravity.
Are you turning parallel or snowploughing?
Turning in skiing is all about finding the sweetspot for transferring the wight from one ski to another. When learning, your weight should always be on the downhill ski whilst moving across the piste - in the front of the boot, with the knee bent - head and hands pointing down the fall line. When you want to turn, standing up allows you to pivot and bring the other ski into play. As you make the turn, your weight should be in the middle of the boot, before returning to the front as you begin another traverse.Later on you can learn how sharing the weight between the skis and using your edges can help you in different snow conditions.
It will take you 3-4 days to stop feeling like a bag of shit, hopefully you'll get 'that moment' where everything clicks towards the end of that period. I'm not saying you'll be tearing up the park by the end of the week, but you should be skiing red runs.
It is worth it though - once you're good at it, it's like flying.
Three important things in skiing:
1) Go faster.
Sounds stupid, but you'll be more stable.2) Learn to fall.
You're going to fall. Choosing how and when that will happen rather than trying to cling on and losing control will probably spare you injuries. If you feel yourself lose control, and you can see a safe fall, do it.3) Look around, and up on the piste. Be aware of where everyone else is.
Had a lesson, spent around six hours skiing, annoyingly shit at it, will go back again tomorrow.
Problem is turning enough, I get so far and then the inner ski digs in and won't turn further- I need to keep the edge up, but the way of doing that is escaping me at the moment.