 There's times and places where you want to use powerful skiing, where you push your knees forward hard, but this situation isn't one of them. Here I want a nice light touch and fluidity. You want to feel a rhythm, you want to feel lightness, you want to feel it's like dancing, sort of. So if you use power indiscriminately here, you'll mess that up.
It's like a sinuous serpentine path down the hill, like water flowing down the mountain. If your feeling is heavy on power, a constant pressure to your knees, your shins forward, it's very hard to feel the quickness that you need in a situation like this, where you want to just let the skis run in the fall line. Many young Jedi knights make that mistake you know. Pressing forward there, and they hammer it around to one side, then they come up and press it around on the other side. I think it's an intermediate stage in the development of a Jedi knight. If you want to really feel the force, feel the rhythm and the freedom staying in the fall line and making quick turns, instead of feeling that, and focusing on that think of this. Come up, come up and just turn your feet. Feel the force and the rhythm and have that impression of just following and falling, have that impression in your mind as you start to make your run.
Another way you can think about it is imagine your running down a rocky streambed. You just put your foot on one side, and on the other side you leap from rock to rock, and you only apply pressure for the instant it takes to balance yourself before you move off to the next one. Well that's maybe how you want to approach situations where you need quickness and agility from time to time. There's a time and a place for power and for that constant pressure, but don't lose sight of that beautiful feeling of dancing from stone to stone as you descend the rocky streambed in the mountains. I hope that works for you.
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