Originally Posted by Snowolf

If I understand your description correctly, you are describing an aspect of Dynamic carving. In Dynamic Carving, one of the things the rider does to accelerate through the turn is to make the edge change prior to the fall line. In English, this simply means that you transition onto the "downhill" edge. This idea at first sounds like the recipe for the Emergency Room, but in reality it is a perfectly safe as long as your board is traveling in a straight line tip to tail and there is no amount of sideslip. If you think about it, your board does not care whether it is pointed down the hill or across the hill. It only cares about how it is moving across the snow.

So, if you are traversing across the hill, again carving on your heel edge, and want to initiate the toeside turn without delay and without bleeding off speed in a long skidded turn, you will use this technique. The mechanics of it are pretty straight forward actually. When you are ready to make an accelerated toeside turn, you will first ensure that your board is tracking true and not sideslipping down the hill. You will then, shift your weight from the heel edge with both feet simultaneously onto your toe edge. This will be spooky as hell the first time you try it, so pick gentle terrain and reasonably soft conditions to practice this. What will happen if you have done this correctly is you will go from heel to toe almost instantly and the board will go into a really fast, tight toeside turn through the fall line. You will really accelerate as the board turns through the fall line so be ready for it. Commitment is the key here since once you commit to that toe edge here, you can`t change your mind suddenly without risking a loss of control. The good news is the quicker you complete the turn, the quicker you will be in a toeside traverse and able to slow down.