Samantha is on my skis – and could pivot immediately. Prior to this we spent hours trying to achieve this on her own hire skis and when eventually I put them on my feet and tried to use them to pivot I discovered them to be almost impossibly difficult. I’ve never in my life experienced skis as useless as this at pivoting. Looks like it’s an “expert” level ski and made for race carving only – https://www.head.com/en_LT/sports/ski/joy (Even my World Cup race carving slalom skis can pivot nicely – so this is not normal)
Get a set of All Mountain (all terrain) skis – not too long…