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Because one side of the brain controls the muscles on the other side of the body, movements of the arms enhance similar motion in the legs. If you can bend your right elbow and your right knee, then you can make a pretty good right turn, and if you can bend your left elbow and your left knee you can make a pretty good left turn. This corresponds to the pole swing motion, and release of the ski that you use to transition and start a turn. Together, the hands tilt upward in the new direction and the feet tip and spiral in parallel relation to the hands. In quick, short turns it’s often easy to see the hands tilting into the new plane before the feet match them.
However, I’m making it sound harder to tap the benefits of the harmony within yourself than it is. Start a right turn by pointing alongside the right ski with the right index finger, in the direction you want to go, then doing the same on the left side. Bending the elbow and turning the wrist to point is all that is necessary to do to start turning on easy terrain. If you’re in the moguls think of the thumb pointing, and follow it with a smooth extension of the legs over the side of the bumps. As the wrist rises and rolls, the ankles roll naturally, releasing tension on the edge of the skis. You are then free to cobble together the foot skills that work well for the conditions that you are skiing.
Upper and lower, and each side of the body naturally move in harmony with each other, and will effectively, when the turn is transitioned by a tilt of the hands into the new direction.
Renaissance artists, like Michelangelo, were great students of motion; its causes and effect. Here the image of God is in a "contrapposto" position; a twist through the body emanating, from the feet. with a movement of the hand.
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