I re-visited looking at the shore, ie (turning my head in the turn) with the wakes in my periphial vision as I did many years ago. Jeff Rogers, Jody Johnson, Jennifer Leachman, Deena Mapple are some skiers who do the same. If you couple that as an "early counter-rotation" for the preturn and turn, it may work quite well. I am experimenting with it, but it is old school type of skiing except the counter in the turn which definitely works well for me...... if you can keep your hips from dragging during the head turn, it does tend to help you ski out ahead of the buoy with some decent carry out and tightens up the offside turn especially.  This may work if you tend to ski to the buoy instead of ahead of it. It also lends to back arm pressure, but hey, Jeff Rogers can run 41 doing that, so why cant' I?1?.............. Each person is different, but the bottom line is what body movements make the ski do what it is supposed to do. I coach from the ski up, not the other way. Have someone in the boat just look at your ski at each phase of skiing: gates, preturn or transition, carry out, and acceleration phase and see what body movements affect the ski/water interface watching spray, movement, rhythm, and angle.