@Aleks911, do this (image below) inside the boot with your ankle. It's called dorsiflexing your ankle, or closing your ankle. Look up tibialis anterior. That's the muscle that does this. If your boots are not too long, your toes should still lightly touch the front wall of the boots.
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Then do this (below, the dark image in the middle) with your body. Hover your whole body over the fronts of your skis, or at least over the fronts of your boots/bindings. Another way of putting it, hover your whole body over where those boot tongues are. Your body weight will press your shins into the tongues all by itself if you close those ankles and hold the rest of yourself "forward" in this way. That's good.
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It may feel like you're doing this:
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What you don't want to do is have your lower legs rise up out of your boots
at a 90º angle to the skis like this image below. Your shins will not be able to
put any pressure on the tongues, no matter how much you bend the knees.
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These skiers below have not closed their ankles. Their boots are not pressing the fronts
of their skis down onto the snow, no matter how much they bend "forward".
This is what you are trying to avoid.
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You need to hover your body weight over the tongues of your boots so that those
boots lever the fronts of the skis down. Here's an exaggerated image of how that
works, from a drill done in a video posted upthread. This is an exaggeration to demonstrate
how the levering works. Do not attempt to ski this way.
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On snow, in actual turns, closing the ankles can be done by simply pulling the feet
backwards, sliding the skis back along their length, beneath you. This was demonstrated
in a stationary drill in that same video upthread. This image below is also an exaggeration, meant
to demonstrate how to pull the feet back. The exaggeration allows us all to see it clearly.
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Pull the feet back, or close the ankles. Both work to produce forward-tilted
lower legs. Position the rest of body over the fronts of your bindings/boots/skis.
That should get you "forward."
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