Product Description

Achieve Your Skiing Potential with Legendary Ski Instructor Harald Harb.

All it takes to be an expert skier are the correct movements and the right equipment. Join Harald Harb as he helps you learn these movements and to pick the equipment that's right for you.

Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1 features Harald Harb's truly innovative Primary Movements Teaching System (PMTS) that is a complete teaching system suitable for beginners and experts. Whatever your current ability level, you'll learn expert technique, and you'll learn to recognize and avoid the dead-end movements that keep you stalled at the intermediate level.

Now with a 45 minute bonus instructional DVD, in no time you will be mastering the slopes with Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1. 100 b/w photos, DVD.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247693 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-05
• Released on: 2004-11-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
An absolutely lucid presentation. -- San Francisco Chronicle

Will have you gliding down the slopes no matter what the conditions. -- Mountain Living

Review
"I have learned a lot from Harald Harb. His insights into the multiple makeup of expert skiing--equipement, biomechanics, and functional primary movements--are vital, accurate, and above all immediately useful."
-Lito Tejada-Flores, Breakthrough on Skis

"An absolutely lucid presentation that can help skiers unlock the[ir] potential and quickly elevate their expertise."
-San Francisco Chronicle

From the Back Cover
"As a skier and ski teacher, I have learned a lot from Harald Harb. His insights into the multiple makeup of expert skiing - equipment, biomechanics, and functional primary movements - are vital, accurate, and above all immediately useful. This book could spark a long overdue revolution in American ski instruction." Lito Tejada-Flores, Author of "Breakthrough on Skis"

Customer Reviews

Yep! The Secrets of expert skiing finally revealed.
An excellent book which explained the secrets of skiing in such a precise and logical fashion. The photo sequences were also helpful in seeing whether you were on the right track. I found that the moves and excercises he used in the books were easy to learn and emulate on the ski slopes. The speed of my improvements were mind blowing and the great thing about Harold's technique is that, you can take it anywhere ie. steeps, crud, bumps. This is where other systems seem to show there flaws! The Biomechanical explanations as it relates to ski movements were also a very good addition. The alignment section, showed me that I have been on the wrong path for years and helped me choose the right equipment for my anatomy and skiing ability. You will find that because his methodolgy is so simple, you will be able to analyse and correct your movements on the slope. I hope he writes a second book on skiing steeps, crud, bumps etc... you know the tough stuff.

Harald's new technique makes skiing simple
Last fall in one of the many ski publications that come to my home, there was mention of a new book by Harald Harb. Having been in instructor clinics with Harald in the past, and being impressed by his technical mastery and outstanding skiing skills, a former PSIA National Demo team member, it made me want to read his book. What struck me most about the book, Anyone can be an Expert Skier was its utter simplicity. It was devoid of all sorts of extraneous things and reached the essence of excellence.

Harb's Primary Movements Teaching System is bio-mechanically sound and thus "far more user friendly." You are using the body in a manner to take advantage of its strengths.

For people who are "intermediate skiers" it was possible to get them out of their stem christies and make parallel turns, usually in one PMTS lesson. If not, they are at least able to see how to get to parallel using exercises from the PMTS.

So, in conclusion, the door to enjoyable, exhilarating, addictive skiing is open. Take these comments, and read what Harald has to say

Eureka!
I bought this book after a few weeks of lessons as an absolute beginner. In the space of a few hours, I progressed from a pathetic "pizza pie" skier who was ill at ease on the easiest green run, to a moderately proficient skier completely at home on blue runs.

Given that the written format is not exactly well suited to teaching a physical activity, this book does an admirable job. The time lapse photo sequences are excellent.The graduates sequence of exercises develop along a natural progression which both expose you to the sensations of turning and build your confidence.

Not sure if there is an accompanying video, but if there is, go out an get it. The combination of the two would be very powerful.

Can't recommend it highly enough.