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Anyone Can be an Expert Skier [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Harold R. Harb (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harb Ski Systems Inc; illustrated edition edition (15 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0966128206
  • ISBN-13: 978-0966128208
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 700,973 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

In order to become an expert skiier, all you need is correct techniques and the proper equipment. Anyone can be an Expert Skier points you in the right direction on the techniques front and choose the correct equipment for your needs.

The book features Harald Harb's "Primary Movements Teaching System", a revolutionary system that should mean that whatever your current ability level, you learn expert technique and avoid the dead-end movements that keep you at the intermediate level. Harb is the industry leader in balance and alignment research. Here, he describes the latest developments. You'll learn to select boots and shaped skis to maximise your skiing performance, and you'll understand how equipment affects your ability to move and balance while skiing.

As well as a number of colour photographs, the book features handy tear-out, colour "Pocket Instructor" cards that you can take with you to the pistes.



From the Author

Results and response to the book are fantastic The book is now available in three countries, USA,Canada and Australia. Response from skiers has been incredable.They are learning to ski better, faster and easier than from any other method. The system will be available at three new ski resorts for 1998, Wilmot in Wisconson, Boreal Ridge in California and Silvercreek in Colorado.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Useful, But Slightly Lacking in Understanding, 29 Aug 2000
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As an experienced instructor and racer I read this book with great interest. I have no doubt that if you follow this book through thoroughly you will end up as a reasonable parallel skier (not expert as this requires thousands of hours of practice). However, the approach is very mechanical and does not teach you to flow down the mountain. In fact all of the early exercises restrict flow and expert skiers are experts because they can flow. Additionally, the book introduces a number of movements which are vital to skiing but which Harald Harb indicates that these are movements from his programme, however they are just standard skiing movements rebadged with new names and left unexplained. All expert skiers use these movements every day and adding new words to describe them is more likely to confuse than clarify. Buy this book for the quality of the programme, but not if you really want to understand what skiing is all about and what experts are really doing when they ski.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, 1 Mar 2003
This review is from: Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier: The New Way to Ski, For Beginner and Intermediate Skiers (Paperback)
What I wanted was an easy step by step guide to improving my skiing on the new carving skis. What I got was a 200 page advertisement for the patented Harb system. I am sure that there is a valuable teaching system contained in these pages. However the text is overly complicated- limiting the value of the instruction given. The continual self justification and vilification of other methods (including beginning with a snow plough)does the author no credit and for this improver makes the book virtually unreadable.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Over Hyped, 14 Jun 2002
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Over hyped American publication using unwieldy American terms for simple things. Of little real use to anyone who has a modicum of sense and has ever experienced decent ski instruction. For anyone who has only a small amount of experience would be totally baffling.
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