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Summary: The most concice learning material on true parallel skiing.
Review: My wife and two young sons took up skiing last season and it has very quickly become their most favorite sport, as it has been mine. I purchased Harald's book and video in an effort to help my family understand and become proficient in true parallel skiing. After reading Harald's book and watching the video, the whole family now has a much greater understanding of the correct movements and actions which are to be performed to really enjoy and improve carved parallel skiing.The chapters on pole use and alignment are excellent in that they detail in a step by step fashion how important these areas are, which are generally overlooked and/or not introduced to people who are learning how to ski. The alignment chapter also recommends particular types of ski gear for people with different lower body make-ups, eg bowlegged skiers, knock-kneed skiers etc. In summary, I believe all skier's can benefit from taking Harald's teaching methods and putting them into most enjoyable action.
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Summary: An ABSOLUTE MUST for anybody who would like to enjoy skiing
Review: On my opinion, this book (and most importantly, system which it describes), is a REAL REVOLUTION in teaching skiing. Not only it eliminates the mistery from downhill skiing, it saves misery from downhill skiers, especially from "frustrated intermediates", described in "Breakthrough on Skies" by Lito Tejada-Flores.The bulk of the book dedicated to detailed description of few basic movements which are necessary for performing curving turns (here the name of the system -"Primery Movements"). Each of these movements can be trained and perfected SEPARATELY from others. A lot of photos, but the best option is to purchase the video with the book and see the movements in motion. An excellent chapter about foot/alignment problems. After reading the book, I went to Silver Creek, CO where Mr. Harb and his collegue Diana Rogers teach the system and took lessons with them. The results greatly exceeded my expectation. After getting my boots properly aligned, I spent few days training according to the system. At the end of my vacation I was able to curve GS type of turns without slightest hint of skidding. Before I can't produce even single curved turn despite 5 years of taking lessons and ski clinics. Approximately 40-30% of time was spent on training new movements, while 60-70% went into "undoing" the old ones. I wish each chapter dedicated to certain primery movement teached in the book was accompanied by "undo" section. One of the main surprises was the fact that these movements have been known and used for years by racers. It's a pity, it took so long to bring it to the rest of skiers, but better later then never ! The book will be especially helpful for beginners and intermediates (real experts might already know the staff). I guess few people will not like book at all, for instance, some ski teachers, which will suddenly discover that ways they teach skiing are obsolete and counter-productive.
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Summary: Needs an Editor
Review: Painful reading. Mechanistic approach. Full of jargon. Very little for the advanced skier (the skier most likely to ever to become an "expert" skier). This book needs a complete re-edit by someone competent. See, e.g., any of Witherell's books as examples of how to communicate movement concepts.
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Summary: Results and response to the book are fantastic
Review: 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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Summary: The best book on modern ski technique
Review: The book really works. I have used Harb's techniques and there is nothing that can compare to them. I have taken lessons for years and regular lesson don't work. If you really want to use the modern skis like an expert you can learn it from this book.
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Summary: A great book for a beginner
Review: This book offers lots of good tips for the beginners, especially those who would like to really learn how to carve the turns correctly. The photo illustrations were extremely helpful for visualization, with the description of the techniques, it makes learning so much faster and easier.
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Summary: Harald Harb makes skiing easy.
Review: This book, "Anyone can be an Expert Skier" has got to be the world's easiest way to learn, improve and experience expert level skiing. It has created a real breakthrough in my skiing. The 214 pages are packed with photos, montages, and illustrations that clearly demonstrate how to carve a ski and master the fall line. The moves and methods in this book are more than theories. They work! Thank you Harald Harb.
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Summary: This method works where it counts... out on the slopes.
Review: Whether you are trying to be successful in business, in personal relationships, or life in general, you must learn to adapt to change. Ski equipment has undergone incredible changes over the last several years. It's only natural that ski instruction would also change. Let's face it, if we could simply get it from a book, we'd all be expert skiers. But I've bought all the other books. This method works where it counts... out on the slopes. Harald Harb's book is structured like a good reference manual. The techniques are adequately broken down and the photo images are good. If you don't like to read, get the video. Together they are great learning tools. Try it.
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