Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1


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Achieve Your Skiing Potential! 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 1features 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. With over 200 photos, tear-out "Pocket Instructor" cards you can take on the mountain, a bonus DVD,Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1is the most effective ski instruction system available no matter your skill level.




Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing


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Learn the Six Key Steps to Skiing Perfection! Harald Harb, inventor of the Primary Movement Teaching System, has already helped thousands of professional and recreational skiers achieve ski mastery. Now, Harald reveals the basic lessons that will give you immediate mprovements –at any level! This easy-to-use yet powerful program is proven to create success on the slopes, whether you are a coach, racer, recreational skier, or just starting out. With in-depth descriptions, clear, detailed photos, and its accompanying instructional DVD, these techniques and exercises will benefit all skiers. Harald Harb’s Essentials of Skiing will show you how to: • Perfectly coordinate your upper and lower body movements • Increase your balancing ability • Expertly control speed, carving arcs, flexing and tipping, poles, and much, much more Whether you have never strapped on a pair of skis or hit the slopes every weekend, Harald Harb’s Essentials of Skiing is your guarantee of skiing success.




Anyone Can be an Expert Skier 2


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All it takes to be an expert skier and the correct movements and the right equipment. ANYONE CAN BE AN EXPERT SKIER 1 helps you learn these movements, and to pick the equipment that's right for you.




All-Mountain Skier


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A step-by-step guide to becoming an expert all-mountain skier. It takes you to the difficult places on the mountain - bumps, steeps, and trees - and helps you conquer them. It contains the information you need on equipment - including shaped skis, boots, bindings, and footbeds.




Anyone Can be an Expert Skier


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All it takes to be an expert skier are the correct movements and the right equipment. With Harb's revolutionary new teaching system, readers can learn expert technique and avoid the dead-end movements that keep them at the intermediate level. 200 photos.




Skiing with the Whole Body


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Discover the key to expert skiing by learning how to use your whole body when you ski! InSkiing with the Whole Body you'll learn how to let your ankles work together with your knees to achieve easy knee flexion; find the balance point for easy turning; speed up your learning by a factor of ten; and teach yourself to ski like you've always dreamed you could. This book uses Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement exercises to make learning downhill skiing fast, simple, and fun.




Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing


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The real mogul skiing instruction youre looking for. Whether you want to ski gentle moguls with comfort and confidence, turn heads on your local mogul run, or compete in mogul contests, this book will give you the specialized techniques you need to reach your goal. In this how-to classic, former competitor Dan DiPiro reveals techniques that have remained largely unknownor misunderstood outside of competitive mogul skiing circles. Most skiers try to ski moguls using only groomed-trail techniques, says DiPiro. But the bumps require a special set of techniques that have little to do with groomed-trail skiing. With an understanding of these special techniques, most fit, expert skiers can become good mogul skiers, and some can become excellent mogul skiers and even mogul competitors. For the aspiring mogul skier, this book is full of invaluable instruction. For the seasoned bumper, its an ideal tune-up guide and a refreshing affirmation. For all skiers interested in broadening their understanding of downhill skiing excellence, its an original, eye opening read.







Breakthrough on the New Skis


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Almost as good as time on the hill, Breakthrough on the New Skis approaches expert-level skiing with a step-by-step process that anyone can master. Learn how to carve, link turns, and relax. The author's innovative instruction helps skiers gain both skill and self-confidence.




Ultimate Skiing Adventures


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Ultimate Skiing Adventures takes you on a skiing voyage around the planet's biggest, best and most unusual ski destinations – from the huge mega-resorts of the French Alps to sailing along Iceland's north coast in search of great snow, there are exciting adventures that will appeal to everyone from novice to expert. The inspirational descriptions of 100 locations combine Alf Alderson's personal experience with the input of experts in all aspects of skiing and mountain sports and are accompanied by stunning full-page photography from some of the world's foremost ski photographers. Published in a year of great uncertainty for ski travel, this book allows you to escape onto the slopes in your own home. Perfect for indulging in some armchair skiing of slopes that only the most adventurous will tackle and for planning your next ski trip. And it's not just about skiing – the contents cover avalanche rescue techniques, snow science, road trips, the work of ski patrollers and resorts so remote and obscure that you may never have heard of them. The book is divided into sections on Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Scandinavia and the Rest of the World. Discover where you will ski next – in reality or in your imagination.