Product Details

• Actors: Harald Harb
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2001
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JCAB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,340 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Lito Tejada-Flores, Author of

His insights into the multiple makeup of expert skiing are vital, accurate, and above all immediately useful.

Product Description

Don't get stuck in the intermediate rut! Get the edge with this exciting video from Harald Harb. With Harb’s revolutionary PMTS Direct Parallel Method, 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 stuck at the intermediate level.

You’ll learn drills you can practice on the ski slopes that will enhance the impact of your carving turns. You’ll study the style and movements of the world’s leading professional ski racers and develop powerful all-mountain techniques that will guarantee a great day of skiing no matter what the conditions.

Skiing technology has changed. The new skis have expanded your skiing horizons like never before. Now learn to use this technology to your advantage from the master of ski instruction, Harald Harb!

Suitable for beginner and intermediate skiers.

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Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great technique, but could be simpler., January 30, 2004

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TheTonester (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1: The New Way to Ski (DVD)

Harold Harb is a pioneer in ski instruction and his PMTS system will have you skiing like you never have before. His form is very inspiring, and you won't be able to wait to get on the slopes to try out his lessons. However, his video suffers much the same problem as his book(s)-- his technique is ingeniusly simple, but his explanations are highly technical, not organized to its best, and confusing. The names given to each movement tend to be somewhat academic, and any claim that these lessons will work for the first time skier may be a stretch. I'd say this is a a great video for the intermediate at best-- I got this video to make better sense of his book of the same name. I've learned his technique from an instructor, though, and this video makes a great refresher to what I learned that day.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Ski Lesson Video I've Seen, December 2, 2002

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Andrew Lawrence (NY, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1 - The New Way to Ski [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I discovered Harald Harb's ski instruction method a couple of year's ago and have seen definite improvement in my skiing.

The video covers everything you need to get the most from your shaped skis. His program is clear, step-by-step, and his technique for great turns is easy to learn.

I recommend this video for all levels who wish to gain new insight into the realm of expert skiing...

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fully modern, up to date method for modern equipment, November 28, 2005

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Dan (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1: The New Way to Ski (DVD)

Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1 is everything that it says it is, a fully modern instruction method and approach to skiing that, unlike traditional ski area teaching, takes full advantage of the most modern equipment. After many seasons working with traditional or mainstream PSIA instructors, some of them friends, with little results other than frustration at their obvious lack of understanding of their own sport, I began looking at other teaching systems, starting with the very good Breakthrough on Skis by Lito Tejada-Flores. But when I found Harald Harb's books and videos, that's when my skiing realy began to take off. Why? Because Harb's approach is based upon a scientific understanding of the actual (bio)mechanics of skiing. After working with the Harb material for two seasons now it is clear to me that his is probably the best approach, more depth than Tejada-Flores and FAR superior to the muddle of tradition and misunderstanding that is mainstream PSIA teaching. My skiing has gone from stuck (frustrated, pissed off) stemming my turns and being uncomfortable with any terrain that wasn't blue groomed to being totaly cool with bowls, bumps, steeper runs where you ski around rocks, and, of course, powder. Specific movments of specific body parts are explained clearly as to their function and execution. Big improvment in my skiing happened right away and continues. This book is for anyone of reasonable athletic ability who desires to learn the movements and develop the balance necessary for true expert skiing. I highly recommend it.