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Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier II: Powder, Bumps, and Carving
Unleash the Expert Skier Within You!
Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2–Powder, Bumps, and Carving is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Harald Harb’s hugely successful first book, Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1–The New Way to Ski .
Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2 shows you how to use the sure-fire technique of the Primary Movements Teaching System to ski expert terrain with more ease and less effort than you thought possible.
Suitable for the intermediate or advanced skier, this book builds a solid base of technique and then applies it to moguls, powder and crud, carving, and steeps.
With over 200 photos, tear-out “Pocket Instructor” cards you can take on the mountain, and a bonus DVD, Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2 provides up-to-date information on the equipment, alignment, and techniques that will make you an expert skier.
Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2–Powder, Bumps, and Carving is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Harald Harb’s hugely successful first book, Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1–The New Way to Ski .
Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2 shows you how to use the sure-fire technique of the Primary Movements Teaching System to ski expert terrain with more ease and less effort than you thought possible.
Suitable for the intermediate or advanced skier, this book builds a solid base of technique and then applies it to moguls, powder and crud, carving, and steeps.
With over 200 photos, tear-out “Pocket Instructor” cards you can take on the mountain, and a bonus DVD, Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2 provides up-to-date information on the equipment, alignment, and techniques that will make you an expert skier.
200 pages, Paperback
First published January 30, 2001
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January 12, 2019
This book helped me master intermediate terrain and jump into Black Diamond territory. It’s quite tedious to parse through at times: the approach being highly mechanical and depending on frame-by-frame analysis of correct body positioning. This can be tiring to sort through, but perhaps an engineer-minded person might not feel so.
Perhaps the first elementary leap I made with this book was transitioning from ugly rotary sliding to instead arcing by design of the ski sidecut:
“Skiing with your skis and feet apart is ugly and inefficient, requiring large, tiring movements.”
“A wide stance doesn’t do anything for your skiing image or the new outfit.”
I learned to lighten my inside foot, even lifting it off the snow, which went a long way in improving my muscle endurance and of course style. Next I learned to differentiate between my upper and lower body: maintaining my torso in steady alignment toward the fall line while my lower body (legs) do all the work. “If the pelvis is held stable, both femurs can rotate under it without having the upper body follow.”
When I got that covered I progressed into learning “the float”. This can be implemented in between turn arches to momentarily fall straight down the line on flat skis. It felt exhilarating to do this on groomed terrain at first, before it became essential for me to accomplish down through powder, where the bases are everything. “Skis in powder are like rudders; they take off in different directions as soon as their angles to the snow differ.”
Reading and rereading the powder section took me from often getting stuck to realizing if I might start to get stuck, and making the appropriate adjustments:
“There are situations in powder, as shown in this montage, in which the stance or downhill ski gets caught in the snow and does not release as desired. Take the time to organize the releasing ski, lining it up with the new outside ski, before the skis engage.”
“If your skis should separate to shoulder width or more in the transition, you quickly will need to pull the free foot back in line”
“Turning the skis in powder should be effortless.”
Once I got the hang of being efficient on groomed runs, navigating through powder, I focused my attention on skiing the bumps. The instruction again felt tedious to understand, but I am still going back and rereading it because I think it offers valuable insight. However, I think this task was best handled in another book: “Everything The Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing” by Dan DiPiro. The title is appropriate, considering the approach to bumps is quite distinct.
With thanks to Harald Harb I am a much better skier!
Perhaps the first elementary leap I made with this book was transitioning from ugly rotary sliding to instead arcing by design of the ski sidecut:
“Skiing with your skis and feet apart is ugly and inefficient, requiring large, tiring movements.”
“A wide stance doesn’t do anything for your skiing image or the new outfit.”
I learned to lighten my inside foot, even lifting it off the snow, which went a long way in improving my muscle endurance and of course style. Next I learned to differentiate between my upper and lower body: maintaining my torso in steady alignment toward the fall line while my lower body (legs) do all the work. “If the pelvis is held stable, both femurs can rotate under it without having the upper body follow.”
When I got that covered I progressed into learning “the float”. This can be implemented in between turn arches to momentarily fall straight down the line on flat skis. It felt exhilarating to do this on groomed terrain at first, before it became essential for me to accomplish down through powder, where the bases are everything. “Skis in powder are like rudders; they take off in different directions as soon as their angles to the snow differ.”
Reading and rereading the powder section took me from often getting stuck to realizing if I might start to get stuck, and making the appropriate adjustments:
“There are situations in powder, as shown in this montage, in which the stance or downhill ski gets caught in the snow and does not release as desired. Take the time to organize the releasing ski, lining it up with the new outside ski, before the skis engage.”
“If your skis should separate to shoulder width or more in the transition, you quickly will need to pull the free foot back in line”
“Turning the skis in powder should be effortless.”
Once I got the hang of being efficient on groomed runs, navigating through powder, I focused my attention on skiing the bumps. The instruction again felt tedious to understand, but I am still going back and rereading it because I think it offers valuable insight. However, I think this task was best handled in another book: “Everything The Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing” by Dan DiPiro. The title is appropriate, considering the approach to bumps is quite distinct.
With thanks to Harald Harb I am a much better skier!
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