Is this any good (Warren Smith)?

A snowHead

I seen this when I was in town today and was thinking of buying it to see if I can get any tips:

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Go+Ski+-9781405316170.html

Here it is again on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Ski-Warren-Smith/dp/1405316179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235337867&sr=1-1&tag=amz07b-21

A snowHead

Dont know, but The All Mountain Skier by Mark Elling is very good. Its a book not a DVD also available on Amazon.

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Not sure... it isn't the ones I have seen so don't know if this is newer stuff or older..

I think his DVD series has some good things in them but it would be up to you to be able to enact them and it depends how you learn...

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jb1970, The Warren Smith DVDs ( without book) are good for reinforcing simple messages and basics. Perhaps get them instead of a dvd/book deal?

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

I'd agree with stoatsbrother. I've got some of the Smith DVDs, which are very useful. I also have the snowboarding version of that Dorling Kindersley ski book and although the DVD is good (very good, actually) I never look at the book.

Rick Schnellmann's series is also excellent - much more "step by step". You need to work at it, and it's not flashy, but it's effective if you stick at it. The Phil smith DVDs are enjoyable but there's not much help in how to get from where I am to where Phil smith is - or even to progress in the right direction.

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I have 'Go Ski' by Warren Smith and it's not the best IMHO. I got it when I was only just moving from snowplough turns to paralell and think it tries to cover far too much ground in one go. He goes from learning to snowplough to skiing switch in less than an hour and nothing is done in enough depth to really learn much! Some of it is very technical (and I'm not techie averse) and I found that I only really understand a lot of what he's talking about after I've actually learned how to do with a proper lesson. He is very fond of cambers and centrafugal stuff and misses out on the 'don't sit back' basics. The books looks well but is pretty much a copy of the DVD - one or the other would be enough. I do watch the DVD before going on hols though because it gets me in the mood!

I've also got 'The All Mountain Skier' and this has all the detail that Warren Smith is missing. There are numerous drills on each skill to practise and there's plenty about kit which I found very helpful as I still seem to know very little about skis themselves. The black-and-whiteness of it makes it a bit dull by comparison to the vibrancy of Smith's presentation.

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Is this any good (Warren Smith)?

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