Ski the Modern way with Harald Harb

Hirscher's chest is facing his outside ski, some people call that facing downhill. (below) His skis are released and flat, his p...

Many coaches during the nineties and 2000s were hot on getting their racers to widen their (get a wider stance) stance. There are many sti...

Does Mikaela have what it takes to become a dominant slalom skier, like Maries Schild? Here we see a strong finish to a fall-away tu...

If your inside hand isn't moving forward in the arc, you are rotating.  The amount of short, quick direction change around th...

 (click on title above for the whole story) Very simple comparison of what works and what does not.                                ...

This is going to result in an error, there is a hump there and he will become airborne, which means his skis will lose contact and he...

Felix Neureuther (GER) scored his second win of the season, after winning the City Event, by .23 seconds; he ranks second in Slalom. Feli...

       In my three books on ski technique the inside foot is always a major focus.  My first book we self published n 1997. No one had...

In this article and the one before it, on Hirscher's technique, I explain how my, "Essentials of Skiing", are easy to identi...

Marcel Hirscher uses all the Essentials of skiing, and he does them better than everyone else on the World Cup. The Essentials are, Tippin...

Zack, was 7 at last summer's P.I.G. and Harb Ski Camp. He had a stem wedge in every turn,  no counter balance and no inside ski tippi...

There are so many things about Hirscher's technique that makes him great, hard to explain in one article. I'll produce and expalin...

Mario Matt can still bring it. At Adelboden,  Hirscher's  fantastic second run puts him in 1st, Mario Matt 2nd. Matt modernized his sk...

Read this to get a good start This is a good start, I wrote this a few years ago and there are a few observations and insights that ca...

A clean skiing model Click on the text title above: The only thing I would encourage is a stronger inside half with the inside hand and ...

Julia Mancuso is an enigma!  At times she skis perfectly, and beautifully. This turn is an example. Perfectly balanced on the outside s...

I was asked to remove the comparison photos by the photographer Mitch Gunn, so I did. Sorry!  One  of these women World Cup GS skiers ...

                                                      Harald quoted in Ski Racing Magazine.