Ski the Modern way with Harald Harb

The inside arm and ski pole tip should be moving forward through the arc, this helps to hold the counter acting and stop rotation of the tor...

Here are two movements you need with your inside foot, ski and leg.  Small and simple movements with the correct body parts make efficie...

This photo just about tells you the whole story.  -Tip the lower ski toward it's little toe edge before putting the upper ski on ...

Counter Balanced Not Counter Balanced                                            Counter balanced, yet over or too extreme...

Leaning the upper body toward the gate. Not much technical progression or evolution from this skier, he's the same skier as in the bot...

Gaining momentum every year and more developed videos coming for next season.

Two more "Essentials" demonstrated clearly that no one else can accomplish in slalom except maybe his training partner Felix Neur...

In this post I'll point out the key "Essentials of Slalom Skiing". These are common amongst the top three or four racers. Th...

OK, Let's keep this really simple: look at every one of these photos and evaluate the outside knee relative to the inside knee. Thes...

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...