Ski the Modern way with Harald Harb

Harald Harb, President of Harb Ski Systems, posts his thoughts on skiing, ski racing, technique and more.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Sochi Olympics creates not only Gold and Silver, but Demons and Dragons!

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 Ante Kostelic is the Satan and Demon of the Olympics. No one man has been more hated in Sochi since Stalin murdered half the Russian po...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Harb Ski Systems trains coaches and coaches young athletes at Welch Village in Minnesota.

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Harb Ski Systems Develops a totally new video for grass roots coaching and racer skill development and acquisition with Welch Village. T...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Hirscher consistently fast, but makes some costly errors.

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Here is classic Hirscher  (Below photo) This is not a normal upper body relationship of his skiing. A straight line on the outside of t...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Check point 11, Inside Ski Management

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Inside ski and foot management needs to be trained and taught. It is rarely developed completely without guidance and coaching on it's ...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

When you see racers missing this movement, they are losing huge amounts of time.

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A short while ago I received an e-mail from a racer. He was asking about transfer to the LTE. He said a coach told him that it isn't so...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

For Schiffrin what a difference 3 weeks can make. A win at Flachau.

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Shiffrin wins slalom at Flachau, 1st run by 9/10 of a second.  This is a big change from 3 weeks ago for her release and transition. Not...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Comparison, Richie Berger.

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Harald Harb                                                                    Richie Berger                                    ...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Comparison between Shiffrin and Schild in the same turn.

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Schild is already arcing, hips and body lined up with edge.                                     Shiffrin's weight is on her inside ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

How does Maries Schild do it? The best slalom skier to have ever lived.

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It's easy to say, as they do on Universal Sports telecasts, "she brings it", she has the "energy", she  makes ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Ted Ligety and Marcel Hirscher

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Introduction Since the beginning of it's development, in 1997, my teaching system PMTS, based on world cup racing, and described in ...
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Direct comparison, Hirscher to Ligety

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Because Ligety and Hirscher have different body types, there will be slight differences in the way they need to release, engage and transit...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Hirscher uses techniques usually seen by Ligety, He out Ligetyed Mr GS.

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A few differences that look minor to many, but added up over a whole race it's 4 tenths of a second. First thing, in this course, Hirs...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Hirscher above the rest at Alta Badia, Why?

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After I posted comments on Facebook about the World Cup Giant Slalom at Alta Badia,  it becomes really obvious after reading the responses...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Bode Miller using classic PMTS style counter balance.

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Bode no longer so wild, more Classic!!! Bode is on fire, with his upper body and inside arm up, forward and high, this is classic PMT...
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Friday, December 6, 2013

Mikaela Shiffrin has picked up her game from last season. Impressive for someone going from 18 to 19 years old.

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The two big factors that Hirscher and Shiff have over the field is inside foot management. Most racers at any level, don't pay attent...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Does anyone still want to argue for skiing square to the skis????

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Marcel Hirscher in GS, like all the top racers he uses Counter Acting with his hips and torso, to stabilize the upper body and keep from cr...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Alexi Pintauralt, Best Skiers Inside foot Check Point

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Everything I've written about ski technique, beginning with the, "Anyone can be an Expert Skier 1" book, is in this photo of ...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

In the last throes of fall training. On the "Deflator-Mouse"!

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This is the move to the dihedral exit to the chains. It's still the bat route; therefore the name, based on the Austrian word for bat...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Intensive training right up to first day on snow.

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Riding intervals!
Saturday, October 5, 2013

One month ago, September 2nd, knee rehab training.

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