Harb Carvers:
Now that we have had two summer seasons to see the results of training with the Harb Carvers, it is just a matter of time before serious skiers everywhere choose to use them for skiing improvement. Harb Carvers are legitimately the only true skiing substitute that develops your skiing skills without skiing. You improve because the Harb Carvers impose restrictions on the specific inefficient snow skiing movements, which hold back your skiing progress. Carvers actually reverse detrimental skiing movements engrained from traditional instruction, you can’t skid, you can’t use leg rotary movements to steer your Harb Carvers to an edge or a turn, so you have to commit with tipping and releasing. You now have the opportunity to redefine your skiing, adding new confidence, edge control and movement efficiency without travel, snow, or days off.
The dynamics and physics of Harb Carvers are special, as the configuration of the wheels and the way they interact with the surface, guide the skier to the correct movements. In short, the Harb Carver environment produces accurate skiing movements. Harb Carvers on pavement obviously can’t duplicate every skiing environment, but they produce a training environment that leads the skier to better skiing. Tennis players hit the same shot thousands of times. Gymnasts do the same move over and over in a safe controlled situation. Golfers hit thousands of practice balls on the range. Skiers don’t have this environment on snow. Harb Carvers are the first skiing simulator to allow you to practice the same movement, correct movements time and time again, allowing you to gain confidence in your ability. Not even the ski deck produces results we have seen from the Harb Carvers.
Harb Carvers have also captured the attention of Sports Scientists world wide, including Austrian, Italian and American researchers. Harb Carvers are being studied at the University of Innsbruck, with the athletes from the most successful ski-racing academy in the world, at Stams. They are being studied and analyzed by biomechanists in both Austria and the USA. Coaches from every USSA division including US Ski Team development are using Harb Carvers and encouraging their racers to substitute their dryland preparation with Harb Carver use.
This summer I had opportunity to work with the Harb Carvers at two Sugar Bowl summer camps and US Development Camps. Joining forces with Herman Gollner and Finn Christian Yagge (he won the gold in slalom at the Albertville, Olympics) for two camps. We trained with Harb Carvers after on snow sessions at Mt Hood. This training demonstrated that a number of technical improvements can be achieved for racers during the Harb Carver sessions that were not easily corrected on snow. When working with US Development coach Crawford Pierce, he commented frequently that the mistakes athletes demonstrated in their on snow technique were obvious on the Harb Carvers and that they could be addressed and changed during Harb Carver sessions.
Many of you have asked about Harb Carver lessons and instruction. We are offering a camp this fall, details are on the following web page. We are expecting a strong turn out, we already have sign-ups from two PSIA instructors and a number of PMTS accredited instructors. Should prove to produce some lively exchanges, as you can only use PMTS Direct Parallel to learn skiing on Harb Carvers. http://www.harbskisystems.com/detcarver.htm