A Ski Instructor on Why Body Language Is Now a Huge Part of Teaching
Ashlea Halpern
, a synchronized ski team. We caught up with Lanier to find out how the pandemic has changed his day-to-day job as an instructor—and how he sees COVID-19 impacting ski resorts in the future.
Our resort shut down in mid-March. I had a private lesson with a family scheduled for the following day, but we were unable to ski together. I packed up and left Telluride pretty quickly, returning to my parents’ home in Alabama. I was nervous we might not reopen this winter, but the ski school figured it out. Much of our industry is outdoors and half of us wear face coverings anyway—so there was a lot of hope.