"Ski instructors hate this," said Mathers. "In that short amount of time, a person can learn movements that are not very good, movements that will inhibit their learning. We would rather get a student and teach him or her from scratch."

The Deseret News/KSL school is designed for students who have never skied.

During the first class, students will learn the basic stance in skiing, which is feet shoulder-width apart, knees bent, hands up, eyes forward.

Many of the first steps in skiing involve limited movement on a flat or slight incline. Students are shown how to walk, climb up a hill and to fall and get up again.

Students will progress through this class, eventually getting to the point where they will know how to get on and off a ski lift and how to make linked turns down a gentle slope.

Sixty-one years of working and refining the program has turned this school into one of the best and least expensive learning tools available to new skiers.

And with the three-lesson package, the end result is students are able to get on the mountain much more quickly and enjoy skiing more.