Professional skier Alex Hackel pretends to be a beginner and takes a lesson.
Professional skier Alex Hackel pretends to be a beginner and takes a lesson.

Professional skier Alex Hackel went incognito as a beginner and signed up for some ski lessons in Austria, all just to see how long he could go before the ski instructor realized he was very, very far from a beginner. To pull off the hilarious stunt, he claimed to be a sports journalist from Boston who was filming a YouTube series titled “First Turns”, covering the process of learning how to ski.

Hackel does a seriously impressive job at pretending to be a beginner skier, but the instructor seemed to have a feeling that he was being setup the entire time. Massive shoutout to Pascal, the ski instructor, for not only being such a great sport at the end, but also being such a great instructor throughout the entire video. He was remarkably patient with a guy who showed up looking like a total goof from the start.

Nolan Deck is a writer for Unofficial Networks, covering skiing and outdoor adventure. After growing up and skiing in Maine, he moved to the Denver area for college where he continues to live and work...