Performance Coach
M.Phil,  BSc. ( Hons), Grad Cert. Ed.
BASI International Ski Teacher Diploma

Director
The Bass Network
The network of elite snowsports schools across the Alps
Chamonix - Chatel - Courchevel - Les Gets - Les Contamines
Megeve - Meribel - Morzine - St Gervais - Tignes - Val d'Isere

Author of Ski Performance Breakthrough - the book, e-book and video series.

Hugh is the Director and founder of the BASS Network of elite snowsports schools. He runs advanced skiing clinics and off pistes courses in the Alps, as well as off piste adventures across the globe.

Formerly a research chemist, for the Cancer Research Campaign, Hugh has a Master’s research degree and is a qualified science teacher. He spent 10 years in the science departments of British universities before switching to a career in skiing.

He began skiing in 1975 and became a full time ski teacher in 1984, to get out of the lab and into the mountains.
He has skied extensively throughout Europe and also in Argentina, Canada, Chile and Greenland.

He was a Trainer and examiner of instructors for the British Association of Snowsports Instructors, for 22 years, from 1989 to 2011. He represented Britain as a member of the GB Demonstration Team, at the 1991 Interski Congress, in St Anton.

Hugh wrote and presented the 1991 Channel 4 TV and video series "The Complete Skier" and in the same year he founded BASS, The British Alpine Ski and Snowboard School.  The BASS Network of elite snowsports schools now extends to 11 resorts across the Alps.

His main interests, in addition to his family, are: Alpine & Telemark skiing, working to develop the Ski Teaching profession, developing the quality of service to clients of the BASS Network, Photography, Science, Tai Chi Chuan, Motorcycling, Archery,  Cycling, Walking a slack line and Music, including playing guitar.

Hugh's skiing qualifications include:

BASI ISTD International Ski Teacher Diploma, with full certification in France.
BASI Trainer (Alpine Skiing)
BASI Telemark Teacher