ST MORITZ - INSTRUCTORS
Vittorio Caffi
Began skiing when he was 6 years old, since then he never gave up: as soon as he can, he is on the snow.

He worked a few years as a ski patroller in Italy, once he became ski teacher he taught in Italy, France and Switzerland. He spent six seasons teaching ski in St. Moritz, before joining the BASS network, starting BASS St. Moritz.

He is qualified as BASI ISTD, he holds the Swiss Ski Pro “patent” and he is fully certified as a ski teacher in Italy as well. He works for BASI representing the association in the ISIA.

Vittorio speaks English, French, and a few words of German.

He is as well an architect and a CAD teacher at university: when he is not on the curve he spends his time doing a little bit of research on the field of IT for building, and designing nice architectures. Vittorio enjoys as well cross country skiing, hiking on the mountains, cycling, inline skating, swimming.

Cristina Petris
Born in Argentina. Began skiing when she was 6 years old.

  • University Diploma of Sports.
  • Presently student at the School of Osteopathy.
  • Qualified in Sports Massaging.
  • Working in a Medical Center on back school programs.

Skied in the Alps, Switzerland, Argentina. Fully certified Swiss Snow Pro. Previous experience as a ski instructor in Verbier, then S.Moritz and Argentina.

Languages: Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Interests:
Alpine skiing and snowboarding ; swimming, Cycling (mountain bike& road) , running (especially in the mountains), trekking; manual therapy, posturology; reading; learning languages, drawing.

Andrea Boin

Began skiing when he was 6 years old, his passion started participating as a child in alpine ski races as member of a local Ski Club in the neighbourhood of Como’s lake (Italy).

Andrea is qualified as BASI ISIA,
his interest for the sport pushes him to continuously train himself to improve the technical level as well his teaching through practice and reading from different sources (CSCF-Canadian Ski Coaches Federation, PSIA-Professional Ski Instructors of America, AMSI).

Andrea’s teaching career started in Italy some years ago, working within Italian ski schools, and since last year in Switzerland in St. Moritz.

Andrea speaks English, Spanish, and a few words of French.

Out side of the world of skiing Andrea works in a multinational American company as a manufacturing consultant with an expertise for Plant productivity and other performances improvement.


Peter Alcorini

Anita Sgherri
BASI ISIA Ski Teacher

Dave Murrie

A skier for 20 years, Dave has skied across Europe, the United States, Canada, Chile and New Zealand. Dave is qualified as an ISIA ski teacher in both the British and Irish Snowsports Associations and will be presenting at the next Interski Conference for the Irish Snowsports Association.

He specialises in applying biomechanics, physiology and psychology to developing personal sports technique, fitness and performance.  Dave is an instructor tutor and is employed by BASI to run their ISIA Theory course and to input to the BASI Trainers Conference. He is also a successful coach in Athletics, Football and many other sports; (from American Football, through basketball to Ultra-marathon racing) coaching National, Commonwealth and World championship medallists.

Dave is English, speaks French, a little German and a few words of Welsh.

A former Physical Education teacher and trainer of PE teachers, Dave has been the Head of University Sport and Exercise Science Departments in the UK for the past 10 years. His academic fields are coaching sciences & teacher education and he recently returned from creating the first and only, post-Masters degree for professional sports coaches in the USA.

Dave was an athlete prior to taking up skiing and still loves to run on the track and in the mountains.

Tim Hall
Skiing for nearly 20 years Tim's teaching career started in New Zealand in 1993 'cutting his teeth' on the Cardrona and the Remarkables ski fields of the south Island. 
Since then he has taught skiing in France and Switzerland and  briefly Scotland, for around 15 years. Tim taught for BASS les gets for 4 of those years and has been associated with the BASS network for 12 years.
 
Special interests lie in removing learning barriers, psychological and physical.
 
He is qualified as a BASI National Ski Teacher ISIA and NZSIA.
 
Out side of the world of skiing Tim works as a Graphic Designer and Photographer, and Is a director of a Photo library - xsfoto.com - specializing in extreme sports images. 
 
Just to keep super-busy Tim is studying Physiotherapy, part time, at his home-town university in Sheffield.
For fun Tim returns to his first love and cycles on and off road as much as possible riding distance events in the UK and Europe

James Bell
Resort Assistant