St Moritz Team

Vittorio CaffiBegan 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 starting Ski Cool St. Moritz. He is qualified as a BASI ISTD, he holds the Swiss ski "patent" and he is fully certified as a ski teacher in Italy as well. He is qualified to teach using the UPS system. He has been representing BASI in the ISIA since 2004, he is now the Coordinator of the Technical Commission in the International Ski Instructor Association. Vittorio speaks English, French and a few words of German. He is as well an architect and a CAD teacher at university. Vittorio enjoys as well as cross country skiing, hiking on the mountains, cycling, inline skating, swimming.
Cristina was born in Argentina.  She began skiing when she was 6 years old. She has a University Diploma of Sports; Presently student at the School of Osteopathy; Qualified in Sports Massaging; Working in a Medical Center on back school programs, posturology, manual therapy. Cristina has skied in the Alps and Argentina. She is a fully certified Swiss Snow Pro and in Italy. She is UPS qualified. Previous experience as a ski instructor in Verbier, then S.Moritz and Argentina. She speaks Italian, French, Spanish, English and few words of German. She loves Alpine skiing and snowboarding ; swimming, cycling (mountain bike & road) , running (especially in the mountains); trekking; reading; learning languages. She loves to travel and get in touch with different cultures and ways of thinking.
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. Away from 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.
Simone began skiing when he was 3 years old, since then he felt a love for that despite the fact he was born in a nice seaside resort. After some years trying to conciliate university studies and races he became a ski instructor. He enjoys getting in touch with different people and different cultures so he gained some experiences teaching in Val D'Isere, St. Moritz, Courchevel and Limone Piemonte. He's qualified as an AMSI (Italian) ski instructor, he holds the specialization for teaching disabled skiers and he's a coach too. Simone speaks Italian, English and a few words of French. He's keen for athletics, singing and travelling. He's working to improve his telemark as well as his photographic skills and his cooking capabilities too!!! Simone wishes you a lot of fun with the Ski Cool Team!
Francesca is a Ski Instructor qualified with BASI and with SIAS (Slovenian Ski Instructor Association). She loves teaching, especially children and teen-agers. She loves sports and all round mountains: she does ski touring, alpinism and exploration. Francesca speaks Italian, English and a bit of French. Unfortunately Francesca is injured so it is not possible to ski with her at present.
Francesca is a qualified BASI ISIA Ski Teacher and maestro di sci. She is the freerider of SkiCool, she loves off piste and mountaneering. Francesca speaks Italian and English. Unfortunately Francesca is injured so it is not possible to ski with her at present.
Viktors is Russian, although he's resident of Latvia. He is certified with the NRLI(National Russian league of instructors). Viktors speaks Russian, German and a bit of English.
Tomass is a very nice Russian guy, although he's a resident of Latvia. He has been a professional sportsman all his life. First his passion was judo, after that he was a member of Latvian national team in beach volleyball. The last 6 years he's been professional extreme kayaker. Tomass began skiing when he was 5. Since that time he skied in such destinations like Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Slovakia. Tomass is certified ISIA Russia and NRLI(National Russian league of instructors). He studied psichology in university, which helps him to find a right contact with the people. Speaks russian, latvian and english. Learning italian. Tomass is very stable and strong in his mind and this is a big part of his success in extreme sports.
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.
A true lover of the mountains, Roberto started skiing when he was a child and after so many years is even more passionate about this discipline. This is why he decided to leave a brilliant career in the financial industry to become a full-time Ski Instructor and Development Coach, qualified with the British Association of Snowsport Instructors. He is qualified for the UPS teaching system. Roberto joined the SkiCool team last year and is also co-founder of TopPeaks, the school's arm in the field of Corporate Events on the snow. His passion for the mountains is completed by the practice of trekking, alpinism and free climbing. In the past, he was also a volleyball player and coach.
Victoria is the representative of Ski Cool in CIS and London. Her passion for snow was born in Japan, first with snowboarding and then skiing. She has a bachelor degree in Sport Sciences, certificate in physiotherapy and is BASI qualified. Victoria has skied in the Alps, USA and Japan. Her interests, beside snow sports, include travelling, trekking, wakeboarding, capoeira, reading and studying languages.  She speaks English, Russian and conversational Spanish and Japanese.
Andrea 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 Lake Como (Valsassina Ski Team, Barzio). His passion drove him some years ago to start his path in qualifying first as ISIA Ski Teacher and then become Full Qualified as International Ski Teacher (Maestro di Sci Italiano) by AMSI. He is officially registered on the “official ski teacher register” of Lombardia region (E2465). 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, UPS system). Andrea is also licensed a Canadian Ski Coach (CSCF) level 1 and UPS System qualified. Andrea's teaching career started in Italy some years ago and he has been with Ski Cool in Switzerland in St. Moritz since  2008. Andrea speaks English, Spanish, and a few words of French. Outside the world of skiing Andrea works in a multinational American company as a management consultant focused on cost reduction and supply chain performance improvement.
Isabel learnt to ski when she was 2 years old. She grew up in Les 2 Alpes, in France. Her great passion for skiing was born when, at the age of 6, she won her first race. She started racing with the local ski club when she was 9 years old, and she's still attending FIS races. She qualified as a ski teacher in 2010, with Snowsports Academy S. Marino, that is recognised all over the world. She attended Interski 2011 as Demo Team Member for S. Marino. She's always smiling, outgoing, and keen to get new challenges and experiences. When she teaches skiing, she tries to transmit to her pupils all her passion, and let them feel the emotions that only skiing can give: always with the proper technique, so to ski safe and in control, in order to experience new dimensions and feelings. Isabel is studying Economics, she speaks French, Italian, Spanish and a bit of English.
Peter is a BASI qualified Ski Instructor; he is also qualfied to teach using the UPS System. He approached skiing when he was a kid with his family, he loved this sport since the very beginning as he always loved the mountain environment. What he really likes about skiing and keeps feeding his addiction to this sport is the harmonic sense of freedom that just skiing can give... and that's what he tries to transmit to his pupils. Peter is a nordic walking instructor too and he loves and practices other mountain sports as hiking and climbing.  He loves photography and he has a degree in sociology.