Introducing the Balla Zauchensee Ski School:
A friendship spanning more than 40 years connects the ski-enthusiastic Pflug-Seiser and Balla families – a bond that began through children’s ski racing in Mönichkirchen am Wechsel (Lower Austria).
Since 1950 in Lower Austria
We are a long-standing family-run business with decades of experience in ski instruction – now in its fourth generation. Our story began in 1950 in Lower Austria with Karoline and Julius Seiser, founders of the ski school at the Wechsel. Since then, the family business has been successfully continued: first by Felizitas and André Seiser in Mönichkirchen (from 1975), then by Barbara and Dieter Pflug in St. Corona (from 1990), and most recently by Fabian and Florian Pflug in Mönichkirchen and St. Corona (from 2023).
Since 1990 in Salzburg
After gaining his first experience as a ski instructor in his youth at the Seiser Ski School in Mönichkirchen am Wechsel (Lower Austria), Gerd Balla founded the first children's ski school in Zauchensee in the early 1990s together with his wife Margarethe.
Starting 2025 – Together
Beginning in the winter season 2025, two long-standing families with a shared ski history will also join forces professionally: the Pflug-Seiser and Balla families will run their ski schools together.
We apply our extensive expertise – gained through decades of teaching, participation in national and international ski congresses, and training activities for Austrian ski instructor associations – directly in our ski and snowboard lessons.
From the 2025/26 winter season onward, our ski schools will be united as one large family business across three locations: Mönichkirchen am Wechsel, St. Corona am Wechsel, and Zauchensee.
Unique success concept: "Ski Light – from sliding to skiing"
Our team takes part in regular internal training to ensure that this innovative method – based on playful learning – is integrated into every lesson. We guarantee high training intensity, personal attention, and the best possible learning progress.
With our approach "playful learning for real progress" and "from movement experience to movement result", we teach skiing and snowboarding in a unique way – focusing less on correction and more on engaging movement tasks.
