A new edit from Vans about New York native Balaram Stack and his relationship with "Mother Pipeline" just dropped on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. The short film dives into a day in the life of ...

Some things are just meant to be. Years into filming for Balaram Stack's biopic, "Hail Mary" — a film dedicated to Stack's mother, Mary, and her influence on his life and career — Stack won the ...

Long Beach, N.Y., native Balaram Stack is the first New Yorker to have a chance to make the pro surfing tour in more than 30 years. Generally recognized as the best surfer ever to have come from Long ...

Just a mile east of the Queens County line and less than an hour down the L.I.E. from Manhattan is Long Beach: a surf community of sorts, albeit one overwhelmed by high-rises and the constant roar of ...

The mere existence of a flourishing surf scene in New York was newsworthy. As the leading performer in home surf, Stack has become a local hero. Balaram Stack’s success as a pro surfer has been an ...

Dec. 20—American Balaram Stack and Australian Molly Picklum were crowned the champions of the Vans Pipe Masters after a dramatic finish on Sunday at Pipeline. American Balaram Stack and Australian ...

The Surf Prince of Long Beach, as he’s been called, eats lunch quietly, an hour before the biggest competitive moment of his life – a first-round heat that includes Kelly Slater, the world’s best ...

Carrying his surfboard over the snow-covered sand never bothered him. Nor did the icy water off of Long Beach, even when it was so cold that it gave him intense headaches, like the kind you get from ...

Balaram Stack is having one hell of a year in what is proving to be one hell of a career. This winter, he turned two specialty invites into 4th-place finishes, at the DaHui Backdoor Shootout and the ...

Balaram Stack is having one hell of a year in what is proving to be one hell of a career. This winter, he turned two specialty invites into 4th-place finishes, at the DaHui Backdoor Shootout and the ...