A conversation with Balaram "BAL" Stack

Our guest this week when not traveling and scoring waves, splits his timebetween his home in New York and Winters on the Northshore. He is one of themost creative aerialists out there as well as a hard charging barrel ridingextraordinaire. His talents were discovered at a young age by Quiksilver during asummer surf camp and having early success on winning numerous amateurcontests and air shows. It was to no surprise that Quik would invest and send himto Australia to train with legendary surf trainer “Mick Cain”. Results from traininghard and pure talent… he won the wildcard to compete at home in the 2011Quiksilver Pro New York. With years of traveling and paying his dues in heavyhollow waves in places like Mainland Mexico, Tahiti, Fiji, and winters in Hawaii,he eventually made a name for himself in lineup at The Banzai Pipeline. You’veseen him on Youtube, or one of his films “Stacked" or "Hail Mary”, or maybe on StabHighway California and definitely on the podium winning the 2022 Van’s PipeMaster, we welcome Balaram “BAL“ Stack.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.