Balaram Stack is a professional surfer. Stack’s considered one of the world’s top free surfers of his generation. Splitting his time between his home in New York and winters on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. When in Hawaii, Balaram is often found at the famed Banzai Pipeline break. At the age of 31, Stack is the first New Yorker to ever win a Pipe Masters contest (Vans Pipe Masters 2022).