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Aloha surfers and beachgoers,
The Vans Pipe Masters finished on Dec. 18 and crowned two new win- ners.
BY GARY KEWLEY
A Pair Of New Vans Pipe Masters Are Crowned
The unique, yet classic contest suffered from lack of waves most of the holding period of Dec. 8-20. Surfers waited eight days as Pipeline hardly broke the entire time, which is really rare for De- cember.
The amazing competi- tors braved the elements and there were no serious injuries, but lots of broken boards.
The women’s $100,000 winner was Australian Molly Picklum. She is 20 years old and already has two back- to-back Australian champi- onships, won the Australian Pro Junior in 2019 and was also named Female Rising StarattheAustralianSurf-
Picklum loves cracking jokes and “cracking the top off” waves through rigorous training. It is her dream to get to the top of the World Championship Tour. Pick- lum is the first woman Pipe- line Master in history and if that doesn’t build confi- dence and bode well for her pro surfing career, nothing could.
However, in the nick of time, there was an ex- tra-large north-northwest swell on Dec. 16, which created challenging, yet
Winning $100,000 was a talented “goofy footer” from Long Island, New York, named Balaram Stack. He’s 31 and was born in Florida like Kelly Slater.
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mind-blowing moments. The episode reached High Surf Warning levels break- ing on the outer reefs with many sets washing through Pipeline.
spends his winters on the North Shore. The big back- side barrels he surfed in the contest were off the charts, so the hardcore observers were not surprised by his win. Stack is the first New Yorker to make a Pipe Mas- ters final and win the Pipe Masters contest.
ing Awards in 2020. She is being touted as the next “big thing,” due to her natural tal- ent and results.
Stack charges hard and surfs Pipeline a lot. He
The 2022 Vans Pipe Masters winners are New York’s Balaram Stack (left) and gary@surfnewsnetwork.com Australia’sMollyPicklum.PHOTOCOURTESYMOLLYPICKLUM
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