Australia’s brightest surfing star Molly Picklum returns home as world No.1 and in more demand than ever.
Molly Picklum takes one last breath and stares down a two-metre Hawaiian monster, knowing it could finish with a 10-point ride or being scraped across a ragged, volcanic reef.
So she takes a deep breath. Because along with fellow World Championship Tour pros Lakey Petersen, Rio Waida, Picklum has trained with Team Challenge Australia – run by brothers Shaun Sullivan and Luke Sullivan, and his wife Emily – for four years now. “You’ll cop a combination of things going on for 10 or 20 seconds – whatever is safe, but pushing you to your limit. Then you come up, take one breath and go straight back under to do it again.
“I think it might actually help me more in day-to-day life than as an athlete. Just taking five breaths and just taking a moment to centre yourself and approach any situation in life, it’s a very handy lesson.”. Both surfers were left in fits of giggles after a 2023 final filled with sledging and “smack talk”.“Tyler lets me jump under her wing and takes care of me, so she’s my mum on tour,” Picklum says.
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