From: GRINDTV
Highlights from the 2007 US Open of Surfing Womens Contest. Featured riders include Sally Fitzgibbons, Sofia Mulanovich, Courtney Conologue, Karina Petroni and the 2007 US Open Women's champion Stephanie Gilmore.
Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.