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Florida's Evan Geiselman has a lanky frame that looks a lot like Rob Machado's, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that he was dismantling Cardiff's Seaside reef, the same break where Machado cut his teeth and earned victories that helped propel him onto the global stage.
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.