From: montage
The top seeds lit up Lower Trestles on day three. Dane Reynolds, Andy Irons, Jordy Smith, CJ Hobgood, Owen Wright and Jadson Andre light it up the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro, as a fresh swell filled in.
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.