Weekly Grind 09-14-2011

Owen Wright defeated Kelly Slater in the final to win the Quiksilver Pro New York and the coveted $300,000 prize. Meanwhile Villopoto became the 12th rider in AMA history to win both the Supercross and Outdoor disciplines in the same year, And finally unlike his performance at Summer X Games, White was not able to overtake Piierre-Luc Gagnon in the vert ramp, a PLG took the ratings lead heading into the Dew Tour Championships in Las Vegas.

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"Record" for Largest Wave Ever Ridden Trivializes Big-Wave Surfing

A return to old-school measuring techniques is in order

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.