Alpinestars at the 2011 Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge

Alpinestars was in full effect at the 2011 Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge. We went down to Huntington Beach to support Astars' surf team rider Nathaniel Curran, Astars' drift driver Matt Powers and friends of Alpinestars Frank "The Nuclear Tank" Tesoro and Tommy Vos. We also had a pair of the all new HD Boardshorts on hand to showcase our innovative new design. Check out how it all went down in our sweet recap!

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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.