Andy Irons Tribute By:surfalotproductions

Available at surfalotproductions.com as a free download/plus much more.These are clips taken from my various movies containing Andy/2 of them available on the site are:Freedom Riders and Tahitian Dreams.I couldn't say enough about the guy,so I'll just leave it as this:"He will not be forgotten!"The spot's and dates are:Trestles 2000'/Sunset 2001'/Andy's first session at the location for the"Rip Curl search 2006'"approx. 2 days before he won the event/and Tahiti 2010',months before he won his final victory at Teahupo'o.I hope you enjoy the feature and it leaves you with good memories of one of the greatest surfer's ever.Remember his life by spreading aloha , loving the ocean and what it represented to him.Thanks for watching.

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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.