From: Chris Mauro
ASP CEO Brodie Carr discusses the changes to the 2010 World Tour, which will reduce the field to the Top 32 surfers at the midpoint of the season.
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.