From: Billabong 1
The big guns of the Women's World Surfing tour are on location in Rio, Brazil for the Billabong Girls Pro. After one day of competition, the event has gone on hold due to poor surf, giving the likes of Rebecca Woods, Nicola Atherton, Silvana Lima, Layne Beachley and Stephanie Gilmore the time to check out everything the city has to offer. The Billabong Girls Pro is LIVE on Billabongpro.com
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.