From: GRINDTV
The 2011 Billabong Pipe Masters will go down in history as one of the best, with Kelly Slater and John John Florence dueling in a battle for the ages.
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.