From: Alpinestars
Nathaniel Curran sits down with Alpinestars and sheds some light on his QS event in Brazil, the upcoming 2010 season and his new toy from Bali. Nathaniel has also put in some man hours with the Alpinestars R&D team to help develop a new boardshort design, check out what he has to say about them in this catching up segment.
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.