Change of Pace ' " Four

No surf on the last day of Cheyne Magnusson' (TM)s trip to Niijima Island. Yugo Harada, our Japanese marketing guru, knew of a house on the island that had a half-pipe in the backyard. Cheyne definitely wanted to check it out and when he saw it, he didn' (TM)t know what to think. Then it was off to Japanese sand mountain surfing with Cheyne' (TM)s broken board. Everyone has a go, and everyone got sand in all sorts of places.

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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.