From: ASP World Tour
Ian Cairns and Chris Mauro deconstruct the O'Neill World Cup at Sunset, the massive swell heading toward Hawaii, the new breed of Americans on tour, and the ASP world title race.
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.