Ian Walsh's Menehune Mayhem

Ian Walsh's Menehune Mayhem scored contestable 4-to 8-foot wave face heights at Hookipa Beach Park. This was the seventh anniversary for this surf contest where kids compete for free. Ian Walsh, 26, learned to ride waves at Hookipa Beach Park and this event is a way to repay the Maui surf community. "I'm just happy to give back to the place that's given me everything I have," says WalshWalsh was impressed by the performance of Imaikalani Devault, 12, who won the highly competitive Boys 12-13 divison."A lot of people don't' give back and to see guys like Ian and the Irons brothers make it, be successful and then give back to the kids inspires the kids to achieve like they did" says Kai "Borg" Garcia.

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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.