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Day 1 of the 2010 Billabong Pro in J-Bay will go down as another historically perfect one. Enjoy five minutes of pure ASP pro surfing bliss.
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.