From: Chris Mauro
Some very rough cuts from day two of competition at the 2009 Billabong Pro in Jeffreys Bay, which will go down as one of the best days of surfing competition ever. Slater, Parko, Fanning, Reynolds, Bobby, and local boy Sean Holmes take the legendary wave apart and have a heyday getting pitted out of their minds.
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.