From: Chris Mauro
Have you been wondering who and what is comprising the avant-garde of high performance surfing? Well, Jordy Smith's performance in the Modern Collective just might be the very tip of the spear.
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.