Julian Wilson Cypher Boarshorts Series

Coolum's Julian Wilson is undoubtedly one of the world's most exciting and talented surf stars. Along with prodigious international talents like the USA's Dane Reynolds and South African Jordy Smith, Julian is spearheading the new gen of high performance surfing. Three awesome achievements stand out for Julian, amid a stellar junior career peppered with wins in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Europe. In 2006, he was the toast of Team Australia when he claimed gold by winning his first world title at the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Championships held at Maresias, Brazil. In 2007 he attempted - and landed - the world's first "Sushi Roll"; a twisting, rotating aerial manouver he created and named during a trip to Japan. And later that same year he stood before the greats of the entire surf industry at the 35th annual Surfer Poll awards night in Aneheim, California and accepted the award for "Best Performance of the Year" for his incredible section in Quiksilver's award winning film "Young Guns III". In the process, he became the youngest ever recipient of the award.

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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.