From: actionarchives
This history-making Super Heat between the two friends takes place at Pipeline in December of 1995. Machado loses the World Title in this heat. The event is the Pipeline Masters. The Tour is the 1995 Coca-Cola ASP WCT.
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.