From: Chris Mauro
Yep, the champ nabbed his first Open win since 1996. This time taking a huge Huntington Beach win in front of thousands of fans, live tv cameras, a global web audience and a goodyear blimp.
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.