Mark Healey Waimea Updates for The Eddie

Mark Healey Waimea Updates for The Eddie - Kelly Slater Interview

This year, Mark Healey is bringing us weekly updates from Waimea as we wait for The Eddie. In this weeks update, Update 6, Mark Healey catches up with Kelly Slater to talk about how winning The Eddie compares to his other wins.Check out Quiksilver.com/eddie for more videos. And don't forget to sign up for text alerts at Quiksilver.com/eddie so you get the update when the contest goes.

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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.