From: Chris Mauro
Mick Fanning jumped to number two in the world after striking hard at this year's Hurley Pro at Trestles, the 6th stop on the ASP World Tour.
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.