North Shore vs South Shore Surf Competition

North Shore vs South Shore Surf Competition - Red Bull Rivals

http://youtube.com/redbullRed Bull Rivals is a one day surf event pitting Oahu’s legendary shores, North Shore and South Shore, against each other. Top surfers from each shore battled it out in a head-to-head surf competition for ultimate island bragging rights. To keep things fair, the event was again held on the Eastside of Oahu at Sandy Beach, which is neutral territory and will be the last year at this location. Before the Red Bull Rivals 2009 competition, no surf event had been held at this popular surf location since the Gotcha Pro back in the early '80s. Instead of a traditional purse prize, the teams competed for each others’ surfboards used in the competition (similar to racing for pink slips) and, of course, the winning team will earned the ultimate surfing bragging rights.Paddle out to http://redbullusa.comSubscribe:

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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.