North Shore vs South Shore surfing comp

North Shore vs South Shore surfing comp - Red Bull Rivals

With the likes of Jamie O'Brien fronting the North Shore team, and young phenom Carissa Moore saddled up with the South Shore team, as well as ringers like Derek Ho and Kolea Fukumitsu adding a little extra power to the North and South, respectively, the talent level was amazing. Besides Carissa's amazing contribution, both Keanu Asing and Kekoa Cazimero blew doors all event long, and the definitely showed why they're a couple of the brightest up-and-comers from Town.http://redbullrivals.com

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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.