From: Chris Mauro
Round Three was on fire as a new swell arrived in Bali just in time for a diverse international field to do battle for the world's biggest junior prize.
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.