PacSun USA Surf Team in New Zealand

PacSun USA Surf Team in New Zealand - Chapter One

January 22, 2010 - The PacSun USA Surf Team is in New Zealand competing in the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships at Piha. Twelve USA athletes are representing Surfing America and the United States in three age divisions (Boys Under 18, Boys Under 16, and Girls Under 18).This is the first webisode in a series that will document the USA Team's quest for Gold!

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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.