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After being sidelined for months by injury Joel Parkinson wasted no time returning to winning form at the Reef Hawaiian Pro. The two-time Triple Crown champion is now poised to three-peat as he heads to Sunset, where he's the most dominant force on 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.