From: redbull
Over 1,000 spectators showed up to enjoy Red Bull's Blast from the Past in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. The native surfers enjoyed a unique competition that required contestants to use surfboards from the 1970's and 1980's.
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.