From: Chris Mauro
Remember sleeping in your trunks? Pulling scabs off your nose? Staying in the water all day? We're all groms on the inside, and there's no better way to stay stoked than watch the Nation's hottest groms preparing for another round of the Rip Curl Grom Search.
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.