From: Chris Mauro
Day Seven of the Rip Curl Pro went down in perfect surf at Supertubos, the hollow lefthander in Portugal. Wild Card Owen Wright has been doing most of the damage, knocking out Kelly Slater and Dane Reynolds on his way to the semifinals.
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.