From: Chris Mauro
After completing the Drifter, Rob Machado and Taylor Steele embarked on an ambitious project to compile all the incredible sessions into one place. The result was a creative feast for Rob, who turned MELALI into his personal statement.
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.